August 6, 2012
All around the world, data is constantly being created. Some of it is trivial, and its loss would not be too traumatic, but some data is so valuable that losing it could have disastrous consequences. Many businesses have suffered due to data loss, and some have had to cease operations altogether. It is not only [...]
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July 25, 2012
Troubled Internet company Yahoo! has another problem to deal with. On Thursday, it confirmed that Yahoo! Voices had 450,000 user passwords and email addresses stolen from its database. Surprisingly, every password had been stored in plaintext or unencrypted, so that anyone could read them. And it wasn’t only email addresses that were compromised. Gmail, Hotmail, [...]
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