Human error accounts for three-quarters of incidents where sensitive data is lost, new research has revealed. A report from the IT Policy Compliance Group says a fifth of organizations are hit by 22 or more sensitive data losses a year, with customer, financial, corporate, employee and IT security data going missing because it is stolen, leaked or destroyed.
The volume of data that is shared between business entities is growing every year. Companies are constantly sharing information with each other. I.T. systems are linked to each other at various business contexts for example supplying, selling, regulation and management.
More than 3.1 million account names with encrypted security questions, 2.9 million usernames, and nearly 90,000 account usernames with bank account details were stolen.
Betfair said it did not inform its
registered customers of the attack
The betting group said it had contacted the Australian Federal Police and German authorities over the attack
Strategic insights on using IT to achieve business goals Human error plays a significant role in data loss. It is the culprit in 32 percent of cases, according to recent research. But what about the remaining 68 percent? Hardware malfunction, malware, software corruption and smackdowns dished out by Mother Nature are among the most common causes.
British households download about 17 gigabytes of data on average every month over their home broadband connections, suggests a report. Regulator Ofcom's study takes a high level look at the state of the UK's digital communications. The monthly data diet is equivalent to streaming 11 movies or 12 hours of BBC programmes via iPlayer.
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An application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and enables you to send, receive and organize e-mail. It's called a client because e-mail systems are based on a client-server architecture. Mail is sent from many clients to a central server, which re-routes the mail to its intended destination. Also see Why E-Mails Bounce in the Did You Know section of Webopedia.
Changes to the BBC Red Button service - reducing it to 1 video stream on all services. But they hope to launch a new 'connected red button', accessing data from the internet.
Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext, that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people. Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood. The use of encryption/decryption is as old as the art of communication.
I have really hit the money here, this is a e-book style website but covers the whole of the Unit 2 we are doing, everthing from transcational website to treats to data
Governments around the world made nearly 21,000 requests for access to Google data in the first six months of this year, according to the search engine.
Seems interesting but could also be a concern in privacy...
More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest. A new breakdown of Office of National Statistics (ONS) data also showed that children from the wealthiest homes all had internet and computer access.
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