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RSS loss criminalSoham report IT systems still not in place
News Meanwhile the electronic transfer of court results to the Police National Computer will not start working until August 2008 and systems to join up information about criminal records held overseas have not "progressed very quickly", an independent... [17 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment As I played out the role of a would-be criminal in my mind, my unease started to increase. Could a criminal have done it? But in contrast things of this nature remain important and useful to the criminal even after we have departed this life: [18 Jun 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News It is important to remember that this incident relates to the criminal theft of a security-protected PC from a locked and alarmed office. The incident is the latest in a long line of government data breaches, including the loss of 25 million... [18 Jun 2008]
Outlawed: Reckless loss of data
News In a victory for data loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow... [12 May 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The House of Lords recently backed a motion to make the reckless loss or distribution of data a criminal offence. The government-commissioned Poynter Review of the breach that led to the loss of 25 million personal details after a junior employee... [01 May 2008]
House of Lords backs data loss law change
News A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would consider its position on making data loss a criminal offence following the Lords vote. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in... [28 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment Computer intrusion mainly focuses on criminal hacking and distributed denial of service attacks but also deals with terrorist and state-sponsored threats. There's the loss of dollars where an account has money stolen from it and then there's cost... [15 Apr 2008]
ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed
News The ICO has already called for reckless data loss to be made a criminal offence. Pressure is building on parliament to quash part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would mean those buying or selling data would face prison (clause 76). [01 Apr 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo The information gathered can then be used for criminal purposes. This is the code for the Russian3 spam which uses images to target personal insecurities of people - such as weight or hair loss - to convince them to sign up for dubious schemes or... [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment But elsewhere, under the extreme pressures of criminal interests, new leaks are appearing in the collective firewall. The resulting refinements in criminal techniques have led to the appearance of new tools for launching under-the-radar targeted... [27 Feb 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign recently made a breakthrough when the... [14 Feb 2008]
silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act. [31 Jan 2008]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News The document said: "The Commissioner is proposing the introduction of a new penalty, limited to breaches that are avoidable, that give rise to a serious data-protection risk and where a criminal state of mind exists. [31 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News HM Inspectorate of Court Administration (HMICA) said chief inspector Eddie Bloomfield was looking into the loss but refused to confirm or deny that the missing data included the names and addresses of alleged victims and witnesses in criminal cases. [23 Jan 2008]
Should data loss be made a criminal offence?
News The IT industry is divided over whether new laws are needed to make the reckless loss of personal information by public and private sector organisations a criminal offence. He said: "Making data loss a criminal offence is maybe a step too far. [04 Jan 2008]
