Security breach contract.PricewaterhouseCoopers has launched the latest government-sponsored survey of information security.breaches. The DTI Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) A refinement of magnetic resonance imaging that allows the doctor to measure the flow of water and track the pathways of white matter in the brain. Information Security Breaches Survey 2004, will be the most authoritative source on the state of information security in the UK. The survey's findings will be published in April 2004 at the Infosecurity Europe Exhibition in London. In the two years since the last survey was conducted, UK businesses have suffered from an increasing array of security threats. Most are now connected to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , and many are finding out about viruses and spare the hard way. New technologies, such as hand-held computers Noun 1. hand-held computer - a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket hand-held microcomputer portable computer - a personal computer that can easily be carried by hand and wireless networks, are becoming more widespread, often in organisations that don't understand the risks inherent in their use or how to mitigate mit·i·gate v. To moderate in force or intensity. mit  i·ga tion n. those risks. And, perpetrators of economic crime are
increasingly using computers to carry out their frauds and thefts.
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