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Article | 23/04/2010 How investigators work to combat data theft
In almost two decades of work in the financial services industry, Brad McFarland has spent most of that time heading up fraud investigations. McFarlan...
Article | 15/04/2010 Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised
Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.
Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year sti...
Article | 13/03/2010 HSBC Private Bank: Data of 15,000 clients stolen
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) Thursday revealed more details about a data theft in Switzerland that took place more than three years ago. The incident af...
Article | 7/10/2009 Former DuPont researcher hit with federal data theft charges
A former research scientist at DuPont USA who is <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137780/DuPont_sues_Chinese_scientist_for_trade_secre...
Article | 10/07/2009 How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data
If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can s...
Article | 10/06/2009 T-Mobile data was not taken by hacking, company says
T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.
Article | 30/01/2009 With economic slump, concerns rise over data theft
Is the worsening economic situation going to turn some employees into data thieves?