tfpl blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Review of information security at HM Revenue and Customs by Kieran Poynter The Poynter Review is no ordinary information management consultancy report. But then HMRC's loss in October 2007 of disks containing the addresses and bank account details of 7.5...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Sally Adee writes in IEEE Spectrum : Earlier this year, someone at the United States Department of Justice smuggled sensitive financial data out of the agency by embedding the data in several image files. Defeating this exfiltration method, called steganography, has proved particularly tricky, but one engineering student has come up with a way to make espionage work against itself. Keith...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) A new research report on "Data Loss Prevention: Little Leaks Sink the Ship" published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), reveals that over the last 12 months Best-in-Class organizations experienced 27% fewer data loss incidents than the Industry Average from trusted internal users, and 92% fewer data loss incidents...
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy told MPs the newly-announced HMRC breaches did not necessarily result in data losses, adding that they reflect "potential weaknesses reported by staff and not actual thefts or losses”, and indicate that staff are more aware of security and reporting more incidents. HMRC said it takes data loss and security breaches “very...
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy told MPs the newly-announced HMRC breaches did not necessarily result in data losses, adding that they reflect "potential weaknesses reported by staff and not actual thefts or losses”, and indicate that staff are more aware of security and reporting more incidents. HMRC said it takes data loss and security breaches “very...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Over 60,000 HIPAA, GLBA, PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI Compliance Violations Were Uncovered by Palisade's Data Loss Prevention Appliance in July 2008 AMES, Iowa, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Palisade Systems, a leading provider of data loss prevention products, announced today the July 2008 results of their 5-Day Secure Assessment Program. The assessments, which are performed...
Ferris Research (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Proventsure's technologies execute real-time risk assessment of regulated and sensitive data at rest - including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Sensitive Proprietary Information (NPI), and Support for Open Source Audit Modules
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Whitehall departments lost data potentially affecting more than a million people in a year, BBC analysis shows.
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Today, IBM announced a $300 million investment around building upon its 154 existing data centers in 2008, with the addition of 13 new "Business Resilience" service delivery centers in ten countries, including the US.
Extra Technology News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Proventsure's technologies execute real-time risk assessment of regulated and sensitive data at rest - including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Sensitive Proprietary Information (NPI), and Support for Open Source Audit Modules Washington, DC ( PRWEB ) August 19, 2008 -- Proventsure, a leader in automated Risk Assessment and Risk/Policy Auditing software to Fortune 2000 and Federal...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Safeguard Summer Memories With a Custom Data Backup Plan From Support.ComPosted on: Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 09:00 CDTSummer is a time for making memories to last a lifetime. Weddings, vacations and even lazy Saturdays by the pool mean digital photos, videos and summer playlists that will serve as important reminders for years to come. support.com, the leader in solving personal computer problems...
iPod Reviews Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
iPod is the Apple product having the distinctive feature to hold hundreds to thousands of songs, video, images , documents and so on. When this device is connected to the personal computer, Windows or Macintosh, the iPod communicates with a piece of Apple software called iTunes.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
British officials are acknowledging personal details of about 45,000 people were lost by a single government agency last year.Ministry of Justice records show the data was lost in nine separate incidents during the past year, including one in June that resulted in the loss of names, addresses and some bank details of 27,000 people. Other data lost included dates of birth, criminal...
tfpl blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Independent report into loss of data related to child benefit by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Reading the IPCC report into the HMRC data loss is like reading one of Shakespeare's tragedies. When you start watching Romeo and Juliet...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io has just announced that its ioDrive solid state storage solutions just got better due to the integration of full-chip redundancy. By using a dedicated NAND flash chip as a XOR parity chip, the ioDrive PCI-Express cards are much less prone to data loss and thus more reliable in environments where data integrity is crucial. In all, the advantages of...
