2/7 - Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems

An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-data-breach-255782.html?hpg1=bn

9/29 - Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel

Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military personnel may have been compromised after backup tapes containing the data went missing recently.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220398/Update_Data_breach_affects_4.9M_active_retired_military_personnel?taxonomyId=17

9/21 - Data breaches affect 2 million in Massachusetts

Personal information from nearly one out of three Massachusetts residents, from names and addresses to medical histories, has been compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to statistics released yesterday by the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-21/business/30185263_1_data-breaches-data-...

9/19 - Tufts laptop with confidential personal information stolen

A Tufts−owned research laptop containing the personal information of 73 applicants to the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) was stolen in April, though there has been no sign of misuse of the information to date.

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/news/tufts-laptop-with-confidential-personal-inform...

8/24 - Survey Finds That Most Organizations Do Not Follow Security Best Practices

Echelon One developed a set of information security best practices based on industry standards and worked with Venafi on surveying 420 enterprises and government agencies to see how they did in terms of following these best practices.

According to the survey, 77% of respondents failed to follow the best practice of performing quarterly security and compliance training for their employees.

http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/19737/most-organizations-do-not-follow-se...

8/10 - How USB Sticks Cause Data Breach

Does your Company Use USB drives to move information? In the past two years, 70% of businesses have traced the loss of sensitive or confidential information to USB flash memory drives. While such losses can obviously occur when the devices get lost or stolen, 55% of those incidents are likely related to malware-infected devices that introduced malicious code onto corporate networks. Use Personal Data Compliance to protect your business from data breaches and malware.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/231300434

7/12 - Data Breaches Costs Multiply; Average $2.7M

  As data breaches proliferate, organizations are under pressure to protect their customers, their reputations and their bottom line. The average cost of a data breach event has risen to $2.7 million, according to the Ponemon Institute’s U.S. Cost of a Data Breach report, released in March 2011.

http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/07/12/data-breaches-multiply-average-...

6/14 - Draft Bill Would Force Firms to Report Data Breaches

Republican congresswoman Mary Bono Mack is calling for legislation forcing companies to tell the government when they've fallen victim to a data breach.

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/56608-draft-bill-would-force-firms-t...

6/9 - Citigroup Hit by Hackers

Citigroup said on Wednesday that hackers had breached the bank's network and may have gained access to the personal data of hundreds of thousands of bank card customers, according to a report.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/09/uk-citi-hacking-idUSLNE75800H20110609

6/7 - Data Encryption On The Rise

The rising number of data breaches, combined with regulatory compliance pressure, is driving an increase in the use of encryption at U.S. companies.

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/Data-Encryption-On-The-Rise-867274/