Sentences with phrase «theft of company data»

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It is becoming increasingly easy for employees of mid - to large - level institutions to commit data theft which can affect not only the company itself but also the lives of other employees.

According to data compiled by online security company Hotspot Shield, 12.6 million people were victims of identity theft last year, losing a total of $ 21 billion.

More than 70 percent said their company had been victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where hackers overload a network with requests to make it inaccessible to its intended users and perform data theft.

As the number of reported data breaches continues to blitz U.S. companies — over 6 million records exposed already this year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center — IT budgets are ballooning to combat what corporations see as their greatest threat: faceless, sophisticated hackers from an outside entity.

For the second consecutive year, the company recorded a 20 % increase in revenues in 2011, to more than $ 79 million, from sales of IT asset management, data security and computer theft recovery services.

As a consequence of this interconnected style of doing business, companies are at greater risk of having confidential information spill into the outside world, either accidentally or through some form of data theft.

An undercover officer posing as an investor seeking to start a data storage company contacted the former IBM employee, who was later arrested and charged with one count of theft of a trade secret.

On Thursday, the United States trade representative issued a lengthy report outlining a pattern of predatory behavior by the Chinese, including forcing American companies to transfer valuable technology and trade secrets, and «systematic» data theft by China through hacking of American computer systems.

The term Great Firewall, then, should be seen as encompassing policy areas well beyond the extensive censorship system, to include forced technology transfer, forced partnership with Chinese partners, ever more sophisticated theft of intellectual property, demands that internet data be «secure and controllable,» legislation allowing government officials to demand access to software source code, and denial of access for major internet platform companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

It could also require a company to implement a credit freeze when a customer asks for it, possibly helping to stop identity theft in the wake of a data breach.

Headsets can be remotely wiped in the case of loss or theft, and the company is currently experimenting with different ways to «lock» Glass flash memory to secure data.

Therefore, the leading dating company does not risk the security that ultimately can lead to data theft or misuse of information.

It's the latest in a stream of data thefts which has hit major Internet companies over the past few weeks.

Although Schoolzilla assured customers that nobody had accessed the unprotected data (except for the security researcher that discovered the problem), the sheer scale of the exposed data illustrates just how easy it is for eLearning companies to suffer a serious data theft.

Paul Glass Qualified: 2002 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Advising a global multibillion - dollar company in relation to data breaches and theft of customer data by third parties; advising a global multibillion - dollar technology and IT company on disputes arising out of IT projects.

The research, undertaken by cloud data intelligence company OnDMARC, comes in the wake of recent reports that UK law firms saw an unprecedented 45 cases of cyber theft in the first quarter of 2017.

The results can be financially catastrophic to businesses, with a loss of data, damages to network infrastructures and even the theft of sensitive company information.

Our team brings unique experience in handling the complexities of cyber attacks and cyber crime, and can help ensure you're protected in the event of a data breach, IT damages or theft of sensitive company information.

Whether you're a large or small company, these kinds of attacks can result in significant data loss, network damages and even the theft of sensitive company information.

«While many companies focus on identity theft prevention alone or after the fact data breach response services, Generali Global Assistance provides proactive risk mitigation for both companies and their customers,» said Paige Schaffer, President and COO of Generali Global Assistance's Identity Protection Services Global Unit.

Further, citizens should have the right to know when the technology companies make a mistake, or when breaches occur such as the Russian election interference campaign in 2016 or the recently announced theft of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica.

«Companies that control huge amounts of personal data have a legal obligation to guard against theft and misuse of that information,» she said in a statement.

On March 21, Indian law and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of action if his company had allowed any data theft from the country.

As there are serious allegations of data theft against this company in USA, England.

While these claims of data theft were echoing on social media, another story unfolded which reported an alleged data leak on a system run by a state - owned utility company which allows access to private information of Aadhaar holders — exposing their names, their unique 12 - digit identity numbers, and their bank details.

We welcome the fact that @facebook has one of the highest number of users from India but if any theft of data of Indians takes place in collusion with other companies for manipulation of democratic processes then that will not be tolerated.

With increasing frequency, we're seeing large privacy violations — when hackers get access to people's online data or companies misuse it or fail to protect it — and we all realize how vulnerable we are to identity theft, the publication of sensitive information, and stolen credit card numbers.

Speaking at the report launch, Akhilesh Tuteja, Partner and Head — Risk Consulting for KPMG in India and Co-Leader — Global Cyber Security, KPMG said, «Cybercrime has moved from corporate espionage and theft of Intellectual Property to use of advanced technology and malicious software, with the intent of holding companies to ransom and the threat of sabotaging brand reputation with data security breaches.»

As reported by ESR News in August 2016, more than two out of three companies surveyed — 69 percent — experienced an attempted or successful insider theft or corruption of data during the prior 12 months, according to a report entitled «The State of Cybersecurity and Digital Trust 2016.»

Whether you're the IT officer for a multi-site company or a residential specialist who works between a home office and the field, the more reliant you are on technology — particularly mobile technology — the greater your concerns should be about security, including theft, damage, and corruption of your valuable data by hackers or computer viruses.

This new form of identity theft is targeting cell phone users in which Internet scammers use to «fish» for consumers» financial information and password data using fake company e-mails and Websites.