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Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment That would work, unless of course you'd been wrongly accused/prosecuted following identity theft. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and ice... [10 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment Identity theft is rife. With identity theft now rife and rising steadily, keeping one's online personal information to an absolute minimum looks increasingly important. At last month's e-Crime Congress in London we heard how criminals are becoming... [08 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment The Nationwide's £980,000 fine by the FSA in February last year following the theft of a laptop with unencrypted data highlights that. Data Protection Act The most significant piece of legislation in the UK is the Data Protection Act, the... [08 Apr 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment There is the regular loss of confidential personal data by large companies and government agencies, such as HMRC, or, at the more sophisticated end of the spectrum, advanced identity theft from persistent bots and new exploits that seek to... [27 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Yet sharing it so frequently must also contribute to the problem of identity theft - the very thing it is designed to prevent. Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with other people's data. [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment Mail theft and tampering are now endemic in the UK, with CDs a common target. It's about time that data was only moved around by courier only. This simply isn't good enough and the practice of sending by post confidential data on this scale should... [31 Jan 2008]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment Much of the new generation of targeted malware is designed to extract valuable user data that can be used for profit, such as financial information or identity theft. The analyst firm warns web 2.0 applications could herald widespread identity... [26 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader It's not everyday you applaud the taxman - but HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) deserves praise for its response to a recent potential data breach which followed the theft of a laptop containing sensitive information. [09 Oct 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment And at a time of extreme data sensitivity, with identity theft and fraud rife, you'd think its importance would have sunk in. An oversight of this nature recently stung UK bank Nationwide, which was fined nearly £1m over a laptop theft that was... [13 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment Police arrest man over 'wi-fi theft' Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Fractal coding - Peter's new format, love the subject too ¦ Skills Survey 2007... [30 Aug 2007]
How to insure your IT
Comment When the Nationwide Building Society recently suffered the theft of an employee's laptop containing unencrypted customer data, it found out just how quantifiable its risk was - the FSA fined it £980,000. [17 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up But by the weekend the Sunday People newspaper was claiming Prince Charles may also have been affected by the theft. And as such you would have been forgiven for thinking Charles' lot was made a lot worse when news broke that he'd had his bank... [29 Jun 2007]
Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem
Leader If the data on these stolen laptops was better protected the theft stats would be far less alarming. In the past week silicon.com has published a series of articles shedding light on the issue of laptop theft in the UK. [21 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up And of course all this laptop theft is not only great news for would-be data thieves and fraudsters but for anybody looking for a cheap laptop and not interested in asking too many questions about where it came from. [11 May 2007]
Leader: Why we keep our eye on the iPod
Leader As the device has proved, there's no longer such a clear defining line between enterprise and consumer hardware.iPods are regularly turning up in offices and finding their way onto corporate networks, as sys admins will testify, along with any... [11 Apr 2007]
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