The cost of a data breach is highest in the United States, according to a Ponemon Institute study that looked at 133 breaches in five industrialized countries.
U.S. breaches cost .75 million on average, or almost twice the next highest average expense, .44 million in Germany. In the U.K., France, and Australia, costs averaged .57 million, .53 million, and .83 million respectively.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is having a hard-time maintaining its network of expensive high-tech tsunami detection buoys, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Wednesday (.pdf).
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made a confession this morning: She doesn’t like the concept of balancing security and freedom.
► Twenty-two men have been convicted of working with Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah to attack sites in Egypt. An Egyptian court found them–and four others not in custody yet–guilty of planning attacks on tourist sites and the Suez Canal, reports the BBC.
Russian lawmakers are considering proposals that would allow the officers of the Federal Security Service (F.S.B.) to "summon citizens and issue verbal or written warnings that their activities are ‘unacceptable’ and leading toward a crime, even if no violation has occurred," according to The New York Times today.
Investigators found screening checkpoint vulnerabilities at eight out of eight airports they visited (.pdf), according to the unclassified summary of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report released today.
"We identified vulnerabilities in the screening process at the passenger screening checkpoint at the eight domestic airports we conducted testing," the IG report states.
