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GCHQ staff lost 35 laptop computers, report says
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:24:20 -0600 (CST)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/11/gchq-mislaid-laptop-computers-report By Richard Norton-Taylor Guardian.co.uk 11 March 2010 Staff at GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping centre, mislaid 35 laptops and it was not known whether the computers contained top secret information because of the agency's "haphazard" monitoring system, it emerged today. The computer disappearances were revealed in the latest report by the parliamentary intelligence security committee (ISC), which also expressed concern about GCHQ's failure to meet the growing threat of cyber attacks, both state-sponsored and by Islamist terrorists. Referring to the mislaid laptops, the report described GCHQ's attitude towards valuable and sensitive assets as "cavalier" and "unacceptable". A GCHQ spokesperson today said there was no evidence that any of the material on the laptops had "got into wrong hands", but admitted: "Given the state of the records, there is no way of confirming that". [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/
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