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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment The Nationwide Building Society reported that UK house prices have recorded their largest monthly fall since 1991 and have fallen by 2.5 per cent during May. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has... [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities... [09 May 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber squads at each of its 56 field offices across the US and support 70 cyber task forces nationwide, backed up by global... [15 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. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. [08 Apr 2008]
Indian IT outsourcers look ahead
Comment For example voting in elections is fully electronic throughout the country, financial services and capital markets are of a high quality and there is a nationwide railway reservations system in place that works. [14 Feb 2008]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment What is the justification for this given that the FSA was able to fine Nationwide £1m for a security breach in February this year? But the HMRC's wayward discs were a mere dry run, argues Stewart Room. [27 Nov 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]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment This probably would have saved the Nationwide Building Society the fine of almost a million pounds that it had to pay when a laptop containing unencrypted data was stolen from an employee's home. Danny Bradbury explains the dilemma. [02 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a hard time over security
Comment It only makes sense that a Halifax, an NU or a Nationwide (in a prominent incident recently) be held to high standards. There have been some interesting stories knocking about on the subject of security, just recently. [27 Mar 2007]
Leader: A £1m message that goes out nationwide
Leader But you can bet that those that run the Nationwide won't see it that way. Nationwide then waited three weeks to start an investigation into the theft. Some 11 million UK Nationwide customers - including several members of the silicon.com team... [14 Feb 2007]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a laptop which contained customer account information. The Nationwide security breach was perfect. Nationwide customers may well have seen the news and therefore... [14 Nov 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment Building any nationwide network, even a wireless network, is a cash-hungry activity and analyst InStat has estimated a US-wide WiMax network rollout will cost Clearwire $3bn. PCCW and Pipex hold the two nationwide WiMax licences using the 3.4GHz... [27 Jul 2006]
Business Traveller: Staying connected on planes, trains and automobiles
Comment The service is currently available on nine of Southern Railway trains and forms part of T-Mobile's nationwide hotspot network. Time spent on business travel no longer needs to be wasted. Mobile workers now have a number of ways to check emails and... [02 Jun 2006]
Q&A: BT CTO Matt Bross
Comment Bross, appointed to BT in 2002 when he moved from US-based Williams Communications, is leading the nationwide 21st Century Network (21CN) project, in which BT will replace copper circuit-switched networks with a single IP-based core infrastructure. [22 Sep 2005]
Leader: Telewest rolls out suburban security
Leader By doing so, others may follow and the vast problem of insecure computers in homes nationwide may begin to diminish. Whoever first coined the phrase 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink' may have had some insight into the... [22 Aug 2005]
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