Bankrupt Belgian speech recognition company Lernout & Hauspie is expected to make only a small percentage of the money needed to clear its million dollar debts when it auctions its assets. The company has divided its assets into eight lots...
Thomas Raschke, program manager of IDC's European security products and strategies research, said in the report that European businesses are starting to realise "a holistic approach to security is not just nice to have, but paramount for survival...
Investigations by Iron Mountain in collaboration with the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) found the loss was probably an accident, although foul play was initially suspected.
More data was at large in May when back-up giant Iron Mountain lost tapes containing employee data from one of its customers. In November three laptops were stolen from LogicaCMG containing sensitive employee data belonging to the Metropolitan...
Fleischer has been shopping the idea around, meeting with the Spanish Data Protection Authority a few days ago ("He welcomed it warmly") and the French counterpart, which endorsed it. Fleischer said he was invited to address UNESCO at its meeting...
The Financial Services Authority fined Norwich Union £1.26m in December for failing to manage customer-data adequately. Mike Maddison, head of security and privacy services at Deloitte, said: "The issue of protecting the privacy of sensitive data...