There has been a consistent concern about the inadvertent disclosure of personal information through peer-to-peer file sharing applications, such as Limewire and Morpheus. Examples of personal health and financial information being exposed have been published. We wanted to estimate the extent to which personal health information (PHI) is being disclosed in this way, compare that to the extent of disclosure of personal financial information (PFI)...

What does our enterprise information have in common with President Obama and Vice President Biden? The need for constant protection. Your enterprise data needs protection from the host of technical and human threats that seem to evolve daily. The President and Vice President require the same protect...

Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the time,  but we spotted a number from the business sector that had not been reported in the media or on this site at the time.  So here is a brief roundup on another 21 breaches from the business  sector last year...

Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update.  The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010...