A global study by Iron Mountain and PwC that surveyed 1,800 senior business leaders in Europe and North America shows that just 46 percent of senior executives are allowed access to valuable company information.
The U.K.-based online photo postcard service Touchnote has notified its registered customers that the company has been hacked and some personal information has possibly been compromised.
Cox Communications reached a $595,000 civil settlement with the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau bringing to a close an investigation over whether Cox failed to properly protect customer data.
Kroll Ontrack's quarterly data loss index (DLI) shows that more than two out of five (41 percent) cases of data loss for mobile devices and tablets are due to liquid damage.
Demonstrating that financial gain can be a motivator for nefarious activity, 35 percent of employees were willing to sell their firm's intellectual property if the price was right.
The teen hackers who infiltrated the email account of CIA Director John Brennan said they are prying into the accounts of other government officials, most recently claiming to hack an email account of FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano.
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