A global survey of 600 Kroll Ontrack Data Recovery customers has found that while 66 per cent of Australian respondents had a backup solution in place at the time of data loss, the backup was not up to date or operating properly.

Network security vendor, WatchGuard, has announced that 88 per cent of local public and private sector organisations are under more pressure this year in protecting against data loss than they were in 2010.

Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate laptops are lost or stolen.

T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.

T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.

For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.