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Survey Says Insider Threat Remains a Serious Security Problem

Occasional malicious insiders are still a factor. But according to an RSA survey, well-meaning employees can expose sensitive data just by doing their jobs: through careless behavior, working around security measures or following poor security polici

Dec 12, 2007 2 mins

Intrusion Detection Software

Private Customer Data Vulnerable During Application Testing

Ponemon survey shows majority of companies use real, sensitive customer data to develop and test applications, not realizing the information is vulnerable to breaches.

Dec 10, 2007 2 mins

Developer Privacy

Why Should Merchants Keep Credit Card Data?

The retail industry advocates keeping a bare minimum of customer financial information. Just enough to still serve your customers without providing potential thieves what they need.

Dec 6, 2007 2 mins

Compliance Privacy Security

Can Mid-Market Merchants Comply with PCI Standards In Time?

If you want to transact business with credit cards, you have to follow the rules: the payment card industry security standards. Companies that don't comply face fines or worse. So why aren't more mid-market merchants already in compliance?

Dec 6, 2007 12 mins

Compliance Security

A Wake-Up Call for Users in Facebook-Beacon Controversy

How the work of SG17 is providing the CISO with a new way of thinking about security transformation

Apr 21, 2022

Cybercrime IT Leadership

A Wake-Up Call for Users in Facebook-Beacon Controversy

Facebook's miscue with a purchase-tracking program is a privacy problem, a reminder to users and businesses to watch their data. But analysts expect the social network's popularity to continue.

Dec 6, 2007 4 mins

Consumer Electronics IT Leadership Privacy

“Email Insecurity Factor” Spurs Consumers to Keep Multiple In-boxes

Trust cited as the top reason for keeping separate email accounts

Dec 4, 2007 3 mins

IT Leadership Privacy

E-Mail Analysis Snooping in Your In-Box

An open-source algorithm called Author-Topic is now being investigated for analyzing corporate e-mail to flag employee behavior and attitudes.

Nov 29, 2007 3 mins

Privacy

Identity Theft Victims Are on Their Own, Reports FTC

Most identity theft discovered by individuals through their financial activity

Nov 28, 2007 2 mins

Security

Intelligent Notification: Another Reason the Apple iPhone May Soon Infiltrate Your Business

A new application from intelligent notification vendor MIR3 promises to enable IT administrators to use an iPhone to manage, send and receive notifications from anywhere there's connectivity. The move suggests Apple's mobile phone may break

Nov 8, 2007 8 mins

Disaster Recovery Small and Medium Business Social Networking Apps

Study: Mobile Workforce Represents Security Threat in ’08 Due to Lack of Training, Awareness

Nearly 80 percent of study participants allow their mobile workers remote access to data, but less than one-third have implemented any security awareness training for those staffers.

Nov 6, 2007 3 mins

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Survey Says Insider Threat Remains a Serious Security Problem

Private Customer Data Vulnerable During Application Testing

Why Should Merchants Keep Credit Card Data?

Can Mid-Market Merchants Comply with PCI Standards In Time?

A Wake-Up Call for Users in Facebook-Beacon Controversy

A Wake-Up Call for Users in Facebook-Beacon Controversy

“Email Insecurity Factor” Spurs Consumers to Keep Multiple In-boxes

E-Mail Analysis Snooping in Your In-Box

Identity Theft Victims Are on Their Own, Reports FTC

Intelligent Notification: Another Reason the Apple iPhone May Soon Infiltrate Your Business

Study: Mobile Workforce Represents Security Threat in ’08 Due to Lack of Training, Awareness