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  • Stolen: Google employees' personal data

    Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.

    News items | July 3, 2008 4:52pm PDT

  • The Russian approach to battling breaches

    Natalya Kaspersky tells how Kaspersky Lab and "daughter" site InfoWatch are working to keep computers and data safe and sound.

    News items | April 30, 2008 5:03pm PDT

  • Will security become Facebook's Achilles' heel?

    Aaron Greenspan warns that Facebook is sacrificing user privacy on the altar of hyper growth.

    News items | February 22, 2008 5:00pm PST

  • Judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law

    Technology has outpaced legal system's ability to regulate its use in issues of privacy and fair use rights, says Australian High Court judge.

    News items | February 22, 2008 10:03am PST

  • Going back to school on security

    Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that educational institutions have been anything but smart about preventing security breaches.

    News items | February 13, 2008 4:00am PST

  • Australian government revs up license plate cameras

    National rollout could take one to four years, depending on response to a study now under way and how long it takes to secure funding for the project.

    News items | January 21, 2008 7:46am PST

  • U.K. government loses pensioner data

    Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss.

    News items | December 19, 2007 7:51am PST

  • U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates

    Hard disk containing details on 3 million candidates goes missing at facility run by contractor for the Driving Standards Agency.

    News items | December 18, 2007 7:45am PST

  • A call for rational discourse on identity theft

    ID Analytics' Thomas Oscherwitz writes that while ID theft losses are dropping, the debate has become ever more shrill.

    News items | December 6, 2007 4:00am PST

  • Dude, what happened to my PC?

    Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains why the law is unforgiving when a computer with discoverable data in a case goes "missing."

    News items | December 5, 2007 4:00am PST

  • The new battleground in cybercrime

    Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak writes that user data increasingly is driving "criminal-2-criminal" business.

    News items | November 30, 2007 4:00am PST

  • U.K. government's lost data 'worth billions to criminals'

    Politician attacks government over failure to use encryption technology to prevent breach that could impact millions of people.

    News items | November 29, 2007 2:07pm PST

  • Insecurity in the digital world

    Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod examines what's become the soft underbelly of our increasingly electronic era.

    News items | November 28, 2007 11:51am PST

  • U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'

    Two discs containing details on those who receive child benefits go missing because of "major contravention" of data-protection laws.

    News items | November 21, 2007 11:16am PST

  • Uncle Sam's newest security challenge to businesses

    Congress will soon consider new laws to better protect businesses against security breaches. Websense CEO Gene Hodges argues against a one-size-fits-all approach.

    News items | November 5, 2007 4:00am PST

  • How we went wrong on identity

    Steven Gal says the current ID infrastructure has left consumers annoyed and feeling victimized, and needs to be completely re-engineered.

    News items | November 1, 2007 4:00am PDT

  • The new urgency to fix online privacy

    Unlike Y2K, which was a nonevent, Internet attorney Eric Sinrod explains why the business world is mobilizing behind what it sees as a real threat.

    News items | October 31, 2007 4:00am PDT

  • Why we still invite data breaches

    Sentrigo's Dan Sarel writes that enterprise security has been slow to realize the evolving nature of for-profit cyber hack attacks.

    News items | October 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

  • Report: U.S. tops list of spam-offending countries

    U.S. sends about 28 percent of the world's spam--more than five times as much as second-place South Korea, says security firm.

    News items | October 26, 2007 6:12am PDT

  • CA exec urges Asia to strengthen data-breach laws

    Security sales director says region should follow Japan's example to ensure companies take data security more seriously.

    News items | September 28, 2007 6:11am PDT

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