Meer: Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft? | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2008-08-25 22:21:05
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia criticizes the lack of criminal charges for corporate negligence in data breaches in the wake of last week's Best Western breach, which exposed the personal data of 8 million customers. 'The responsibilities attached to retaining sensitive personal identity information should include criminal charges against the company responsible for a leak, in addition to the party that receives the information,' Venezia writes. 'Until the penalties for giving away sensitive information in this manner include heavy fines and possibly even jail time for those responsible for securing that information, we'll see this problem occur again and again.' As data security lawyer Thomas J. Smedinghoff writes, data security law is already shifting the blame for data breaches onto IT, thanks to an emerging framework of complex regulations that could result in grave legal consequences should your organization suffer a breach. To date, however, IT's duty to provide security and its duty to disclose data breaches does not include criminal prosecution. Yet, with much of the data security framework being shaped by 'IT negligence' court cases over 'reasonable' security, that could very well be put to the test some day in court." It's a slippery slope to be sure, but where should the buck stop?Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Meer: MySpace Users Have Stronger Passwords Than Corporate Employees | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2006-12-14 22:03:37
Ant writes "A Wired News column reports on Bruce Schneier's analysis of data from a successful phishing attack on MySpace, and compares the captured user-passwords to an earlier data-set from a corporation. He concludes that MySpace users are better at coming up with good passwords than corporate drones." From the article: "We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said users haven't learned anything about security? But seriously, passwords are getting better. I'm impressed that less than 4 percent were dictionary words and that the great majority were at least alphanumeric. Writing in 1989, Daniel Klein was able to crack (.gz) 24 percent of his sample passwords with a small dictionary of just 63,000 words, and found that the average password was 6.4 characters long."
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Meer: Trainees Corporate Banking bij XL Career Company in Amsterdam | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | JobbingMall RSS | 2006-06-18 09:39:00
bij XL Career Company, geplaatst via: XL Career Company in Amsterdam sector: verzekeringen/banken - branche: banken - functiegroep: consultancy - functie: customer consultant - werk- / denkniveau: Academisch - provincie: Noord-Holland XL Studenten Uitzendbureau is voor haar klant in Amsterdam op zoek naar:TRAINEES CORPORATE BANKINGOnze klant is een van de grotere financiële concerns van Europa, heeft wereldwijd vestigingen in 30 landen. Onz klant richt zich voornamelijk op Corporate Banking voor middelgrote, internationaal ge ... meer vacature informatie http://www.jobbingmall.nl/vacatures/vacature-trainees-corporate-banking/90067