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LifeLock review: Insider data breaches increasing; 1.33 million records stolen by insiders in 2008

Yes, there was a time when a hacker was a pimply-faced guy sitting in his parents’ basement surrounded by pizza boxes and bulky PCs. But that’s not who’s responsible for data breaches in this millennium.
Increasingly, it’s insiders who are stealing their organizations’ information, according to recent studies.

LifeLock review: Managers turn off laptop encryption, lose laptops–DOH!

In the old westerns it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad; the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black. But, when it comes to identity theft and hackers, the bad guys are invisible, and the people we thought were the good guys either refuse to wear their [...]

LifeLock review: 285,000,000 records compromised in 2008 data breaches

Verizon Business’ just-released an analysis of 1,152 data breaches that occurred in 2008, and found that 285,000,000 records were compromised as a result of security lapses. Kind of makes mail shredding seem like a quaint notion, doesn’t it?