
Source: BBC News
Sweden's military is investigating a major security breach after a member of staff left a memory stick holding classified data on a public computer.

Source: Yahoo! News
BOSTON - The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.

Source: http://fraudwar.blogspot.com
It never ceases to amaze me how a lack of information security translates into official statements that no one is aware of any identity theft that has occurred.

Source: DaniWeb
Bloggers 1 - UK Government 0 after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was today found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act as a direct result of an investigation that simply would not have happened had not a blogger got hot under the collar about an online visa applicatio …
Source: This is London
A family doctor faces being struck off for daring to suggest to women seeking an abortion that they should think twice.
Dr Tammie Downes says at least eight grateful mothers have children today which they would have terminated until she asked them to consider the consequences.

Source: Raw Story
Ask anyone in the intelligence community who was the most damaging spy in US history and the answer comes quickly: Robert Hanssen, a senior FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union – and, after the Cold War, for the Russians – on and off for a period of 15 years.

Source: SC Magazine
A disabled firewall and an unapplied patch allowed hackers to infiltrate a server at the University of Colorado, Boulder, exposing the personal information of nearly 45,000 students, the university said Tuesday.

Source: SC Magazine
Vulnerability monitoring organizations have reported a flaw in numerous McAfee products that can be exploited to compromise systems.

Source: The New York Times
While enormous effort is focused on screening airline passengers for explosives or weapons before they can board a commercial flight, it remains shockingly easy for airport employees to sneak into secure areas and carry dangerous materials onto a plane without detection.

You would think when you buy a new house that it would be more straightforward than buying a older build........
This is not the case!
We moved into our new build house in July 2005 and have had nothing but problems .

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In his new film "Breach," Ryan Phillippe plays Eric O'Neill -- an FBI up-and-comer promoted to work under respected longtime agent Robert Hanssen.

Source: CNN
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two teenagers Wednesday drove a stolen car onto the U.S. military base that commands much of the war on terror, triggering an investigation into the security breach, police and military officials said.

Source: CBS 11
A woman made it through the security checkpoint without being screened. The result was an alarm and all people in the terminals and the airplanes being put through a second screening.
Source: The Winston-Salem Journal
"School system officials say Google broke through the password and username protected server the information was stored in and took a photo of the page, which it posted to the Internet." -- ummmmmmm....

Source: Yahoo! News
I doubt the criminals would have done anything bad with the info in the 3 weeks it took the Ag Department to let its employees know.
Source: CNET
Declan McCullagh interviews Ed Mierzwinski, the consumer program director for the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (US PIRG) regarding the possibility of a federal data breach notification law.