Instead, the administration is hoping to offer incentives that will persuade private industry to improve computer security voluntarily and have those standards reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security. “The private sector has a huge incentive to …
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Associated Press:
Customers stay despite high-profile data breaches — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Week after week, thieves break into corporate computer systems to steal customer lists, email addresses and credit card numbers. Large data breaches get overshadowed by even larger ones.
The number of compromised data records in computer security breaches declined last year as thieves shifted their sights to smaller, non-financial businesses, according to a report by Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) The research, conducted with the U.S …
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You may have heard about the recent security breach at Epsilon, an email marketing company that manages customer data for marquee banks and retailers such as Citibank and Best Buy, that resulted in the theft of email addresses. While that may not seem like …
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