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By John Daley , Deseret News Published: Wednesday, April 11 2012 6:59 p.m. MDT SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Gary Herbert called for an independent audit of all state technology security efforts and data storage procedures Wednesday. The move comes after the most extensive data breach in state history, one that exposed more than 700,000 […]

By JOSH LOFTIN, Associated Press Monday, April 9, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY — An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed. Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen […]

By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Nelson D. Schwartz New York Times Posted:   03/30/2012 11:00:42 AM PDT Updated:   03/30/2012 08:41:40 PM PDT Visa and MasterCard are investigating whether a data security breach at one of the main companies that processes transactions improperly exposed private customer information, bank officials said Friday. The event highlighted a crucial […]

MasterCard, Visa confirm credit card data theft described as ‘massive’ By Bob Sullivan March 30, 2012, 5:07 pm MSN.com Law enforcement officials are investigating what appears to be a massive theft of U.S. consumers’ credit card data, MasterCard and Visa confirmed Friday. The computer security expert who first reported the theft said it might involve […]

PUBLISHED: 29 Mar 2012 00:09:30 | UPDATED: 29 Mar 2012 10:11:18 Peter Deegan and Nick Ellsmore If your fear of hacking extends even to some suppliers of IT systems, are you paranoid or are you prudent? Sadly, it’s the latter. Whether excluding Huawei from the national broadband network tender is right or wrong or whether […]

Bill C-12 calls for the enactment of an obligation to disclose breaches to privacy commissioner  By Jean-François De Rico, Special to The Gazette March 27, 2012 Data breaches – at least those that are accounted for – are on the rise. The 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report released last week demonstrates that data security […]

Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff Covering the worlds of data security, privacy and hacker culture. Having your usernames and passwords stolen and sprayed across the Web is never fun, as millions have discovered after hackers breach a company where they work or where they’ve registered an account. But worse yet is to have that personal information […]

It doesn’t take a sophisticated hacker to steal your identity. In fact, a new poll finds there is a good chance the theft of consumers’ personal data is the result of careless workplace habits on the part of employees. That’s because, according to the Fellowes’ Workplace Data Security Report, 81 percent of employees have access […]

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has signed a Data Protection underatking following the loss of an unencrypted memory device. The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided with a report of the loss of an unencrypted USB memory stick containing personal data relating to several thousands of the data controller’s constituents. The USB stick had been used […]

Half of businesses have lost sensitive or confidential information due to USB memory sticks, with many incidents involving those infected with malware. By Mathew J. Schwartz   InformationWeek August 08, 2011 05:15 PM In the past two years, 70% of businesses have traced the loss of sensitive or confidential information to USB flash memory sticks. […]