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IT Security Roundtable March 13: Traveling safely over spring break

The time is nigh for K-State students, faculty, and staff to vacate Manhattan for distant lands over spring break.  Thus, this month’s IT security roundtable, which is 9-10:30 a.m. Friday, March 13, in Union 213, will discuss tips on how to travel safely so people can protect themselves from identity theft, financial fraud, and other threats related to information and technology while on vacation. Topics include:

Airports a major threat to laptops

According to recent studies, about 16,000 laptop computers are lost or stolen in airports in the United States and Europe EVERY WEEK. That translates into nearly 900,000 per year and, according to the studies conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Dell, about 60 percent of the laptops are never recovered or reclaimed. Continue reading “Airports a major threat to laptops”