The revelation that oil giant BP experienced an information leak of 13,000 claimants' data in the Gulf of Mexico trial, due to the theft of a laptop, should serve as a reminder for Australian companies to step up encryption advises a local security expert.
More than 150,000 people get a few chuckles every day from <a href="http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr">@BPGlobalPR</a> on Twitter, a satirical take on BP and the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. But BP, the company behind what has been called <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37386954/ns/meet_the_press/page/2/">the biggest ecological disaster in U.S. history</a>, isn't laughing.