Data Spills: 100 Million Served
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Boeing's announcement that a laptop theft exposed information on 382,000 current and former employees nudges the total number of exposed records in the United States past the 100 million mark. Since last year. In 27B Stroke 6.
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A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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Researchers conclude that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes of digital info last year. And there's barely enough room to store it all. By the Associated Press.
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Data workers of the world unite Yes, I know this sounds a bit like the eighth Harry Potter book. In fact, what I want to discuss are some implications of data governance that I don't think everyone has thought through yet.â¦
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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(InfoWorld) - Reports of corporate data leaks, lost laptops, and misplaced backup tapes are so commonplace that many no longer warrant a mention in the press. So common are corporate data leaks of one form or another that only the multimegaton events -- TJX, the Veterans Administration, or DuPont -- get covered. But the data leak problem sure has gotten the attention of corporate boardrooms, even if the media has moved on. For proof of that, look no further than the gaggle of data leak prevention companies that has popped up in recent years. We've already heard this month about startup Provilla, as well as Varonis. Code Green Networks is another aspiring startup that hopes to bring high-end data leak prevention technology to smaller and midsize corporations. Founded in late 2004, Code Green is the brainchild of Shreekampt and Sudhakar Ravi, both co-founders of security appliance maker Sonicwall. Started with seed money from its two founders, the company has taken in $32 million in venture funding to date and now has 65 employees, says Chip Hay, senior vice president for marketing and customer care at Code Green. Data leaks aren't just bad publicity for companies, they're also expensive, Hay says. Citing a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, Hay says that lost customer records can cost as much as $182 each to remediate, not counting penalties and legal ramifications from the growing matrix of state and federal data protection and consumer privacy laws. Those factors have stoked enterprise interest in data protection products. "The big change for us in the last nine months is that we've gone from talking to companies who want to get educated, and now they've decided that [they] want to put data leak prevention in place," Hay says. Companies -- especially in fields such as high technology -- are also paying attention to protecting their core intellectual property, especially with outsourcing and complex business partner relationships exposing more and more data, he says. Code Green's flagship product is a content inspection appliance that's installed at egress points on customer networks. The device can inspect SMTP, e-mail, FTP, and IM traffic, among others, and can run in-line to block suspicious traffic or in asynchronous mode to monitor actions and policy enforcement, Hay says. At the heart of Code Green's technology are algorithms that were originally designed to spot plagiarism in different samples of writing, Hay says. That technology, which analyzes content bit patterns, allows Code Green to spot sensitive information without relying on fallible dictionaries of terms, and without regard to the language used to express the sensitive information. That, and the product's support for more than 400 document formats, allows Code Green to sell into markets like Japan and China, Hay says. That's increasingly important, amid concern about rampant intellectual property theft -- some of it state sponsored. For example, one Code Green customer recently reported finding proprietary manufacturing process documents published in a Chinese language publication, Hay says. The company also prides itself on its product's capability to parse message traffic from the sea of Web-based e-mail providers, where no standard message formats are used. Code Green has also forged strategic partnerships with vendors such as Voltage Security for e-mail encryption and with Centennial Software to reach the SMB market. A new version of the Code Green appliance due out soon will offer enhanced data fingerprinting for reading data in relational databases, and structured and flat files -- as well as better content discovery features. The product already sports connectors to Oracle and Microsoft SQL server and EMC's Documentum content management platform.
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The world&#39;s largest permanent computing grid has gone online, giving scientists access to the processing power of 6,000 computers at 78 locations, including 1,000 at 12 sites across the UK.
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The pervasiveness of large files and even virtualization technology are driving data overload and forcing corporate IT leaders to find ways to centralize storage.
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Spreadsheet with limited data on more than 5,000 wireless subscribers was accidentally e-mailed to other customers.
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The personal details of thousands of mostly U.S.-based PC users have been discovered stashed on a server located in France, another indication of use of the Internet to collect personal data on a vast scale.
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In what may be the largest data breach at a university, the University of California,  Los Angeles, began sending out letters to more than 800,000 individuals whose personal data may have been compromised in database breach that remained undetected for more than a year.
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The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law...
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ICANN Puerto Rico 2007 Over 1 billion served
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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Big Blue will spend $100 million over the next five years to make the high-end server line easier to administer and program.
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Imperial College London researchers are developing DVDs that could hold 100 times more data than current discs.
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More than 100 people have been arrested following the US law enforcement agencies&#39; latest offensive against Internet related crime.