Student Loans Company leaks 8000 email addresses - Information Age

Student England Finance has apologised for the data breach, which it says was due to an administrative error. The breach took place on Monday, and affected students who are due to start university later this year. In December 2011, the Metropolitan ...

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Slapdash staff blamed for third of UK's data leak balls-ups - Register

By John Leyden • Get more from this author Careless workers and sloppy contractors caused more than a third of biz data breaches last year, proving that crap staff pose the biggest risk to organisations. An annual study of data cock-ups found that the ...

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Objectionable Content Lawsuit Against Microsoft Dropped in India - PCWorld

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Proceedings against Microsoft in a criminal lawsuit over objectionable online content were terminated on Monday by the Delhi High Court, after the company argued that there was neither a complaint nor evidence against it.

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$1.5M HHS Data Breach Settlement is First Under HITECH Law - Law.com

Data breach leads to first HITECH enforcement settlement
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Cost of Data Breaches Declines - PC Advisor

By Thor Olavsrud | CIO US | 20 March 12 For the first time in seven yearsâ€"and despite numerous high-profile incidentsâ€"the average cost of a data breach fell in 2011, according to new findings released by Symantec and the Ponemon Institute.

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Canada tops for mobile data loss: Survey - Canadian HR Reporter

Traditional static security solutions such as antivirus, firewalls and passwords are not effective at stopping advanced malware and data theft from malicious or negligent insiders. •Forty-five per cent of respondents reported employees circumvent or ...

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Preventing ID Theft for Contractors and Employees - TFM (blog)

With 22918441 data records stolen in the US in 2011*, identity theft has reached an all time high. Roughly 16% of those were subcontractors. It's worth noting that Verizon's 2011 data breach investigation report states that 96% of the breaches were ...

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