Offshoring cited in Florida data leak
Florida state workers warned that their personal data could be vulnerable as state"s HR system was improperly handed over to a company in India. By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, 03/24/06 Florida state employees are being warned that their persona...
40,000 BP workers exposed in Ernst & Young laptop loss
Exclusive Like sands through the hourglass, these are The Days of Ernst & Young laptop loss. Yes, friends, The Register can confirm that BP has been added to the list of Ernst & Young customers whose personal data has been exposed after a laptop th...
Protegrity buys OmniSecure to enhance database security products
With acquisition of OmniSecure, Protegrity adds the ability to protect unstructured data to its list of capabilities. By Tim Greene, NetworkWorld.com, 03/23/06 Database security vendor Protegrity has bought OmniSecure, a database security company that ...
N.Y. Sues Internet Firm for Privacy Breach (Gratis Internet)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York"s attorney general sued an Internet company Thursday over the selling of e-mail addresses in what authorities say may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused Grat...
Massive Botnet Pillaging Bank Accounts
One of the most sophisticated bot Trojans ever has been infecting machines for months, a security company revealed Wednesday, and has compromised an estimated one million PCs in an ongoing effort to pillage personal bank accounts. According to Reston, Va...
Many Data Centers Still Have No Risk Management Plan 17% (AFCOM"s Data center Institute)
Business technology managers are facing tough challenges as data centers grow larger and more complex. More than 75% of all companies have experienced a business disruption in the past five years, including 20% who say the disruption had a serious impact o...
NIST seeks comments on digital signatures draft regulation
The National Institute for Standards and Technology wants government and industry to comment by June 12 on its new draft standards for digital signatures, according to a request for comments issued today. The draft Federal Information Processing Standa...