Just 51 per cent of transactional websites encrypt the data when passing it around, leaving the door open for hackers to intercept sensitive information. Forty four per cent of businesses suffered some kind of security breach in 2001, almost double...
Ironically, the medical group earlier this year began the process of encrypting its patient and financial information. We started to encrypt things this year because of [medical regulations], ID theft reports and security regulations," Patel said.
We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers, if there is a chance the breach has put individuals...
We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals...
Dunkelberger said there should be 'safe harbours' such as there are in the Californian data breaches law, where companies that have taken adequate measures (such as encrypting data) are not punished for losing data.
We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals...