Tag Archives : data security

As a victim of identity theft and an advocate for victims of this crime, I have learned that no matter how safe you think your information is, it isn’t. And no matter how simple it may seem to prove your own innocence, that isn’t easy either. I take precautions against identity theft and urge others to do the same because I know that cleaning up after an occurrence of an identity theft can be time [...]

More people than ever are taking part in social networking sites. Facebook alone has more than 500 million users, according to Facebook statistics. People have a lot to lose if the security of their social networking site is compromised. Their own personal, identifying information, and the information of all those they network with, could be at risk. In addition, wide usage of mobile devices increases [...]

Billions of people have been using the net, surfing the web going on 20 years now. But when it comes to issues of privacy the Internet is still something of a new frontier. Todd Grosshans has more in this edition of Now You Know.    

The old joke goes “death and taxes are the only things you can count on 100 percent.” Add a new item to that list – disk and tape drive failure. A survey by The Diffusion Group found that the overall average rate of failure is 100 percent for disk and tape drives – like the hard drive in your PC and the tape drives people still use to backup data. That means if your drive hasn’t [...]