incident 12 months in news
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News This latest data loss incident clearly highlights the challenge for businesses when sharing sensitive information with third parties, whether that data is being transferred electronically by email or carried around on... [27 Aug 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Poynter report said: "The data loss incident arose following a sequence of communications failures between junior HMRC officials and between them and the National Audit Office (NAO). Both departments face the threat... [25 Jun 2008]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News I would worry if online banking had gone up the same amount as phishing [as this would indicate every phishing incident had caused an incident of fraud," she said. The number of phishing scams in the UK... [07 Nov 2006]
Police to develop national video ID system
News Airwave can already be deployed on London Underground during a major incident but a contract for the provision of a permanent underground infrastructure for the entire Tube network is expected to be signed this summer. [22 May 2006]
McAfee staff face ID theft as auditor loses data
News Deloitte and Touche confirmed the incident. The McAfee incident is the latest in a string of data security breaches. We are not aware of any unauthorised access to this data in the two... [24 Feb 2006]
IM threats rocketing - and rocking firms
News However, very few have caused serious damage on a grand scale although Francis De Souza, CEO of IMLogic, told silicon.com an unlucky 13 companies on the Fortune 50 have been hit with an IM-related security incident in... [02 Nov 2005]
One in five outsourcing deals are terminated
News These include security zones and police check-points in key cities that could be used to instantly close main roads in the event of an incident. Almost three-quarters (74 per cent) said they are happy with their IT... [01 Jun 2005]
Police eye high-tech helicopter camera in the sky
News Previously inspectors and officers in the control room on the ground had to rely on audio commentary on an incident from an air observer police constable in the helicopter in order to help them make decisions on where to... [27 May 2005]
IT spending: Execs more optimistic than analysts
News But a sunny spending outlook could be clouded by a catastrophe such as a major terrorism incident or new disease outbreak, Gantz suggested. An IDC survey this month of at least 400 business and technology executives in... [25 Aug 2004]
Virus clean up costs four times higher than predicted
News The companies surveyed have better than average security and incident response policies in place. Compared with previous estimates, costs associated with cleaning up after a virus or worm attack have increased by more... [02 Dec 2003]
Unisys nicks £1.7m police contract
News Unisys has signed a £1.7m deal with Humberside police to overhaul its core IT applications so that vital intelligence information can be sent more easily to officers attending an incident. That's one heck of a... [28 Nov 2003]
Microsoft to make patches automatic
News In a well-known incident, Microsoft's Service Pack 6 for Windows NT crashed thousands of servers. The software giant identified four areas where it plans to make improvements over the next 12... [21 Aug 2003]
Companies expose private data with PC clearouts
News One high-profile incident in 2000 saw merchant bank Morgan Grenfell sell a second-hand computer which contained confidential documents about the company's clients - which included former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. [17 Jan 2003]
Cyber-terrorists take to the internet
News In the wake of the US-China spy plane incident, attacks on China's dot-cn domain surged to 1,298 from last year's total of 91. Over the past 12 months the dot-gov-dot-uk domain name was... [08 Jan 2002]
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