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The Nameless Dead in Connecticut: DNA and Databases May Help Identify Unnamed Remains
The region’s nameless dead have been found floating in the Connecticut River, hidden in ditches and dumped in forests and near highways. Around the state, human remains have been found by street sweepers, hunters, hikers and passers-by and unearthed by construction crews.
Potential for incorrect relationship identification in new forensic familial searching techniques
New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial searching: a new technique which extends forensic identification to family members of individuals with profiles in offender/arrestee DNA databases. In a study published this week in PLoS Genetics ...
Yanukovych postpones registration of databases until July 1, 2012
Responsibility for violations in the sphere of personal data protection will be introduced from July 1, 2012. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a relevant law, reads a posting on the Web site of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.
Hackers selling off Web credentials amassed in huge databases
The Web security vendor found advertisements offering to sell a database of user credentials by country. The advertising fraudster claims to have an active botnet collecting the information and has compiled 80 GB of data from victims.
Database encryption demystified: Four common misconceptions
With new attacks being publicized daily, organizations that eschew data encryption as an integral part of their security strategy risk losing almost everything.
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