| IT insider admits stealing info for 2,000 bank employees and makes off with $1.1m.
A former IT worker for the Bank of New York has admitted to stealing personal information of 2,000 employees and using it to steal more than $1m from charity bank accounts, city prosecutors said.
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| Compliance and insider threats drive growth.
Despite the global financial crisis, information security budgets at financial institutions generally are staying stable, many even have increased, according to a study conducted by accounting and consulting firm Deloitte. |
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| UK Council staff have been snooping through government held records belonging to friends, family and neighbours. |
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| Medical records from a secure hospital were left in the hands of a 12-year-old boy after he found an unencrypted USB stick in an Asda car park. |
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| UK Police face accusations of incompetence after accidentally emailing a file detailing the results of thousands of criminal records checks to a Register journalist. |
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| Shell fingers IT contractor in theft of employee data. Oil company says outside IT worker used info from database to file fake unemployment claims |
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| The FBI has formally charged former Intel employee Biswahoman Pani with the theft of corporate secrets, including future processor designs and detailed schematics. |
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| Britain's Ministry of Defense Admits Losing 747 Laptops along with 121 computer memory sticks, some containing secret information. |
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| China's New Intellectual Property Strategy |
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| Mandatory breach notification may be on the way for Canadian businesses before the year is up, which means IT and security professionals will need to act fast to get their policies and safeguards up to snuff. A consultant offers his advice |
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| A third of IT pros believe a major breach will threaten the future of their organisation |
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| A security lapse by Nationwide Building Society may have put 11m customers at risk of identity theft. |
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| Data breaches cost companies an average total of $4.7 million, or $182 per compromised record |
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| Companies and institutions of every shape and size have collectively fumbled 93,754,333 private records. |
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| Health care firm loses data: Stolen laptop had personal information on 51,000 patients; the company says data is password protected. |
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| What was on that stolen laptop? |
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| Two laptop computers with personal information on about 31,000 Navy recruiters and their prospective recruits were stolen from Navy offices... |
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| Fewer than 1/2 of companies are confident they can adequately gaurd against an internal attack. |
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| THE banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia's peak internet crime-fighting agency. |
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| ING loses the Identities of 13,000 District of Columbia employees |
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| KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest telecoms operator; Leaks data of 4 Million customers |
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| US National Nuclear Security Administration data breach |
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| Thousands of Hotels.com customers may be at risk for credit card fraud after a laptop computer containing their personal information was stolen from an auditor, the company warned over the weekend. |
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| About 1.3 million customers of a Texas provider of student loans are at risk of ID fraud, after a contractor lost computer equipment with sensitive information on them. |
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| Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program |
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| Social Security numbers of 26 million-plus veterans stolen |
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| Data Breach at University, nearly 200,000 idetities exposed. |
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| Growing incidents of data breaches have led to companies spending more on protecting their data. |
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| Afghans selling stolen US army 'files' |
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| A NSW Police blunder has led to a database of email passwords published on the internet. |
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| A laptop lost by Fidelity this month has exposed 80,000 HP employees, staff were told last night. |
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| Australian CIOs are more concerned about employees threatening corporate security than outsiders, according to a new survey released by IBM |
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| Ernst & Young has lost another laptop containting the social security numbers |
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| 65,000 names along with corresponding social insurance numbers and medical history, sold at a government auction for $300 The Vancouver Sun |
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| Auditor Loses Data on Thousands of McAfee Employees |
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