| Securing the Laptop: Mission Impossible?
Nearly every week, the report of a stolen laptop hits the news and, with it, a horror story of data loss, identity theft and corporate liability. With a downside that steep, it's no wonder that the laptop is the target of corporate IT security campaigns nationwide. Few corporate executives will sleep soundly until their IT managers have done all they can to lock down laptops and limit the sensitive data on them. .
Conflicting reports about identity theft
SPOKANE -- A new government survey claims identity theft is not a growing problem nationwide. But some consumer groups say they're not convinced. They worry the report will send the wrong message for the holidays, when ID thefts usually spike. .
By Jon Stewart News-Post Staff
Government and private industry are helping consumers and businesses responsibly dispose of those outdated or inoperable electronic goodies. Eliminating electronic devices is critical: sensitive information can be retrieved off hard drives, even if it's deleted and cannot be viewed by the user. Also, improper disposal can leach toxic elements from electronic devices into the soil. Handling these elements is dangerous for humans. "There are dangers of identity theft if electronic devices are not disposed of properly," said Lisa Collins, sales and marketing manager for Global Investment Recovery Inc., a nationwide electronics recycling company. Collins operates out of her Frederick home and travels frequently, giving seminars to interested groups and potential clients.
CHEHALIS, LEWIS COUNTY: Arizona ‘Most Wanted’ suspect turns up on ...
A man on Arizona's "Most Wanted" list has been caught near Chehalis. State Trooper Michael Kesler says 39-year-old Larry A. Hayes gave a false Washington driver's license when he was stopped early Friday for speeding. He was clocked at 74 mph in a 50 mph zone in a Mercedes on southbound Interstate 5. Kesler says Hayes claimed to be David Wayne Matthews. Fingerprints revealed his true identity on Saturday. A passenger was arrested on a forgery warrant from Pierce County. Hayes had been sought in more than 900 cases of possession of stolen property, identity theft and fraud-related crimes – including 800 in Pierce County. Kesler says he also is under investigation in Idaho and Oregon. The Associated Press .
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When it comes to cases where developers seek upzoning, many of thse same people are very quick to tell you that the prospective developer should have known what they were getting when they bought the tract. Interesting how this doesn't apply here. Also interesting how none of the RG4N homeowners are volunteering to let Lincoln have veto power over their own development projects within current zoning. Democracy for me, not thee. As for the comparison to the Triangle - the bulk of RG4N's supporters are using the group as 'useful idiots' here - they have shown through their actions on other projects (including very recently) that they have no interest at all in dense urban development - they want to preserve low-density stuff they already have. A critical eye once in a while, even at your fellow travellers, would seem to me to be a basic responsibility for a journalist.
The Editors
He also asked website readers to email him with any research or data they had which supported the view that the scientific establishment is itself biased against climate sceptics. He got a lot of feedback (though not as much as he expected) and it's taken him more or less until now to sort through it. You can see the results here and in a series of articles this week by Richard and others on the website science pages. They do a great deal to shed light on the arguments and investigate the evidence behind them. We wanted to give them proper consideration, in part to counter accusations that we simply ignore the sceptics' views. But this also raises issues about how much weight, over time, we should give to their views, and what impartiality means on an issue like this.
Moment’s blunder puts half the country at risk
Perhaps his mind was elswhere that Thursday morning. England's hopes of qualifying for the European Championships had been dentged the night before by defeat in Moscow — still, there was the Rugby World Cup Final to look forward to at the weekend. Certainly, when the request came to send child benefit data to the National Audit Office in London, the junior official’s mind does not appear to have been on the job. He burned the entire national child benefit database on two computer discs, popped them in an envelope and sent them to the post room for collection by TNT couriers. "He messed up, it was treated as a normal piece of mail," an insider at HM Revenue & Customs said. The IT worker returned to his duties, unaware that posting that envelope would trigger the country’s biggest police investigation into possible identity theft and jeopardise the career of the Chancellor.
The strange case of the ex-editor with Scottish blood who just can't ...
KELVIN MacKenzie likes to consider himself a latter-day "hammer of the Scots". The former editor of the Sun seized his chance on the BBC's Question Time programme on Thursday evening to tear into Scotland once again, this time claiming there were no entrepreneurs left north of the Border and all the Scots wanted to do was spend the money made by others. .
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