The paper starts by outlining that identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with about 30% of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches.

There has been plenty written, not least by Quocirca, on the danger of data loss and how to prevent it. Less has been said about how to clear up afterwards; when the measures taken to protect a ...

Interior of a modern data center. (Photo by Imaginima/Getty Images) Data centers evoke strong and conflicting opinions. Advocates point to the truly significant revenue they can generate for local ...

Both New York state and New York City boast open data portals that provide the public access to the vast troves of information collected by various city and state agencies and organizations. Passed in ...

In an age where data transparency and security are widely discussed, public sector organizations find themselves both accountable for the protection of public information, and vulnerable to the ...

Erie County lawmakers are weighing possible changes to local law after a Wegmans store in New York City posted signs alerting ...

The FBI is investigating a Baltimore-area computer worker in connection with the online disclosure last month of University of Maryland President Wallace Loh's Social Security and cellphone numbers, ...