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by Juha Saarinen, Newsline 2.0 editor
How safe is your data - or rather, the information you give out in order to buy from different Internet sites? If you answer "not very", spot on: this week I received an email from AbeBooks that its email service supplier, Epsilon, had had its email database accessed by unknown miscreants.
Epsilon's the world's biggest emailer and the breach is of an unprecedented scale. In fact, "enormous" is probably the best word to describe the breach of privacy, with something like sixty large and well-known companies' customers' emails now being in the wrong hands. » Continue Reading
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 Telco Tattle: A lifestyle choice?
by Paul Brislen, CEO, TUANZ
Telco Tattle is Newsline's new monthly telecommunications update from Paul Brislen, CEO of the Telecommunications Users Association of NZ (TUANZ).
Have you ever been to Clevedon? It's a settlement directly to the east of Auckland city. There's a small village, a farmer's market, a nice cafe, no pub but we can work on that. Best of all real estate is cheap for this part of the world. For the price I could get for my three-bedroom house in Auckland, I could get five acres of land with a house and stables. » Continue Reading   When liability hits the fan ...
by Kirsty Young, I2I Insurance
"A software company was sued by a customer after he used the company's cost estimating software. The software itself was found to have functioned perfectly. The customer eventually dropped the case, but only after considerable legal expenses was incurred by the software company."
You'd have to be stark-raving mad to be operating as a consultant or company in the ICT sector without insurance protection against this type of scenario, but incredibly many still are. In the case above? Indemnity Paid: $0 Cost of Defending: $175,000. » Continue Reading
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