Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
If you just shelled out some pretty pennies for the a high-speed, low-power SSD, Tom's Hardware may have stumbled onto some findings that won't sit well. According to a rigorous benchmarking session, they discovered that not only do the drives not save you battery power... they eat more of it. ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Sophos announced today that it has published a new white paper describing how businesses can tackle the growing challenge of data leaking by enforcing an acceptable use policy, by applying appropriate controls already available in existing security solutions.
The white paper, entitled "Stopping data leakage: Exploiting your existing security investment", examines ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has admitted to misplacing the details of 4.5 million customers, following the loss of a data tape earlier this year.
The backup tape went missing on 27 February while being transported to an off-site archive by a third-party vendor. The lost data includes the ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I used to joke about the client that once told me their management mandated “double encryption” on all financial information after a breach. In their case, they were encrypting their database and backup tapes. Not that there isn’t a valid reason to encrypt databases and backup tapes, but the way ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...
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