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ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a law forcing organisations to reveal data breaches, thanks to draft EU legislation. Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic services to inform users... [03 Jul 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) wants mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses. Therefore, ENISA calls for the EU to introduce mandatory reporting on security breaches and incidents for business... [27 May 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient... [04 Feb 2008]
HMRC email rejected filtering of sensitive data
News The first email exchange relates to the NAO's request for National Insurance numbers from the child benefit database for the 2006/2007 audit.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review... [23 Nov 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Not content with the security breaches already achieved, the phishers began to target Salesforce.com customers with malware. Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their... [08 Nov 2007]
Data breach notification laws are 'just the start'
News Speaking at a keynote panel at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Christopher Kuner, partner and head of the international privacy and information management practice at US-based law firm Hunton & Williams, said: "Notification is a useful first step... [23 Oct 2007]
Customer data breach at UK loans website
News The loans website will not reveal how many customers have been affected or how the breach happened but admitted the names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, loan applications and mortgage details of people applying for loans were passed to... [13 Sep 2007]
Police: We want more info on e-crime attacks
News Corcoran said: "We can't deal with what we don't know about from a police perspective so - unless people tell us - we can't address the problem.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to... [17 Aug 2007]
Why UK must pass data leak law now
News The message is in line with silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign which has been calling for a rethink of law in this area to improve the reporting of data breaches so that companies have to reveal it when they lose sensitive data.silicon.com's... [10 Aug 2007]
Data leaks - Europe readies new rules
News The EC said this will help to reinforce business and individual users' trust and confidence in electronic communications.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection... [02 Aug 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]
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]
CIO Jury: Employees are biggest security headache
News Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham, said unwitting security breaches such as writing down passwords, not logging out of unattended PCs and downloading software are the greatest threat. [28 Apr 2006]
Leader: Is one data leak one too many?
Leader It's been a week of security leaks - from military documents in the Netherlands to Homeland Security breaches in the US. But we would advocate establishing more carefully which databases represent where genuine 'zero' tolerance is required... [08 Feb 2005]
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