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Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the public's personal data. Read security experts opinions on the latest Home Office blunder here… RM, London Anonymous, London [28 Aug 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder released this week. This HMRC employee then puts the discs in a jiffy bag, addressed to... [26 Jun 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News HMRC data blunder raises new questions… L is for London School of Economics Z is for London Zoo Or where the whole project started? The project has never been far from the pages of silicon.com - so here's the pick of our coverage on the government... [29 Jan 2008]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News A reader from London wrote: "A good thing to come out of this is that the ID card is dead in the water. And Robert Wingfield, from London, called it "another example of the hopeless mismanagement and lack of respect and consideration for the... [22 Nov 2007]
Why does phishing work?
News One of the greatest reasons consumers fall for phishing scams is because too many simply blunder into the trap. Speaking at the E-Crime Congress in London last week, Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for high-tech crime at Interpol... [03 Apr 2006]
NHS: Don't blame IT for jabs blunder
News The agency in charge of health service IT, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), said that in the spring of last year the company providing child health monitoring systems to 10 of London's 30 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) decided to withdraw its ageing... [27 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.10.05
Round-Up This email had clearly already been sent to somebody equally 'singled out' at VNU and then when sending exactly the same email to us at silicon.com the PR behind this blunder had failed to change all the mentions of 'VNU' to 'silicon.com'. [14 Oct 2005]
Firms failing to get their heads around back-up
News Such a blunder suggests putting more distance between data and human error, if nothing else, is an essential improvement called for with back-up strategies. London and the M4 corridor is a more likely target than us Scots," he said. [22 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.03
Round-Up If you can't get online, then you can't commit a digital blunder.silicon.com reader Jonathan Hill wrote in with this story - which falls firmly into the 'look before you leap' (.or at least look before you hit 'send') category: "A sales rep at my... [15 Aug 2003]
Thai Airways pricing blunder: The plot thickens
News The fact that Thai Airways allowed such a blunder to occur at a time when consumers where entitled to believe there were bargains in store is a problem which the company must now address. Last week silicon.com reported on a 'too good to be true... [02 May 2003]
Thai Airways back-tracks on 'too good to be true' air fares
News In the latest example of a pricing blunder to hit the web, Thai Airways has been practically giving away first class flights from London to Bangkok, asking that customers only pay the taxes. One disgruntled Thai Airways customer, silicon.com reader... [25 Apr 2003]
Amazon.co.uk's bargain blunder: Lawyers and customers react...
News While most consumers appear willing to admit that they didn't really expect Amazon to honour the 'too good to be true' offer, some have expressed concern at a respected e-tailer making such an embarrassing blunder, which resulted in several hours... [19 Mar 2003]
United Airlines makes third cheap flight blunder
News In February 2001 United sold 143 tickets to London, Paris and Hong Kong for $24.98 and in August 120 customers flew to Bombay from Chicago for around $140. United Airlines has once again handed out ridiculously cheap flights to lucky customers... [15 May 2002]
BT's bond, AOL's blunder and Blair's web baby...
News London's free newspaper and morning read for many a squashed commuter, the Metro, has an interesting story about an AOL blunder. With funds running dangerously low, debts flying sky high, credit ratings falling and doubts over BT's ability to raise... [05 Dec 2000]
