Monthly Archives: April 2009

LifeLock review: Managers turn off laptop encryption, lose laptops–DOH!

April 30, 2009 – 12:04 pm

In the old westerns it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad; the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black. But, when it comes to identity theft and hackers, the bad guys are invisible, and the people we thought were the good guys either refuse to wear their [...]

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LifeLock review: 285,000,000 records compromised in 2008 data breaches

April 21, 2009 – 11:28 am

Verizon Business’ just-released an analysis of 1,152 data breaches that occurred in 2008, and found that 285,000,000 records were compromised as a result of security lapses. Kind of makes mail shredding seem like a quaint notion, doesn’t it?

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LifeLock review: 100,000 patients at risk of credit or medical identity theft after records stolen

April 13, 2009 – 2:41 pm

You have to wonder how it could happen. How do records from a medical practice disappear between the doctors’ office and the storage facility?
With any luck, the Salisbury MD police might be able to provide an answer someday, but for the 100,000 patients who’ve visited Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates in Salisbury MD, there are bigger things [...]

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LifeLock review: 1,600 stolen identities sold to undercover agent

April 7, 2009 – 12:14 pm

Steven K. Gilmore was arrested last week after arranging to sell 1,600 sets of names, birth dates and Social Security numbers to an undercover agent. He had already sold 35 sets of similar information to the agent between October 2008 and March 2009.

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LifeLock review: 7 university data breaches in March

April 3, 2009 – 12:22 pm

The education sector was responsible for one-third of all reported data breaches between January 2005 and October 2008, with universities to blame for 79% of those, according to analysis by J. Campana and Associates LLC.
Given the number of university students and employees nationwide, it’s clear that millions of us are at risk of identity theft [...]

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Kaiser Permanente employees fired for “Octomom” data breach

April 2, 2009 – 11:40 am

Albert Einstein said curiosity is more important that intelligence, but apparently 23 employees at Kaiser Permanente got that backwards.

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