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ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, announced the availability of new reports that can help businesses that store, process or handle credit card transactions comply with industry requirements for the secure handling of this data.

Verizon Business has completed its annual SAS 70 Type II examination for the company’s data centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Business today introduced the industry’s most comprehensive on-demand, “cloud-based” Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution designed to meet the stringent security and performance requirements of enterprise customers.

A third, or 34 per cent, of disused hard drives still contain confidential data according to a new study, which found missile defence system data and media records on ebay purchases.

The Verizon Business RISK team recently released its "2009 Data Breach Investigations Report," which gives a fresh look into the question of whether insiders or outsiders are the larger threat group. The report concludes that 74% of breaches result from external sources and "the predominance of total records lost was attributed to outsiders."

As part of coordinated raids in early April, FBI agents seized computers from a data center at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas, Texas, attempting to gather evidence in an ongoing investigation of two men and their various companies accused of defrauding AT&T and Verizon for more than US$6 million.

Driven by increased organised crime activity, the number of electronic record breaches has hit a five-year high according to a new report from communications services provider Verizon Business.

If your company's computer clocks aren't in sync, forensics, backups, and much more can suffer. Simson Garfinkel on getting the time right.

M&A industry veteran Paul Deninger, a vice chairman at Jefferies & Co., has made a living advising companies on mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and the like. But even he acknowledges that too much industry consolidation isn't a good thing for technology innovation. I spoke with Deninger this week about the state of the M&A market and what’s likely ahead.

Companies that suffer serious security breaches have almost always committed one (or all) of 7 deadly security sins. Is your company guilty?