http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog Secure Business Mobility. On a Drive. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:48:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A UK local council has lost the personal details of hundreds of residents when a memory stick fell out of an employee’s pocket. Details lost include names, addresses, national insurance numbers, ethnicity and more. As a result, a director of the council has notified all council employees of a complete ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/another-week-another-lost-flash-drive/ The police force in England’s second-largest city, the Greater Manchester Police (GMP), has suffered extensive disruption for several days following an infection by the Conficker worm. The outbreak left policemen unable to run routine computer checks on suspected criminals and vehicles for three days from Friday 29th January. It ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/conficker-strikes-uk-police-computers/ It’s been reported today that the UK security service, MI5 has accused China of bugging and initiating acts of espionage on UK business executives, to obtain sensitive commercial secrets. The story, from a leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/espionage-by-flash-drive/ It seems from a recent report that healthcare businesses have become a specific target for hackers in recent months. International managed security services company SecureWorks says that attempted hacker attacks launched at its healthcare clients doubled in Q4 2009, increasing from an average of 6,500 per healthcare client, per ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/hackers-targeting-healthcare/ We blogged recently about increasing regulation, and strong penalties for companies that suffer breaches in data security. Industry experts and analysts agree that these new moves will help to drive wider uptake of secure USB flash drives. The adoption of new regulations is global. For example, Singapore's banking regulator, the ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/increased-regulation-will-grow-secure-flash-drive-market/ We saw in 2008 and 2009 how worms came back to prominence, thanks to the wide spread of Conficker and its variants. A timely reminder that the threat is still high was given last week, when Google revealed a highly sophisticated series of cyberattacks originating from China that stole ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/a-timely-warning-about-malware-threats/ It’s been talked about for some time, but now the UK’s information watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, will soon be able to penalize companies that are proven to have acted recklessly or maliciously with personal data. From April 2010, the ICO will be able to fine companies up to £500,000 (over ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/information-watchdogs-get-teeth/ SanDisk has recently identified a potential vulnerability in the access control mechanism and has provided a product update to address the issue. SanDisk customers were pro-actively notified and have been given the support required for updating their Cruzer® Enterprise drives. In the past few days several news sites have reported on ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/a-potential-vulnerability-in-the-access-control-mechanism/ The personal health records of over 83,000 Canadians have been lost on an unencrypted USB memory stick. The device was lost by a member of staff from a centre in Ontario State, and contained data collected from everyone who attended H1N1 or seasonal flu vaccination clinics in the region over a ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/data-losses-not-good-for-health/ This article at leading security portal Help Net Security summarizes 2009 from the point of view of the malware that was found in the wild. As the piece points out, it was a year in which nobody that uses the Internet could ignore the dangers of malware, whether received by email, ... http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/blog/malware-in-2009-a-look-back/