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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]
News Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing, making it more difficult to track and control criminal activities. Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm...
[07 May 2008]
News The House of Lords recently backed a motion to make the reckless loss or distribution of data a criminal offence. The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for...
[01 May 2008]
News Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in the law. Peers supported an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to...
[28 Apr 2008]
News If you're doing it because you're trying to prevent criminal offences and the action is proportionate, then the government should be able to do this," said Briskman. Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local...
[04 Apr 2008]
News 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). The ICO has already called for reckless data loss to be made a criminal offence.
[01 Apr 2008]
News Gordon Brown presented the government's National Security Strategy to the House of Commons yesterday, outlining plans designed to improve the UK's response to terrorist and criminal threats, among others.
[20 Mar 2008]
News The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), Sharon Lemon, has warned e-crime is so widespread it now plays a role in nearly every criminal investigation. Lemon said that with computers widely used by criminals it was...
[19 Mar 2008]
News A spokeswoman for the FSB said: "The current policing arrangements for dealing with cyber crime are lamentable in that there is no centralised mechanism for dealing specifically with e-crime and there is a huge lack of clarity around which police...
[14 Mar 2008]
News There has been a substantial rise in the amount of online crime being reported and these are more sophisticated attacks carried out by more organised criminal networks. It reinforces in the mind of the criminal that this country is a soft touch and...
[12 Mar 2008]
News He added that security and Criminal Records Bureau checks carried out with ID cards would be far quicker and easier for the employer and employees. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told silicon.com the revised scheme...
[10 Mar 2008]
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]
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. The taxman is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its crackdown...
[13 Feb 2008]
News Everyone is now familiar with these 419 scam emails, so called because of the section of the criminal code in Nigeria (where a number of these emails have originated) which deals with fraud. In the first of a new weekly series looking back at the...
[04 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
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]
News If Mac users fall for scams that PC users have faced for years, it won't be long before criminal gangs exploit them, say security experts. In the world of desktop security, there are two sides to the equation: criminal ambition versus the number of...
[23 Jan 2008]
News UK police are in talks with the FBI about an international biometric database to track down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know...
[15 Jan 2008]
News C-Nomis was to have brought together more than 200 prison and probation service databases to allow more than 80,000 criminal justice staff to share up-to-date profiles of offenders. Spiralling costs of a £500m IT system to manage UK offenders have...
[09 Jan 2008]
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