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.
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.