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RSS data thiefData Loss Prevention Starts at the Endpoint: Seeking Safety From the Data Loss Pandemic
White Paper The agent of loss might be an otherwise diligent manager with legitimate rights to the missing data, a disgruntled employee bent on revenge, or a professional thief executing a carefully orchestrated and... [13 Nov 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment In fact, such tests have become so widely accepted that one of the newer regulations to affect organisations accepting credit card payments - the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) regulation -... [22 Apr 2009]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News But he goes on to say there is a "very small chance that patient details can be accessed" and that the trust believes "the data will almost certainly by wiped by the thief". The Information... [30 Jun 2008]
The Insecurity of Test Data: The Unseen Crisis
White Paper When a large Midwestern US insurance company hired an outside expert from a respected technology consulting firm to develop business application software, it didn't think that it was turning test data over to an identity... [20 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment What happens if the identity thief gets in first? It's about time that data was only moved around by courier only. Data blunders Gov't fails to keep court data locked up... [31 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment So basically it's a shopping list for a car thief so they can steal to order and plan their thefts in comfort instead of having to wander around in the cold night air and of course now the data is... [20 Dec 2007]
CIOs worried by mobile data leaks
News Bob Tarzey, service director at analyst house Quocirca, told silicon.com: "In most cases the loss of mobile devices does not lead to any confidential data being compromised because the thief or... [10 Sep 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie
Comment What if your credit card details, address, date of birth, bank account data - everything about you that an identity thief could possibly want - were stolen by hackers or accidentally leaked onto the... [04 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Disclosing data breaches
Comment A laptop that would be sold on for a barely three-figure sum all of a sudden becomes worth many thousands to the thief who only after the act realises what he might have purloined.perhaps thanks to a report in the media. [19 Jul 2007]
London: Capital of laptop theft
News An opportunist thief will certainly find it easier to bag a laptop than get into a home or office and remove a desktop PC. Although laptop thefts are often an opportunist crime, with thieves striking when the victim's... [15 May 2007]
Snaffled: Data on 100,000 Bulldog customers
News According to The Guardian report, Cable & Wireless declined to reveal the identity of the thief, who is now the subject of legal action the telco has brought. The contact details of 100,000 Bulldog broadband customers... [23 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch
Comment Similarly, should someone steal your mobile or PDA, the hardware stops working as soon as the thief is three to five metres away. The idea of losing all my vital contacts and data is too awful. Written... [11 Apr 2007]
Stolen laptop puts 16,000 council staff at risk
News She wouldn't confirm when the robbery took place, however, but said this non-disclosure was a deliberate attempt not to alert the laptop thief to the potentially sensitive data they may now have in their... [28 Feb 2007]
McAfee moves to arrest corporate data loss
News McAfee has announced a foray into the increasingly crowded market for products to stop data loss in businesses. McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host, or DLP Host, is a hardware and software package designed... [06 Feb 2007]
Google slams the door on XSS flaw
News The second vulnerability, reported by Lensson, would also have enabled a hacker to use JavaScript code to pass cookie data to an external source. Google has patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in one of... [17 Jan 2007]
