The next time your credit card company calls you with a question about a charge on your card, be glad that the bank is looking out for its own interests as well as yours.  Financial companies constantly upgrade systems against identity theft to protect their bottom line.  But executive branch ...

The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss report that a National Institutes of Health laptop computer with the records of 2,500 patients was stolen from an NIH worker’s car in February. The records contained years of the patient’s medical information, but the NIH didn’t ...

The FBI has started to investigate charges from the Save Darfur Coalition that computer hackers in China are breaking into their e-mail and Web server, according to the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima and Colum Lynch. The Coalition has taken the lead over the past ...

Yesterday President Bush appointed Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckström to run the National Cyber Security Center. What is the National Cyber Security Center, you ask? Well, it was born in January of a classified order by ...

A lawsuit is being filed against the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security over searches and confiscations of laptop computers, phones, and PDAs at the nation's airports.  Ellen Nakashima reports in the Washington Post that travelers have had laptops seized (and never returned) and cell ...

Trying to solve one problem, the Transportation Security Administration may have created another, as Del Quentin Wilber writes in the Washington Post.  The TSA created a web site to help passengers whose names had been mistakenly placed on a "watch list," exposing them to interrogations and missed flights as their ...

Social security numbers are easily available on line through a number of government agency web sites around the country, writes Bill Brubaker of the Washington Post.  A host of government sites, as well as easily-accessible public records, contain individuals' social security numbers, a fact that may be sparking the more ...

We've all read or heard about the loss of sensitive data from the Veteran Affairs Department, IRS, and other agencies.  OMB is reemphasizing the need to promptly report these breaches, i.e., within one (1) hour.

This is just another example of how far we still need to progress as we try ...

Again we're bombarded by breached computer security.  This time the FBI is the target.  Eric Weiss's article in The Washington Post (7/6/06) is interesting, frustrating, maddening, and amusing, all rolled into one nice narrative.  The story elicits these emotions because it reminds us how much in the Information Age infancy we remain.  ...