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follow-up: Not one but THREE military laptops have gone missing as security breach grows, admits Defence Secretary
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:22:19 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=509566&in_page_id=1770 The Daily Mail 21st January 2008 Three military laptops with personal details of up to 600,000 people have been lost, Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted today. The Cabinet minister, who is understood to be furious at the data security breaches, told MPs this afternoon that the extent of the blunders was wider than previously revealed. They are likely to lead to disciplinary action. With the Ministry of Defence already under fire over the loss of one computer on 9 January, Mr Browne ordered an independent inquiry into military data security. The laptop stolen in Birmingham this month - from the car of a Royal Navy officer who was involved in recruitment - contained details of 600,000 people including passport numbers, insurance numbers, family background information and medical details. The MoD is writing to about 3,500 people whose bank details were included on the database. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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