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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

Corporate espionage plays growing role

A software engineer from China working for Motorola several years ago tried to leave the United States with more than $600 million worth of data that did not belong to her, according to a criminal

Jailed: Fired director who sabotaged organ donation records

Former IT director of LifeGift Organ Donation Center Danielle Duann, a nonprofit organ procurement center, was sentenced to two years in prison. In addition, Duann also had to pay more than $94,000

Is IT reading your email, stealing your passwords?

An IT manager must deal with a myriad of problems, and one of the most notable is protecting privacy. A new survey by Cyber-Ark Software, a Newton, Mass.-based security-software company, found plenty

Cyber crooks use data for extortion

There's a new twist to the increasingly-common tale of data theft. Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest processors of mail-order pharmacy prescriptions, recently had its databases hacked and