Tag: burglary

News (14)

• Stolen: Google's employee records

  Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.

• Hyundai International: stolen notebooks grey market product

  There has been a bizarre turn of events for the troubled Hyundai notebook reseller channel which was hit by two serious incidents of theft last month.

• How to stop ID thieves

  Identity theft is one the fastest growing crimes, with businesses and consumers losing billions of dollars each year to identity thieves. You can't count on biometrics. Here's why.

• Setting a trap for laptop thieves

  Notebook computers are small, powerful, increasingly affordable--and easily stolen. Now, new services being offered by major PC makers could help track down pilfered systems.

• Lessons learned from laptop theft

  Virtual security is at the top of most IT managers' minds. But have you given much thought to the dangers of hardware theft? Read this account of a recent burglary and its consequences.

Features and Case Studies (3)

• Finding a replacement for passwords

  Verification gadgets range from tokens to mobile-phone-based systems, but cost keeps them from catching on.

• Virus writers: Lock them up and throw away the key'?

  The arrest of Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 18-year-old thought to be responsible for the spread of the Blaster worm, has once again sparked off the debate into how virus writers should be punished.

• Lessons learned from laptop theft

  Virtual security is at the top of most IT managers' minds. But have you given much thought to the dangers of hardware theft? Read this account of a recent burglary and its consequences.

Reviews (2)

• Microsoft's security chief gets serious

  Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.

• The laptops that come in from the cold

  For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

• Just In

• Most Popular

• Most Discussed

Reader Services

Popular Topics

Essentials