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• Ahsay Backup Software Won Biz.IT Excellence Award

  
  Press About — Authority: 160
  (November 18, 2009) Ahsay, the leading provider of powerful, innovative data protection software, announces today that it is the winner of the “Biz.IT Excellence 2009 Award” organized PC Market magazine. PC Market designed this Biz.IT Excellence Award to recognize, promote and encourage I.T. applications with ...
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• What Happens When a PI Dumpster Dives Behind a San Diego ACORN Office?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  He strikes the flippin’ mother lode! At least that’s what happened to private investigator Derrick Roach at the National City (San Diego) ACORN office.  Yep, Roach scored big-time on the cockroaches of ACORN when he staked out their San Diego workplace. According to señor Roach via BigGovernment.com , ...
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• The Twelve Scams of Christmas,” or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt III of IV

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 417
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the ...
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• SAS 70 Audits and PCI DSS Assessments | Expert Advice from an Auditor

  
  Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security — Authority: 116
  SAS 70 audits and PCI DSS assessments are truly starting to dominate the regulatory compliance landscape. For a large number of our firm’s clients, we actively assess them for yearly SAS 70 and PCI DSS compliance. The chatter of late is surrounding what efficiencies of scale, if any, can be had by conducting both ...
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• Laptop Encryption Software Not Installed On Stolen Eisai Laptop

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  What is up with medical organizations these days?  Eisai Inc. has alerted the Attorney General of New Hampshire that a stolen laptop contained the information of the companys employees.  The laptop itself is password-protected, but data encryption software like AlertBoot endpoint security was not used to protect ...
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• Datacastle Raises $3M More to Provide Data Backup and Security

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 701
  deals , VC , Software Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based Datacastle , the data backup and recovery software firm, has closed a $3 million funding round, according to CEO and president Ron Faith. The round was led by existing investor CM Capital Investments, a leading venture firm in Australia. The ...
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• Serious iPhone Worm Attacks!

  
  Tech, Web, How to, Internet, Computer, Free Software, Tips, Make Money Online with AhTim — Authority: 419
  Have you change default SSH password of jailbroken iPhone? (read this if you have not do so). Change the default password immediately! The worm is not friendly this time. It won’t change the wallpaper but steal data and send to remote server. It is serious if got your credit card or bank account confidential ...
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• Data Encryption Software Not Used? How Does 5 Years Of Credit Protection Suit You?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  If youll recall, BlueCross BlueShield announced a data breach last month, when an employee lost a laptop with the information of all doctors in their network (apparently, something like 90% of all doctors nationwide).  While BCBS uses drive encryption software to secure data, it was in vain: the employee had ...
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• Data Security: 41% Of Employees Steal Corporate Data

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  A survey carried out in the US and UK has found that 41% of employees have willingly taken corporate information.  When one has a data breach due to accidental loss or theft, data protection solutions like full disk encryption can mitigate the ensuing developments.  However, what can one do when the threat comes ...
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• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 417
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
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• Hackers Indicted for Jacking Comcast

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 417
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcasts homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let him know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how the email was ...
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• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 417
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
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• Motorola To Fix Droid Camera Problem

  
  Latest Gadget & Tech News — Authority: 168
  Motorola has confirmed that it will be sorting out the Droid camera problems via an robotic over-the-air (OTA) update. The Droid’s current 5-megapixel camera often seems to have trouble focusing and it plus seems to produce red corners in photos taken. The problem has been cited as a rather w… computer ...
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• Data Security: House Of Reps. Passing P2P Bill? Secure Federal File Sharing Act

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  A bill was introduced this week by Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.  The bill, the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, is aimed at restricting the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software by government employees and contractors. (If they could only do something ...
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• Disk Encryption Software: City Of Alberta Loses One Laptop A Month

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  The head privacy honcho for the city of Alberta, Canada recently found the city lost 48 laptops over the past four years.  Hard drive encryption was not used to protect the contents.  More glaringly, there were no efforts to find out what type of information was stored on the missing computers: of the 48 cases, ...
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• Learn to Use Free File Security Encryption Software

  
  Internet Marketing and Shopping Resources — Authority: 134
  www.SafeHouseEncryption.com Hide those incriminating photos and videos. Protect secret documents. Make files and folders invisible until you enter your password. SafeHouse is fast, trusted and free encryption software for hard disks and USB Flash drives. Related Tags: data security , encrypt , encryption , hide ...
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• Data Encryption Not Used On Stolen Scottish Ambulance Service Laptop

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  When it comes to data security, one of the best ways of receiving catcalls is by having "robust security measures" in place and not using them.  Like signing up for laptop encryption software from AlertBoot and not using it, which Ive seen happen before. Scottish Ambulance Service Laptop Stolen According to ...
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• Processors Imposing "PCI Insurance Fees" on Smaller Merchants

  
  Direct Commerce Systems and Services — Authority: 128
  From " practical ecommerce " -- Since June of 2008, all merchants accepting credit cards have been required to become PCI-DSS compliant to help prevent and control loses from businesses losing card holder data. For smaller merchants, compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requires merchants ...
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• Hard Disk Encryption: Health Net Revises Breach Figures Upwards - 1.5 Million Affected

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Well, I guess sometimes you just have to go with your gut feeling.  Yesterday, I had made a comment on the Health Net data breach.  The breach occurred because a portable drive was lost (and, drive encryption wasnt used to protect the contents).  The figures of affected patients has jumped from 446,000 to 1.5 ...
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• Health Net healthcare data breach affects1.5 million

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 412
  Image via WikipediaAnother security breach related to healthcare organization which resulted in loss of patient data shows that healtcare organizations poor state of baseline security and simply... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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