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  • European court delays British hacker's extradition to US

    Posted August 12, 2008 - 9:58 am

    The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday temporarily held up the extradition of a British computer hacker facing computer misuse charges in the U.S.

  • Eleven indicted in massive ID theft scheme

    Posted August 5, 2008 - 2:57 pm

    Eleven people have been charged or indicted in a massive identity theft and computer fraud scheme involving some of the largest data breaches in recent U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

  • Security oversight may have enabled Countrywide breach

    Posted August 4, 2008 - 8:19 pm

    The man accused of stealing customer data from home mortgage lender Countrywide probably was able to download and save the data to an external drive due to an oversight by the company's IT department.

  • FBI: Flash drive used to steal Countrywide data

    Posted August 3, 2008 - 8:28 pm

    Struggling home mortgage lender Countrywide, already hit hard by the lending crisis and an investigation into potential fraud at the company, now faces another crisis: One of its employees has been charged for allegedly stealing personal information about customers.

  • Most sensitive data on government laptops unencrypted

    Posted July 29, 2008 - 1:52 pm

    Only 30 percent of sensitive information stored on U.S. government laptops and mobile devices, including the personal information of U.S. residents, was encrypted a year ago, despite a series of data breaches at government agencies in recent years, according to an auditor's report.

  • UnitedHealthcare insider charged in Cal data theft

    Posted July 18, 2008 - 11:32 am

    A former UnitedHealthcare employee has been charged with stealing customer data in connection with a rash of identity thefts at the University of California, Irvine.

  • Failures of Information Security: Observing the World and Asking Why

    Posted July 8, 2008 - 12:30 pm

    Information security matters; it is important. It matters to companies and their shareholders. It is of great importance to the general public, whose personal data is stored by the companies and organizations with which they interact (and by some with which they don’t). We all hope our private files and email correspondence remain secure. The security industry and security professionals are the guardians of that personal information. They seek to frustrate criminals by employing standard ways of working and by deploying security technologies. Unfortunately, these efforts have not always been successful. This chapter delves into some of the most apparent failures of information security.

  • Off-network security: From knowing better to doing better

    Posted July 8, 2008 - 10:33 am

    When Redemtech commissioned the Ponemon Institute to study data breaches last summer, they confirmed something we all probably understood: most breaches result from the loss or theft of a data bearing asset, often a laptop. They also confirmed that a large majority of surveyed companies have existing policies to govern the handling of data bearing equipment once it is taken "off the wire," or off-network. Not anticipated was that a majority of companies report doing nothing to measure or govern the effectiveness of those policies.

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    CNET employees notified after data breach

    Posted June 23, 2008 - 7:46 pm

    More than 6,500 CNET Networks employees and relatives are being notified of a possible data breach after burglars stole computer systems from the offices of the company that administers the Internet publisher's benefit plans.

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    Insider threat exaggerated, says study

    Posted June 17, 2008 - 3:49 pm

    Insiders are not, after all, the main threat to networks, a detailed new analysis of real-world data breaches has concluded.

  • Most retailer breaches are not disclosed, Gartner says

    Posted May 26, 2008 - 9:54 am

    While nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack, only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers, research company Gartner reports.

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