Sony has announced another data theft, this time affecting 25 million users of its Sony Online Entertainment network.
In February, Apple revealed a "small number" of its computers had been hacked, but added there was no sign of data theft.
It includes USB port disablement to defend against data theft and TPM 1.2 with enhanced data protection to help keep proprietary work files safe.
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In fact, they plan to spend 20% more on preventing data theft and intrusion in the next year, according to research by the market analysis firm InsightExpress.
Self-confessed computer hacker Adrian Lamo told the world's media how Pte Manning had confessed to the data theft during conversations they had on the internet.
Part of this feels like an attempt by Google to align itself with freedom and openness and distract from accusations of data theft and spying.
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Mobile associations must work in tandem with governmental and securities agencies to ensure that local laws are built around ensuring safety of data theft and data leakage.
Firewalls are the best way to prevent data theft that originates outside of a network, while cryptography can help to protect data from internal theft, he said.
He is an expert source on issues of internet safety and the associated organizational threats of data loss, data theft, security breaches, productivity loss, and human resource liability.
Mr O'Neill can arrange insurance against a range of risks, including data theft, virus attacks or intrusions by malicious hackers, and loss of income owing to a security breach or network failure.
By no means does data breach insurance protect an organization against the event itself or all the consequences of data theft or exposure, but it is a prudent step to mitigate the resulting economic impact.
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Perhaps the best way to demonstrate how fecklessly the US is behaving is by comparing its actions to those of Israel, which suffered a similar, if far smaller case of data theft earlier this year.
Because of the potential high cost of data theft, companies such as Dell offer services that not only track and locate stolen or missing computers, but can erase an entire hard drive before the criminals can access sensitive information.
PUFs are an innovative way of safeguarding individual chips from data theft by using the unique 'fingerprint' inherent in every semiconductor device to protect its encryption key, making it very hard to clone and thus reverse-engineer and compromise security microcontrollers.
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Failure to properly log off, unwittingly emailing a confidential document, using a thumb drive to bring work home, peer-to-peer file sharing, and other routine tasks that inadvertently create risks of exposing sensitive data to theft or misappropriation are not usually the results of malice.
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Data fraud or theft is becoming easier because we have avoided the very complex problem of data access and privacy, both on technologically and on a policy level.
The technological risks of cyber attacks, massive incidents of data fraud or theft, and massive digital misinformation caught my eye in particular.
On Wednesday, October 4th, Dunn was charged by the California Attorney General with four felony counts: fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy.
How else would you explain the many enterprises that are drowning in employee-owned smartphones and tablets yet have managed to avoid deploying Mobile Device Management (MDM) software, despite the increasing threat of data loss and theft?
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Also, said Sony, although credit card data was encrypted and there was no evidence it was stolen, the theft of the data could not be ruled out.
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Last year, Attorney General Harris also established an eCrime Unit to prosecute identity theft, data intrusions, and crimes involving the use of technology.
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The intelligence report discussed the extensive theft of data from global energy companies and proprietary data such as client lists and acquisition plans at other companies.
He also simulated the theft of private data via VoIP from a laptop.
But others already feel that spam, computer viruses, fraud and the theft of personal data are making the internet a dangerous place, and that access to their computers needs to be restricted, not opened up.
And it's not just a problem of encrypting transactions to prevent theft of credit card data.
This is a product that is as easy to use as it gets, and provides a highly secure environment for your company laptops, deterring theft and guarding valuable data.
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"Concerns about smartcard security have increased with the wide availability of sophisticated tools and invasive techniques to discover the secrets and keys that traditionally protect devices from counterfeiting, tampering and theft-of-data, " said Pim Tuyls, CEO at Intrinsic-ID.
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But as more and more private consumer information is kept online, criminals are increasingly turning to the more serious fraud of identity theft, using consumer data to assume another person's identity and take out new credit cards or loans.
Regardless of what kind of monitoring is implemented, it will need to include the private sector to stop the epidemic of cyber theft of sensitive government data, says Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an organization that offers crisis consultation to hacked companies.
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