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Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Security groups say the attack highlights the need for laws governing companies' response to breaches, as called for by silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign. Thousands of credit card details have been stolen after high street retailer Cotton... [11 Jun 2008]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data breaches associated with credit cards. In response, a federation of companies led by MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International set out to establish consistent data security measures for merchants... [13 May 2008]
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)
White Paper Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises of confidential data: of the 321 information security breaches... [13 May 2008]
Security experts slam HMRC over data loss
News Jonathon Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million... [22 Nov 2007]
Web security breach exposes 54,000 card details
News The council has informed the banks, police and the Information Commissioner about the breach and said a full investigation into the security breach is underway.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the... [27 Jul 2007]
Tell customers about data breaches, companies urged
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event, Anna Fielder, policy consultant with the NCC, said UK companies should produce security breach notifications, which inform an individual if their data has been compromised.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [16 Jul 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment Today silicon.com launches its Full Disclosure campaign with the aim of making businesses and government take data security more seriously by improving the reporting of serious information security breaches. [16 Jul 2007]
UK consumers demand data breach disclosure
News UK consumers are demanding companies that suffer data security breaches must let their customers know. Consumers also believe time is of the essence when reporting data breaches, with 82 per cent expecting the institution suffering the breach to... [17 Apr 2007]
Pressure grows for UK data loss disclosure
News And that feeling was echoed by Phil Zimmerman, the founder and writer of PGP encryption, who described SB 1386 as "a fiendishly clever piece of legislation" because it not only makes companies more 'on the ball' for fear of having to admit... [16 Mar 2007]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment In the UK retailers and financial services companies can keep details of such breaches secret from their customers, whereas in California a law has existed for almost three years meaning companies with operations or customers resident in that US... [10 May 2006]
Privacy breach companies 'must be named'
News Companies that suffer security breaches in which customer data is put at risk should be publicly named, according to silicon.com readers. In the UK companies are not required to go public with data breaches, in contrast to California - and soon... [02 May 2006]
Visa to spend $200m fighting fraud
News He added that a standard for disclosing data breaches to consumers was also required. Twenty-two million of those were Visa cards. Credit card giant Visa is to spend $200m on what it calls 'anti-fraud measures', as criminal activity online... [07 Oct 2005]
MasterCard scandal: Worst data theft ever?
News James Van Dyke, principal analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research in Pleasanton, California, said: "In sheer numbers, this is probably one of the largest data security breaches. In what could be the largest data security breach to date, MasterCard... [20 Jun 2005]
Wi-Fi gets a sense of direction
News But the technology, also known as 802.11b, is yet to make an impact on the business world because of fears about security breaches. The idea is to equip credit cards with infrared links for use at gas pumps and supermarkets, for instance. [12 Nov 2002]
The Data Protection Commissioner - what all the fuss is about
Comment Barclays, CD Universe, Oxfam, Powergen, Safeway - as the list of online data breaches gets longer, so consumer confidence in ecommerce diminishes. And although it may look bad for the e-tailers at the moment, if customers are given the right... [15 Aug 2000]
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