July 31st, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, Government, Legal Rulings, News Articles
Written by Jaikumar Vijayan , Computerworld , 07/31/2009
Poorly crafted law could would also block some cost-saving file-sharing tech, some say
A proposal to introduce a bill seeking to formally ban the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on government and contractor networks is evoking a mixed response.
July 30th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, Government, News Articles
By Brian Krebs and Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post Staff Writers
The indiscriminate use of a popular online data-sharing technology has led to the disclosure of sensitive government and personal information — including FBI surveillance photos of a Mafia hit man, lists of people with HIV, and motorcade routes and safe-house locations for then-first lady Laura Bush, a congressional panel was told on Wednesday.
July 29th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, Government, News Articles
Written By: Jaikumar Vijayan
Lawmakers eye bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks
July 29, 2009 (Computerworld) – Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — were found to have leaked out on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning.
July 10th, 2009 | Published in All Articles
Written By Jackson West – PC World
Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.
July 8th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, News Articles, Press Releases
News Release - July 8, 2009
Sydnor Outlines Approaches to Remediate Inadvertent Sharing
WASHINGTON D.C. – Inadvertent file-sharing can still be caused and perpetuated by dangerous “features” in certain file-sharing programs, explains Thomas Sydnor in “Inadvertent File-Sharing Re-Invented: The Dangerous Design of LimeWire 5,” released today by The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
July 5th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, Malware Viruses, News Articles
Culled from Verizon Business analysis of 90 major security breaches
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan , Network World , 07/05/2009
When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it’s clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and that many of these mistakes are easy to avoid.
In 2008, Verizon Business analyzed 90 security breaches that represented 285 million compromised records. Most of these headline-grabbing incidents involved organized crime finding an unprotected opening into a network and using it to steal credit card data, Social Security numbers or other personally identifiable information.