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ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News Daugman said that even if the error rate was as low as one in a million, the 10 to the power of 15 comparisons needed to verify the IDs of 45 million people would result in one billion false matches. The ID card scheme... [26 Sep 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News Also increasing in number and frequency are data-stealing Trojans that use keystroke loggers and other software to record IDs and passwords, mouse movements and even screenshots, the report says. The in-game economies of... [28 Aug 2008]
Offshoring sends techies' wages up
News According to employment information company Incomes Data Services (IDS), mid-level technical and support staff are seeing their salaries rocket, while their more senior colleagues' pay packets are stagnating. [26 Aug 2008]
The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics
News Atos Origin provides two main IT systems for the games - the Games Management System (GMS) and the Information Diffusion Systems (IDS). The IDS provides competition results and other information to... [08 May 2008]
Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord
News According to Facebook's "platform application terms of use", when a user adds an application, that application gets access to a long list of different types of "Facebook site information", which could include political views,... [22 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! logs on to OpenID
News Users currently have to remember different logins, including user IDs and passwords, for all the sites they use. Yahoo! announced late last week it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal online login. [22 Jan 2008]
Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!
News is vowing to remove portions of IP addresses and personally identifiable cookie IDs within 13 months except when users want the data retained for longer or when the company is required to retain it for law enforcement or... [23 Jul 2007]
SAP admits to "inappropriate" Oracle downloads
News Oracle claimed one common thread among all the customers with allegedly misappropriated customer IDs is that they were about to become, or had recently become, an SAP TomorrowNow customer. Business applications software... [03 Jul 2007]
'It's a wi-fi network - and it's an ad'
News Kaspersky said it first saw the trend in Warsaw, where such advertising accounts for some three per cent of all network IDs. In the latest report from Kaspersky Lab, Wardriving in London 2007, the Russian company... [01 Jun 2007]
Oracle assaults SAP in spying row
News Oracle claims that one common thread among all of the customers with allegedly misappropriated customer IDs is that they were about to become, or had recently become, an SAP TomorrowNow customer. Oracle announced... [23 Mar 2007]
Filched Boeing laptop threatens 382,000 employees' IDs
News Boeing has confirmed that a laptop stolen from an employee's car contained sensitive information on 382,000 workers and retirees. It is third such incident at the aircraft giant in the past 13 months. [15 Dec 2006]
Men flashing fancy mobiles to pick up girls
News Yates said both men and women will try to 'maintain face' in same sex groups by checking caller IDs - with women double checking an intimate call isn't incoming and blokes worried it could be their mums on the other end... [13 Nov 2006]
ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'
News Personal IDs are not only available from bins. More than 21 million UK households are in the firing line of identity fraud as Britons continue to throw away documents that could be useful to rubbish-rummaging fraudsters. [16 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses face ID management headache
News Stephen Hand, group IT director at Lloyd's Register, said: "The number and function of IDs is growing exponentially and needs a radically new approach. Phil Young, head of IT operations at Amtrak Express Parcels, said:... [21 Sep 2006]
'The big IAM' tops security chiefs' shopping lists
News Ferrar said clearing up a mess of multiple user IDs on an "unknown number of applications" - which had led to the creation of around eight million IDs for one million staff - is a priority and something... [19 Sep 2006]
