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Comment Law enforcement agencies' access to data. Data encryption also poses a problem for the legitimate activities of the police and other law enforcement agencies. But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns lawyer Stewart James.
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment That growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth international e-Crime Congress in London.
[27 Feb 2008]
Round-Up But if your immediate response was actually, 'And about bloody time, too', then you'll be delighted to hear that the space agencies have an unfeasibly good business reason for this lunar plan: the moon will most likely be partly colonised by 2020...
[22 Feb 2008]
Comment We stopped using agencies for all our permanent recruitment and we have been more successful than ever in expanding our team. I feel that employers/agencies are trying to find candidates with specific software/application experience and passing...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment But there are departments and agencies that have chosen to let suppliers decide on the best approach.silicon.com Public Sector In leaving any mention of offshore service delivery out of an invitation to tender and providing little or no guidance...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment Law enforcement and government agencies can use geolocation to trace the internet routes of cyber criminals, look at domains and investigate the use-history of IP addresses associated with crimes to prosecute criminals.
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment I suspect that the agencies (and hence the employers they are seeking to service) are missing out on the capable but honest people (like myself, blush) with ethics standards that bar us from applying for these jobs that we apparently are not...
[06 Dec 2007]
Leader The original California law - known as SB 1386 - obliges Californian state agencies or private sector businesses to disclose data security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information may have been compromised.
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment For example, last month a senior Chinese official accused foreign agencies of causing massive damage by hacking into Chinese computers for political, military and scientific secrets. So, Martin Brampton asks, what's really fuelling the wave of...
[25 Oct 2007]
Comment We've got government agencies using it for things I won't go into. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield looks at what's accelerating that trend and giving businesses easy...
[24 Oct 2007]
Comment Understanding the massive stacks of data generated by industry and government agencies worldwide is a major problem that may just have been solved through animation. Written at an Amsterdam airport hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via an...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment As we have seen with e-government services, public sector agencies will increasingly need to consider the balance between different channels of communication. In the US, the intelligence community has created Intellipedia, a wiki that allows for...
[11 Oct 2007]
Leader It also raises the bar - compared to California's law, for example, which only obliges agencies or businesses in the Golden State to disclose data security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information may have been compromised.
[09 Oct 2007]
Comment Asking consumers to provide the same information time and time again for different government agencies can cause mass duplication of effort and is confusing for the public. But although sharing data makes sense for most public sector organisations...
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment There a law known as SB 1386 obliges state agencies or businesses to disclose data security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information may have been compromised. Opponents of such a law say it might impede police investigations...
[04 Sep 2007]
Comment The law - known as SB 1386 - obliges Californian state agencies or businesses to disclose data security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information may have been compromised. California's data breach law has forced organisations...
[03 Sep 2007]
Comment But they have also fingered the report as failing to acknowledge the difference between local and central government agencies and the contexts and circumstances in which they operate. From suppliers over-promising on what they are going to deliver...
[29 May 2007]
Comment They will be joined by officials from Russia and Nigeria, law enforcement agencies as well as private companies such as Microsoft, PayPal and Visa. E-crime has become too great a menace to ignore, says Simon Moores.
[07 Mar 2007]
Round-Up So far the Met has declined to state whether the data on the laptops was encrypted and as a precaution the force has consulted payment industry association Apacs - as well credit rating agencies and Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service - just...
[24 Nov 2006]
Comment And the government has set up agencies to combat IPR violations. Some people would argue they are the most pressing business problem the country faces. IPR is the defining issue of the next five years," says Micah Truman, CEO of Beijing marketing...
[14 Aug 2006]
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