http://www.watchyourend.com Endpoint Security Blog - Sponsored by Centennial Software Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:21:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris Ogle from Whangerei in New Zealand got more than he bargained for when he bought an MP3 player from an Oklahoma thrift shop for $18. Among the music playlists on the device was a list containing 60 files in total, including the names and personal details of American ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2009/04/02/nz-man-accesses-secret-us-data-on-ipod/ The UK Information Commissioner is to be given sweeping new powers to fine those in Whitehall and private companies who deliberately or recklessly lose confidential personal information, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, disclosed yesterday. The level of fines, which is still being negotiated, could in the worst cases run to millions ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/11/25/information-commissioner-set-to-impose-fines-for-data-loss/ The Pentagon has banned introduced a ban on USB flash drives and other portable devices due to a virus threat to Defense Department networks in the US. While the bank has not been publicly acknowledged, messages were apparently sent to department employees informing them of the new restrictions. Under ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/11/24/pentagon-bans-usb-flash-disks/ Nearly four out of five people in Britain don’t trust the organizations that hold their personal data to keep it safe. Of more than 1,600 individuals questioned, some 89 percent believed that reckless data security breaches should be a criminal offense. The majority of respondents felt that ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/09/25/british-consumers-demand-criminlization-of-data-breaches/ UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, has revealed that a police officer in the West Midlands has lost a 4GB memory stick reported containing top-secret information on terror suspects. The device was lost when the officer took the device on patrol. At least one property has been raided in the search ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/09/16/uk-police-lose-memory-stick-with-terrorist-information/