Laptop Computer Security

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Laptop Computer Security Firm Launches MyLaptopGPS Encryption and Remote Decryption Kill to Provide the Industry-Leading Laptop Protection Technology

Addition of Encryption Functionalities Renders MyLaptopGPS’ Product an All-in-One, One-of-a-Kind Approach to Laptop Computer Security: “Encrypt. Track. Recover.”
(STILLWATER, Okla. – Oct. 27, 2009 – IDTheftSecurity.com) Laptop computer security firm MyLaptopGPS, featured in Inc. Magazine, TechRepublic and elsewhere, has introduced patent-pending laptop encryption to its already robust Internet-based laptop tracking product. MyLaptopGPS™, whose unmatched industry theft [...]

Data breaches: High percentage attributable to lost laptops, just like we’ve been saying

Forty-five percent of data breaches in Australia are attributable to lost laptop computers, reveals this report of Symantec Australia’s Data Loss Prevention Survey. As if that weren’t bad enough, nearly 80 percent of 156 major Australian organizations experienced some form of data breach during the five years immediately preceding Symantec’s survey of them. Additionally, just [...]

Suppose a stolen laptop contains data on hundreds of thousands of pensioners…

Suppose you’re one of hundreds of thousands of pensioners from various companies and your data has gone missing, along with a company’s laptop, to thieves. You’d want to know about it, right? Well, you might be at the mercy of that company’s apparently lax internal policies for reporting the theft of mobile computing equipment.
In September, [...]

Somewhere, identity thieves may already have imbibed nearly 200,000 unique data records

Somewhere, thieves may already be drunk on the confidential information identifying close to 200,000 current and former employers of domestic brewer Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. That’s because two laptops belonging to the firm went missing to thieves in June, according to The Associated Press. As typically seems to be the case with such thefts, “the company [...]

9,000 employees’ personal information stored on 12 stolen laptops belonging to major cable company

Say you work for a large company–seems like a safe bet, right? You often have job security, generous benefits, and many other perks. You’d think that security would extend to your Social Security number and other data, which the company has by virtue of you being its employee. But that security isn’t always a given; [...]

Government agency just now notifies 380,000 that their information was on a laptop computer stolen one year ago

We’ve reported on the prevalence of laptop theft in many ways. The crime is rampant, frequently places consumers’ valuable data records in harm’s way, and costs billions. And now we can top off all this with the fact that many organizations seem to take forever to notify those whose data records are on stolen machines [...]