Forensics experts at Deloitte report a steady rise in cases of employees stealing confidential business information and taking it to competing firms, The New Zealand Herald reports. The rise in such incidents are in part a result of the ease in which information can be downloaded to USB sticks or social networking sites, the report states, citing numerous examples in which employees did just that. Meanwhile, Otago University's 2010 Computer Crime and Security Survey found that more than half of firms had no USB incident protection in place.
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