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Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News D is for DDoS 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 breach notification legislation would be an important step to... [11 Jun 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News D is for DDoS 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. Michael Small, director of security management... [20 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment D is for DDoS The study found that total average cost of a breach reached £47 per record. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops left in pubs and disks that go missing in the post. [10 Mar 2008]
Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay
News D is for DDoS Lumension Security vice president, Alan Bentley, said: "The good news with this latest data breach is that the data was encrypted. Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus [29 Feb 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News D is for DDoS 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 Xtreme. [27 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News D is for DDoS 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. Security from A to Z [18 Feb 2008]
Information Security forum to 'change behaviour'
News D is for DDoS 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. Click on the links below to find out more. [13 Feb 2008]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News D is for DDoS 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 designed to make an organisation that has suffered a... [31 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News D is for DDoS 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 three million learner drivers' details and the... [23 Jan 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News D is for DDoS 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 October last year notifying them of the breach of... [16 Jan 2008]
MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss
News D is for DDoS 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 the Secretary of State - never mind this House... [18 Dec 2007]
Gov't not trusted with public data
News D is for DDoS 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 the aftermath of the data breach. [14 Dec 2007]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News D is for DDoS If you had to sum up 2007's security scene in a couple of words, those words would probably be 'data breach'. The breach was the largest ever seen in the UK and the HMRC has subsequently offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds... [13 Dec 2007]
Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign
News D is for DDoS Organisations are to get guidance from data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner on notifying their customers of a security breach. The plans have been revealed by the government in response to silicon.com's Full... [10 Dec 2007]
Encryption not the key to data security
News D is for DDoS Encryption has been back in the spotlight following the HM Revenue & Customs data breach that led to two CDs containing unencrypted records of 25 million people on the child benefit database getting lost in the post. [07 Dec 2007]
