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RSS jailClosing the Data Privacy Gap: Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments
White Paper Although the specifics of these regulations may differ, failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and jail time. This white paper explains why protecting sensitive... [31 Jul 2009]
Big isn't always better: Beware of growing up too fast
Comment If you can put your colleagues in jail or out the door, you are reaching your full potential. Gartner's Jim Sinur suggests how to avoid the pitfalls of getting bigger. Have you ever noticed how exciting and flourishing... [29 Jul 2009]
Why 1970s hackers had 'whiz kid' status
Comment His notoriety has helped him get lucrative speaking engagements and launch a security consultancy, where he gets paid for doing some of the very actions that landed him in jail. Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous... [23 Jun 2009]
IP infringement fines to rise
News A number of respondents also "expressed concern" that there was no option to give jail terms for online copyright infringement. The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, published in 2006, had recommended that... [07 May 2009]
Copyright holders 'smiling' at sinking of Pirate Bay
News In addition, each of the four defendants, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were sentenced to a year in jail. Both copyright holders and some Pirate Bay supporters see opportunities... [20 Apr 2009]
Email Archiving and Discovery Survey
White Paper SEC, NASD, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, to name a few, specify retention periods of at least three years, under penalty of hefty fines, and/or jail time. No longer is email simply an ad hoc communication vehicle. [23 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee slams DPI: "We must not snoop on the internet"
News The impact of an incorrect interpretation of communications by government means anyone could end up in jail, or worse. The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection (DPI), a... [12 Mar 2009]
Bangalore chilled by Satyam scandal
Comment It is unthinkable that one of India's corporate icons is in jail," said a soon-to-graduate student of a leading engineering school in Bangalore. Indian outsourcing companies will have a hard time regaining the trust lost... [22 Jan 2009]
Will Nasa hacker be prosecuted in UK?
News McKinnon faces up to 70 years in jail if found guilty by a US court and, as it stands, would serve his sentence in the US. The Crown Prosecution Service will give a decision in the next four weeks as to whether it will... [16 Jan 2009]
Job-hunting prisoners get web access behind bars
News Prisoners in London are being allowed limited access to some websites as part of pilot project to help them resettle in the community. The Programme for Offender Learning and Resettlement Information Services (Polaris) is being trialled... [14 Jan 2009]
Prisons still waiting for mobile phone jamming tech
News Prison governor Ian Mulholland claimed the jail had an effective mobile phone screening system that detected more mobile phones in the last year using a combination of scanners, dogs and police intelligence. [12 Nov 2008]
Inbox: ID guinea pigs, snooping database and CIO standards
Comment Also, how can a government that is meant to work for us and do what we want, send people to jail for not coming on board with a project that no one wants? If all pilots refused (as well as all others when the time... [17 Oct 2008]
Prisoners' phone bills too high says watchdog
News Prisoners in England, Scotland and Wales have been paying too much for their phone calls while in jail, according to telecoms watchdog Ofcom. According to Juliet Lyon, director of Prison Reform Trust, the prohibitive... [23 Sep 2008]
Photos: McKinnon "distraught" says family
Photo His mother Janis McKinnon and girlfriend Lucy Clarke, pictured here, broke down as they wrestled with the imminent departure of McKinnon to the US where he faces up to 60 years in jail. Anger boiled over into tears as... [03 Sep 2008]
Nasa hacker's last legal challenge fails
News Should McKinnon be found guilty of the charges laid against him, he faces up to 60 years in a US jail. Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking Nasa and military... [28 Aug 2008]
