RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
MORE Data Lost In Transition
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... In May, Time Warner revealed that tapes containing data, including
names and Social Security numbers, on 600,000 current and former
employees
disappeared in ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID5702439>
EXPERTS: Paper records can cost lives
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
ALBANY, New York -- When it comes to medical records -- in the United
States,
about 85 percent are held in paper files -- and paper can kill, experts
warn. ...
<http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID 050718-020920-7041r>
PAN founder Selim accused of purging records
ABC Online - Australia
A Sydney court has been told the founder of failed alternative medicines
company Pan Pharmaceuticals ordered the destruction of records showing
manipulated ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1416610.htm>
GAO gives NARA high marks for e-records project
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
The National Archives and Records Administration has successfully
achieved
all major targets thus far for its Electronic Records Archives project
to manage ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/26623-1.html>
PRESERVING records in cyberspace
FCW.com - USA
Washington state has a system that preserves electronic records. But as
the National Archives and Records Administration struggles ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article89591-07-18-05-Print>
DISCARD consumer data safely
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... Computer files must be permanently erased and discs bent or broken
and hard ... Ontario, Canada-based company Shredit is a mobile shredding
and recycling company ...
<http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050718/BUSINESS/507180304>
THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF A HARD DRIVE
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
... Big businesses often use off-site backup services to protect
critical
data, sending their files to a digital storage locker over a high-speed
Internet ...
<http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050718/1073269.asp>
PULLING Up Your SOX
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... the secure flow of information, and then to be able to document the
success and ... dominate the language and tone of SOX: internal controls
and record retention. ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/feature/detail.cfm?articleID’1>
FOILING e-document hackers
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... So, software developers are developing "audit trails" for individual
documents, such as Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Word word processing
files, so each ...
<http://www.physorg.com/news5248.html>
EContent Magazine, Sun, 17 Jul 2005 9:02 PM PDT
Metacommunications Announces Digital Storage Manager
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID‚30
MetaCommunications, Inc., a developer of business management and
workflow solutions for the graphic arts industry, has announced the
availability
of Digital Storage Manager, an Intranet search and archive management
system for creative workgroups.
WOWT-TV Omaha, Sun, 17 Jul 2005 7:56 PM PDT
Preserving Our Past http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1701692.html
A California man with ties to Omaha is trying to preserve our visual
history. Bob Chenoweth's father shot countless rolls of movie film of
Omaha in
the early 20th century and Bob is now trying to escort the past into
the future.
GLO denies stonewalling records requests
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA
... "In going through the minimal documents that the GLO has produced in
response to the many Open Records Act requests made by my client, there
are records ...
<http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd™92781b00b68655>
New York Times
Reviving His Works, on Paper and Plaster
By PAIGE WILLIAMS
Published: July 14, 2005
OXFORD, Miss.
WILLIAM FAULKNER wrote most of his novels while living at Rowan Oak, a
two-story Greek Revival home at the end of an allée of antebellum red
cedars here. The place was barely fit for chickens when he bought it in
1930, for $6,000, and so for the next three decades, Faulkner repaired,
expanded and tweaked the house and grounds to his quirky, stubborn
satisfaction.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/garden/14faulkner.html?8hpib>
Wall Street Journal
Judge Fines KPMG Over Tactics
In Accounting-Malpractice Suit
By DIYA GULLAPALLI
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 18, 2005; Page C4
A California superior-court judge sanctioned KPMG LLP last week for
withholding documents in an accounting-malpractice lawsuit brought by a
small private computer-case maker, the third time the big accounting
firm has been criticized by a judge for its legal tactics in recent
months.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112164712739487960,00.html?>
Wall Street Journal
When Smaller Is Scarier
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 18, 2005; Page R4
They're small and appear harmless. And they're making
corporate-security officials very, very nervous.
The culprit? The increasingly popular flash-memory drives, which can
cram as much as four gigabytes of data into a device about the size of
a pack of gum and which, in the hands of unscrupulous insiders, can be
used to pilfer vast quantities of confidential corporate information.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112128464523884817,00.html?>
Wall Street Journal
Recommended Reading
Getting Smart About Information Security
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
July 18, 2005; Page R2
Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of Counterpane
Internet Security Inc., has spent much of his career educating people
about digital security.
His book, "Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World,"
serves as a non-technical introduction to the full, messy complexity of
digital security.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112060620712177906,00.html?>
PittsburghLive.com
Bank records dumped: Legislation needed
Although it appears there was no willful negligence in last week's
dumping of bank records in Lower Burrell, that it occurred at all shows
the need for legislation to insure proper disposal of financial
institution documents.
National City Bank, although it didn't intentionally allow its records
to literally blow in the wind, definitely dropped the ball here. When
the bank sold the site of its Leechburg Road branch, it should have
made absolutely, positively, sure all sensitive records were removed.
It didn't. Last week, a contractor demolishing the building took
several dump truck loads of debris and poured it into a ravine for
fill. Maybe the contractor should have checked the stuff, which he
thought was promotional brochures and the like. He didn't.
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/news/s_354023.html>
Relics in the attic link to Navy's past
By JANIE BRYANT, The Virginian-Pilot
PORTSMOUTH - Rifles from the two World Wars are lined up on a gun rack,
and old
naval officers' uniforms hang from an open wardrobe.
There's a time clock that logged workers in and out of the shipyard a
hundred years
ago. And cannon balls sit on the floor like rust-pocked bowling balls.
The windowless space on the second floor of the Portsmouth Naval
Shipyard Museum
may just be the city's best attic.
And for the past two years, Corey Thornton has had the keys.
The assistant curator was charged with taking inventory of about 2,600
Navy artifacts
on loan to the museum.
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?storyˆ542&ran`040>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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