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MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND CYBER THREATS, SAYS FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF

Michael Chertoff, who ran the Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, says there's a reason that computer security isn't up to the threat posed by cyber criminals: Doing it right is too complicated for most people — MORE

GOOGLE PRIVACY EXECS CONVICTED - A TROUBLING PRECEDENT

Italian courts set a troubling precedent last week by convicting three Google executives in a criminal case. The case was brought by prosecutors in connection with a clip showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's syndrome. The clip was uploaded to Google Video in 2006 by the school children responsible for the bullying — MORE

SECURITY BREACH NOTIFICATION LAWS REINFORCE NEED FOR CYBER INSURANCE

According to Emily Freeman, executive director and partner of Lockton International's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice, the average cost of a security breach for a company is $15 per person. For a business with millions of customers, that can really add up — MORE

PODCASTS SOUND THE RIGHT NOTE

While Twitter, Facebook and YouTube grab the headlines, businesses from across Canada are tapping into one technology that deserves more media attention -- podcasts. This cost-effective and convenient form of social media is being used more and more by business people as a learning tool and to deliver their own messages — MORE

COST OF A DATA BREACH

The Ponemon Institute is out with its 5th annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study, and in an exclusive interview Dr. Larry Ponemon discusses: The current cost of a data breach - and how it's risen since 2009; Data breach trends across industry; What organizations should do to respond to or prevent breaches — MORE

IS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REALLY BEHIND CYBERATTACKS?

For those of us inside the computer security industry, there's nothing new about suspecting the Chinese government of malicious hacking. What's missing in this case, however, is evidence, and until that proof materializes, I refuse to point the finger at Beijing — MORE

TOP TEN DATA BREACHES AND BLUNDERS OF 2009

From stolen devices and phishing attacks to buggy apps and human blunders, 2009 was another banner year for data breaches. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, over 345 million records containing sensitive data have been involved in incidents within the United States since January 2005. But last year, one single breach compromised 130 million records. In an effort to do better this year, let's recount some of the worst data breaches reported in 2009 — MORE

STUDY FINDS GROWING FEAR OF CYBERATTACKS

A survey of 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries suggests that attacks on the Internet pose a growing threat to the energy and communication systems that underlie modern society. The findings echoed alarms raised this month by Google after it experienced a wave of cyberattacks — MORE

UTILITIES, REFINERIES AND BANKS ARE VICTIMS OF CYBER ATTACKS, REPORT SAYS

Companies that run key public infrastructure assets like electric utilities, oil refineries and banks are regularly victims of the kind of cyber attacks that recently penetrated Google Inc., according to a new report by a former top U.S. homeland security official — MORE

STUDY: OF ALL BREACHES, THOSE CAUSED BY HACKING ARE THE COSTLIEST

The cost of data breaches rose slightly last year, but breaches resulting from computer hacking incurred by far the highest losses, according to a new report from privacy and data-security research firm Ponemon Institute LLC — MORE

DATA BREACHES COST MORE IF ENTERPRISES MOVE TOO FAST

In its fifth annual study on data breaches, the Ponemon Institute discovered that about 36 percent of participants notified their breach victims within one month, but ended up paying $219 per compromised record as opposed to the $196 paid by others. According to the study, a reason for this may be that companies moved too quickly through the process of detection, notification and related activities, and made costly mistakes along the way — MORE

NEW YORK ANNOUNCES DATA PRIVACY DAY TO PROTECT RESIDENTS FROM IDENTITY THEFT

More than 1.1 million records of New York State residents were impacted by over 400 data breaches in 2009, highlighting the need for vigilance among all entities that handle personal identifiable information in our State," said Governor Paterson. "We are committed to providing important information and resources to help businesses avoid data breaches, and assisting thousands of consumers who have fallen victim to identity theft — MORE

IT EXPERT ALARMED BY GOVERNMENTS' BROWSER WARNINGS

A Toronto Internet security expert is surprised and disturbed that two European governments are warning people not to use Internet Explorer because of security risks. France and Germany have urged Internet users to avoid Microsoft's browsers IE 6, 7 and 8 because of a weakness that allows hackers to infect the system — MORE

THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF CANADIAN BREACH NOTIFICATION LEGISLATION A WELCOME CHANGE FOR CONSUMERS

Following recent public breaches in the private and public sectors in Canada, Alberta's announcement of the arrival of a breach notification law is a welcome one — MORE

COMPUTER SECURITY FIRM LISTS CYBER THREATS OF 2010

A computer security firm has advised PC owners to keep their computer safe from new security threats in the new year. The experts revealed that the way people use the Internet and their computers has evolved significantly and so have the cyber criminals. They have changed their tactics accordingly — MORE

BEWARE WHO FIXES THAT BROKEN LAPTOP

Data-recovery services are responsible for a surprisingly large chunk of privacy breach incidents, in which companies lose control of personal data pertaining to employees or customers, according to a study released Tuesday by the privacy-focused group the Ponemon Institute — MORE

FLASH DRIVE FIRMS WARN OF SECURITY FLAW

SanDisk Corp. and Verbatim Corp. have joined Kingston Technology Inc. in warning customers about a potential security threat posed by a flaw in the hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption on their USB flash drives. The hole could allow unauthorized access to encrypted data on a USB flash drive by circumventing the password authorization software on a host computer — MORE

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