| Employees Are Biggest Threat To Data Security |
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An audit finds that the biggest risk of data breach or theft comes from careless employees or consultants who don't properly secure the data they are entrusted with.
According to Palisade Systems' audit report of the 126 companies surveyed, over 54 percent lost data or suffered a breach due to employee error, with 34 percent being due to outside hackers or other intrusion attempts, and the rest due to other causes.
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| Data brokers and buyers anger Congress |
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Almost every piece of personal information that Americans try to keep secret -- including bank account statements, e-mail messages and telephone records -- is semi-public and available for sale.
That was the lesson Congress learned over the last week during a series of hearings aimed at exposing peddlers of personal data, from whom banks, car dealers, jealous lovers and even some law enforcement officers have covertly purchased information to use as they wish.
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| Two grads sue OU over ID theft |
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Ohio University has been sued by two graduates whose Social Security numbers were among more than 173,000 possibly stolen in five instances of data theft from school computers since March 2005.
The lawsuit asks a judge to order the school to pay for credit monitoring services for the people whose personal information may have been compromised. It also requests compensation for anyone who suffers financial losses from identity thefts linked to the security breaches. The lawsuit seeks class-action status to represent anyone who was affected, including OU students, alumni and employees.
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