Archive for April, 2010
Tip of the Week: Laptops and Mobiles Are 16% More Damaging in Breach
Yet another important finding of the “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by PGP, concerns the acute damage caused by lost or stolen laptops and other mobile data-bearing devices, as compared with other breach vectors.
On page 23 of the report, we find the highlighted finding:
Thirty-six percent of all [...]
Rip of the Week: 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Breached
If you are a college student, or were a college student, and you had a student loan, it’s time to worry. Officials of St. Paul-based Educational Credit Management Corp. revealed that an unencrypted portable device was stolen during the weekend of March 20-21. The Wall Street Journal reports, and thanks to kirniki on DLDB for [...]
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