The following theft report identifies the importance of protecting not just computers, but also peripheral devices. 64,467 employees of the Government of Ohio are at risk of identi[...]
The big security news of the day in the UK is the theft of a laptop containing private information for 500 employees from an environmental project known as the Eden Project. The st[...]
The National Retail Federation issued a statement last week that lawmakers considering Federal data breach legislation should consider the different types of consumer data kept, an[...]
Pfizer is being investigated by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal after they suffered a data breach, including Social Security numbers, affecting 17,000 current and f[...]
A survey conducted by Application Security and the Ponemon Institute was released this week at the Gartner IT Security Summit. The survey reveals that 40% of companies are not mon[...]
Here are some recent happenings in the security field: Sharon Gaudlin of InformationWeek: “Hackers Blamed for Data Breach that Compromised 300,000“ The University of On[...]
A study by Cyber-Ark Software of 200 IT professionals indicates that IT employees are using their special administrative access to look at confidential employee data. IT employees [...]
The Trust and Risk in the Workplace Study, conducted by Dr. Monica Whitty of Queen’s University Belfast, reveals that employees are taking unnecessary risks with their laptop[...]
On May 17, Deputy Chief of Staff for the US Department of Education (DOE), Holly Kuzmich, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee about emergency management and how [...]
For those of you in the Education field interested in laptop security, we’ve put together an Laptop Security for Education E-Newsletter. The newsletter features snippets from[...]