03 March 2012

ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for 'illegal downloads' - RT


Normally, the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) tackles crimes 'that affect the UK and its citizens.' Now, it seems that downloading content from a file-sharing website has been put on a par with 'Class A drugs, people smuggling and human ...

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Qualys' Courtot Backs Trustworthy Internet Movement - Dark Reading


If 2011 was the year of the data breach, then 2012 will be 'the year of data breaches to the power of two.' So said Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot yesterday in a keynote he used to unveil his company's leadership in a nonprofit initiative that he hopes ...

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Most organizations take months, years to discover a breach - Computerworld


By Lucian Constantin IDG News Service - Over 90 percent of data breaches are the result of external attacks and almost 60 percent of organizations discovered them months or years later, Verizon said in a report released at the RSA security conference ...

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Too Big to Fail? Best Outcome for Decaying Government System is Failure - International Business Times


Every time an employee falls asleep at a desk or surfs the Internet on the clock, it hurts the company he works for. Every badly made or incompetent decision takes the organization where it was made one step closer to failing.

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Mobile, BYOD Creates New Cat and Mouse Game - Insurance Networking News


Further, traditional static security solutions such as antivirus (AV), firewalls, and passwords are not effective at stopping advanced malware and data theft threats from malicious or negligent insiders. Conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored ...

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NASA: Stolen computers had codes for International Space Station - The State Column


'NASA cannot consistently measure the amount of sensitive data exposed when employee notebooks are lost or stolen because the agency relies on employees to self-report regarding the lost data rather than determining what was stored on the devices by ...

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Harper has gone too far - The Beacon Herald


Despite being very outspoken on the question of crime, Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems far from eager to discuss the "Lawful Access" legislation he's promised to pass within 100 days of taking office -- legislation that will allow online spying ...

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