For extra critical data, Pointsec's Ahlberg recommends an encryption tool which can encrypt a machine's hard drive, leaving nothing for a thief to uncover. Protecting data inside a laptop is important.
A "small" number of backup tapes with records detailing the financial information of government employees were lost in shipment to a backup centre, Bank of America said on Friday. The tapes contained information on the customers and accounts of the...
The University of California at Berkeley is warning more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office has exposed their personal information. The data loss follows a string of high-profile incidents in...
Other recent scares over data security include one at the Bank of America, which misplaced backup tapes containing the records of 1.2 million people, the bank said in February. We started to encrypt things this year because of [medical regulations...
If that data is sensitive why not encrypt it? Prior to that we saw Bank of America lose more than one million customer accounts when backup tapes went astray. A California medical company lost data on 185,000 patients, while Time Warner admitted it...
This year more than any other was marred by a spate of data thefts, losses and fairly meagre surrenders by end users. More data was at large in May when back-up giant Iron Mountain lost tapes containing employee data from one of its customers.
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