Lawsuits fly over T-Mobile Sidekick cloud data loss
T-Mobile has reportedly been hit by two class action lawsuits alleging that the cellular carrier misled consumers into believing that their data was secure after data was lost in the cloud
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Wal-Mart EPOS system source code hacked – how secure is the payment card data?
Reports are coming in that the source code of the Wal-Mart highly customized point-of-sale (EPOS) computer system – used in almost 900 of its stores across the US – has been hacked.
Webroot reports tax return malware-infecting email scam reaching the UK
Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam – in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax – has arr…
QSA system is broken, says Heartland CEO
In a session titled ‘Enhancing payment security in 2010’, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems – the subject of potentially the world’s biggest data security breach earlier this year – declared that the model used by quality se…
Loss of main user accounts cause anger and bewilderment among Apple Mac Snow Leopard users
Apple Computer has been criticised for failing to address a potentially major code flaw in copies of Snow Leopard, its new Mac operating system, which means users’ main accounts can get wiped.
ISSE 2009: CECA receives TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 for e-signing in Spanish banks
TeleTrusT, the German IT security association, awarded the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 to the Spanish Savings Banks Organisation (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros, CECA) for its e-signing project at ISSE 2009 last week in The Hague.
Origin Storage to unveil one terabyte secure drive on 14 October
Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.
Origin Storage to unveil one terabyte secure drive on 14 October
Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.
Data centre planning: energy efficiency and data density are key
Research just released by Loughborough University and on365, the data centre management specialist, claims to show that data centre managers lack any real understanding of their IT infrastructure energy costs and demands they are placing on it.
Data centre planning: energy efficiency and data density are key
Research just released by Loughborough University and on365, the data centre management specialist, claims to show that data centre managers lack any real understanding of their IT infrastructure energy costs and demands they are placing on it.