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Twitter probes suspected user data leak

Twitter probes suspected user data leak

Up to 55,000 alleged Twitter user account passwords and email addresses have been posted online, sparking an investigation by the micro-blogging site Read more

9 May, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Nato investigates data breach at partner site

...Police are investigating a possible data breach at a Nato-related website. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said the... Read more

27 June, 2011 by Steven Musil

Sony Pictures data breach affects 37,500 records

...the personal information of 37,500 customers had been exposed in the breach. "We are continuing to investigate the details of this cyberattack; however, we... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Erica Ogg

Up to 1.5m MasterCard, Visa account details hacked

...MasterCard accounts may have been compromised by the recent Global Payments security breach, the payment processor announced on Sunday. Up to 1.5 million Visa... Read more

2 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Cheshire East Council lands £80,000 fine for data breach

...measures in place when emailing personal information. The ICO said the serious breach of the Data Protection Act occurred in May 2011, when a council... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Staff

Firms face tougher data-protection rules in Europe

...Companies will be required to disclose security breaches within 24 hours of their occurrence under European Union proposals being made... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

US firms ordered to disclose potential data breaches

...Even potential data security breaches must be disclosed by US companies in some circumstances, the Securities and... Read more

14 October, 2011 by Declan McCullagh
The c-words that curse data <endeca_term>breaches</endeca_term>

The c-words that curse data breaches

...how often the same failings crop up in the context of data breaches. So what's at the root of the problem, asks Alan Calder... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Alan Calder

Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data

...employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. "We discovered that an unauthorised third... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Travelodge investigates customer data breach

...re carrying out a full investigation." The company was alerted to the breach by customer complaints, said the spokeswoman, who added that the investigation would... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Business must report data breaches to public, EU says

...to tell customers when their data has been exposed in a security breach, EU justice and rights commissioner Viviane Reding has told a gathering of... Read more

21 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Watchdog fines Surrey council over data breaches

...fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for a "serious breach" of the Data Protection Act after sensitive personal information was emailed to... Read more

10 June, 2011 by Staff

Report: Citigroup hit by data breach

...numbers and contact information, including email addresses, were reportedly accessed during the breach, which was discovered in May during routine monitoring. However, no social-security... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Steven Musil

SecurID breach opened door to cyberattacks, say experts

...attacks on three US defence contractors appear to stem from a data breach at RSA in March, experts have told ZDNet UK's sister site... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Sony boss Stringer apologises for PlayStation data breach

...Sony chief executive Howard Stringer apologised on Thursday for the PlayStation Network breach, as the company released specific details regarding the identity-theft monitoring promised... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Erica Ogg

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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