Data Security

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• Smarten Up. Increase Your Information Security Vocabulary

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 117
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”.  Stymied as to why they would ask me to do ...
  9 hours ago

• Data Encryption Software: What To Do When Data Is On Paper? Obsidian Suffers Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  These days, when one talks about data security, several things spring to mind: hard disk encryption , antivirus software, firewalls, etc.  However, remember that information resides in other forms than in digital format.  After all, were using more paper than ever, and have increasingly done so for the past ten ...
  19 hours ago

• Hard Drive Encryption Software : Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Sign Undertaking

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  The Chief Executive of the Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has signed an agreement with the Information Commissioners Office to better protect data.  Data encryption software was used sporadically by the trust, and this had resulted in the breach of patient data. Audiology Department Breach A laptop ...
  1 day ago

• Information Security for Small Business (Orlando)

  
  BDPA Foundation — Authority: 130
  BDPA Charlotte chapter president-elect Julius Clark was guest presenter for the October 2009 program meeting hosted by BDPA Orlando chapter . The topic of the presentation was Information Security for Small Business . Here is the presentation slideshow from that program meeting : Information Security ...
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• Data Recovery For Peace Of Mind

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 145
  One of the biggest concerns that can happen to a person is to lose the data off of their hard drive and it can happen when you least expect it. Many of us store personal and business information on our computers. Data viruses are a serious threat and very possibly they can delete some of your important data from your ...
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• Laptop Encryption Software And Rickrolling Having Something In Common

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  What does laptop encryption software have in common with the cultural zenith that was, and is, Rick Astley?  Passwords. Rickrolling iPhone Worm Australians with jailbroken iPhones got the treat of a lifetime when their wallpaper got changed to that of a young Astley looking impishly serious (check out the ...
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• Data Breach Costs: Canadian Government Pays $751,750 For Data Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  The Canadian federal government paid out $751,750 to approximately 120,000 people who were affected by a data breach on September 2003, when six computers were stolen.  The computers contained personal information but were not protected via drive encryption software . Six years for resolution.  That must be some ...
  2 days ago

• How to Spot Phishing Emails

  
  Spy Review — Authority: 121
  What is a phishing email? A phishing email is an email which lands in your inbox and asks for sensitive personal data like bank account details, user names, passwords and other security information which the phisher can then use to steal your identity or your money. The email may purportedly come from banks, ...
  2 days ago

• Reported data losses grow in the UK

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  More UK companies and Government departments than ever are reporting data losses to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data watchdog, according to recent data . Reported incidents grew nearly 100% to 356 data losses in the period between November 2008 and September 2009, compared to 190 incidents ...
  2 days ago

• PCI DSS Roadmap to Compliance | Phase I

  
  Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security — Authority: 91
  Merchants and service providers seeking to become Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliant, will need to embark on a structured “PCI DSS Roadmap to Compliance” for ensuring a seamless and transparent process. So what does this really mean and entail? It essentially requires all ...
  2 days ago

• Protecting Your Lan is No Longer Optional

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 145
  The ever-increasing threat presented by viruses and crackers necessitates a hard-line approach to controlling access to your data. Your LAN is one of your most precious assets. In fact, all the information on it and all the information that passes through it can be thought of as the blood of your company. Not too ...
  3 days ago

• Verbatim InSight Portable External Hard Drive

  
  Daily computer electronics show — Authority: 130
  Verbatim InSight USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive provides a place to store and maintain your data security. Luxury look, neat and compact with a glossy black color. Verbatim InSight Portable External Hard Drive Available capacity of 500 GB and 230 GB all up to you to choose large or small capacity. compatible ...
  3 days ago

• Disk Encryption Software: Mossad Hacks Syrian Government Laptop

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  According to Der Spiegel , Israels intelligence service planted a Trojan horse on the laptop computer of a Syrian government official.  This act ultimately led to the 2007 bombing of the Al Kibar complex (supposedly a nuclear reactor).  One way to have prevented this would have been the use of full disk encryption ...
  4 days ago

• Hard Disk Encryption Not On Laptop: Follow Up On Connecticut Data Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  A little over two years ago, a laptop computer belonging to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) was stolen.  It did not use hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot to protect its contents and led to the breach of personal information for 106,000 people. An investigation was started since ...
  5 days ago

• Laptop Heist Exposes Doctors’ Personal Data

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people’s personal data at risk but this time it’s the caregivers — not the patients — who are at risk.November 6, 2009By Larry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 days ago

• National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security . The legislation was drafted in response to the plague of data thefts that have occurred over the last ...
  5 days ago

• The Future of Medical Technology

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you – all the way from how much you weighed at birth, to X-rays of that bone you broke when you flipped your ...
  5 days ago

• New federal bills expand consumer privacy rights

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two new data security bills that greatly expand the consumer’s right to notice for any data breach involving he or her personal information.  The other bill will allow consumers to request that data brokers notify them about any personal information that is held for ...
  5 days ago

• CA DLP headed in the right direction

  
  Ian Yip's Security and Identity Thought Stream — Authority: 106
  When CA acquired Orchestria , I said it was a good move. I even wrote a follow-up post about why Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Data Security/Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) fit so well together. 2 weeks ago, CA sent out a fairly lengthy press release with a list of products theyve updated. The 2 ...
  5 days ago

• Use Software To Clone Hard Drive Data And Protect Yourself From Computer Disaster

  
  Computer Internet network security News — Authority: 136
  One of the worst things that can happen to your computer is to have a total computer failure, without having a backup of your data and applications. If you do not have a method in place that will allow you to recover from these types of disasters, your data is at risk. This can be [...]
  5 days ago

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