Articles Tagged with "Data Loss"
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Analyst Study Shows Employees Continue to Put Data at Risk
March 10, 2010 from: Office of Inadequate Security
...the results from the annual "Human Factor in Laptop Encryption" study performed by Absolute Software and the Ponemon Institute reveal some very interesting metrics about the use/adoption of encryption software and the risk posed to businesses from the loss of unencrypted media.
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21 more business sector breaches from 2009
February 27, 2010 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update. The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010
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A rise in cyber attacks by one third saw 100 per cent of enterprises experience cyber losses in 2009
February 25, 2010 from: Saumil's Infosec Blog
According to Symantec's 2010 State of Enterprise Security study, 75 per cent of enterprises experienced cyber attacks in the last 12 months and 36 per cent rated the attacks somewhat/highly effective. Also, there was a 29 per cent rise in reported attacks in the last 12 months.
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New Data Breach Report: Malicious Attacks Doubled in 2009
January 25, 2010 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The number of malicious or criminal attack-related breaches was 24 percent — double the 12 percent of the 2009 study. “They are the most costly, and the types of attacks we found included botnet attacks and data-stealing malware,” Ponemon says. “There is more to worry about because I see this as a growing category. This number of criminal attacks will continue to increase i...
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Malware rebounds as cause of data loss
December 04, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security survey identified a number of shifts in significant cybersecurity threats this year. Malware infections jumped to 64% from 50%, reversing a dip in the number of companies experiencing malware infections that started in 2005. That year, the figure was 74%.
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Forty-one percent of workers have stolen corporate data – survey
November 23, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Stealing employer data has become endemic in our culture. According to a survey conducted with 300 office workers in New York City examining the impact of the recession on ethics and security, 85 percent of the respondents admitted to knowing that downloading corporate information from their employer was illegal, yet a quarter of those surveyed would take the data regardless of the penalties.
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Massive card processor breach in Spain affecting Europeans
November 18, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Back in October, this site reported that “tens of thousands” of Swedish banking customers and “tens of thousands” of Finnish banking customers had been affected by a breach in Spain that might involve a card payment processor.
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Update: Stolen BCBS hard drives had data on 2 million insured
November 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
One of Tennessee’s largest holders of personal information confirms that an October theft from a Chattanooga office affects about 2 million of its clients. Blue Cross Blue Shield said 68 computer hard drives that contained Social Security numbers and other sensitive information were taken from the office.
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Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
November 06, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers.
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MA: Williams College laptop stolen; 750 notified
November 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Williams College in Williamstown reports a recent laptop theft. The laptop, which was stolen when an employee left it in a parked car in Boston on October 3, contained the names and Social Security numbers of 750 individuals from 39 states and several foreign countries.
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CalOptima Reports Potential Loss of Patient Claims Information (updated)
October 29, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
ORANGE, Calif. (October 23, 2009) – CalOptima has identified the potential loss of past medical claims information for approximately 68,000 of its members that was stored on electronic media devices.
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Former Wachovia employee convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft
October 28, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Juan Rombado, a former Wachovia Bank employee, has been convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from several schemes aimed at defrauding his employer through the theft of customer identities, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced. Indicted and arrested in August 2009, Rombado pleaded guilty to both counts before United States District Judge Vanessa Gilmore.
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FTC settles latest charges against ChoicePoint
October 19, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
ChoicePoint, Inc., one of the nation’s largest data brokers, has agreed to strengthened data security requirements to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company failed to implement a comprehensive information security program protecting consumers’ sensitive information, as required by a previous court order. This failure left the door open to a data breach in 2008 that co...
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PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach
October 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Payroll services provider PayChoice took its Web-based service offline for the second time in a month on Wednesday in response to yet another data breach caused by hackers.
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Lawsuit: 29,000 say Kaiser hid security breach
October 15, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her identity and used it to run up credit-card charges and “commit crimes across the country.”
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City admits lapse in data release
October 07, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
On Tuesday, New York City rolled out the next phase of its NYC BigApps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones.
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