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Privacy and data protection

  • February 20, 2007 20 Feb'07

    TJX data breach worse than initially feared

    Hackers had access to a larger amount of customer data, TJX executives said in a statement.

  • February 13, 2007 13 Feb'07

    Fortune 500 firm takes a crack at data classification

    A life sciences company undertakes a data classification project with Abrevity and discovers the job is never done.

  • February 05, 2007 05 Feb'07

    Symantec chief: Consumer confidence in data protection is key to online growth

    In his keynote at RSA Conference 2007, Symantec CEO John W. Thompson said Big Yellow is ready for the shifting dynamics in the information security market, and implied that Microsoft's growing presence in security is a conflict of interest for its ...

  • February 05, 2007 05 Feb'07

    Gates touts secure access anywhere

    Microsoft's chairman tells RSA Conference 2007 attendees that a combination of authentication and access management strategies is what it takes to protect corporate data, but information security pros are willing to wait for the proof.

  • January 29, 2007 29 Jan'07

    TJX faces lawsuit over data breach

    A class action lawsuit against TJX accuses the retailer of negligence for not doing enough to secure customer data and for keeping quiet about the breach for a month.

  • January 28, 2007 28 Jan'07

    IBM improves data recovery process for TSM users

    Tivoli Storage Manager 5.4, released this week, establishes a disk cache for most recently backed-up files, improving the slow restore times associated with the product.