Governments can't always find new and creative ways to lose your personal information, try as they might. So when they can't, they resort to the tried and true. Here are three incidents where government displayed at least some creativity while putting you at risk.
A hacker who broke into an Indiana government web site and compromised the identities of 71,000 health care workers and 5,600 people who purchased government services online has also targeted other state government web sites. Because, of course, that's where the money is.
Why is it that we keep giving information to government agencies, when we know that nothing good can come of it? Several examples from the last week show just how good government is at protecting personal information you provided to them.
This year, Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States this weekend. You're probably ready, now that you know about it, but your computer probably isn't.
The government can access hard drives which are supposedly protected with common drive locking features offered by many major computer manufacturers. This is not news to many of my readers, but it certainly was news to Michael Alan Crooker.
When it comes to your personal information, threats are everywhere. But the biggest threat to your personal information might just be from your local government employees.
The Department of Homeland Security isn't sufficiently protecting personally identifiable information on its computer systems, though it is making progress, according to an inspector general's report.
Your most private personal information is not truly safe anywhere except in your own head. Several examples this week show that it's certainly not safe with the government.
(Update 2: TSA's web site was not hacked after all. See below.) Don't you just love the men and women at the Transportation Security Administration?
We learned over the last week that hackers and thieves have made off with thousands of individuals' most sensitive personal information from government and government-related sources.
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