Computer disks lost; 3rd incident at Los Alamos lab

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Los Alamos halts operations; Classified
data disks lost at Sandia and Los Alamos

Los Alamos halts operations; Classified
data disks lost at Sandia and Los Alamos 07/17/2004 01:24 AM
Two breaking news items today that relate to security -- or a frightening lack thereof -- at US government-run nuclear labs Sandia and Los Alamos. First, an item from my Wired News colleague Noah Shachtman, on Defensetech blog:

Los Alamos National Laboratory director Pete Nanos shut down the country's leading nuclear weapons lab on Friday, after a set of classified computer disks disappeared, and a student was hit in the eye with a powerful laser beam -- all in the space of a week.

"As of today, Director Nanos has suspended all Operations at the Laboratory," an internal e-mail obtained by Wired News read. "This is a very serious step."

"This willful flouting of the rules must stop, and I don't care how many people I have to fire to make it stop. If you think the rules are silly, if you think compliance is a joke, please resign now and save me the trouble," Nanos added in a separate e-mail to Los Alamos employees.

And separately today, this press release was issued by Sandia National Laboratories:

Sandia National Laboratories has located a floppy disk that had turned up missing in a recent inventory. The floppy disk, which had been marked classified, was found about 1 p.m. today (Friday). Sandia had reported the disk as missing June 30 in a wall-to-wall inventory. (...)

Sandia Corporation President and Laboratories Director C. Paul Robinson said: "We are relieved the disk has been found. But in my mind, the nature of the near miss of this recent incident is far too close for comfort. We must find better ways and procedures for ensuring the protection of such material."

Link to Los Alamos shutdown post on Defensetech blog, and related Wired News story here. Sandia National Laboratories press release: Link. Sandia was also hit earlier this month with a $3.1 million state fine for breaking environmental laws: Lin k.

More Disks Lost at Los Alamos

More Disks Lost at Los Alamos 07/15/2004 04:58 AM
Los Alamos National Laboratory, America's leading nuclear lab, lost track of four disks possibly containing sensitive information. Two turned up, but the others remain missing. It's the third such incident in less than a year. By Noah Shachtman.

More Disks Lost at Los Alamos, Again!

More Disks Lost at Los Alamos, Again! 07/16/2004 01:19 PM

Computer Disks at Los Alamos Missing

Computer Disks at Los Alamos Missing 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
AP via Newsday Dec 10 2003 0:37AM ET

Computer disks at Los Alamos missing

Computer disks at Los Alamos missing 12/10/2003 12:02 AM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Dec 9 2003 10:52PM ET

Four more suspended at Los Alamos lab in
probe of missing computer disks

Four more suspended at Los Alamos lab in
probe of missing computer disks 08/04/2004 08:48 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 5 2004 0:47AM GMT

Los Alamos lab again missing computer
disks with classified data

Los Alamos lab again missing computer
disks with classified data 07/16/2004 05:19 PM
For at least the third time since 2000, two removable computer disks containing classified nuclear weapons data are missing from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Four more on paid leave at Los Alamos
lab in probe of missing computer disks

Four more on paid leave at Los Alamos
lab in probe of missing computer disks 08/04/2004 09:56 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 5 2004 1:44AM GMT

Inventory fails to find 10 computer
disks at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Inventory fails to find 10 computer
disks at Los Alamos National Laboratory 12/09/2003 10:57 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 9 2003 10:26PM ET

US: 'Missing' Los Alamos Disks Never
Existed

US: 'Missing' Los Alamos Disks Never
Existed 02/01/2005 09:51 PM
Sci-Tech Today Feb 2 2005 1:43AM GMT

Los Alamos Stops Work in Crisis Over
Lost Data

Los Alamos Stops Work in Crisis Over
Lost Data 07/17/2004 02:56 AM
Los Alamos National Laboratory shut down all research activities in the wake of the disappearance of two computer storage devices containing important classified data.

Missing Top Secret Disks Actually Just A
Computer Bug

Missing Top Secret Disks Actually Just A
Computer Bug 08/11/2004 05:09 AM
Remember those well publicized "missing" top secret hard drives from Los Alamos? The same missing drives that had the FBI threatening to arrest a novelty store owner? Turns out they might not have been missing after all. In fact, the entire mess is being chalked up to a computer glitch in their inventory system that declared a "false positive" suggesting the drivers were missing when they weren't. You would think, given the seriousness of such a situation that any inventory system would have some sort of immediate manual method for checking on the actual drives the second the system sounds the "uh oh, something's missing" alarm. Apparently not. Of course, this brings up the second question. If the drives have really been safely at home this whole time, why didn't anyone bother to check there in the first place?

Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide

Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Computer Security Incident Handling Guide
http://www.csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-61/sp800-61.pdf

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released Special Publication 800-61, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. NIST was directed to publish the guide by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002. The Computer Security Guide is available as a 148 page .pdf document.

FBI finishes probe into missing lab
computer disks

FBI finishes probe into missing lab
computer disks 01/06/2005 02:43 PM
AP via San Francisco Chronicle Jan 6 2005 6:46PM GMT

Energy Dept. Halts Use of Computer Disks

Energy Dept. Halts Use of Computer Disks 07/23/2004 07:47 PM
AP via Guardian Unlimited Jul 24 2004 0:07AM GMT

Computer disks show possible terrorist
targets

Computer disks show possible terrorist
targets 08/09/2004 09:24 AM
Sydney Morning Herald Aug 9 2004 2:01PM GMT

Energy Dept. Halts Use of Computer Disks
(AP)

Energy Dept. Halts Use of Computer Disks
(AP) 07/23/2004 07:52 PM
AP - WASHINGTON — The Energy Department, responding to a security scandal at the Los Alamos weapons lab, ordered a halt Friday to classified work at as many as two dozen facilities that use removable computer disks like those missing at the New Mexico lab.

Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide released!

Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide released! 01/23/2004 03:54 AM
Do you want to learn how to handle a DOS attack or similar types of security issues "NIST" has released...

New Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide from NIST.gov

New Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide from NIST.gov 02/15/2004 10:37 AM

Work with removable computer disks
resumes at Sandia National Laboratory in
New Mexico

Work with removable computer disks
resumes at Sandia National Laboratory in
New Mexico 09/02/2004 12:40 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Sep 2 2004 4:13AM GMT

Work with removable computer disks
resumes at Sandia National Laboratories
in New Mexico

Work with removable computer disks
resumes at Sandia National Laboratories
in New Mexico 09/02/2004 12:40 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Sep 2 2004 4:13AM GMT

Police remove hard disks but don't
disrupt computer servers in Yukos
search, spokesman says

Police remove hard disks but don't
disrupt computer servers in Yukos
search, spokesman says 07/04/2004 03:31 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 4 2004 6:23PM GMT

Computer glitches lost voting data

Computer glitches lost voting data 07/28/2004 02:36 AM
Miami Herald Jul 28 2004 7:30AM GMT

Former women's world champion Zhu Chen
of China lost to laptop computer 'Star
of Unisplendour' here on Tuesday

Former women's world champion Zhu Chen
of China lost to laptop computer 'Star
of Unisplendour' here on Tuesday 06/09/2004 02:55 AM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 9 2004 6:58AM GMT

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

More woe at Los Alamos

More woe at Los Alamos 07/23/2004 11:35 PM
USA Today Jul 24 2004 3:08AM GMT

Five Fired at Los Alamos Lab

Five Fired at Los Alamos Lab 09/15/2004 09:48 PM
Wired News Sep 16 2004 1:04AM GMT

Man dies following bus incident

Man dies following bus incident 02/05/2005 09:52 PM
Police start a murder inquiry after a man collapses and dies shortly after getting off a bus in Sheffield.

Curious Incident

Curious Incident 08/22/2004 02:10 AM
Joel Spolsky: I must warn you not to start reading it before you go to sleep because nobody I know has been able to put it down without reading through to the end. And Joel still doesn't.  I picked up this book this afternoon.

Man escapes shooting incident

Man escapes shooting incident 05/10/2004 01:35 AM
Police appeal for information after a man escapes injury when shots are fired at his County Armagh home.

Los Alamos and the missing discs that
never were

Los Alamos and the missing discs that
never were 08/12/2004 01:15 PM
Headless chickens chase phantom secrets

The Curious Incident of the Boxes

The Curious Incident of the Boxes 05/18/2004 10:46 PM
An auction of Arthur Conan Doyle's artifacts has provoked a fight and a mystery almost worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself.

BBC playing down biting incident

BBC playing down biting incident 03/24/2005 08:38 AM
The BBC dismisses an incident where Director General Mark Thompson bit a journalist on the arm as "horseplay".

Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data

Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data 05/21/2004 05:35 PM

Chemical incident closes M5

Chemical incident closes M5 01/28/2004 09:05 AM
The M5 is closed and people are moved from nearby offices, after a chemical accident at a business park in Gloucestershire.

The Microsoft-Google incident

The Microsoft-Google incident 02/10/2004 10:38 AM
ZDNet Feb 10 2004 2:15PM GMT

Parade passes without incident

Parade passes without incident 08/14/2004 04:43 AM
A controversial parade passes peacefully in north Belfast ahead of the main Apprentice Boys demonstration.
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