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  Symantec: Small-company security problems can threaten large corporate nets

  Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets -- large corporations or governments that hold valuable secrets, according to a Symantec report on Internet security.

  By Tim Greene | 01 May, 2012 03:22

  Tags: data loss, RSA breach, security, symantec

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  The CFO's role in the Cloud question

  Cloud computing will affect everything in your organisation - right down to the bottom line.

  By Tom Powledge, vice president of product delivery, SMB and .Cloud, Symantec | 01 May, 2012 02:29

  Tags: business issues, cfo, CFO cloud computing, chief financial officer, cloud agility, cloud applications, cloud apps, cloud computing, cloud data breach, cloud data loss, cloud deployment, cloud security, data breach, data loss, internet, security

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  Top four security predictions for 2012: ISF

  While 2011 is coming to an end, security threats show no sign of slowing down. UK-based Information Security Forum (ISF) vice president of sales and marketing, Steve Durbin, shared his four security predictions for 2012.

  By Hamish Barwick | 27 October, 2011 15:43

  Tags: BYOT, cloud security, data loss, hacking, International Security Forum

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  Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

  Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

  By Sadik Al-Abdulla, senior manager, CDW Security Practice | 19 May, 2011 01:32

  Tags: CDW, data breach, data loss, security, SMB, SMB Networking

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  Aussie developer claims cure for ‘Wikileaks syndrome’

  Confidential information released via Wikileaks has sent governments around the world into a spin and put businesses on high alert but one Sydney-based software developer claims to have a solution to the perennial problem of data leakage.

  By Rodney Gedda | 10 December, 2010 16:19

  Tags: data loss, Data Loss Prevention, security, wikileaks

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  Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off

  Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

  By Agam Shah | 11 August, 2010 04:05

  Tags: data loss, Drives, encryption, hdd, storage, toshiba

• Data loss a mystery for many businesses

  Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate laptops are lost or stolen.

  By Tim Greene | 08 April, 2010 03:53

  Tags: data loss, security

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  Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names

  In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.

  By Rodney Gedda | 29 July, 2009 16:11

  Tags: data leaks, data loss, Data Loss Prevention, e-mail, mcafee, security

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  T-Mobile data was not taken by hacking, company says

  T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.

  By Robert McMillan | 10 June, 2009 06:40

  Tags: data loss, data theft, hacking, t-mobile

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  T-Mobile confirms stolen data is genuine

  T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 June, 2009 04:27

  Tags: data leaks, data loss, hacking, t-mobile

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  Users set to ditch tape for online storage

  Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.

  By Tom Jowitt | 26 May, 2009 08:23

  Tags: data loss, online storage, storage backup, tandberg, tape

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  Hard drive missing from US National Archives

  A hard drive containing personal information of White House staff and visitors during former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration is missing from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the agency said.

  By Grant Gross | 21 May, 2009 03:22

  Tags: data leaks, data loss, USA government

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  Most claims dismissed in Hannaford data breach suit

  All but one of the legal claims filed against Hannaford Bros. -- the Maine-based retailer that suffered a security breach exposing some four million credit and debit cards -- has been dismissed.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 May, 2009 04:05

  Tags: data breach, data loss, Hannaford, lawsuits, legal

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  Govt agencies losing portable data: Privacy Commissioner

  Many Australian government agencies do not have appropriate controls covering the use of portable storage devices (PSDs) for the handling of personal information which is being lost at an alarming rate, according to new research by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

  By Rodney Gedda | 08 May, 2009 08:51

  Tags: data loss, federal government, privacy, privacy commissioner

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  Over half of UK firms have lost data

  An astonishing 55 percent of British companies have lost data, according to a new report.

  By Leo King | 13 October, 2008 10:00

  Tags: data breach, data loss