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  Updated: 7:21 a.m. CT May 16, 2007Retrieved 1 Jun 2007 Tapes fell from contractor’s truck while being moved to new facility ARMONK, N.Y. – IBM Corp., one of the world’s leading providers of encryption and other data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes […]

Computer program should re-assemble notes from the East German Stasi. Ned Stafford A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of communist East Germany’s dreaded

Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together Computer program should re-assemble notes from the East German Stasi. By Ned Stafford   A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18

“Senate Data Protection Bill Shows More Consumer Emphasis” by Bill Swindell, Congress Daily 4-24-07   Congress Daily AM 4/24/07 JUDICIARYSenate Data Protection Bill Shows More Consumer EmphasisSignaling a more consumer bent under Democratic control, the Senate Commerce Committee will mark up data protection legislation Wednesday that will include a narrower state pre-emption clause than advocated

Government’s cyberinvestigators look for a little help from industry The discipline of digital forensics is quickly becoming more professional as standards are established and courts are beginning to require that evidence be processed only in certified laboratories.But professionalism does not come cheap. In fact, “it’s tremendously expensive,” said Jim Christy of the Defense Department’s Cyber

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN StaffRetrieved 22 Feb 2007 Auditors rap DOE’s computer disposal methods The Energy Department’s Inspector General, Gregory H. Friedman, has found fault with the Idaho National Laboratory’s technical procedures for removing restricted nuclear data and confidential data from old computers. DOE agreed with the conclusions of a report Friedman’s office

WASHINGTON – Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson has suspended activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabama last month. In an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press, Nicholson called the department’s latest data breach “tragic” and ordered the VA’s

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 22, 7:19 AM ETRetrieved 27 Sep 2006 Census Bureau loses hundreds of laptops   WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau collects the most personal information about Americans, from how much money they earn and where they spend it to how they live and die. It’s all confidential