The US Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating yet another data breach, this time the theft of three PCs containing the details of 12,000 vets.
Paul Gray, the chairman of HM Revenue & Customs, has resigned following the loss of two discs in transit carrying the details of 25 million child benefit recipients.
Millions of computers running the RSA security standard could be vulnerable to hacking attacks because the design of modern processors makes it harder to detect bugs.
Personal data on every child in the country and national insurance numbers and bank account details of parents and carers claiming child benefit have gone missing after the government sent two password-protected CDs through the post.
With 70% of small businesses worried that they may be losing sensitive data via e-mail and surreptitious file transfers, software house Sophos has added data leakage protection to its suite of information security applications for small businesses.
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Many companies are failing to provide for data recovery in their compliance policies, according to a global survey carried out by Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery services.