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Data Breaches Doubled During 2009, Copy Machine Turns 50

by Warren Riddle on January 25, 2010 at 11:50 AM

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • A survey of 45 U.S. businesses has determined that twice as many system data breaches occurred during 2009 than did during 2008. The cyber attacks, 36-percent of which came as a result of lost or stolen devices, resulted in average organizational damages of $6.75 million. [From: CNET]
  • Xerox has become so ingrained as a U.S. brand that consumers typically refer to all copy machines by that original, universally known title. The company's revolutionary image-duplication device has officially turned 50 years old, but instead of growing old, fat, and lazy, the machines have slimmed down significantly. (The first-born behemoth weighed in at a monstrous 650 pounds.) [From: CNN]
  • The Palm Pixi Plus and the Palm Pre Plus have officially made their debuts in the Verizon store. For a limited time, certain purchases (the Web site providing specific details) will qualify the buyer for a free Pixi Plus. [From: Engadget]
  • According to a joint Facebook-Nielsen survey, an incredible 39-percent of the Facebook users in the United States, England, and Australia donated funds or goods to the Haitian earthquake relief effort. Maybe this will officially end the ridiculous myth that social networkers tend to be self-indulgent narcissists. [From: All Facebook]
  • Even though cyber security experts seem to constantly dismantle massive international spam operations, e-mail is still completely dominated by spam. According to the European Network and Information Security Agency, over 95-percent of all e-mail traffic consists of spam messages. [From: Net Security]

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