By safegardit on Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:17 AM

By Joseph Palmersheim, Sun Newspapers
December 26, 2007

One Lakeville company's digital reach goes far beyond city limits and exists in the boundless sphere of the World Wide Web.

Safegard It is a global technology recovery service. Each Safegard It registered device is provided with a tag featuring a unique identification number to identify it in case of theft. If it is reported lost or stolen, Safegard It can report the IP address for use by law enforcement in recovering the device. Safegard It and its parent company, Positive Results, are owned by Dan Medin of Lakeville.

"Positive Results has been in business for about 15 years," Medin said. "Safegard is more of a brand name, and it's been in business for about a year and a half.&qu ... Read More »

By Dan Medin on 12/7/2007 3:40 PM

By David Phelps, Star Tribune

December 6, 2007

Personal information, including the Social Security numbers of more than a quarter-million Minnesota and Wisconsin donors to Memorial Blood Centers, is in the hands of a thief.

The organization revealed Wednesday that a laptop containing the names and addresses of 268,000 donors was stolen Nov. 28 as center employees set up a skyway-level blood drive in downtown Minneapolis on Seventh Street.

By safegardit on Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:08 PM

by Edward C Baig, USA Today
April, 9, 2002

Sadly, there is war again overseas, but then, as now, you need not harbor military secrets to fret about a potential laptop heist. Whether it's your personal finance data on Quicken or proprietary marketing plans that must be kept from an unscrupulous competitor, civilians routinely carry revealing bits best kept out of foreign hands. Of course, even when the stored information isn't so hush-hush, a bad guy (or gal) will gladly fence a notebook for a quick dollar.

According to the 2002 Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, the ... Read More »

By safegardit on Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:07 PM

By David Raikow, VARBusiness
April 02, 2007

By some estimates, as many as 90 percent of businesses have had at least one laptop stolen in the past year. And not even the most security-conscious organizations are immune. In a February 2007 audit, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that 44 laptops were stolen from the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the past 4 years, up nearly 40 percent from an audit in 2002.

The most obvious costs of laptop theft--hardware replacement and data recovery--can prove almost insignificant in comparison to the security breach that theft may cause.