After a laptop breaks, where does it go? Your old work laptop, perhaps too slow to keep up with the growing pace of the Internet, is retired to the IT department, which issues you a nice, shiny new one. But what about all of your old files? Your data? Your client information?
European businesses that provide critical infrastructure services, including banks, stock exchanges, telecommunications firms and utilities, may soon be required to disclose any data breaches to authorities.
The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.
Free mobile applications often come with unusual permissions that can put users' data at risk, such as outgoing calling, camera access and SMS capabilities.
By 2020 the world is expected to generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers" while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times.
