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• Symantec: Small-company security problems can threaten large corporate nets

  Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets -- large corporations or governments that hold valuable secrets, according to a Symantec report on Internet security.

• The CFO's role in the Cloud question

  Cloud computing will affect everything in your organisation - right down to the bottom line.

• Top four security predictions for 2012: ISF

  While 2011 is coming to an end, security threats show no sign of slowing down. UK-based Information Security Forum (ISF) vice president of sales and marketing, Steve Durbin, shared his four security predictions for 2012.

• Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

  Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

• How data gets the AT&T Williams Formula 1 team over the line

  Mobility, global fibre links, telepresence and a supercomputer lie behind the AT&T Williams team's 2011 Formula 1 season efforts

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  Aussie developer claims cure for ‘Wikileaks syndrome’

  Confidential information released via Wikileaks has sent governments around the world into a spin and put businesses on high alert but one Sydney-based software developer claims to have a solution to the perennial problem of data leakage.

• Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off

  Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

• Data loss a mystery for many businesses

  Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate laptops are lost or stolen.

• WA government bureaucrats slapped down for laptop losses

  Ineffective security measures in Western Australian government agencies are failing to protect sensitive staff and taxpayer information, according to an official security audit.

• ALRC renews data loss financial penalty call

  The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has renewed its call for fines for failing to notify the privacy commissioner of data breaches after the UK introduced penalties of up to half a million pounds.

• Top 10 disaster recoveries of 2009

  Data recovery and legal technology provider, Kroll Ontrack, has announced its sixth annual top ten data disasters from 2009. A global poll of Ontrack Data Recovery experts came up with the list, which points to the vulnerability of data loss during time, location and situation.

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  Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names

  In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.

• T-Mobile data was not taken by hacking, company says

  T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.

• T-Mobile confirms stolen data is genuine

  T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

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  Users set to ditch tape for online storage

  Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.