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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world. San Diego Union-Tribune, Tue, 24 May 2005 2:12 AM PDT Hang a '10' on new museum http://www.uniontrib.com/sports/20050524-9999-lz1s24surf.html May 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Surfboard connoisseurs can see the evolution of wave tools from 1900 to the present at a newly opened 4,000-square-foot gallery at the Surfing Heritage Foundation headquarters in San Clemente. TELECOMS giant loses staff data ComputerWeekly.com - UK ... Time Warner recently lost back-up tapes containing data on around 600,000 current and former employees, and ChoicePoint and the LexisNexis group have also ... <http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=138692&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=22&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1> FORMER Bank Employees Are Charged In Data Heist InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... Earlier this month, Time Warner reported that tapes containing Social Security and other personal information on 600,000 current and former workers were missing ... <http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163700396> RECORD keepers want to know why Right-to-Know requests are made Oil City Derrick - Oil City,PA,USA ... Venango County. A clerk at the lobby window responded to the records request with a question of her own: "What is it for?". "Is that ... <http://www.thederrick.com/stories/05242005-2010.shtml> E-MAILS cite absentee mess Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA ... E-mails obtained by The Seattle Times through a records request and collected by attorneys in the lawsuit show mounting frustration last fall as workers ... <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002286212_dims24m.html> RETURN of the Document Juggernaut Mondaq News Alerts - World ... Documents disclosed in the course of CPR disclosure will remain confidential to the parties and no subsequent use of a document will generally be permitted ...<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_32664> CAMPAIGN tells how to thwart ID thieves Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA ... of the state attorney general and shredding company Shred-it. There are no hard and fast rules, but most experts agree you should purge files and shred ... <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3195268> EW Law About To Send Shredding On A Tear WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA Part of the new consumer credit law will have anyone employing even one person shredding documents. Undated -- Do you shred? If not, get ready to. ... <http://www.wfmynews2.com/2wtk/consumernews_article.aspx?storyid=41655> 'TOMAHTOES' get in the way of saving e-records FCW.com - USA When it comes to managing electronic records, technologists may say "tomato," but archivists will say "tomahto." The differences may seem subtle, but they ... <http://www.fcw.com/article88936-05-23-05-Print> JUDGE OKs broad look at records Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA ... The state technology office sought the injunction to prevent Stumbo from obtaining computer records from across state government. ... <http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050524/NEWS0104/505240347/1008/NEWS01> GOVERNMENT guarantees security of NHS records Out-Law.com - UK ... a nationwide patient health record system, is intended to update the existing eclectic system, which relies on a mixture of paper and computer records, and is ... <http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=governmentguarantee1116933442&area=news> AUSTRALIAN doctors sell medical records Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia Australian doctors are legally selling confidential medical records to a marketing firm with links to the pharmaceutical industry. ... <http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Australian-doctors-sell-medical-records/2005/05/25/1116950716771.html> FORMER Bank Employees Are Charged In Data Heist InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... The bust is the latest black eye for Bank of America, which in February ... Earlier this month, Time Warner reported that tapes containing Social Security and ... <http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163700396> CRANKY Consumer: Who's helping the victims of data theft? Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA ... Bank of America Corp. ... WHAT HAPPENED: A contractor moving backup tapes discovered that one containing data, including many Social Security numbers, on 600,000 ... <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05144/509620.stm> LOW-TECH ways to stop ID theft Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA ... Encryption, which is relatively inexpensive, would make all those records all but ... Companies need to take shredding more seriously, too, said Stickley of ... <http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/11722162.htm> SCOTS' military records must be repatriated Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Officials decided not to bother copying important information from these records before the planned destruction. However, it seems ... <http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=566432005> Boston Herald, Mon, 23 May 2005 10:07 PM PDT BofA info is sold in scam: Debt collectors have 60G names http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=84459 Thousands of Bank of America customers across New England may have had their financial records stolen and sold to debt collection agencies, the company admitted yesterday. Its response: It is writing... AP via Yahoo! News, Mon, 23 May 2005 3:22 PM PDT FBI Finds More Records in FOIA Search http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050523/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_records_1 Ordered by a court to search harder, the FBI has found more than 340 internal documents that it once said couldn't be found under an open-records request. But the bureau still wants to avoid or delay releasing them. 10 steps towards compliance PersonnelToday.com - UK ... Top tip: Implement document retention and destruction procedures, specifying how long different types of employee data may be retained. ... <http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2005/05/24/29997/10+steps+towards+compliance.htm> KODAK Establishes Archive Services Provider Network To help ... Final Cut Pro* (press release) - Orange County,CA,USA ... Records managers can use the KODAK Digital Reference ... and microfilm to capture images of business documents. ... microfilm images back to digital files so they can ... <http://finalcutpro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32117> FBI Finds More Records in FOIA Search Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN. WASHINGTON -- Ordered by a court to search harder, the FBI has found more than 340 internal documents that ... <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/23/AR2005052301191.html> TAKE steps to preserve newspaper clips Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA ... and out of the humidity. If you wanted to go to the expense, you could interleaf the pages with archival paper. If you wanted to ... <http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050524/COL0205/505240303/1201> INTERNET infection holds computer files hostage San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA ... extortion plot when a corporate customer they would not identify fell victim to the infection, which encrypted files that included documents, photographs and ... <http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050524-1324-internetransom.html> FACING 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office CNET News.com - USA ... days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents created with the programs from department to department. E-mail let the files become even more ... <http://news.com.com/Facing+new+world+of+work,+Microsoft+locks+up+Office/2100-1007_3-5717662.html> NEW Hack Seeks Ransom To Unlock Files on Infected PCs TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA ... Stewart also said that he had little difficulty unlocking the files. "Since the author used a simple cipher to encode the documents, reverse-engineering the ... <http://www.technewsworld.com/story/security/43320.html> WEBSENSE warns of new cyberattack that holds files hostage ComputerWorld - USA ... "It goes through and looks at your hard drive for around 12 different file types, including documents, photos, databases, Zip files and spreadsheets, and if it ... <http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,101994,00.html> WACHOVIA, Bank of America Report Records Theft CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA The Wachovia and Bank of America incidents follow a similar customer records problem at ChoicePoint, which noted in February that a group of cyber criminals ... <http://www.cio-today.com/news/Four-Banks-Report-Records-Theft/story.xhtml?story_id=12000002JFHC> New York Times Enron Offers an Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance By GINA KOLATA AS an object of modern surveillance, e-mail is both reassuring and troubling. It is a potential treasure trove for investigators monitoring suspected terrorists and other criminals, but it also creates the potential for abuse, by giving businesses and government agencies an efficient means of monitoring the attitudes and activities of employees and citizens. Now the science of e-mail tracking and analysis has been given a unlikely boost by a bitter chapter in the history of corporate malfeasance - the Enron scandal. <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/weekinreview/22kola.html?> BusinessWeek A Google Project Pains Publishers The major presses are raising thorny legal issues with the search giant's initiative to digitize the books of the world's great libraries Google (GOOG ) can search an astonishing 8 billion Web pages. And yet, that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the knowledge that's stored in the world's libraries but not available online. <http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/may2005/tc20050523_9472_tc024.htm?chan=tc&> Employers fail to manage instant messaging, says survey 18/05/2005 One in five people now use instant messaging (IM) at work, but 62% of companies are totally unprotected from the threats arising from misuse of the communications tool, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by solutions provider Akonix Systems. The survey of more than 2,000 UK consumers reveals that, when left unmanaged, instant messaging is increasingly used for inappropriate communications. <http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=employersfailtoma1116421218&area=news> Bank fined for confidentiality breach 10/05/2005 The Financial Ombudsman Service has awarded a woman £3,000 in compensation after a bank’s clerical error led to the woman’s whereabouts being discovered by her violent former partner, who subsequently assaulted her. The breach of confidentiality, although minor, had such major consequences for the customer that a large award was deemed necessary. <http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=bankfinedforconfi1115728893&area=news> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]