90 data breaches in 2008: What went wrong Data breaches continue to plague organizations in virtually every industry. Since 2004, the Verizon Business RISK Team has worked on more than 600 investigations of suspected breaches. Fortunately for us, the team is willing to share its collective knowledge and provide an analysis of the trends in breaches, including how they happen and what the root causes and contributing factors are. Out of business, Clear may sell customer data Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else's hands, but only if it goes to a similar provider, authorized by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. IBM touts encryption innovation IBM today is saying one of its researchers has made it possible for computer systems to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it. While that sounds somewhat counterintuitive and complicated, IBM says the breakthrough would let computer services, such as Google or others storing the confidential, electronic data of others will be able to fully analyze data on their clients' behalf without expensive interaction with the client and without actually seeing any of the private data. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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