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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Inferno Ravages Lake Tahoe

Saturday, June 30, 2007

On Sunday, June 24, 2007, fire broke out in the South Lake Tahoe area. Some call it the Tahoe fire, others refer to it as the Angora fire. Irregardless, it’s the most catastrophic fire in Lake Tahoe history. To date 250 homes and 3100 acres have been destroyed. The estimated cost of damage to date [...]

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GAO report reveals SSNs still at risk

Friday, June 29, 2007

A new report (PDF) from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that Americans’ Social Security numbers (SSNs) are still being exposed to potential identity theft and misuse attributed to federal laws riddled with loopholes and the lack of proper oversight of information brokers.
The GAO found that there are a number of federal laws [...]

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The Microsoft 6 month vulnerability report

Friday, June 22, 2007

In yet another play on numbers (not to mention another attempt to persuade consumers that Vista is the greatest thing since sliced bread), yesterday Microsoft released a report titled “Microsft Vista Has Fewest Vulnerabilities at 6-Month Mark”, (PDF) implying that Vista has turned out to be an exceptionally secure operating system (OS)…much more secure than [...]

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OMB memo to Feds details securing data breaches

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo (PDF) to the Federal Government in attempts to safeguard against the breach of personally identifiable information requiring Federal Agencies to review their use of Social Security numbers. They have 120 days to come up with a plan to eliminate unnecessarily collecting them and participate in government-wide efforts to find alternate [...]

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FDA issues advisory on toothpaste made in china

Saturday, June 2, 2007

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a news release advising consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China and issued an import alert to prevent toothpaste containing the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol (DEG) from entering the United States. The information below is from the FDA news release.
DEG is used [...]

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