Jaime Chanaga, CISSP, CISA

800,000 Potential ID Theft Victims

Recent news reports that a database system at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has been compromised by data thieves has put the identity of 800,000 people, including students, alumni, and faculty at risk.

Organizations must be more proactive in developing strong privacy protection policies and procedures and maintain constant vigilance with internal audit practices to prevent unfortunate incidents like the UCLA break-in from happening. 

News coverage:

Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1569163,00.html

LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-ucla16dec16,1,5961417.story?coll=la-headlines-technology

Microsoft: Security and Remote Access

Computerworld has an interesting article on how Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) deals with information security issues such as e-mail and remote access for employees and vendors.  Not surprisingly, the article shares that Microsoft receives approximately 10 million email messages per day--almost 9 million of that email is spam--or junk email! 

Nice to know how one of the largest computer software companies in the world uses a multi-layered approach to dealing with the risks of email and remote access.

Computerworld
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005756