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The Scotsman, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 6:21 AM PDT
City banker is jailed for ten years over £21m fraud scam
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=939512006
AN Edinburgh bank manager who carried out Scotland's biggest ever fraud
has been jailed for ten years.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:09 PM PDT
Attn. ID thieves: Look here
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/275452_idtheft27.html?source=rss
King County Councilman Reagan Dunn may have unwittingly contributed to
the problem of identity theft by revealing what personal data is
available
online in county records.
16 firms seek deal to store RI records
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... 63 state agencies more accessible, the Department of Administration
put out a call last month for companies interested in archiving the
state's
public documents ...
<http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060628_bids28.144587a.html
>
Meeting lawsuit settled
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... It also requires public officials to archive public documents,
including
e-mails that pertain to public business, for three years, and to hand
them over to ...
< http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/062006/06282006/202489>
The dirty little secret of computers
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the evidence in this case reveals
that Bubba's employer failed to maintain computer records containing
information
...
<http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/business/14916744.htm>
This school's history
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... He's the public school board's bearded archivist and he swung by the
just ... photographs should be preserved," says Aikman, manager of the
archive at Vincent ...
<http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilt
on/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1151445023564&call_pageid=102042066
5036&col=1014656511815>
Access to answers makes archivist’s job enviable
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... Mike came to MU 10 years ago to become the Tigers archivist from
Oregon
State University, where he had been records manager and archivist. ...
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Jun/20060628Feat001.asp>
The National Archives and the San Diego Supercomputer Center Sign ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON, June 28 /US Newswire/ -- The National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),
with
concurrence ...
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68450>
NC officials can go silent on data breaches
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... the bill was written, the priority was changing business practices
in the months after the public learned about breaches at data broker
ChoicePoint
and Bank of ...
<http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/14917543.htm>
Identity-Theft Insurance
ABC News - USA
... identity trails wherever they go. They're not shredding junk mail
and
important documents, and one of them has just fallen for a phish. ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2128667>
Poor security in NHS portable data storage, says survey
E-Health Insider - London,UK
... storage device was a USB stick (76%), with 51% using PDAs and only
2% storing data on phones. Out of those who used mobile devices to store
patient records, ...
<http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1970>
P2P is a boon for web criminals, expert warns
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... other confidential files on a user's PC.Medical records, security
passwords
... as cracking down on individuals' downloading and data storage
facilities,
businesses ...
<http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1176152.php/P2P_is_a_boo
n_for_web_criminals_expert_warns>
Records request yields MUW alumni office e-mails
The Commercial Dispatch - Columbus,MS,USA
... Complying with an open records request from The Commercial Dispatch,
Limbert and her attorneys provided a bundle of e-mail notes obtained
from
the computers of ...
<http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2006/06/28/local_news/local02.txt>
2 computer aides to Sen. Fumo charged formally
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... The indictment charges Luchko with 30 counts - including 19 counts
of destroying evidence and nine counts of persuading others to destroy
evidence. ...
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counti
es/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/14916462.htm>
Online update: County removes sensitive information from Web site
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
... Some of the documents, such as mortgage papers and deeds, included
Social Security numbers, phone numbers and signatures — information
some officials feared ...
<http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_3990893>
Archives protecting collection from floods
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
WASHINGTON -- The National Archives brought in giant dehumidifiers after
flooding threatened some of its collection, including telegrams from
Abraham
Lincoln ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Flooding_Museums.html>
Archives Enhances On-line Exhibit
Canisius College - Buffalo,NY,USA
Canisius Archives and Special Collections expanded its on-line exhibit
World War II & the Boys of Canisius with On the Homefront image
galleries
that ...
<http://www.canisius.edu/newsevents/display_story.asp?iNewsID=3922&strBac
k=%2FDefault.asp>
Officials Work to Protect Buildings, Artifacts From Floods
FOX News - USA
WASHINGTON — The National Archives has brought in giant dehumidifiers
to preserve historic documents in the wake of flooding that closed the
building and ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201411,00.html>
Cost of secrecy
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The introduction of the Freedom of Information Act has partly accounted
for the increase in the Queen's official expenditure, although the Royal
Family is ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/29/nqueen22
9.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/29/ixuknews.html>
Archivist saves city's history
Sheboygan Press - Sheboygan,WI,USA
In a room at the end of a long, dark hallway in the Sheboygan Armory,
George
Brisson was working hard to save a piece of Sheboygan's history: a
Common
Council ...
<http://www.sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/SHE01
01/606280601/1973>
Last 16 years’ records missing
The National - Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
... Before independence, the Commonwealth Department of Works used the
building and, in 1974, it was handed over to the National Archive and
Records Services. ...
<http://www.thenational.com.pg/062906/nation2.htm>
Records-storage giant buys here:
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
Cole Storage, at 212 25th St. North, stores paper and digital records in
a climate-controlled warehouse. The acquisition of the ...
<http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/11514
87046265530.xml&coll=2>
The Naperville Sun, Sun, 25 Jun 2006 1:41 AM PDT
Fermilab finds 1920s bankbook
<<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/naper/news/6_1_NA25_BANKBOOK_
S10625.htm>>
Just as physicists uncover the mysteries of the universe, members of
Fermilab's history committee are trying to trace the owner of the old
bank deposit book, as well as how, when and why it became lodged
between the floor boards.
The Beacon News, Sun, 25 Jun 2006 1:27 AM PDT
And where did he get all that money?
<<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/top/2_1_AU25_BANKBOOK_S10
625.htm>>
On Dec. 3, 2005, a pre-Depression-era "Aurora National Bank" bank book
literally fell into the hands of a worker doing floor repairs in the
1880s McKee farmhouse, one of the original farmsteads of the 6,800-acre
site of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
The Bryan-College Station Eagle, Wed, 28 Jun 2006 6:05 AM PDT
County will put law files online
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/062806/local_20060628015.php
Taking a trip to the Brazos County Courthouse soon may be an obsolete
chore for those wanting to page through the District Clerk's Office's
expansive
library of civil and criminal court documents.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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