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News Two government departments - Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Highways Agency showcased their environmental credentials at the Green IT 08 event. HMRC has about 100,000 PCs and 6,600 servers processing everything from tax returns to...
[09 May 2008]
Round-Up No wait, hang on: the minister has just announced that more than 600 staff at HMRC have been disciplined for snooping on personal data. She added the 'data guardians' brought in to shake-up data security at the HMRC did not have power to operate...
[02 May 2008]
News The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for snooping on personal data. The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with...
[01 May 2008]
News The criticism follows a number of high-profile UK government data breaches recently, including the HMRC loss, numerous losses from the Ministry of Defence, and losses from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
[30 Apr 2008]
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and customers...
[22 Apr 2008]
Comment When you read a proposal like this, it's very easy to understand why there are so many governmentt IT project problems and disasters like the HMRC data loss. This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records...
[03 Apr 2008]
News HMRC admitted its Paye systems had difficulty coping with people who had more than job and said it would move its processing from its 12 regional databases onto one single national database during 2008-09.
[02 Apr 2008]
News Recent reports of government data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child...
[01 Apr 2008]
News Recent reports of data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child benefit...
[28 Mar 2008]
Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick...
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment After HMRC's data loss, the government instructed all departments to encrypt laptops and has issued new guidance developed by the Communications Electronics Security Group on the standards to be applied.
[27 Mar 2008]
News Michael Small, director of security management strategy at security vendor CA, said: "It will be interesting to see whether the [Forum's] remit extends to address the recent spate of data-breach cases, like the HMRC and NHS data losses, and if it...
[20 Mar 2008]
News The government has suffered many data security breaches over the past five months, including the MoD having three laptops stolen containing approximately 600,000 servicemen's and recruits' details, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patient...
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Look at the HMRC case, for example. Twenty-five million child benefit records were lost in the post between HMRC and the National Audit Office. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops left in pubs and disks...
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC OK, 37 people is more than one person - but just how are 37 people going to monitor hundreds if not thousands of people if the HMRC does not have the technology to prevent people copying data on to CDs, or at...
[06 Mar 2008]
News HMRC has appointed 37 guardians to monitor data handling and transfer, financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy, told parliament. The guardians' role protecting HMRC's data was previously performed by just one man, the chairman of the HMRC.
[29 Feb 2008]
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]
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. HMRC's law enforcement arm investigates and detects crimes involving tax fraud...
[13 Feb 2008]
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