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UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

News The public sector accounted for 62 breaches and the private sector for 28.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The ban on removal of laptops and portable devices with unencrypted personal data was introduced across all government departments...

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

[04 Apr 2008]

ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Recent reports of government data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details...

Tags: data theft, data loss, ico

[01 Apr 2008]

More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Government departments have misplaced more than 1,000 laptops and almost 500 mobile phones - either lost or stolen - since 2001.

Tags: stolen, mobiles, laptops, lost

[01 Apr 2008]

Driver agency plugs data leaks

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Recent reports of data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000...

Tags: government, dsa, data loss

[28 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News They have photographic ID on them, so it would be difficult for them to be used by individuals they have not been assigned to.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. More recently, silicon.com won a significant victory in its Full Disclosure campaign to make government toughen its data...

Tags: full disclosure, data loss, hmrc, details

[29 Feb 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

News Costs for financial services firms were higher, which the report said reflected that customers of these organisations have high expectations of trust and privacy - so banks have more to lose from a data breach.silicon.com's Full Disclosure...

Tags: full disclosure, law, data breach, legislation

[25 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment In the US they have a law on disclosure which boils down to - if it is encrypted you do not have to disclose what is therefore just the loss of a laptop, however, if it is not you must disclose and place yourself in the firing line for class...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Another blow to identity fraudsters

Comment Seven months after we launched our Full Disclosure campaign calling for a rethink of legislation in this area, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now asking that knowingly or recklessly breaching the Data Protection Act should be made...

Tags: full disclosure, data protection, identity fraud, id cards

[06 Feb 2008]

silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign

News silicon.com has won a significant victory in its Full Disclosure campaign to make government toughen its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of security breaches.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for...

Tags: data loss, richard thomas, ico, campaign

[31 Jan 2008]

Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops

News All Whitehall staff have been banned from removing laptops containing unencrypted personal data from offices in the wake of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) data loss.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants...

Tags: mod, government, security, whitehall

[22 Jan 2008]

MoD admits to more laptop thefts

News The Ministry of Defence has had two further laptops stolen, admitted Defence Secretary Des Browne.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and...

Tags: mod, investigation, defence, data loss

[22 Jan 2008]

Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing

Leader And HMRC also added another - and probably most significant - ingredient: disclosure.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the...

Tags: disclosure, hmrc, data breach

[09 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...

Comment Full Disclosure - full support How many more laptops need to be 'discovered' on the back seats of 'cabs' before this government finally acts. Skills crisis? What skills crisis? Techie shortage costing us billions, says Europe

Tags: mobiles, skills, iplayer, cctv

[13 Sep 2007]

Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?

News The problem of data loss and accidental disclosure is being fuelled by a rise in the number of laptops stolen in the UK, silicon.com can reveal. Devon and Cornwall saw a 45 per cent increase (from 276 stolen laptops to 401).

Tags: police, uk, data, stolen

[08 May 2007]

Apple vows to be "greener"

News Less of a product disclosure than a public service announcement, Jobs also said the company will begin taking back unwanted iPods for free recycling at its stores around the world beginning this summer.

Tags: apple, green

[03 May 2007]

Free 30 Day Evaluation of ProtectDrive

whitepaper It is commonly employed to protect against the disclosure of sensitive information in the case of theft or accidental loss of the hardware device, or re-use after being sold or returned. Deployed worldwide by governments, corporations and...

Tags: database management, encryption, certified, protect

[02 May 2007]

CIO Essentials: Data breaches, NHS and network abuse

News UK consumers demand data breach disclosure We know about passwords written on post-it notes under keyboards and laptops left on car seats but what about passing around that joke email - with malware attached.

Tags: alan brown, cio essentials

[24 Apr 2007]

Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud

News There has been a string of data breaches in the US in recent years, many of which were reported publicly because of new disclosure laws there. About 40,000 US Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employees are at risk of identity fraud after two laptops...

Tags: id fraud, laptop, breach

[10 Apr 2007]

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