Most Canadian companies aren’t concerned about data breaches involving their customers’ personal information — even though these same companies report they are collecting and holding more personal information than ever before, according to the results of a poll released today. The poll conducted by EKOS for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found…
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Asian firms can do more to protect data
Vivian Yeo reports: Despite greater awareness among businesses in Asia on the need to protect data assets, security breaches seem to be on the increase across the region over the past year. Claudio Scarabello, Verizon Business’ senior global product manager for security product marketing, said in an e-mail interview that data breach incidents appeared “to…
(update) Students’ personal data exposed after USB drive stolen
Graham Cluley comments on the stolen USB drive from Lake Ridge Middle School. He draws the same inference I did — that because there is no mention that the drive was encrypted, he assumes it wasn’t. And…. wait for it…. it was stolen from a school official’s car. Speaking of school data breaches, I learned…
Study: ITRC Encouraged by 2009 Victim Aftermath Study
The Identity Theft Resource Center has released its annual Aftermath study. From their press release: For the first time in 7 years, The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)® can state that it is encouraged by the findings of the Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2009™. It is becoming clear that some areas of great distress in…
DIA official says privacy, security different for cloud
Stephen Bell reports: The government may have to make sacrifices in such treasured concepts as privacy and sovereignty, so that public sector organisations can take advantage of the “convenience” of the cloud, says a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) project manager. Adam Stapleton is managing a project for DIA’s Government Technology Services (GTS) arm, to…
Study: One group responsible for 2/3 of all phishing attacks
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recently released its report, Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 2H2009. From the Overview: Phishing has always been attractive to criminals because it has low start-up costs and few barriers to entry. But by mid-2009, phishing was dominated by one player as never before—the ―Avalanche‖ phishing operation….