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Israel Data Access Stopped After Irish Objection

Posted: September 3rd, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…Objections levied by Irish European officials have put a stop to Israel gaining recognition for its data protection and access to sensitive… Read More


Report: Spammers Work by US Clocks and Target Facebook, Twitter

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…Research from Symantec finds spammers, like many Americans, work from 9 to 5 and now favor sites like Twitter and Facebook for dirty… Read More


Comment: Extreme data protection in virtualised environments

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…Peter Eicher of Syncsort draws from his 16 years of software industry experience to outline five data protection imperatives that organisations should consider during virtual server… Read More


India BlackBerry ban averted for now

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…India said it withdrew a threat to ban BlackBerry services for at least two more months after the device’s maker, Research In Motion Ltd., agreed to give security officials “lawful access” to encrypted… Read More


E-mail Continues to be the Top Source of Corporate Data Loss

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…We all know that new and growing technologies go hand-in-hand with new and growing security risks. However, the newest Proofpoint survey shows that enterprise’s biggest security problem is one the oldest technologies –… Read More


Drugstore Schlecker customer information exposed on web

Posted: August 27th, 2010 | Author: phion | Filed under: Data Protection | No Comments »

…Published: 27 Aug 10 10:31 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100827 -29437.html Share Tweet German drugstore chain Schlecker has suffered a major online data breach, with the names, addresses and profiles of about 150,000 customers being exposed on the internet, the company announced… Read More