Data Brokers Draw Increased Scrutiny
The buying and selling of customer data is a multibillion-dollar, unregulated business that"s growing larger by the day. Companies are selling information about you, and your company is probably selling data about its customers. Consumers are growing more ...
Prosecutors: UBS Sys Admin Believed "He Had Created The Perfect Crime"
NEWARK, N.J.--In closing arguments, the prosecution told the jury Monday that the former systems administrator accused of planting a logic bomb on the UBS PaineWebber network four years ago thought he had committed the perfect crime -- mixing revenge with ...
InformationWeek Global Security Survey 2006: Controlled Chaos
Why are business technology professionals so ambivalent about IT security? They acknowledge that the threats to computer systems keep growing in number and sophistication, yet they think they"ve got the problem under control. For the naively confident, the...
Study: Security Breaches Afflict Most Enterprises, Governments
In the past year, 84 percent of enterprises, as well as state and local governments, reported some type of security breaches, according to a new survey released by Computer Associates International. The survey also found that security breaches have incre...
Risky Business? How Multinationals" Outsourcing Involving Customer Data Can Lead to Identity Theft and Other Fraud
As I have detailed in several columns for this site, many security breaches and data thefts have recently occurred at companies and government agencies within the United States. In this column, I"ll turn to another related, and also worrisome data security...
Outsourcers Fill Businesses" Security Gaps
Every IT manager could use an extra hand. Outsourcing security responsibilities is how many businesses fill gaps in their IT resources to keep up with the growing threats they face. Outsourcing proves especially valuable to small and midsize businesses t...
White House Asks For Dismissal Of NSA Wiretap Suit
DETROIT - The Bush administration Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency"s domestic eavesdropping program, arguing that defending the four-year-old wiretapping program in open court would risk national se...