Nine laptops stolen from Middlesbrough Council
Blog Nine laptops containing sensitive data have been stolen from Middlesbrough Council's teaching and learning centre, the BBC reports. The laptops were used by child workers and contained case files on children and their families.
[January 17, 2008, 16:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Stuff gets stolen, lost, broken: it is inconceivable that the owners of the laptops could let them go through. Now, there are equivalent cases where people carry laptops containing information for which they are legally liable.
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Negroponte at NetEvents
Blog It takes 600 people to launch 1.2 million laptops Laptops cost much the same as ten years ago. A key specification, the laptop takes 2 watt as opposed to thirty or forty for normal laptops, and you can generate 20 watts with the upper body in a...
[December 2, 2006, 6:09]
It wasn't just one MoD laptop...
Blog The data on none of these three laptops was encrypted. Whoops - defence secretary Des Browne has just revealed to parliament that it's not just one MoD laptop that's been stolen - it's three. One was taken from a car in Manchester in October 2006...
[January 21, 2008, 16:31]
Official Organizations Losing Data
Blog Laptops issued to employees could be used as thin terminals connecting to perhaps an LTSP server via a secure tunnel. Remote users and systems could be forced to change passwords etc.on a daily basis so that anyone stupid enough to write their...
[December 22, 2009, 14:49]
Over 10000 laptops are lost every week in US airports!
Blog Yesterday article in PCWorld with reference to the Ponemon Institute survey claims close to 637,000 laptops lost in large US airports each year. About 53 percent said that laptops contain confidential company information, with 65 percent taking...
[July 1, 2008, 14:57]
