Zurich and Travelers plead guilty to data protection breaches - Post Online

By Chinwe Akomah The firms pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges each after they were prosecuted for breaches of the Data Protection Act, according to the Irish Times. All of the firms have offered to make donations of £18 251 (€22 000) to charity.

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Practical Encryption Tips - BankInfoSecurity.com

Although this approach "may feel like a belt and suspenders," it's the best way to minimize the risk of data breaches involving tablets, smart phones, laptops and other mobile devices, which can easily be lost or stolen, Gates says.

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Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now - Gizmodo Australia

... any privacy breaches. It's a compelling description, like always. Jobs even says that, before accepting apps in the app store, Apple analyses them so it can detect if they want to steal your contact information data and 'suck it up to the cloud'.

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Potential data breach as eircom laptops stolen - IrishExaminer.com

Two of the computers were stolen from eircom's offices at Parkwest in Dublin between December 28, 2011 to January 2, 2012, and the third was taken from the home of an employee on December 19. The data on all of the laptops was not encrypted.

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Councils fined for serious data breaches - Info4Security

The ICO's investigation found that, while Croydon Council did have data protection guidance available at the time of the theft, it was not actively communicated to staff and the organisation had failed to monitor whether it had been read and understood ...

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Philanderers Find a Booming Market Online - Sci-Tech Today

"People do cheat on their partners," says Biderman, who has been married "eight perfect, wonderful years" and has two kids, ages 7 and 4. "It doesn't mean they don't love them or don't want to stay married to them. Marriage is about more than sex.

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Tories table 'lawful access' bill today to monitor online activity - Ottawa Citizen

By Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News February 14, 2012 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says new measures are needed to catch criminals in the 21st century. OTTAWA " The Conservative government isn't backing down from a plan to require telecommunications ...

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Man arrested as filesharing website is shut down - The Independent

A man has been arrested on fraud charges after the Serious Organised Crime Agency shut down a major music download website. RnBXclusive.com was taken over by Soca earlier today, replacing the site's content with a warning that users may have committed ...

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Child Protection in the Digital Environment - 24dash (press release)

The challenge of empowering children to stay safe online has never been greater. With the explosion of social networking and increasingly advanced technologies in handheld devices and phones, how can you kee p one step ahead to protect children and ...

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Data breach lawsuit settlement notice posted - UH System Current News

Asked if the new Information Technology Center building will safeguard against future data breaches, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner explained, 'While not the primary focus of the project, ...

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Dutch telecoms firm KPN apologises after hack - Computer Business Review

KPN faced with security breaches on different sides
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Nortel did nothing about data breach, report alleges - ITWorld Canada

Former Nortel Networks CEO Frank Dunn was among several senior company managers who were aware of a long-standing data breach into Nortel's computers systems, but chose to do nothing. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, former Nortel ...

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Cheshire East Council fined £80k in 'serious' data breach - Public Service

Cheshire East Council has become the latest in a growing list of local authorities to be hit with a substantial penalty by Information Commissioner's Office for breaking UK data laws. The authority was fined £80000 for a serious breach of the Data ...

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Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide - Newsday

New York Newsday > News > New York Content Preview Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online subscriber? Click here Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide Originally published: ...

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Kids' cancer-drug shortage alarms DCMC - WDTN

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - A nationwide shortage of the drug Methotrexate that helps kids beat cancer has Dayton Children's Medical Center making a plan to keep our kids safe. Doctors and nurses found out about the shortage last week.

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A 10 year old girl has nearly been grabbed as she walked home from school in ... - Eagle Radio

Police warning after girl 'grabbed' in Guildford
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