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Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

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 has put individuals...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Security - vendors must take some responsibility

News At a panel debate at Infosecurity Europe 2008, security experts lined up to put some of the blame for hackers finding ways to exploit code on software makers. While companies may go to great lengths to ensure their IT environments are secure...

Tags: vendor, security

[23 Apr 2008]

UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

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 has put individuals...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Brown said: "The question behind the question, for a lot of the current OOXML debate, seems to be: can Microsoft really be trusted to behave? Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News Google has been the subject of intense Wall Street debate over whether recent comScore data showing Google having trouble converting web searchers into ad viewers is an indication its best days of growth are behind it.

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News Google is set to report quarterly results on Thursday as investors debate whether the company's explosive growth in search advertising has begun being hobbled by a slowing economy. New industry data out this week shows Yahoo!

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'

News The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. We believe standards debate should always be carried out with respect for all parties...

Tags: microsoft, ooxml, iso

[15 Apr 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News In his view disclosure is likely to enhance public debate of issues such as the programme's feasibility and how it is managed. Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway reviews should be...

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News Instead, this amendment suggested discarding certain options before there is even a proper debate. People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?

News Specifically, the Commission sought information on attempts to influence the debate or vote over the standards proposal. In response, the Norwegian standards body, Standard Norge, said there was heated debate but not any "inappropriate behaviour...

Tags: standard, microsoft, ooxml

[04 Apr 2008]

Mobile industry slams 'health time bomb' study

News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. According to Dr Jack Rowley, director of research for the GSM Association, Dr Vini G...

Tags: study, health, mobile

[02 Apr 2008]

Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?

News It suggests there is growing evidence of a link between excessive long-term use of mobiles and certain types of brain tumours - reigniting a long-running debate about the safety of the technology. Mobile phones could represent a public health time...

Tags: cancer, health, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News Even the spectre of a mobile phone mast outside your bedroom window is nothing to fear according to silicon.com's columnist Peter Cochrane, who sparked a fierce debate about the supposed health risks of these masts.

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

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 has put individuals...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

News We started that out, we announced it in November, and basically said, "OK, this is out in public now, we want to have a public debate about what we're doing, this isn't some secret thing we're going to hide for a couple years and then ship.

Tags: google, myspace, social networking, open source

[03 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News Two columns provoking much debate this month are this one where the Naked CIO rails against arrogant job applicants who lack right skills, and this one on the political pitfalls of supplying home workers with fancy equipment.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

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 has put individuals...

Tags: full disclosure, law, data breach, legislation

[25 Feb 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News The event also signals a clear revival of a debate over whether web neutrality laws are needed. The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for...

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

Lords take fresh look at data security

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 has put individuals...

Tags: data, law, lords, breach

[22 Feb 2008]

Laptop theft breaks data protection law

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 has put individuals...

Tags: dpa, breach, customer data, ico

[21 Feb 2008]

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