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Organized crime heads to cyberspace
When you think about organized crime, you might picture Marlon Brando in The Godfather. But these days, organized crime has a far different venue: It's in cyberspace. A new report by Verizon... Read more...
Employee data breached at Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is the latest company to feel the effects of a data breach. It's unclear how many employees were affected in the breach, but the health care company is notifying its 29,500 Northern... Read more...
The high cost of data breaches just got higher
Companies that experienced a data breach in 2008 paid an average of $6.6 million last year to rebuild their brand image and retain customers. A new study by the Ponemon Institute, a Tucson-based... Read more...
Data security's worst year yet
A report released by the security tracking Identity Theft Resource Center said there were 646 data breach incidents reported in 2008, a 47 percent increase over 2007 and an all-time record. The spike... Read more...
How to deal with a data breach
The next time your BlackBerry starts buzzing at 3 a.m., take a deep breath and get ready for some bad news. It could be your security officer alerting you that the company has experienced a data... Read more...
What to do after a data breach
Rick Kam, president of ID Experts, a provider of identity theft protection and data breach services for consumer and corporate customers, said that corporate data breaches are becoming all too common... Read more...
Data security now accounts for 10 percent of IT operating budgets
Companies are increasing their security budgets in response to growing concerns over the number and severity of data breaches, according to analyst Khalid Kark from Forrester Research. As a result,... Read more...
Data breaches on the rise
The Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego has found that data breaches are on the rise. So far this year, 449 U.S. businesses, government agencies and universities have reported a loss or theft... Read more...
Contractor loses details on tens of thousands of criminals
In yet another major data-loss fiasco, details of all prisoners in England and Wales, including tens of thousands of offenders, were lost in a memory stick that held the data in an unencrypted... Read more...
The enemy within
Everyone knows that predators are lurking about, ready and willing to steal data, and that the threats that come from everywhere in the world are numerous and real. But Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics... Read more...
