Monthly Archives: March 2011

Lax Overseas Data Breach Laws Attract Enterprises

About 70% of organizations that store sensitive data abroad choose to do so in countries with lenient breach notification requirements! Many companies that look to process and store sensitive data — including intellectual property — abroad as a cost-cutting measure … Continue reading

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Cyber attack targeted Paris G20 meeting atendees

The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. Not everyone agrees with the work they are … Continue reading

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A Declaration of Cyber-War

Last summer, the world’s top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they’d seen. The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and … Continue reading

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DHS Report: Digital Immigration Records Vulnerable to ‘Insider Threat’

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services has made progress securing its cyber networks from potential insider threats. However, gaps in security still remain, including one that could allow malicious insiders to tamper with digital immigration records. … Continue reading

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