Top 10 ways to secure your stored data
Securing stored data involves preventing unauthorized people from accessing it as well as preventing accidental or intentional destruction, infection or corruption of information. While data encryption is a popular topic, it is just one of many techniques ...
Regulatory Compliance Remains Hot Through 2007
At first glance, end users generally don"t see regulatory compliance as their top security priority. In fact, according to the 2006 VARBusiness Market Insight Report, a survey of more than 600 midmarket and enterprise IT decision makers, regulatory compl...
Laptop thefts pose real gov"t data risk
A Freedom of Information enquiry by silicon.com has uncovered the number of laptops stolen from key UK government departments over the past year, raising questions and concerns about sensitive data falling into the wrong hands. The worst affected departme...
VA releases details of missing computer
The Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged today reports that a subcontractor, hired to assist in insurance collections for the VA's medical centers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, has reported a desktop computer containing personal information on som...
AOL Exposes Search Data Of 658,000 People
AOL on Monday admitted exposing the personal search data of 658,000 people, and issued an apology for what it called a "screw up." AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., made the information available for download through its its research site. The people were...
Ajax threats worry researchers
Those who rely on smooth, interactive Web applications like Google Maps and Outlook Web Access may not realize it, but the behind-the-scenes glue holding them together is a combination of programming languages that have come to be known as Asynchronous Jav...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Set Click-Fraud Guidelines
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are among the members of an industry group that will set guidelines for identifying invalid or fraudulent clicks, a source of major problems with advertisers who complain Internet companies unfairly charge them, organizers said ...