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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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Beacon agrees to turn over some disputed records
Eyewitness News - East Providence,RI,USA
PROVIDENCE , RI (AP) -- Beacon Mutual Insurance agrees to turn over to
the state some of its computer records. The files has been the subject
of a legal battle ...
<http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4836060&nav=F2DO>

Reno Co. lax with SS numbers
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA
... commissioners, district attorney, clerk, treasurer and register of
deeds - plus more ... Frequently, O'Sullivan said, far more documents
are attached to expense ...
<http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local/stories/Numbers042906.shtml>

Electronic storage means small businesses can indefinitely store ...
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... Blum's firm suggests permanently keeping a variety of legal 
documents:
contracts, deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, trademarks, patents and 
copyrights.
<http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/business/14457693.htm>

Confidential police documents found outside downtown station
CBC Manitoba - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
... of it," he said. Dennison hopes anyone else who discovered 
confidential
documents on Princess Street will turn them into police.
<http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/story/mb-police-documents-20060426.html>

Unauthorized Access of Computer Records Discovered at The ...
Technology News Daily - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
The University of Texas at Austin officials announced (April 23) that an
unknown person or persons has gained entry to the McCombs School of 
Business
computers ...
<http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/2622>

Cities, counties walk a fine line to keep public records open and ...
TMCnet - USA
... bowels of a county courthouse to dig out files, but very ... 
counties
were required to post all public records, not including court documents,
online by ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-cities-counties-walk-fine-line-keep-publi
c-records-/2006/04/30/1625164.htm>

Computer forensics — the CSI reality
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... serve as evidence, including text documents, graphical images ... 
spreadsheets,
audio and video files, websites and ... Email records and instant 
messaging
logs can be ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/05284E52B085AD29CC25715E0018C1E4?O
penDocument>

Top secret: unstructured data is a messy business
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... apply security policies to its structured data, which includes legal
documents, contracts and ... set up an encrypted archive to put email
and other files into a ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/024CF08BA2808774CC25715E00187D18?O
penDocument>

Boston-based records storage company loses railroad workers' data
Eyewitness News - East Providence,RI,USA
BOSTON A Boston-based company that stores records for the Long Island 
Railroad
lost Social Security numbers and other personal information for about
17 ...
<http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4829580&nav=F2DO>

Berkeley secures network — and reputation
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... also made headlines over the past few years for things of which it
is less proud, namely, a couple of security breaches (a stolen laptop
containing personal ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/402B5009F3858E45CC25715E0018E6BA?O
penDocument>

Aetna says laptop stolen with data on 38,000 members
ComputerWorld - USA
... Aetna Inc. said a laptop computer containing personal information on
about 38,000 of its members was stolen from an employee's car. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,11098
7,00.html>

Western Digital launches latest miniature digital storage device
Strategiy - United Arab Emirates
has introduced a miniature digital storage device that holds as many as
five two-hour feature-length movies, 1,700 digital photos, 1,500 songs
or thousands of ...
<http://www.strategiy.com/itnew.asp?id=20060430100610>


Employee Termination And Information Security
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
... Information security and data retention policies must be 
company-specific
and tailored to the laws under which the company operates. ...
<http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/30/004117.php>

Digging into Abe's past
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
... Thomas Schwartz, interim director of the Abraham Lincoln 
Presidential
Library and Museum in Springfield, recently discovered an 1830s document
that revealed ...
<http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/84850.asp>

Montana Standard, Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:40 PM PDT
Commissioner of Higher Education’s office faces computer security
breach
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2006/04/30/newsstate/hjjdjfhajijdgi.tx
t
HELENA — A hacker may have gained access this week to some files on a
computer server in Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education, 
forcing
officials to shut down and reformat the server, Commissioner Sheila 
Stearns said
Friday.


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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