EU and U.S. agree to share air passenger data
European Union and U.S. negotiators have reached agreement on how to share information about passengers flying to the U.S. from Europe, a Finnish government spokesman said Friday. The new deal allows many more U.S. government agencies to access the data, w...
Swift CFO quizzed by Euro Parliament about data privacy
Executives from the financial data transfer company Swift and the president of the European Central Bank faced tough questions in a European Parliament committee meeting Wednesday, about the illegal sharing of private data with U.S. authorities. ECB Chie...
No End in Sight: Data Breach Tally Approaches 100 Million
The total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches over the past two years now stands at 93,754,333, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The updated tally includes thousands of instances of data e...
Marketers Miss the Mark on Privacy Crisis Containment
Despite all of the press and political rhetoric regarding security concerns, only 29 percent of marketers say that their firm has a crisis containment plan in case of a security breach, according to the findings of a CMO Council report, "Secure the Trust o...
Indian data theft "exposed"
A man in India offered to sell the front man of a Channel 4 sting operation the credit card details of 200,000 people, the programme Dispatches will reveal tonight. The programme makers were inspired by a sting operation mounted on an Indian call centre l...
Washington Airport Reports Worker Information Missing
The Port of Seattle announced today that six computer disks, containing personal information for 6,939 people who work for employers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, are missing. "We have no reason to believe that the information has been misused b...
Look before leaping into database encryption
"Encryption is the ultimate protection mechanism, because even if someone ". gains access "they will not be able to read the data without further breaking the encryption." Is this quote from the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard enough t...