Park in well-lit areas, avoid known high-crime areas and have an anti-theft device installed.

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Add new regulations such as eCall in Europe for automatic emergency calling and the Contran resolution in Brazil requiring all vehicles to be fitted with an anti-theft tracking device to help reduce car thefts and lower car insurance rates, and you can see how all these scenarios offer ample opportunities within the industry.

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Businesses regard device theft quite differently than schools and consumers do.

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No system will end electronic device theft, of course.

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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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Mr. Monsegur, a few days after his bail hearing in August, pleaded guilty to 12 criminal charges, including three counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking, computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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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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He has been charged with theft by a public servant after one victim said he used "Find My iPad" to track the device to Mr. Dovel's home in Bedford, Texas.

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MONSEGUR, 28, of New York, New York, pled guilty to three counts of computer hacking conspiracy, five counts of computer hacking, one count of computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft.

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