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Customers on the hook for data security in the cloud
Cloud services providers are going to great lengths to tout their offerings these days, but when it comes to information security, they are making it clear that the buck does not stop with them.
Quick tips: How to dispose of old data archives
How to properly dispose of old data archives to prevent them from being accessed by others.
Visa's data center with a moat
Visa's new data center, in an undisclosed location "somewhere on the eastern seaboard," is creating quite a stir for its purported fortifications and defenses. The company says the center can hold up
Why not to secure personal devices like the company's
Applying the same security policies to employees' personal devices and company-issued devices alike may make sense on an intuitive level, but using device management software on gadgets you do not
Dropbox accounts left completely unprotected for four hours
A flawed code update over the weekend botched the password authentication component of Dropbox on Sunday, leaving the popular cloud storage service essentially unprotected for four hours. As reported
Verizon: Data breaches soared in 2010
There were five times as many data breaches in 2010 as in 2009, according to the latest breach report from Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ). However, fewer records were compromised, suggesting that cyber crooks
BP loses oil, now personal data
BP--infamous for last year's Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico--is still having trouble containing its resources. First it caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and now it lost
How to know if you've been breached
A recent survey found that more than 40 percent of organizations are unsure how often they are the target of advanced network attacks, and 50 percent take a month or more to detect these attacks. To
WikiLeaks plans to turn scope on business world
Of all the revelations unveiled by the latest WikiLeaks data dump, the most important may not be that Moammar Gaddafi pals around all the time with a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse. The most
RSA report: Compliance risks, costs are on the rise
Data security regulations are becoming more prescriptive, and they are applicable to a wider range of organizations, including, in some cases, the suppliers of regulated companies. Enforcement
