breaches
RSS breachesData breaches: No more than normal
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches - but to more people admitting to them. The spokesperson said: "More people are stepping forward as they... [18 Feb 2008]
Schneier: 'Blame firms not staff for security breaches'
News Security guru Bruce Schneier has hit out at the trend of blaming staff for security breaches, suggesting it's companies which must always face the strongest criticism. Schneier was responding specifically to an exclusive story on silicon.com last... [21 Feb 2006]
Counting the costs of email & web security breaches
White Paper Understand the costs of email and web security breaches to your business. MessageLabs brings you this FREE White Paper for business owners and managers of small to medium sized enterprises. Drawing from the experiences of four MessageLabs clients... [05 Sep 2007]
Should companies care about data breaches?
News Large companies do not have an economic incentive to prevent privacy breaches occurring, according to researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities this week. The researchers studied 78 breaches from 2000 to 2006 in publicly traded... [03 Jul 2006]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News CIOs and internal auditors don't feel IT fraud and data privacy is a serious threat to their business despite the spate of high profile data losses and privacy breaches. Corporate breaches and data privacy regulation were ranked sixth in the top 10... [27 Jun 2008]
Indian call centre security breaches exposed
News Mehta said in the case of recent high-profile incidents of Indian call centre security breaches - such as HSBC - the criminals were identified and arrested within three weeks and are now awaiting trial. [05 Oct 2006]
How to Achieve Compliance With Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Protection Clauses and Protect Against Data Breaches
White Paper With the severity of recent data breaches, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being asked about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting data from data breaches. [31 May 2008]
Counting the costs of email & web security breaches
White Paper Understand the costs of email and web security breaches to your business. MessageLabs brings you this FREE White Paper for business owners and managers of small to medium sized enterprises. Drawing from the experiences of four MessageLabs clients... [05 Sep 2007]
Data breaches misunderstood by gov't, say Lords
News Lord Erroll, a member of the committee, hit out at the government's reaction to the committee's report into personal internet security, saying the government had failed to react appropriately.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are... [01 Nov 2007]
Information Security Breaches Survey 2002
White Paper The Information Security Breaches Survey 2002 (ISBS 2002) is the sixth survey that the Department of trade and industry has sponsored since 1991. Information is the lifeblood of today's business, underpinning day to day operations and facilitating... [24 Feb 2004]
Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees
News Security breaches that can be traced back to the actions of one individual are not the fault of one "stupid" employee but rather a failure to educate and engage the whole workforce around the importance of good security practice, according to a... [03 Apr 2008]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment Today silicon.com launches its Full Disclosure campaign with the aim of making businesses and government take data security more seriously by improving the reporting of serious information security breaches. [16 Jul 2007]
UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and customers... [22 Apr 2008]
CIO Jury: Who is to blame for security breaches?
News The silicon.com CIO Jury is split this week on whether software vendors should be forced to pay compensation when insecure products lead to costly security breaches and system downtime. While everyone acknowledges that ultimately hackers and virus... [27 May 2004]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment The recent spate of data breaches illustrates just how vigilant both companies and consumers need to be when dealing with personal data. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [20 Dec 2007]
