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Laptop security lapse at BoI shines a light on data safety
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:24:42 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/laptop-security-lapse-at-boi-shines-a-light-on-data-safety-1359869.html By Sharon Lynch independent.ie April 26 2008 LOSING a laptop can be attributed to just plain bad luck, two can be put down to carelessness, however, three and four would send anybody's alarm bells ringing. But this was not the case at Bank of Ireland earlier this week when it emerged that four laptops had been stolen from the institution's investment arm between June and October of last year. The bank said it was only told six weeks ago that three of its unencrypted laptops were stolen from cars and another from the branch. And when it emerged that the laptops had the personal data of 10,000 customers, which were only protected by a password system, a number of questions were raised about the safety of customer information as well as the regulation of security systems. Weak Owen O'Connor at Information Systems Security Association Ireland described the bank's IT security procedure as a "very weak'' level of protection. "If a laptop is unencrypted, a moderately skilled IT person will be able to access all information on the files," he said. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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