Data breaches rose sharply in 2008, study says Most of the lost data was neither encrypted nor password-protected

By Jeremy Kirk

January 7, 2009 (IDG News Service)
More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
The majority of the lost data was neither encrypted nor protected by a password, according to the [...]

Networkers Beware: Fake LinkedIn profiles promise prurient pics, send patsies malware instead

Expect more attacks to come from social networking services, says security expert
By Gregg Keizer
Hackers have seeded LinkedIn Corp.’s business networking service with bogus celebrity profiles that link to malicious sites serving up attack code, a security researcher said today.
Unlike Twitter, which had nearly three-dozen legitimate accounts hijacked on Monday, LinkedIn was not compromised. Instead, criminals [...]