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Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News Security from A-Z… He also works on the Social Graph API, which aims to consolidate data across disparate social networks. You want your code to be open, but you don't necessarily want all the data to be public because people have explicitly given... [03 Mar 2008]
Google Apps hosts one big team talk over the web
News Google's standalone hosted apps for consumers haven't really made a splash in the corporate world, largely because of the security threats posed by how easy they make it to share sensitive work data with people outside the company. [07 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million child... [04 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
News Rashke warned traditional security tools - such as firewalling - did not go deep enough into rich content to determine whether it was a security risk - either incoming as malware or outgoing as data leakage. [31 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the HMRC losing 25... [23 Jan 2008]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News He also called on the government to abandon its ID card plans because of the data security risk. Security from A to Z In a statement to Parliament, Darling said the delay in notifying the public of the security breach was necessary to allow the... [20 Nov 2007]
Pensions details on lost CD not encrypted
News An HMRC statement said: "HMRC take the security of customer information very seriously. The data, which contained the records of around 15,000 people, was lost in transit by HMRC's external courier. The data contained on the disk included the... [07 Nov 2007]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News The guidelines were developed before there was data collected on the cost to consumers of identity theft and security breaches, he said. While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard for how companies protect consumer data... [14 Sep 2007]
Recycled PCs posing data leak risk
News But the data-security risk is greater if PCs are kept going rather than destroyed, and this danger may be exacerbated by moves encouraging the recycling of technology. Wiping the disk or rewriting random bits over the existing data multiple times... [09 Jul 2007]
Windows Mobile 6 set to be unveiled
News On the security front, the new Windows Mobile allows individuals and businesses to better protect their data. With its latest mobile operating system - Windows Mobile 6 - Microsoft is promising improved search, better security and tighter... [08 Feb 2007]
Adobe PDF flaw 'more serious than first thought'
News Initially, security professionals thought that the problem was restricted and exposed only web-related data or could support phishing scams. Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit the problem to access all information on a victim... [05 Jan 2007]
RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services
News And in October, data security worries were again raised by a Channel 4 Dispatches programme which revealed the ease with which customer information can be purchased from Indian call centres. Despite continued investment and trade with India, data... [19 Dec 2006]
Credit card companies forge security alliance
News The newly formed Payment Card International (PCI) Security Standards Council will manage the PCI Data Security Standard, first established in January 2005 with the intention of making its implementation more efficient for all parties involved in a... [08 Sep 2006]
Police 'frustrated by deleted text messages'
News Speaking at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in Cambridge on Monday, Moore warned: "Standard forensics tools don't address the less popular types of phone. While mobile phone data is typically treated in the same way, the... [27 Jun 2006]
RFID security raises privacy issues
News And it said industry efforts should include best practices for ensuring that security is built into the production of RFID tags and reader systems from the start, with the implementation of secure default configurations and support for standard... [08 May 2006]
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