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'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC
News A string of revelations about lost government data followed the HMRC data breach, including the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million... [29 Feb 2008]
Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay
News Lumension Security vice president, Alan Bentley, said: "The good news with this latest data breach is that the data was encrypted. The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of... [29 Feb 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News Certified devices are easy to breach. The data exchanged on this line is not encrypted. Both terminals have tamper-proof mechanisms inside, but both can be circumvented by tapping the... [27 Feb 2008]
Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach
News Data breaches cost businesses nearly £50 for each customer record lost, with one UK company revealing the cost of a recent data breach hit £3.8m. Research sponsored by PGP and Symantec... [25 Feb 2008]
Lords take fresh look at data security
News The government has failed to address important concerns about security on the internet - including ignoring calls for a data breach notification law - leading a House of Lords committee to look at the... [22 Feb 2008]
Laptop theft breaks data protection law
News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. We are calling... [21 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches - but to more people admitting to them. HM... [18 Feb 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach... [14 Feb 2008]
Taxman goes high-tech in fraud fight
News HMRC's law enforcement arm investigates and detects crimes involving tax fraud, smuggling and related issues, providing the intelligence needed for the prosecution of individuals in breach of UK law with regards to tax... [13 Feb 2008]
silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach... [31 Jan 2008]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News While individuals can be prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining personal data, current sanctions are designed to make an organisation that has suffered a breach liable to a penalty only if it continues to... [31 Jan 2008]
ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
News He warned that if the Home Office suffered a data breach similar to the spate of incidents in other government departments then it would kill off the system. The widespread introduction of ID cards has... [23 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million... [23 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach... [22 Jan 2008]
MoD admits to more laptop thefts
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach... [22 Jan 2008]
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