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NewsDrowning in passwords
If you are like me and millions of others online, you've got more than one password--many more. You may have one that is six or seven letters or one that combines letters and numbers. There could be Read more...
Cost of carelessness hits the CIO's budget
David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro, tells Forbes that as many as one in five virus infections come from users who purposefully infect themselves out of curiosity. This is just Read more...
Data thieves hit universitiesA university in Idaho and a college in Arizona are busy doing what they can to quell students' and staffers' fears about personal data gone missing. The University of Idaho reported that three Read more... Another laptop goes missing at BoeingBoeing has fired an employee that it says was responsible for the theft of a laptop this month and is working with law enforcement to track down the mobile device, as it contains confidential Read more... SPOTLIGHT: Missing bank laptops hold critical dataYet another banking institution has reported that three of its laptops have been stolen, putting the confidential data of thousands of customers at risk. Sovereign Bank has sent letters out to its Read more... Security researcher discovers stolen data stashResearchers at a security vendor have discovered data on stolen identities from 125 countries that were apparently grabbed through a new variant of a Trojan horse program. The stolen data, Read more... |




