Finding 3: One company in six has lost equipment containing company data in the past year.
Many of the year's biggest IT-security news stories, such as the Veterans Administration scandal, involved stolen laptops or equipment. These were not isolated incidents: One in three of our respondents admit to security breaches in the past year. And of those, nearly half say these breaches involved lost or stolen equipment. Viruses and spyware remain the most common problems.

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Eric Nee: Making Legitimate Business From Data Theft (Sept 2005)

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