A survey of 300 information security professionals in Europe finds companies unwilling to make data breaches public
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Most people reading this article will not remember when these famous words were first broadcast. It was at the end of a speech by Winston Churchill on February, 9th 1941. What he said was this:
During the summer months many of us look forward to a couple of weeks away from the office. However, in reality, complete radio silence from those left behind is not always an option.
A tidal wave of structured and semi-structured data is drowning the enterprise – documents, video and audio – and to get value from this data, and turn it into an asset, people across many teams need to be able to collaborate and share that data.
Figures obtained by the Irish Examiner show the security breaches have occurred across the country over the past four years.
In mid-July, Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director for Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received an e-mail from [email protected].
In my last post I discussed Edward Snowden and his exposure of the mass electronic surveillance by the US government of its citizens via its PRISM program.
The HTTPS cryptographic scheme, which protects millions of websites, is susceptible to a new attack that allows hackers to pluck e-mail addresses and certain types of security credentials out of encrypted pages, often in as little as 30 seconds.
Proposed data protection laws would require companies to delete information that could allow an individual to be identified, but existing data storage and duplication practices are at odds with the drive to protect our right to privacy.
Growth in external hacking attempts, DDoS and malware attacks, and internal threats to data are the key security concerns for UK businesses.