Date: July 19th, 2007

Another Data Blunder Exposes Consumer Information

19 July, 2007 (16:05) | Hacked, Identity Theft | No comments

This time it’s the Louisiana Board of Regents — an organization that oversees the state’s institutions of higher education — that has managed to expose personal information belonging to some 80,000 individuals to just about anyone who was able to stumble across it.
Although the information was part of an internal web site, the data was available to just [...]

Be Careful When Disposing of An Old Computer

19 July, 2007 (15:45) | General | No comments

I recently stumbled across an article that made a very good point. If you plan to throw away or sell an old computer, be certain that all of the information on the hard drives has been erased.
When I say ‘erased,’ I do not mean that you can simply delete all of the files on your [...]