http://security4laptops.com Notebook Security Reviewed Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:28:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is an interesting little blurb in a Rhode Island newspaper about a stolen laptop. Apparently a woman was choked before her laptop was stolen. WARREN, RHODE ISLAND -- Ceferino Nunez, 27, whose last known address is 27 Sunset Ave., East Providence, was charged with second degree robbery, a felony, ... http://security4laptops.com/chokes-woman-steals-laptop It was reported by various news outfits that Ameriprise Financial Inc., the former brokerage unit of American Express Co., has acknowledged that a company laptop computer which contained information on about 158,000 customers had been stolen. Ameriprise said the theft occurred when an employee's vehicle was broken into at "an off-site ... http://security4laptops.com/ameriprise-laptop-stolen Look how sad losing her laptop made this student in New Zealand. On January 13 2006, Tara Olsthoorn a third year nursing student and volunteer surf life guard noticed the window of her car was down. Her worst fears were confirmed and her laptop computer was missing. They ... http://security4laptops.com/devestating-theft-of-laptop A group of anti-Castro activists wonders if spies may have stolen a laptop computer from their office during Hurricane Wilma. The office of the Cuban Liberty Council was not forcibly broken into and nothing was taken except for the Apple laptop. The burglary of the laptop seemed to ... http://security4laptops.com/did-cuban-spies-steal-an-activists-laptop A former Labor Department official is guilty of stealing 12 government laptop computers. The former official was the Supervisory Program Manager for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Basit Chaudhary pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information this morning at U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. ... http://security4laptops.com/former-official-guilty-laptop-theft The new spyware remover and 'pc health' product from Microsoft, Microsoft Onecare has ended up disabling a popular computer tracking software, Absolute Software's Computrace LoJack. Onecare has since been patched to prevent this from occuring. From the CNET article: The OneCare product detects one of our modules as belonging ... http://security4laptops.com/onecare-zaps-tracking-software It looks like Keven Costner's Apple laptop was stolen a little over a year ago. From the Scotsman's article: An upmarket hairstylist [Pascal Bensimon, age 44], has been charged with stealing actor Kevin Costner's laptop computer, which had private photos of his wedding. [Bensimon] surrendered to Pitkin police officials in ... http://security4laptops.com/kevin-costners-laptop-stolen The register reports about a new proposal passed in the EU Parlimant. The European Parliament has approved proposals on data retention that would compel telecom firms to keep customer email logs, details of internet usage and phone call records for between six months to two years. The plan - designed ... http://security4laptops.com/eu-to-require-isps-retain-your-data The estimate is that from 2002-2004, U.S. PC owners filed over 600,000 claims each year for computer theft— with the majority of the claims being resulting from stolen laptops. For the UK, police forces figures from 2005 show that over 34,000 laptops, almost 100 per day, are reported stolen ... http://security4laptops.com/how-many-stolen E-mail systems were a crucial tool in creating the Internet, and actually predate the Internet in existence. Many people believe that e-mail privacy is inherent and guaranteed, psychologically equating it with the postal system. While the ability to access your personal e-mail messages is secured with a password, ... http://security4laptops.com/email-privacy-myth