Friday, October 16, 2009

Monday, October 5, 2009

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

“National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2001, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure.

The success of National Cyber Security Awareness Month rests on all of us doing what we can to engage in awareness activities. There are opportunities for everyone from home users to major corporations and government entities to get involved.”

How To Get Involved

…PII. U.S. Government Suffers 'Largest Release Of Personally Identifiable Information Ever'

While this likely isn’t as bad as it sounds, it is still unbelievable to me that this is still happening. It very clearly shows that there is a lack of interest in keeping this information secure. American voters should be making this a priority for any new elections because eventually no one is going to have any personally identifiable information. The government is going to have carelessly let it all out into the public.

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