Tagged: Data Breaches & News
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The digital business week News
28.03.2011 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Security, Legal, Leadership & Management, Internet, Financial Results, Digital Business -
UPC, Vodafone, Eircom and O2 fined for data breaches News
21.03.2011 Telecoms operators UPC, Vodafone, Eircom and O2 today pleaded guilty to breaches of the Data Protection Act and were fined €15,000 between them at Dublin District Court.Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Database, Data Management, CRM, Consumer Tech -
Hackers breach security giant RSA’s network News
18.03.2011 EMC’s security division RSA has revealed its own network has been breached by hackers who launched an ‘extremely sophisticated’ attack that may have compromised the company’s... -
Negligence most common cause of data breaches - study News
09.03.2011 Negligence is mostly to blame for breaches of data at organisations, costing them an average of US$7.2m, a new study suggests. -
WikiLeaks story underscores year in security News
05.01.2011 Security became very prominent in 2010 on several fronts but we don’t have to look too far back to find one of the year’s biggest stories. The furore around the latest set of... -
Mandatory reporting of security breaches on the way News
01.06.2010 Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has unveiled a new draft Code of Practice that sets out the reporting obligations of organisations in the event of a security breach and... -
Shocking data breaches are rife in Irish public sector News
08.04.2010 Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes has hit out at the reluctance of Irish public-sector bodies to deal with data protection issues. More than 900 breaches in the private...Categories: -
Onformonics to create 22 Dublin jobs after raising €600k News
26.02.2010 A payment risk technology company based at the Dublin Business Innovation Centre has raised €600,000 in a funding round led by AIB Seed Capital and backed by Enterprise Ireland... -
Cost and impact of data breaches on the rise News
26.01.2010 Data breach incidents cost companies US$204 per compromised customer record in 2009, compared to US$202 in 2008, according to a US Cost of a Data Breach Study by the Ponemon...Categories: CIOTags: Botnets, Data Breaches, -
95pc of organisations store personal data, but few know how to protect it News
27.03.2009 While close to 95pc of Irish organisations store personal data, only 31pc have a formal data-breach policy. And nearly half of these organisations have little confidence in ISPs...Categories: CIO -
Bank of Ireland USB key loss a reminder to firms everywhere News
04.11.2008 Following the embarrassing loss of yet another electronic device at Bank of Ireland (BOI), it is an important lesson to firms everywhere that they should be educating their...Categories: CIO -
Another data security breach reported at Bank of Ireland News
04.11.2008 Ireland’s biggest bank has again been rocked by a data breach scandal – this time a data storage device with almost 900 customer account details has gone missing.Categories: CIO -
Irish Government data breach slammed as ‘serious incident’ News
11.08.2008 The loss of a laptop containing social welfare details of a significant number of Irish citizens has been labelled a “serious incident” by the Data Protection Commissioner,...Categories: CIO -
How to spoil a laptop thief’s day News
17.07.2008 Cork-based electronics firm YouGetItBack.com has just launched two new products for tracking lost or stolen laptops or mobile phones.Categories: CIO