Overworked government workers flub..

It’s no big story that a government office has manged to release sensitive information again.   It’s the excuse in the second half of the article I find disturbing.  In a statement from a Government Printing Office (GPO) spokesman they suggest the error was due to the “sheer volume” of documents the GPO processes.  Read entire article here.

“On average, the GPO produces “approximately 160 House documents each Congress,” the statement said. During the 109th Congress, the GPO produced 157 reports, while in the 110th Congress, 161 reports were published, the statement said.”

That’s 160 WHOLE documents?  Am I missing something?  That works out to less than 1 document a day, assuming they are all processed during the session (if my math is correct .65 per day is the result of 157 docs /242 days).  I’ll email Mike over at Dirty Jobs to see if he is up for the challenge.

Experts: Malicious program targets Macs

I know this is not related to PCI or PII, but I just can’t resist.  This story actually made it to the front page of CNN’s website the other day.

From the article…Mac users at large, however, should not be alarmed by the incident, experts said. The program infects only computers whose users downloaded pirated versions of the Mac software iWork…

It’s front page news that “experts” found that a computer is vulnerable to a Trojan hiding in a pirated copy of a software application?

I particularly love this experts quote…”it represents a step in the evolution of malicious computer software”…

How about application installation, not infection, Mr. Expert.

Pirates beware..ARRRRRRGH 

Read here.