Human Error Causes Most Data Loss, Study Says
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Three-quarters of incidents involving loss of sensitive data are caused by human error, according to researchers.
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(Source: Ironport)  Data loss prevention (DLP) is a serious issue for companies, as the number of incidents (and the cost to those experiencing them) continues to increase. Whether its a malicious attempt, or an inadvertent mistake, data loss can diminish a company's brand, reduce shareholder value, and damage the companys goodwill and reputation.
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Some US computer users vastly under-estimate the dangers of going online, a survey shows.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States Â the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
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Administaff, a provider of human resources services, is notifying 159,000 former and current workers that personal data about them was on a laptop reported missing on Oct. 3. The data was unencrypted.
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Performance monitoring group WatchMouse tracked load time and error tallies for 104 social media sites, and has deemed Facebook the top culprit for poor performance. But it's just one survey, and results may be suspect.
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The impact of heavy use on hard disk drive failure may by overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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Misusing e-mail or browsing the wrong sites can cost you your job.
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It ain't no good if it ain't got good data Call me old-fashioned, but data is still pretty important. In most systems, if you feed bad data in you get bad data out (Garbage In, Garbage Out - GIGO).â¦
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An error during routine system testing of United's computer system was the preliminary root cause of yesterday's Computer failure.
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According to a survey, sites such as Facebook could be costing more than Â£130m a day in lost productivity.
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Malware, carelessness, data leaks--whether internal or external threats, there's too many to count.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - 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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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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Over 75 percent of large enterprises surveyed in a recent Ponemon Institute study say their databases are critical or important to their business, but over half say the measures they use to protect them are inadequate.
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Some 40,000 computers in the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions were cut off from their network last month when an IT technician erroneously installed a software upgrade, according to EDS.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.