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• Data complexity requires re-evaluation of service contracts: Dell report

  Australian IT executives should review their data protection service contracts and assess what isn’t covered, as information becomes more valuable and monetised.

• In Pictures: 7 steps to protect your business from cybercrime

  As cybercriminals employ increasingly sophisticated tactics to steal identities and data, and the costs and consequences of data breaches skyrocket, here are seven steps that your small business should be taking to insulate themselves from cyberattacks.

• NSW government launches privacy governance framework

  New South Wales Privacy Commissioner, Dr Elizabeth Coombs, has unveiled new guidelines that clarify steps to protect citizen data. These guidelines reinforce moves to protect personal information and comply with the state’s privacy guidelines.

• How investigators work to combat data theft

  In almost two decades of work in the financial services industry, Brad McFarland has spent most of that time heading up fraud investigations. McFarland, currently director of corporate security with The South Financial Group, a South Carolina-based financial services holding company, is also responsible for the organization's physical security and loss preventions in addition to fraud investigation.

• Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

  Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

• Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam

  As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the "unparalleled" theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major U.S. retailers.

• HSBC Private Bank: Data of 15,000 clients stolen

  HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) Thursday revealed more details about a data theft in Switzerland that took place more than three years ago. The incident affects 15,000 existing clients, enormously more than the figure reported last December when the bank said the number of account records taken was less than 10.

• Former DuPont researcher hit with federal data theft charges

  A former research scientist at DuPont USA who is <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137780/DuPont_sues_Chinese_scientist_for_trade_secret_theft">already facing civil charges</a> for allegedly attempting to steal corporate secrets from the company, has been hit with a federal criminal complaint on the same charges.

• Specialist London police squad to tackle business data theft

  A specialist police squad is being established to help businesses in the City of London tackle data theft.

• With economic slump, concerns rise over data theft

  Is the worsening economic situation going to turn some employees into data thieves?