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An inventor from Wallingford in Oxfordshire has come up with a new portable USB storage device that can be set to self-destruct if it falls into the wrong hands, allowing for a seemingly James Bond-esque level of data security.
The Security Guardian USB memory stick was created by 57-year old Norman Shaw and it is intended [...]

An outage yesterday meant that over 10 million blogs were left offline for close to 2 hours, costing the wordpress community around 5 million page views. Even Wordpress admitted this is the worse outage they have seen in 5 years.
Matt Mullenweg wrote;
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core [...]

Authorities in Wigan admit data loss

February 18th, 2010 by Ritchie

Another UK council has been forced to admit to an incidence of data loss from within and this time the victims implicated in the breach are hundreds of disabled citizens from in and around Wigan.
The council was in the news back in September 2009 after it revealed the loss of personal data pertaining to over [...]

Data loss prevention inadequate, says expert

February 10th, 2010 by Ritchie

Data security expert Tony Dyhouse has called for public and private sector organisations to radically change the way in which they deal with data protection and backup. Writing for V3.co.uk Mr Dyhouse proposed that the creation of a culture of constant data security can be the only solution to the continual stream of data loss [...]

Costs of data loss rising

February 5th, 2010 by Ritchie

More businesses and organisations are being hit with the costs of security breaches and data loss than ever before and security firm PGP’s annual report has shown in real terms the financial burdens imposed by typical data loss incidences.
The PGP study has revealed that it costs a business an average of £1.68 million to account [...]

Hundreds of data security breaches analysed

February 1st, 2010 by Ritchie

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed that between 2007 and 2009 over 800 incidences of serious data breaches were recorded around the UK. This information has been provided in order to raise awareness as to the dangers and prevalence of data loss and security breaches as part of Data Privacy Day.
Of the 800 plus [...]

Dry cleaners shed light on data loss

January 27th, 2010 by Ritchie

A survey of dry cleaners in the UK has found that thousands of people are leaving valuable USB memory sticks in their clothes when they send them off to be cleaned, which can potentially be the catalyst for serious instances of data loss.
In 2009 a total of more than 4500 USB memory sticks were recovered [...]

Ground breaking data loss fines approved

January 20th, 2010 by Ritchie

After a long process of decision making and debate, the Ministry of Justice has ratified the request from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that it be allowed to raise fines against any business that is found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
The ICO will now be able to demand up to half [...]

Negative press caused by data loss

January 13th, 2010 by Ritchie

According to experts, many businesses and organisations are believed to be taking the threat of data loss and the requirements of data security more seriously. This is as a result of high profile scandals involving personal information being compromised which are continually made public, engendering adverse reactions.
An Irish newspaper has published data that suggests businesses [...]

The personal details of thousands of customers have apparently been lost after a laptop was stolen from a partner of credit card provider MBNA.
A spokesperson for MBNA confirmed that the claims made in the Lancashire Evening Post were accurate, acknowledging that a laptop had been taken from the offices of a finance firm, NCO Europe, [...]

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