VeriSign laptop security breach

VeriSign has warned workers of the theft of a laptop that contained their personal information. The laptop was stolen from a car parked in the garage of a California worker sometime on the night of 12 July.

Data on the machine was not encrypted, in contravention of VeriSign policies, raising ID theft concerns. The unnamed worker involved has left VeriSign while the web security firm has responded by promising to tighten up its security policies.

VeriSign specialises in marketing the digital certificates and other elements of the infrastructure that underpin secure web transactions, so any kind of security breach is embarrassing. Verisign issued a statement explaining its response to the breach....
VeriSign is taking the recent laptop theft very seriously.
[Sounds a lot like "Please hold - your call is important to us"]

Read the article HERE.