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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
READ it and weep
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
... fragment the network for the top executives, so that it's separate
from the corporate network and is used for sending highly confidential
documents and emails ...
<http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single4740>
BANKING on technology, efficiency
Miami Herald - FL,USA
Since taking her new position at Bank of America Corp. ... handling
fallout
from the bank's revelation in February that it lost computer tapes
containing
customer ...
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/industries/banking/11549145.htm>
THE best defense for email retention
SC Magazine - London,UK
... But, the Act is clear in that destruction of electronic records,
including
deletion, carries with it some stiff penalties. Section ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com/features/index.cfm?fuseaction=featureDetails&newsUID=17b9a355-6293-4777-bb15-f88400e60f6b>
TIME Warner Loses Workers' Personal Data
PC World - USA
... In March, a laptop containing data on 100,000 graduate students,
alumni
and applicants from the University of California, Berkeley, was stolen
from a campus ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120680,00.asp>
MORTGAGE: Republic Hits Vegas With Less Paper
Bank Technology News - USA
... Republic recently deployed software that allows it to combine
integrated
document management, business-process management and records management
in a single ...
<http://www.banktechnews.com/article.html?id=200505029CT755JH>
ON business: Data-storage firm compels new capital infusion
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... It grew to be a 300-employee, $100 million-revenue data-storage
company
that was one of the nation's fastest-growing sellers of digital storage
to Fortune 500 ...
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5381755.html>
AS many as 310,00 consumer records may have been stolen from ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
... Seisint, which sells data gathered from extensive searches of public
records to businesses ... to put a seven-year fraud alert in the credit
files, which forces ...
<http://www.newstarget.com/007319.html>
BISON group cries foul over missing land deal records
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... for these records since June of last year," campaign member Darrell
Geist said. "They blocked our access ... and used that time to go
through
project files.". ...
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/03/build/state/43-landdeal.inc>
BISON group cries foul over missing land deal records
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... for these records since June of last year," campaign member Darrell
Geist said. "They blocked our access ... and used that time to go
through
project files.". ...
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/03/build/state/43-landdeal.inc>
SNAFU puts 600,000 at security risk
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... center in New Jersey, where documents from many New ... and Tufts
University
-- announced that records for over ... software to scramble their
backed-up
data files. ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/05/03/snafu_puts_600000_at_security_risk>
MAN pleads to obstructing voicemail scam
BusinessWeek - USA
... Prosecutors said O'Grady altered, destroyed and concealed records
and
documents, and told a Telephone Broadcast employee to delete company
computer
files. ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89RTSSO1.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down>
THE SMB Users Guide to Data Protection
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the most common problem, which occurs when computer users
inadvertently
delete files and ... A focus on records retention to comply with new
federal
laws has caused ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=455&Itemid=44>
W.VA. history captured in photos
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - State archivists and historians have traveled
across West Virginia looking for photographs that tell the state's
history.
...
<http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=111524&format=html>
GENEAOLOGY: In search of the past
Barrington Times - Barrington,RI,USA
... Enclose old photographs in archival sleeves (make sure they are
acid-free)
and write information on the outside of the sleeves. ...
<http://www.eastbayri.com/story/283209380069946.php>
IT'S Time to Stop Overpackaging and Underprotecting Content
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA
... I've seen public documents, linked from government Web sites,
presented
as Microsoft Word-format files--but containing only a pasted-in image
of a hard-copy ...
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790690,00.asp>
167-YEAR-OLD letter to settle debate on city site
Australian - Australia
Mr Smith, director of the State Library of South Australia, said the
letter,
written by surveyor Colonel William Light in May 1837, includes the
earliest
known ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15173052%255E2702,00.html>
HERALD in search of your archives
Austin Herald - Austin,MN,USA
With the 150th anniversary of Austin fast approaching, the Herald is
looking
to supplement its archives with unique letters, newspaper clippings and
photos ...
<http://www.austindailyherald.com/articles/2005/05/03/news/news99.txt>
SARBANES Oxley for IT security?
Register - London,England,UK
... a company's financial records and controls around these records, so
where ... retaining accounting workpapers, leading to essentially a
shredding
party - although ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/03/sarbanes_oxley_for_it_security/>
HISTORICAL diaries to go online
BBC News - UK
... rural Anglesey in the mid 18th Century," said the university's
archivist
Einion Thomas ... received the grant for the project from Cymal (
Museums
and Archives Wales ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/4510737.stm>
COUNTIES could be ID theft source
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... being stolen or misused. Stacks of county records are online for
your
convenience. They are also sources for ID theft. One source of ...
<http://www.khou.com/news/local/fortbend/stories/khou050503_cd_idtheft.239f471f8.html>
Time Warner Loses Employees' Personal Data
Fortune - USA
The problem started on March 22, when records storage and management
company
Iron Mountain picked up the tapes early in the day from one of Time
Warner's
New ...
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1056707,00.html>
FCW
Mon, 02 May 2005 2:34 PM PDT
Committee vice-chair: Fund e-records research
http://www.fcw.com/article88763-05-02-05-Web
Members of the House Appropriations Committee recently voiced support
for reinstating funds for the National Archives and Records
Administration's grants program, which is responsible for electronic
records research and state historical projects.
Monterey County Herald, Tue, 03 May 2005 3:02 AM PDT
Computer tapes misplaced
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/11551144.htm
Time Warner Inc., one of the world's largest media companies, said
Monday that the Boston data-archiving firm Iron Mountain last month
misplaced computer data tapes with the personal records of 600,000
current or former Time Warner employees.
USA Today, Tue, 03 May 2005 12:52 PM PDT
Guilty plea in SEC probe of voicemail stock scam
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2005-05-03-voicemail_x.htm?csp=34
A Georgia telemarketing executive pleaded guilty Tuesday to obstructing
federal regulators' probe of an alleged nationwide securities ...
SO your employer 'lost' your information
CNN - USA
... Gordon recommends shredding your old ... employer still uses your
Social
Security number as your identification number to grant you access to
your
own files on the ...
<http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/03/pf/security_employees/>
IRON Mountain's big meltdown: Firm loses tapes with 600,000 ...
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
By Greg Gatlin. Boston-based Iron Mountain Inc. admitted yesterday that
it lost backup computer tapes belonging to customer Time Warner Inc. ...
<http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=81375>
IRON Mountain Admits Tape Loss, Recommends Encryption
InternetNews.com - USA
In a move that could fuel efforts to change data storage practices,
records
management giant Iron Mountain has admitted losing a customer's backup
tapes and is ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3499731>
IRON Mountain Advises on Privacy Issues with Backup Tapes and ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
BOSTON, Mass., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iron Mountain
Incorporated
(NYSE: IRM - News) is advising its customers that current, commonly used
disaster ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050421/neth036.html?.v=3>
New York Times
Time Warner Says Data on Employees Is Lost
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/business/media/03warner.html?>
Wall Street Journal
Time Warner Alerts Staff to Lost Data
Files for 600,000 Workers
Vanish During Truck Ride;
String of Security Breaches
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111505152696722270,00.html?>
Wall Street Journal
File Sharing
For Big Vendor of Personal Data,
A Theft Lays Bare the Downside
ChoicePoint Struggles to Gauge
How Much Information
Fell Into Wrong Hands
The Model: 'Small-Town Life'
<http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB111507095616722555,00.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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