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Security makes a quantum leap
News B is for Botnets He predicts there could be "some sort of deployment" of the tech in the next five years but said this may need to be prompted by a major breach of traditional security technology or by a... [10 Oct 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News B is for Botnets The company claims it notified its customers within days of it happening, flagged up the breach with banks immediately and closed the hole within hours of the attack. Data... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social... [17 Apr 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News B is for Botnets It was not made clear whether the National Security Forum would have oversight of government departments, which have been involved in a rash of data breach reports in the past year.... [20 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment B is for Botnets Companies in the UK are not typically required to disclose a data breach and are disinclined to do so if it impacts customer confidence. The study found that total average cost of a... [10 Mar 2008]
Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay
News B is for Botnets Lumension Security vice president, Alan Bentley, said: "The good news with this latest data breach is that the data was encrypted. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find... [29 Feb 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News B is for Botnets Certified devices are easy to breach. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN terminals: the Ingenico i3300 and the Dione... [27 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News B is for Botnets The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches - but to more people admitting to them.... [18 Feb 2008]
Information Security forum to 'change behaviour'
News B is for Botnets These included the HMRC breach, where 25 million personal details were lost, and the TJX breach, where up to 96 million credit-card details were compromised. Security... [13 Feb 2008]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News B is for Botnets For the most part, the ICO cannot impose a penalty for a breach that has occurred. While individuals can be prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining personal data, current sanctions are... [31 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News B is for Botnets The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing... [23 Jan 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News B is for Botnets She added: "It is obviously a serious breach. The enforcement notice was served on the companies by the ICO a week ago, following the issuing of a preliminary enforcement notice in... [16 Jan 2008]
MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss
News B is for Botnets Susan Kramer, the Liberal Democrat shadow for the Department for Transport (DfT) described the news of the latest breach as "mind bending", saying: "If that happened last May, why was... [18 Dec 2007]
Gov't not trusted with public data
News B is for Botnets The majority of UK citizens do not trust the government with their data following the HM Revenue & Customs data breach, according to security vendor Symantec. The survey was conducted in... [14 Dec 2007]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News This year has seen a shift from viruses, botnets and spam swamping the security headlines, to the loss of personal information by private and public organisations - leading to calls for better data protection and privacy... [13 Dec 2007]
