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items tagged with Data Loss

Human error increasingly causes enterprise data ‘disasters’
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-11-17 21:32:32
Human error is responsible for an increase in enterprise data ‘disasters’, a trend which data recovery vendor, Kroll Ontrack, attributes to more complex storage systems coupled with depleted resources to replace equipment, train IT staff and maintain optimal staffing levels.


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Sidekick FAIL reveals danger of data in the cloud
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-10-11 05:56:57
Microsoft subsidiary Danger admits that user data has been lost in the cloud, and is most likely not coming back.


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Growing Web 2.0 use raises data leak, malware risks
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-10-10 17:26:14
The growing use of Web 2.0 tools by enterprises, combined with an increasing number of mobile and remote workers, has created a risk of data leaks and new channels for malware, and a security challenge for businesses.


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Lack of technology disaster preparedness leads to business losses
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-10-01 10:48:04
A survey of Australian and New Zealand SMBs, and their counterparts around the world, has revealed that there is a large discrepancy between how small to medium sized businesses perceive their disaster readiness and their actual level of preparedness, with suggestions that SMBs' downtime costs their customers tens of thousands of dollars each year.


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We eat our own cooking, says Symantec CIO
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2009-09-11 02:08:57
Symantec believes IT can be used to meet business objectives, and "we eat our own cooking" to prove it to customers, group president and CIO, Symantec Services Group, David Thompson has told iTWire.


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Social networks pose security risks for enterprises
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-09-01 20:41:12
Employees accessing social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter while at work pose a problem for their bosses as they grapple with the dilemma of allowing them to use Web 2.0 tools responsibly, without sacrificing their business security and regulatory compliance requirements.
 


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Data loss stories are deliberate misdirection
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-08-25 00:14:13
When an organisation claims media containing sensitive data was lost in transit, it's probably telling porkies. A data security expert says that's often just a cover story.


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Top five recommendations for avoiding data loss
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Storage

2009-08-24 02:58:04
An industry expert shares with iTWire readers his top five tips for avoiding embarrassing or costly data loss. It's largely a matter of getting the basics right.


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Australian data breaches on the increase
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-08-10 22:01:04
Almost 70 percent of Australian businesses and organisations were hit by one or more data breach incidents in the past year, a major increase on the situation in the previous 12 months.


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Security breaches growing problem for Aussie, NZ SMBs
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-05-12 00:10:40
With the spread of malicious code activity growing at a record pace globally last year, Australian and New Zealand small to medium sized business copped their share of problems, with many of them reporting security breaches and loss of data.



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Rittal to showcase new generation data centre infrastructure
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-25 06:27:40

Rittal, a worldwide provider of enclosure technologies, is set to unveil a series of ‘significant innovations’ at CeBIT Sydney designed to enable organisations to maximise the efficiency and security of their data centre operations.


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Data loss a growing concern says CSC
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-14 23:27:48

Responding to what it says is growing market concern over the potential for data loss, CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions and services, has launched a data loss prevention (DLP) service in collaboration with Symantec, to identify, monitor and proactively protect confidential data.


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Average cost of data breach is $6.65 million
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-03 05:07:29
The cost of an enterprise data breach has gone up a little since the Ponemon Institute first studied this ever increasingly relevant subject. By just how much might come as something of a surprise.


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US Army files found on MP3 player
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-01-27 17:11:30
A New Zealand man bought an MP3 player while in Oklahoma only to find it contained US Army data files. If proof were ever needed that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron, then this is it.


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Monster security breach at official US Government job site
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-01-25 09:17:16
You might expect the US Government to be on the ball when it comes to security. Expectations are often not met, as has been the case with the official Federal Government employment site it seems.


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Kroll Ontrack claims new software is first of a kind
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-01-18 00:16:47
Data recovery provider, Kroll Ontrack, has released Ontrack Power Controls 5.1, a new tool the company says is a first of a kind solution compatible with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.


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TrustDefender highlights danger of updated Torpig rootkit and variants
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-01-13 09:22:00
Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs – but not to TrustDefender.


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TrustDefender and the Trojan Vundo story
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-12-20 10:18:47
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.


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Ericsson and Intel to “stop” laptop theft – in 2009
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-12-11 20:58:17
Need some protection against the theft of your future 3.5G enabled laptop computer? Then the fact that Ericsson’s “Mobile Broadband Modules” now work with Intel’s “Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology” aims to give you some peace of mind.


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TrustDefender takes closer look at Firefox “Plugin” malware
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2008-12-07 22:40:40
Despite the fact that Firefox is seen as a safer browser than Internet Explorer, the emergence of the latest Firefox malware Plugin shows that a browser alone is not enough protection in a world of evil banking Trojans, botnets, rootkits and crimeware.


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