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Submission + - 2700 Personal Tax Files Missing After CRA Auditor (theglobeandmail.com)

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DotNM
DotNM writes: "The personal information of almost 2700 Canadians are missing from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) after a worker took them home and let a friend download them onto a laptop.

The worker asked a computer technician at the CRA to download the personal information of the taxpayers along with the worker's emails to support a grievance against the CRA for failing to accomodate her medical condition.

The technician downloaded the information for her onto 16 CDs, which were not encrypted contrary to government standards.

Although the incident occurred in 2006, the CRA appears to have done little, if anything, to fix these issues."
Blackberry

Submission + - RIM Experiences BBM / BIS Outage (cp24.com)

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DotNM
DotNM writes: "If you've been trying to send BlackBerry Messenger messages to your friends or family and not getting a response, you're not alone. CP24 and other media outlets are reporting that Research In Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry corporate email device, The outage apparently started yesterday, September 15 around 6:00 PM Eastern Time and is continuing even now. It also seems that not all carriers and locations are impacted.

BBM is similar to MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ in that they allow users to send "instant messages" to other users. These messages even indicate when they are delivered to the recipient's device and actually read by the recipient. Impacted messages are not displaying the delivery indicator, a "D" above the checkmark next to the message.

BlackBerry users are reporting a variety of problems ranging from being unable to send or recieve BBM messages to the device itself even operating slowly. Others have no problems with anything and are able to use BBM and other services without issue.

A CrackBerry.com thread seems to indicate that the problem is not just isolated to BlackBerry Messenger and is also affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) which handles push email to BlackBerry devices that are not on a BlackBerry Enterprise Serve (BES). http://forums.crackberry.com/service-outages-f156/massive-rim-outage-since-sept-15-6-pm-651054/"

Submission + - International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack (citytv.com)

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DotNM
DotNM writes: "CityNews and other media outlets are reporting that the International Monetary Fund has been hit by a "cyber attack". They are withholding most of the details, however, it is known that the World Bank has shut down a "link" between them and the IMF."

Comment Re:Canada too? (Score 1) 245

by DotNM (#31106640) Attached to: European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken
Yes, this is in effect in Canada too. I have a BMO Bank of Montreal MasterCard and BMO Bank of Montreal debit card, and both are chip and PIN enabled. There's even a website with a bunch of information and FAQs on chip and PIN: http://www4.bmo.com/chip/questions.html Full disclosure: I am a Bank of Montreal employee, but from my understanding, all major Canadian banks will be following suit if they haven't started already.

Comment I think the question is... (Score 5, Insightful) 806

by DotNM (#30461816) Attached to: Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments
I think the question is if written comments like that should be construed as threats, or more like a journal where you'd just write for yourself. I'm also wondering if there's any other evidence that anyone on campus was targetted. The ban should have been lifted after the full story was found out.

Submission + - TSA inadvertently posted screening procedures (go.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What FOIA requests failed to get the TSA accidentally posts on the web and is currently available on abcnews.com ... below are two interesting article excerpts

"In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers."

"The document shows sample CIA, Congressional and law enforcement credentials which experts say would make it easy for terrorists to duplicate. " (page 58)

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