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The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit organization that tracks data breaches in U.S., reported 516 incidents that resulted in a total of over 30 million personal records being compromised so far in 2008, out of which 97.5% were electronically stored.The ITRC gathers the reports from various media sou... |
7 October 2008
10:21 GMT |
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An IT manager who bought a second-hand computer from eBay discovered that the hard disk of the machine contained the bank information of 1 million persons. The computer, which was sold for £35 (approximately $75), had previously belonged to Graphic Data, a company that stores information of clients of banks and... |
27 August 2008
20:40 GMT |
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A survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Ponemon Institute LLC revealed that 85 percent of the security professionals in North America discovered a data breach, targeting personally identifiable information inside their company in the last year. Moreover, 63 percent of the respondents confirmed they have ... |
14 December 2007
15:31 GMT |
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When I first got hold of this material, I thought it could not be possible! Some people have no idea what's good for them! I mean, when someone finds out you have a cyber-security issue, you should at least thank them, not punish them! This is the case of an Oregonian student, that also worked as a journalist fo... |
8 October 2007
09:17 GMT |
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Now, here's a bizarre case of data breaching for you. The TD Ameritrade Company had a huge database with sensitive information belonging to clients. And when I say huge, I mean 6.3 million accounts. Hackers broke into it using the classic backdoor tactic, so what was weird in that? Well, the fishy part was that ... |
17 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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There have been many news items earlier this year about the huge data breach that hit retailer giant TJX. Hackers had been stealing sensitive information for a few months, so it's easy to imagine how hard the blow was. Costs were huge on the company side, after the hack has happened, and I'm talking about m... |
12 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Sure, it's great to deploy all sorts of programs on your machine/s in order to enforce security; but in some cases, one tool can be pretty much useless. Not completely, but it won't do the thing that you really need. And this is really true when talking about ant-data-leakage programs.What do you expect the... |
12 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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A lot of hacks happen these days, databases are being breached, sensitive info stolen and sometimes it's not even the database owner's fault. You can't have both data (being easy to access and to use) and tight security. There is no such thing as the perfect system, but there are some of them really ha... |
11 September 2007
10:11 GMT |
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