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E-voting Security Results 'Awful,' Says Ohio Secretary of State
- By Computerworld
- Published 10/8/2008
- ELECTION
- Unrated
This year, denizens of the Buckeye State who mistrust touch-screen
systems will be allowed to vote on a paper ballot if they prefer. The
directive to allow "paper or plastic" came in the wake of Brunner's
landmark 2007 "Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related
Equipment, Standards & Testing" analysis, otherwise known as
EVEREST, in which "critical security failures" were found in every
system tested by several teams of both corporate and academic computer
scientists and security experts.
Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
- By Computerworld
- Published 08/27/2008
- Identification & Tracking
- Unrated
A U.S. House
subcommittee is charging that a $500 million IT project intended to
"connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a
failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as
"and," "or" and "not."
UnitedHealthcare Data Breach Leads to ID Theft at UC Irvine
- By Computerworld
- Published 06/3/2008
- IDENTITY THEFT
- Unrated
A data breach at United Healthcare Services Inc. has led to a rash of identity-theft crimes at the University of California, Irvine. To date, 155 graduate and medical students at the school have been hit by the scam, in which criminals file false tax returns in the victim's name and then collect their tax refunds.
TransUnion Offers Free Credit Monitoring to 150 Million
- By Computerworld
- Published 06/2/2008
- IDENTITY THEFT
- Unrated
June 2, 2008 (Computerworld) In a class-action settlement that may be unprecedented in its size, Chicago-based credit-reporting bureau TransUnion LLC is offering up to nine months' worth of free credit-monitoring service to anyone in the U.S. who has ever held a credit card or a line of credit over the last 20 years. The massive offer represents a retail value of several billions of dollars and is aimed at settling more than a dozen privacy-related federal lawsuits filed against TransUnion since 1999 over its alleged sale of protected consumer information to marketing lists in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Update: Lost backup Tapes Prompt IT Changes at NY Bank
- By Computerworld
- Published 06/2/2008
- IDENTITY THEFT
- Unrated
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. late last week said it has launched a new policy to encrypt data held on storage devices and to limit the amount of confidential client data stored on tape drives. The policy was launched after unencrypted backup data tapes were lost twice by third-party couriers this year. The bank would not disclose its past storage policies.
Will Proposed Treaty Make Border Agents Copyright Cops?
- By Computerworld
- Published 05/29/2008
- Loss of Freedoms
- Unrated
An Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under quiet negotiation by several countries including the U.S and Canada is raising concern in some quarters after a leaked document, purportedly offering more details on the nascent agreement, was posted on the Internet. The document, titled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (download PDF), was posted last week by the Wikileaks whistle-blower Web site. The four-page document was apparently quietly provided to select lobbyists in the "intellectual property industry" late last year -- but not, apparently, to public-interest organizations, according to Wikileaks.
