We live in a digital world where we do our banking, search for recipes and freely communicate with family and friends online. Sometimes we fail to consider just how much information is available on the Web. Earlier this month it was announced that possibly millions of email addresses and names were stolen from one of […]
Do you have a Gmail, Apple, Yahoo or MSN email account? Do you rely on your e-mail data to be available whenever you need it? Just a few weeks ago someone at Google inadvertently deleted some 150,000 Gmail accounts (read about it on CNN Money). The company scrambled to restore the data, which they did, believe […]
When it comes to storing and archiving data, companies typically opt for off-site storage or use ‘the cloud.’ With off-site storage, like Perpetual Storage, the client saves data to a storage medium like a flash drive or magnetic tape, and Perpetual Storage couriers transport it to the secure, remote storage facility. If companies use the cloud, […]
According to documents filed in the US District Court for Maryland, a Fannie Mae worker who had been terminated attempted to: …cause damage to Fannie Mae’s computer network by entering malicious code that was intended to execute on January 31, 2009. The worker was a contractor who worked at Fannie Mae’s data center in Urbana, […]
There continues to be talk of computer “hackers” who work from remote terminals to tap into data centers and take information or ruin data. However, a survey by the American Bar Association found that 77% of criminals came from within. The most frequently cited group for stealing or damaging company data were computer programmers. “Hackers […]
