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Users Risk Major Data Loss With Poor Backup

A study has revealed a significant number of people are failing to protect their personal data with backups

The Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust lost the records of 800 patients and did not inform them

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Small businesses must do more in order to be ready for potential data loss or security breaches

More than 250 laptops have gone missing from the DoH over the last 10 years - many of them unencrypted

The ICO has censured five NHS organisations for data breaches and said it must do more to protect data

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Most websites are guilty of leaking sensitive user information, according to an academic survey

A study from the Which? Money has warned that British banks are regularly breaching data protection rules

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British organisations are continuing to suffer from data loss, despite increased prevention measures

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Cambridgeshire County Council has been found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act after losing a memory stick

Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11 will feature "vector machine learning" to help define sensitive data policies

An investigation has begun after a USB stick containing sensitive information about Sellafield was found in a hotel room

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The UK Financial Services Authority has fined Zurich Insurance £2,275,000 for failing to prevent the loss of customers’ confidential information

MXI Security has announced a new encrypted USB drive that meets the UK government certification standard in order to protect confidential data

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the Ministry of Defence has lost 340 laptops in the last two years, with nine staff disciplined

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Data loss prevention technologies can be costly and challenging to deploy. Here are some things to think about before buying

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The fear of losing data is driving more and more small to midsize businesses to focus on information protection, as well as backup and recovery