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RSS blunderHome Office prisoner data breach: Bigger blunder than first thought
News Remember the massive data loss last year that saw the records of more than 84,000 prisoners go missing when a USB stick was lost by a Home Office contractor? More details on the loss have emerged this week, with the Home Office's... [27 Aug 2009]
High Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management
White Paper The result is a well-executed blunder. When deploying new software configuration management (SCM) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor,... [22 Jul 2009]
Security Blundered Brits: Could We Learn From the US?
White Paper Never a day goes by when one doesn't hear about another security blunder with highly confidential information being lost not only by Government departments but also by other large corporations including the DVA, DVLA,... [12 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Read security experts opinions on the latest Home Office blunder here… At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the public's personal data. The weekly Inbox column... [28 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment It's a sorry story for the public sector to be in, and clearly the lessons of the taxman's blunder have still not been learned. It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder released this week. Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News HMRC data blunder: Timeline of events Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK data protection watchdog for between them losing more than 25 million people's details. The Information Commissioner's... [25 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment This is all a bit of a blunder. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer. Each has been based on single, or combined, parameter search and... [31 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment This is all a bit of a blunder. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. [26 Mar 2008]
silicon.com Classics: Digital Blunders
News The best included a home DVD recording that definitely shouldn't have been broadcast at a family birthday party, an email blunder involving the sender's wife, a text insult to a follicly challenged baldy and a smutty... [11 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News HMRC data blunder raises new questions… Confused about where it's going? Or where the whole project started? The project has never been far from the pages of silicon.com - so here's the pick of our coverage on the... [29 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up Before you say, "Oh no, not another government data loss blunder" just consider this: could it be an ever-so-cunning recruitment drive? How about this for an advertising slogan for the Ministry of Defence: "The Armed... [25 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up The blunder has dominated headlines since the news broke and the revelations of operational incompetence and cost cutting measures have left senior ministers looking ashen-faced. One little irony this week is that HMRC... [30 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Oh dear Vista… One year on: XP still outshining Vista [29 Nov 2007]
Minister calls for ID cards review
News Plans for a national ID database must be reviewed following the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data blunder, according to the government's own data protection minister. Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of... [27 Nov 2007]
