Pvt. Bradley Manning managed to bypass security of the US army computers. During investigation of theft of more than 150,000 top secret files it was revealed that he carried data on a disk labeled as a Lady Gaga music CD.

Employees spend more and more time on social networks. Numbers of those who use social networks in their working time are also increasing. This is the result of research performed on 1,600 corporate users from the UK, the USA, Germany and Japan.

The results have shown that every fourth employee uses Facebook or other social networks. The highest increase of popularity of social networks has been observed in Germany and the UK.

AMR, the controlling company of American Airlines, was stolen a portable disk from its seat in Fort Worth, Dallas, USA. It contained digitalized records of 70,000 former and current employees of the corporation from 1960 to 1995.

Over 130,000 names, dates of birth, addresses, medical diagnoses and social insurance numbers were lost from Lincoln Hospital in New York.

On Monday 28 June, new updates of the Safetica security software were made available. The Business and Enterprise editions were issued in version 3.1.9 and the Personal edition for home use was issued in version 3.0.9.

The files you deleted from your disk can be easily restored into a readable form. Expensive equipment or special knowledge are often not necessary.

A curious case came to light in past days. Czech Army has lost computer containing military records during its mission in Afghanistan. The Army has no information about current location of the computer.

Cincinnati hospital has recently reported the loss if over 61,000 entries of children patients. 

If you have dealt with data security, you have surely come across the questions which security software you could trust.

Since Monday, May 24, a new update of Safetica security software is available at www.safetica.com.

We are introducing the third chapter of a serial about mistakes which can deprive you of confidential data and cause you a financial loss, no matter if you are a sole trader, small company or a large corporation.

The privacy of patients in American hospitals has recently been threatened by frequent leakages of confidential data and medical records.