Reports emerged over the weekend of a data breach involving the personal and gambling details of 4.5M Ladbrokes customers.  Ladbrokes are adamant that customers are safe.

By a number of different measures, the level of data breach notifications has declined significantly over the past 18 months.  Is there a reason for this?

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.

Microsoft subsidiary Danger admits that user data has been lost in the cloud, and is most likely not coming back.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.