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Personal information of 2.3 million people illegally removed from database
In the third largest data breach this year, an employee steals records of 2.3 million people from company’s data base and sells them to marketers
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Experts claim contactless payments pose data security risk
RFID security expert Kevin Fu says level of data security to safeguard information during contactless payment cards transaction is insufficient
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Schools short on cybersecurity training
The School Safety Index show that 95% of districts are blocking Web sites, but only 38% have a closed network that lets them control the content students can access
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PatchLink merges with SecureWave
Merger of two Common Criteria certified companies will create comprehensive security platform for unified protection and control of all enterprise servers and endpoints
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Ten companies win government DAR contracts
More and more government employees carry more and more laptops; there is a need to secure the data — DAR, for data at rest —on the hard drives of these laptops in case they are lost or stole
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Identity theft victims to be compensated
ChoicePoint compiles and sells personal information, and in 2005 it sold information about many consumers to identity thieves; the FTC-ChoicePoint settlement may be a model for similar cases in the futrue
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New details about AT&T's cooperation with the NSA in domestic spying
Scope of AT&T-NSA collusion in domestic spying on AT&T customers’ Internet traffic revealed in court documents
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NIST issues revised security controls guide
Making sure information systems are secure is a daunting challenge; NIST’s revised — and hefty — guide would help IT managers cope
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Broadcom acquires GPS specialist Global Locate
Broadcom pays $146 million for GPS specialist with a technology that reduces location identification from minutes to seconds
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Online security experts in legal gray area
Laws hampers the ability of online security experts do their job dilligently and effectively — not a good thing when the use of Web-based applications grows by leaps and bounds
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Quantum encryption: Inherently unbreakable or vulnerbale to hacking?
As debate continues about whether or not quantum encryption is inherently unbreakable, a team of researchers was able to create an encryption key in two locations simultaneously, 144 kilometers apart
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Quantum keys sent over 200-km fiber-optic link
If properly executed, quantum encryption is unbreakable because eavesdropping changes the state of the photons
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Air Force assesses cyber vulnerability
The more organizations become dependend on communication networks, the more they must ensure that these networks do not themselves become vulnerable to enemy attacks; this is what the U.S. Air Force is now doing
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GAO says FBI's critical networks vulnerable to misuse
The FBI has made important strides since 2002 in securing its networks; the GAO says that sensitive and critical information transmitted on these networks is still not secure
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Democrats wonder about possible cyberattack on nuclear facilities
Last summer’s shut-down of Brown’s Ferry prompt Thompson and Langevin to request a thorough review
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