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Dell commits to green dream

News Zeina Alhajj, campaign co-ordinator for Greenpeace International, said: "Products are not built to be upgraded. Following a campaign on the company's IdeaStorm forum, the company announced that most of the pre-installed software on its computers...

Tags: laptop, pc, dell, green

[16 May 2008]

Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU) was rolled into Soca in 2006, prompting claims from business and politicians that cyber crime policing was being diluted.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime...

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

UK companies: Leaking like a sieve?

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at...

Tags: data breach, security, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

News It marks a major milestone in silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign calling for legislation to make companies or authorities that lose personal data accountable.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined...

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 May 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently and join up information that...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The move towards outlawing the reckless loss of data follows silicon.com's campaign for full disclosure.

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News Harrods is looking at using other technology such as Bluetooth broadcasting, RSS and Twitter feeds, social networking and SMS alerts depending on the campaign and target audience. Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News We're looking at days rather than months.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. We want to hear your views about this campaign and your experiences of being a victim of cyber crime.

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned the banking industry to shape up their attitudes to securing sensitive data and...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

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]

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent

News Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of reported incidents shot up by more than 10,000 during the first quarter of 2008.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads

News Banner advertising served up on the portal delivered a click-through rate to tailored WAP campaign sites of between three and seven per cent, said Tesco. Tesco Mobile has embraced mobile advertising after concluding its customers are hungry for ads...

Tags: mobile advertising, mvno, tesco mobile

[09 Apr 2008]

Security 'perfect storm' is a-brewing

News His warning echoes silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign, which calls for a dedicated police cyber crime unit in the UK. More law enforcement and police resources are needed to tackle the security "perfect storm" facing businesses today, a...

Tags: criminals, government, us, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!

News More than three quarters (74 per cent) of the nearly 4,000 organisations that responded to The Invisible Crime: A Business Crime Survey survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), called for a dedicated police e-crime unit.silicon.com's e...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

UK a hotbed for cyber crime

News Online reporting body the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is reporting a $40m jump in the cost of international e-crime over 2006.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously

News Just six per cent said cyber crime should be a lower priority for police and 11 per cent of silicon.com readers said the police have the balance "about right".silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police...

Tags: hacking, police, e-crime

[07 Apr 2008]

HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's financial watchdog after admitting losing a CD containing the details of 370,000...

Tags: hsbc, fsa, data loss

[07 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 government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it...

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

[04 Apr 2008]

UK 'failing on cyber crime'

News Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses £10bn a year.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: pceu, cyber crime, e-crime crackdown

[03 Apr 2008]

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