"data loss" news, interviews, and features

News about data loss

• Laptops holding 30 years’ worth of student data stolen from UWA

  University of Western Australia treating theft “as a data loss incident”

• Kroll Ontrack details data loss survey results ahead of World Backup Day

  Indicates 66 per cent of Australian respondents experience data loss even with backup solution

• WatchGuard: local organisations under greater pressure to protect against data loss

  Survey found that 88 per cent of businesses are more pressurised this year than last

• Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

• Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off

  Toshiba's Wipe feature will reach hard drives in July

• Data loss a mystery for many businesses

  Despite the increasing awareness of penalties

Features about data loss

• 2009: The year your data died

  Data disasters at Microsoft, Apple and Facebook mean your data - and the Net itself - are more fragile than you may think