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RSS stolen in newsHas Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Barnaby Davis, director of electronic banking at Barclays, said last year that the arrangement was intended to limit the damage that could be caused by someone using stolen bank details. The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has... [18 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News A hospital trust faces possible enforcement action by the UK information watchdog for failing to encrypt a stolen laptop. The laptop - containing patient names, dates of birth, postcodes and treatment details - was stolen from the car of a... [30 Jun 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News Secretary for local government Hazel Blears has had a computer stolen from her constituency offices in Salford. The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the Cabinet minister's constituency work, and some "restricted information... [18 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3... [16 Jun 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Thousands of credit card details have been stolen after high street retailer Cotton Traders' website was hacked. She claimed it was only credit card numbers that were stolen. It was initially reported that 38,000 card details were stolen. [11 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News In the report Ross Anderson, a security expert from Cambridge University, also warns that biometrics can easily be stolen by organised gangsters. The national ID card database must not be used to turn the UK into a surveillance society, MPs have... [09 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The report by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) says groups of criminals worldwide are collaborating over the web, specialising in roles from spamming to trading stolen personal data. It says the criminal market for stolen data has boomed... [06 Jun 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News Every car is screened against a network of police and government databases, with the system able to instantly trigger alerts about everything from suspected terrorists and stolen vehicles, to banned drivers and tax dodgers. [05 Jun 2008]
Mobile industry advise on handset security
News As well as looking at how to counter the threat from hackers seeking to exploit stolen, blocked mobiles by reprogramming their ID number, the documents detail enhancements to existing hardware security to ramp up virus and malware protection. [22 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Notable cyber crime success include Operation Ajowan, where Soca broke up a website where criminals traded stolen bank, credit and identity information that could have cost the UK finance sector at least £6m. [15 May 2008]
Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...
News And finally, we reported a novel way to combat computer theft with a computer that phones home when it's been stolen. The tech has so far turned up stolen computers in places as far flung as Argentina and Saudi Arabia. [28 Apr 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News According to the report, four-fifths of companies that have had a computer or laptop stolen did not have the data on the computer encrypted. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published yesterday to coincide with the first day of the... [23 Apr 2008]
UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months
News Information has been stolen, gone missing in the post and while in transit with a courier, and the ICO said the material includes a wide range of personal details, including financial and health records. [22 Apr 2008]
Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers
News Computers that 'phone home' after being stolen are guiding police to the doorsteps of thieves across the world. You not only recover the stolen property you are looking for, you often will uncover more stolen property and other related crimes. [14 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News Pass the hash' attacks, which use stolen password hashes to access other systems in a targeted network - avoiding more time-consuming password cracking - were also singled out. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed of emerging... [09 Apr 2008]
