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News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Whitehall will lay bare its handling of public data under plans to supercharge the... [25 Nov 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News The ICO has been arguing for some time that its powers and resources are no longer adequate, and parliament responded by deciding the ICO should have the power to impose penalties for deliberate or reckless breaches of data.silicon.com's... [29 Oct 2008]
J2EE Infrastructure Scalability and Throughput Estimation
White Paper By mining the full-disclosure archives for trends and correlations the paper has discovered that J2EE technology is very scalable with increasing middle-tier resources, as long as the database has... [22 Oct 2008]
MoD admits losing nearly 2m recruits' details
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The MoD has revealed a lost hard drive may contain details on almost two million... [14 Oct 2008]
Data breach at Virgin prompts encryption order
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Virgin Media has been ordered to encrypt all portable media that is used to move data... [30 Sep 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News September 2008: News emerges that the details of 5,000 prison staff were contained on a drive lost by EDS in 2007.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the... [30 Sep 2008]
Data breach victims get the mushroom treatment
News IT services company Logica, which sponsored the research, said the true number of organisations suffering data breaches is probably far higher.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking... [25 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News The firm was contracted to run the JTrack system, a database used by the Home Office and the police to keep track of offenders.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com... [10 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The NCC is petitioning the European Union to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform customers when they lose their personal data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are... [01 Sep 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News Security experts have also supported the introduction of a data breach law - as called for by silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign. silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [27 Aug 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648... [25 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The Met has said it will try to recover the full costs from the HMRC... [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The UK's privacy watchdog could get new powers to raid organisations under government... [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft... [15 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News Whitehall has neither the framework nor the leadership to properly protect the public's personal data, a review by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust has found.silicon.com's... [11 Jul 2008]
