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HIPAA Violation: Medical Clinic Leaves Box With PHI On Public Dumpster

This summer I had planned to do a dumpster-diving project with my sons, but then the Iowa floods postponed those plans. However, after reading the following I'm motivated to plan to do this in the spring after basketball and G&T...

Sloppy Disposal Aids Cybercriminals

For day 3 of Global Security Week I want to talk a little bit about the importance of securely disposing of your papers and storage media that contains personal information......

Laptop Containing PII of 1 Million+ People Sold On eBay for $141

I've been doing a lot of work with data retention and disposal policies and procedures lately, remembering the silly things I have read about with regard to organizations getting rid of their computers, such as selling their computers on eBay...

Where And How Do You Dispose Of Your Cell Phones and Paper Documents?

Something I'm planning to do this summer with my sons is to do some dumpster diving, with the advice of my police and security services company owner friends, to see just how much personal information is left out for just...

Where And How Do You Dispose Of Your Computers, CDs, USB Drives, Etc.?

In the past few years I've performed over 100 information security and privacy program reviews for the vendors and business partners of my clients, and I have often found these contracted organizations have lax to non-existent to outragiously irresponsible computer...

Have You Looked In Your Trash Bins Lately?

It shouldn't still amaze me, but it does, how often so many organizations just dump huge amounts of printed paper containing tons of personally identifiable information (PII) right into their dumpster sitting behind their building, in the alley, or some...

Information Security: Laws Require Secure Disposal of Information in All Forms; Using BS 8470:2006 for Compliance

Many information security incidents have occurred through non-technical means by simply and thoughtlessly throwing away printed documents into publicly-accessible trash bins, or even putting computers and sensitive documents out on the streets. I have blogged about this several times, such...

Audit Reveals Poor Computer & Data Disposal Practices At Idaho National Laboratory

Yesterday Government Computer News reported bad computer disposal methods at the Idaho National Laboratory that leaves confidential and restricted data, including nuclear details, vulnerable....

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