Job training service leaves personal info exposed

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on August 11, 2009 at 6:48 am

The Nashville Career Advancement Center, a unit of Metro government, said yesterday a weakness in its Web site exposed 160 people’s personal information to the outside world.

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Texas information security tech firm comes to Nashville

By Sananda Sahoo Posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:21 am

MainNerve, a San Antonio-based information security technology services company, is expanding its business to Nashville. Mark Burnette, who joined as president of the company’s central region, will establish the local presence for the company and lead MainNerve’s security, audit, and compliance services business line globally. He is also responsible for MainNerve’s Adaptive DarknetTM, which is pending patent.

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TJ Maxx parent to pay state $340K

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on June 23, 2009 at 1:39 pm

The retailer’s parent, TJX Cos., is settling the investigation into its data breach last year that may have compromised up to 46 million credit cards. The company will $9.75 million to 40 states and implement a rigorours IT security plan.

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Tags: Attorney General, governmental investigations, information insecurity, retail, TJX Cos. Inc.  

Once more into the breach

By Kleinheider Posted on May 26, 2009 at 7:33 am

More and more, employees are making off with sensitive data from their employers:

Brill said Kroll already is seeing a higher rate of incidents involving employees taking sensitive company data — either before or after they’ve been let go — that they intend to use to better themselves with another employer or start a competing business.

Brian Lapidus, a colleague of Brill and the Nashville, Tennessee-based COO of Kroll’s fraud solutions division, said there were about 1,000 more data security inquiries to Kroll in December than just last July.

“We’re seeing more [data] breaches and we’re seeing more activity from those people who have been victims of a breach,” Lapidus said.

A study that Ponemon Institute LLC released last month found that more than 88 percent of all data breaches involved insider negligence, while the remaining 12 percent were the result of a malicious act. The study also found that the cost of data breaches to companies rose in 2008 to an average $202 per record compromised, up 2.5 percent from 2007 and 11 percent from 2006.

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Tags: fraud, information insecurity, intellectual property, Kroll Inc., layoffs