Councils fined for serious data breaches relating to children - Family Law Newswatch

The council's policy on data security was also inadequate and did not stipulate how sensitive information should be kept secure when taken outside of the office. The Norfolk County Council breach - which also occurred in April 2011 - happened when a ...

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DATA SECURITY: Don't blow it when you travel - ABA Banking Journal

The most costly issue is a potential data breach. This represents about 80% of the cost. Intellectual property loss represents 59% of the total cost. Data breaches can occur not just from stolen laptops. Any digital device may be exploited--even while ...

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Government willing to consider changes to online surveillance bill - Ottawa Citizen

By Sarah Schmidt and Jason Fekete, Postmedia News February 16, 2012 Amid signs that some Conservative MPs are nervous about a public backlash against online surveillance legislation characterized by one Tory as "too intrusive," Public Safety Minister ...

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Feds pile more criminal charges onto Megaupload - Los Angeles Times

The latest version alleges 13 separate violations of federal law -- eight more than the original -- including new charges of willfully infringing copyrighted content from YouTube and committing wire fraud. The latter are based on allegations that ...

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Online form-building startup JotForm has its domain suspended by the US Secret ... - The Next Web

A post on the JotForm blog yesterday explained, 'As a part of an ongoing investigation about content posted in our site, a US government agency has temporarily suspended our jotform.com domain. We are fully cooperating with them, but it is not possible ...

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Nortel executives knew of data breach, chose to do nothing - ITBusiness.ca

Wisniewski said that while many are blaming the Chinese government for the breach, there's really nothing to prove that China was really involved. While a Chinese Internet site seems to have been the destination for data stolen from Nortel, ...

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iPhone apps storing contact lists just the latest privacy debacle in the ... - Appolicious

We also trust that our personal and financial data will be safe in the event of a security breach. This is not always the case. This month's scandal involving Apple and several high-profile iPhone apps is only the most recent example of privacy ...

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