Posts belonging to Category laptop security'
Posted by admin on January 29, 2012
We know that approximately 5% of data breaches take years to discover. Just this month, for example, the City College of San Francisco discovered an “infestation” of computer viruses that have been leaking data for more than a decade. The investigation of the initial security flag found that an infestation of computer viruses had been [...]
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Posted by admin on January 27, 2012
Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Banking Information, Breach, Consumers, Corporate Perspective, Customer Passwords, Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, E Mail Address, Encrypted Passwords, Forbes, Fraud, Great Time, Identity Theft, Last Four Digits, Password Reset, Phone Number, Precaution, Shipping Addresses, Source Of Information, Zappos | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 24, 2012
Just as we have summarized 2011 in terms of data breaches, and talked about some of the breakdowns of those stats, Trend Micro has put together a report on 2011, Information is Currency, highlighting how 2011 was the “Year of Data Breaches.” The report looks back at some of the predictions prior to 2011 and what [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Breakdowns, Currency, Data Breaches, Data Security, Hacktivism, Insights, Social Networks, Trend Micro | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 21, 2012
As we shared earlier this month, healthcare breaches in the US are on the rise: up 32% over the previous year. Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute, discussed these findings with Government HealthIT, alongside Rick Kam of ID Experts, saying that a “data spill” in healthcare could be more damaging than what BP faced after [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Amount Of Money, Bp, Data Breach, Data Breaches, Data Spill, Health Information, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Information, Heist, Insightful, Nefarious, Nurses, Oil Spill, Ponemon Institute, Previous Year, Yearly Salaries | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 19, 2012
According to an upcoming study from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), previewed in advance by Information Week, 419 breaches were publicly disclosed in the US for 2011 affecting 22.9 million records*. Of those breaches, hack attacks were the leading cause of data breaches for the year, responsible for 26% of all known data breach [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Accidents, Armed Services, Data Breach, Data Breaches, Data Storage, Educational Institutions, Financial Businesses, Hack Attacks, Hackers, Healthcare Groups, Information Week, Insider, Laptops, Malicious Attacks, Million Records, Resource Center, Sensitive Records, Social Security Numbers, Storage Devices, Target | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 19, 2012
With the introduction of new devices into the workplace this year, both BYOD and internal device upgrades, it’s a good time to take a look at your physical data management practices to ensure that old devices are being disposed of safely. As noted in our post on establishing a Document Retention Policy, you want to [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Asset Disposal, Asset Recovery, Assets, Audit Trail, Byod, Data Destruction, Data Management, Document Retention Policy, Electronic Devices, Flash Drives, Forensic Analysis, Good Time, Hard Drive, Management Practices, Random Data, Recycling, Refurbishment, Several Times, Special Software, Storage | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 14, 2012
Impervia has released a study on Enterprise Password Worst Practices as a sequel to a study they did two years ago on Consumer password practices. The aim of the report is how businesses can upgrade their password security practices. “Instead of consumers, we believe responsibility rests on enterprises to put in place proper password security [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Breaches, Consumer Report, Cto, Data Security, Discipline, Hackers, Management Practices, Password Encryption, Password Management, Password Policies, Password Security, Passwords, Policies And Procedures, Popular Resources, Security Controls, Security Policies And Procedures, Security Practices, Security Teams, Sequel, Shulman | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 14, 2012
Building upon the last major release of Absolute Manage, we released Absolute Manage 6.0.1 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. Absolute Manage offers the only single, unified console that natively enables IT administrators to efficiently manage all of their Mac, PC, Android and iOS devices by automating time-consuming IT processes such as software [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Android, Asset Inventory, Byte, Ces, Confidential Files, Consumer Electronics Show, Demo, Functionality, Ios, La County Sheriff, Larry Seltzer, Mac Pc, Management Asset, Media Security, Natively, Password Protect Files, Patch Management, Security Incidents, Security Options, Software Distribution | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
If you’re in the healthcare field, you can expect that 2012 will bring more complications when it comes to data security: increased risks, increased regulatory expectations and greater reputation fallout for breaches. According to these predictions for 2012 in healthcare data, healthcare data breaches could reach “epidemic proportions” unless action is taken. Here is a [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Class Action Litigation, Computing, Data Breaches, Data Security, Epidemic Proportions, Fallout, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Field, Hipaa, Liability Risks, Mobile Device, Regulatory Expectations, Reliance, Reputation | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
It seems just like yesterday we were celebrating our 20,000th device recovery – well, those numbers just keep rising! Now at 22,000 laptop recoveries across 88 cases, we have helped police in thousands of arrests, recovered more than $100 million in stolen merchandise and saved untold millions by preventing data leaks. To celebrate these new [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Campus Computers, Community College Professor, Computrace, Credit Card Fraud, Delivery Orders, Digital Cameras, Dumbest Criminal, Food Delivery, Investigative Techniques, Laptop Recovery, Laptop Theft, Lojack For Laptops, Police Car, Police Report, S Hospital, Search Warrant, St Jude, Theft Investigation, Theft Recovery, Untold Millions | No Comments »
