Berkeley Grads' Identity Data Stolen

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Data of 100,000 Berkeley Grads Stolen

Data of 100,000 Berkeley Grads Stolen 03/29/2005 11:36 AM
For the second time this month, a California university has exposed personal information of its students, highlighting the increasing risk of identity theft. UC Berkeley officials acknowledged Monday that a laptop stolen on March 11 contained names and Social Security numbers of more than 98,000 individuals.

Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes
personal data of nearly 100,000

Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes
personal data of nearly 100,000 03/28/2005 11:39 PM

Laptop with 98,000 names stolen at
UC-Berkeley

Laptop with 98,000 names stolen at
UC-Berkeley 03/29/2005 01:59 PM
Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, are notifying more than 98,000 graduate students and applicants about the theft of a laptop computer containing their names, Social Security numbers and other personal data.

Laptop theft exposes UC-Berkeley data

Laptop theft exposes UC-Berkeley data 03/29/2005 03:06 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 29 2005 6:09PM GMT

Personal Data of 59,000 People Stolen
(AP)

Personal Data of 59,000 People Stolen
(AP) 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
AP - Hackers gained personal information of 59,000 people affiliated with a California university — the latest in a string of high-profile cases of identity theft.

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP)

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP) 03/28/2005 07:31 PM
AP - A thief has stolen a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 University of California, Berkeley alumni, graduate students and past applicants, continuing a recent outbreak of security breakdowns that has illustrated society's growing vulnerability to identity theft.

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000 03/28/2005 11:33 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 29 2005 3:47AM GMT

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen 04/14/2005 02:08 AM

Stolen Computers Expose Personal Data

Stolen Computers Expose Personal Data 04/08/2005 03:24 PM
Forbes Apr 8 2005 7:57PM GMT

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen 04/12/2005 02:37 PM
Data broker LexisNexis said personal information may have been stolen on 310,000 U.S. citizens, or nearly 10 times the number found in a data breach announced last month.

Stolen computer holds data on 100,000
people

Stolen computer holds data on 100,000
people 03/29/2005 04:30 AM
Boston Globe Mar 29 2005 8:50AM GMT

Medical group: Data on 185,000 people
was stolen

Medical group: Data on 185,000 people
was stolen 04/08/2005 03:48 PM
Thieves make off with a California organization's two new Dell PCs--and the financial and medical records of thousands of patients.

Lawmaker Doubts Los Alamos Data Was
Stolen

Lawmaker Doubts Los Alamos Data Was
Stolen 07/21/2004 02:44 AM
A congressman who visited the laboratory this week to examine security lapses said that two missing computer disks containing classified information had probably been misplaced.

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
Late last week, MasterCard announced that tens of thousands of credit card numbers had been stolen from a payment processor. Now it turns out that the processor in question should not have retained the stolen data in the first place.

Customers' Data Believed Stolen From
Polo

Customers' Data Believed Stolen From
Polo 04/15/2005 05:11 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Thu Apr 14, 11:18 pm GMT

Preventing Data Theft From A Stolen
Laptop

Preventing Data Theft From A Stolen
Laptop 12/24/2003 07:39 AM

Israeli sensitive defense data stolen by
hackers

Israeli sensitive defense data stolen by
hackers 06/06/2005 12:06 AM

Polo Ralph Lauren customers' data stolen

Polo Ralph Lauren customers' data stolen 04/15/2005 11:10 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 16 2005 3:44AM GMT

Polo Ralph Lauren Customers' Data Stolen
(AP)

Polo Ralph Lauren Customers' Data Stolen
(AP) 04/14/2005 10:06 AM
AP - Data apparently stolen from the popular clothing retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Inc. is forcing banks and credit card issuers to notify thousands of consumers that their credit-card information may have been exposed.

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
Despite years of security improvements, credit card and bank account numbers are boldly hawked on the Internet.

Hacked data boots identity theft to
critical issue

Hacked data boots identity theft to
critical issue 03/14/2005 05:56 PM

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..." 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services

Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services 05/25/2004 11:30 PM
Microsoft Corp., together with six of the industry's leading identity management vendors, today previewed interoperable federated identity management solutions based on the Web services architecture (WS-*). Software companies IBM Corp., Netegrity Inc., Oblix Inc., OpenNetwork Technologies, Ping Identity Corp., RSA Security Inc. and Microsoft have successfully concluded work demonstrating how their identity management technologies interoperate using the Web Services Federation (WS-Federation) specification, part of the WS Security set of specifications. In his Tech•Ed keynote address today, Andrew Lees, corporate vice president for Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft, showed how federated identity management based on WS-Federation and the WS-* architecture will simplify the work of IT professionals as they seek to cut the cost and complexity of passing identity credentials across security and organization boundaries in a Web services environment.

Identity, Identifiers and Identity Fraud

Identity, Identifiers and Identity Fraud 08/18/2004 05:04 PM

Berkeley DB 4.2.52

Berkeley DB 4.2.52 04/13/2004 12:36 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

Berkeley DB 4.3.27

Berkeley DB 4.3.27 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

How Berkeley Can You Be?

How Berkeley Can You Be? 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
I finally got around to sorting through and captioning the photos I took of the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and Art Car fest that was held in Berkeley at the end of September. Going through the pictures reminded me of some of the reasons I like living in Berkeley so much. Sure, people regularly overdo political correctness here, and there were a lot of "Only in Berkeley" groups and moments in the parade, but on the whole it was an amazing display of the diversity, creativity and sense of humor that make this a fun place to live. There were also a lot of self-mocking groups poking fun at Berkley. I love it when people retain the ability to laugh at themselves, and it is a highly desirable quality for living in Berkeley. Luckily, it is also a frequently displayed quality. One of the stars of the parade was the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, an art car from Houston Texas, of all places. 5 miles of wiring that must have taken months of work to put together, all for a bunch of plastic fish and lobsters who sing while being conducted by large crustacean. It sounds silly, but it was wonderful. I could track its progress down University Avenue by the gales of laughter is spawned as it passed by. After the parade, people crowded around for hours and were treated to special performances by the Choir. I got some good photos. If it comes to your town, don't miss it. Or it even has its own website, with a very funny account of its construction, you can check it out at www.sashimitabernaclechoir.org....

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
A native XML database with XQuery access.

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
This week I'm at the ACM's 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley (walking distance from my house). There are good sessions on issues such as e-voting and digital rights management, and savvy...

Discovering Berkeley DB

Discovering Berkeley DB 11/25/2003 10:23 PM

I'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.

I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python has a module which seems to do all of the hard work for me:

>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ... 
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>> 

The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software. Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing jargon. Our customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Great - now what does it do exactly?

Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are "store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and "retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple - the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.

It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license which allows free use for open source products but requires a license for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from Sleepycat?

ScienceMatters@Berkeley

ScienceMatters@Berkeley 09/22/2004 06:16 AM
David Pescovitz: In this month's issue of my research digest ScienceMatters@Berkeley...

* Flipping the Switch on Cancer: Improving the effectiveness of Cancer drugs one molecule at a time.
* Think Molecularly, Act Globally: Studying the atmosphere from a converted spy plane.
* Quantum Computing's Magnetic Attraction: A new spin on magnetic atoms.
* The secret history of Vitamin B-12

Link

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC 12/17/2003 11:53 AM
Hunting aliens and beyond

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
In this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:

* Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment
* Engineering our water resources against El Nino
* Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net

I hope you enjoy it! Link

Clueless in Berkeley

Clueless in Berkeley 07/12/2004 04:07 PM
I have written before of my love for my favorite feature in the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Police Blotter. Today while reading it, I ran across this absolute gem which caused me to lose a mouthful of hot Peet's coffee in front of the Cheeseboard. Knife-Wielder Earns Cellular Domicile A 48-year-old Berkeley man found himself with a new and tightly confined residence after police busted him for flashing a knife at a fellow citizen near the corner of Center Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 9:37 a.m. Friday. The felon seems to have overlooked that building on the corner and all those blue-clad badge-wearing folks who pass through its portals en route to their black-and-white cars. (For those of you unfamiliar with Berkeley geography, our new police headquarters is at the corner of MLK and Center.) How do you get a job writing stuff like this? I want one. It made my day....

The Berkeley Pit Mascot

The Berkeley Pit Mascot 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
"The Auditor", an amazing dog, lived a long life in one of the harshest environments, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The mine site has no vegetation, the water in the pit is full of heavy metals and very acidic (pH 2.5) and yet the Auditor held on long after mining operations halted. He has inspired a web site and even an art project.

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
My latest issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley is now online. While my Lab Notes site highlights interesting engineering research, ScienceMatters explores the physical sciences, biology, and chemistry. Inside this month's issue:

* The Cellular Mechanic
* An Explosive Theory About Volcanoes
* The Mathematics of High-Tech Highways

Link

Flashing, Berkeley style

Flashing, Berkeley style 08/20/2004 11:35 PM
From the ever amusing Berkeley police blotter: Exposer Stalks BART Rider A woman arriving at the North Berkeley BART station last Friday afternoon found herself being pursued by a not-so-gentlemanly fellow who exposed his shortcomings before fleeing in his wheelchair. Only in Berkeley can I imagine a wheelchair flasher....

Blogon Berkeley Style

Blogon Berkeley Style 07/17/2004 04:10 PM
Join us for a get together for BlogOn conference attendees, local bloggers, techies, media folks, and anyone else who wants...

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0 07/27/2004 11:24 AM
Berkeley Packet Monitor is a network traffic monitoring and diagnostic utility that uses the Berkeley Packet Filter devices built into Mac OS X.
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