The Shands medical center reported a stolen laptop with medical record of patients of the Florida university. The laptop was stolen during a burglary at home of one of the employees.

Modern hotels, limousines, dinners in expensive restaurants. That was part of the last year for one of the employees of a marketing company in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

One of the causes of confidential data leakage are employees – in up to 80% cases (according to the Ponemon Institute research). Employees and other people in the company are the internal threat even in case they do not steal the data on purpose.

Statistics of a recently attacked database of 32 million passwords show that users still use simple and easily guessable passwords.

The case that happened on the 7 February proves how important it is to protect the sensitive data saved on computer disks.

Since today new versions of all editions of the DisCryptor software are available. This regular update brings several novelties which will make the protection of your private data easier.

The weakest link of security of internet services are the users themselves. 47% users use the same login for other services.

At http://partner.cosect.net our partners can use a new portal since today. It is aimed for sales and promotion of the DisCryptor security tool.

Sending of important informations to your business partners requires high security. Let’s see how you can secure your data files in few clicks using DisCryptor. These archives can be sent via e-mail or using similar way.

Private information about a single customer or business partner are worth nearly 4,000 CZK. This is a result of a survey among 45 companies which publicly admitted leakage of private information in 2009. Estimated price is calculated from the financial losses caused but the data leakage and number of leaked records. Annual increase of the value is only 2 dollars, however, in the last 5 years this value increased by more than 60 dollars.

Dissatisfied employee, preoccupation, random burglary, Internet attack. Today there are many ways how to lose important data. News of thefts or leakages of secret data have become as frequent as news of road accidents.