We've seen it so many times, we see it again and we'll probably see it in the future: computers hosting important information get compromised, mostly due to weak security measures set up by the administrators. This time, there are "only" 9,000 affected students and about 500 instructors according to a repor... |
29 April 2008
16:31 GMT |
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The HMRC data loss is surely a case which should be mentioned in the IT security books because at that time, there were no less than 25 million victims who saw their details lost in the unknown. However, it's sad to see more and more similar cases although the HMRC case obviously underlined the need for more and... |
22 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Retail Giant TJX had suffered a severe security breach in which 45 million customers' data had been stolen. A huge operation! And as if things weren't bad enough, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada explains in a report that this breach was predictable. I don't think I need to say more - y... |
27 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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This is just another case of one company being sued for something that isn't really their fault. The state of Connecticut is suing IT consulting giant Accenture after sensitive information about state bank accounts and dozens of taxpayers has leaked, as the SC Magazine informs us. Thing is, they didn't get... |
21 September 2007
06:12 GMT |
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When it comes to security breaches, nowadays, numbers go sky high. And when I say numbers, I mean everything - money spent, people affected, number of credentials stolen etc etc. Hackers have started to score big - they go for the giants, hit them hard, steal data then launch huge spam-scam campaigns or who knows wha... |
20 September 2007
10:42 GMT |
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As you may already know, there are two types of hackers - the ones that do it for a good cause, and by that I mean disclosing vulnerabilities and reporting them to the ones that have them, and then there are the evil ones that hack for their own inscrutable purposes. Of course, data breaches are usually due to attack... |
17 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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"It's the employees' fault that we have security problems!" said a lot of IT managers in a research by Websense, concerning small and midsize companies. Yeah, it's their fault, I'm sure all of them have as much knowledge as IT managers do, and they do risky stuff on purpose!(not!). If there's... |
24 August 2007
10:57 GMT |
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Pfizer is a huge pharmaceutical company that, amongst many other drugs, also produces the famous blue pill, Viagra. As of late, the firm has been experiencing some problems, because of data theft as well as some workers not respecting the rules, fact which led to information leakage.The first bad incident for this fi... |
17 August 2007
04:12 GMT |
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