online security breaches
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News Whitehall has neither the framework nor the leadership to properly protect the public's personal data, a review by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust has found.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [11 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up He's only gone and taken enforcement action against HMRC and the Ministry of Defence over breaches of the Data Protection Act. The report found "two major institutional deficiencies", namely that "information security simply wasn't a management... [27 Jun 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News CIOs and internal auditors don't feel IT fraud and data privacy is a serious threat to their business despite the spate of high profile data losses and privacy breaches. Corporate breaches and data privacy regulation were ranked sixth in the top 10... [27 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Poor corporate IT security is leaving businesses vulnerable - with almost 90 per cent of breaches found to have been preventable. Vulnerabilities on UK company and public sector networks grew from 19 last year to 21 this year according to security... [19 Jun 2008]
PCI: How to Safeguard Customer Data Against Real Threats
White Paper PCI requires affected organizations to continuously monitor and manage the cardholder data environment, while maintaining a strong security posture against breaches and attacks. Through PCI DSS, the card associations are taking a stand against... [31 May 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) wants mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses. Therefore, ENISA calls for the EU to introduce mandatory reporting on security breaches and incidents for business... [27 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Defining reasonable care and allowing for genuine technical failures or inadvertent security breaches - particularly if the customer is banking on a work or public PC - will certainly test its application. [15 Apr 2008]
The Threat to Data Center Hard Drives
White Paper This exposure has been amply demonstrated by a series of reported data center security breaches that prove storage network hard drives are not nearly as static or safe as once thought. In addition to online threats, sensitive information stored in... [11 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Compliance with the new Companies Act and the Data Protection Act will be a step in the right direction but we're likely to see a number of avoidable breaches of security yet before we ever reach a data-safe Utopia. [27 Mar 2008]
Airlines spot new tech security concerns
News In addition, 74 per cent of respondents said that migration to IP-based networks had also increased exposure to security breaches. The increasing use of IP-based networks and online services is giving rise to security concerns at airlines... [12 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment The whole area of data protection and data breaches has often seemed too complex for our famously techno-phobic MPs to grasp. Of course, there're no easy votes in a data breaches law and no easy photo opportunity for any politician who might want... [27 Feb 2008]
Internet shoppers clueless on web security
News Consumers still lack awareness of basic online security alarms despite well publicised instances of data breaches and fraud. A survey conducted by hosting specialist NetBenefit revealed 80 per cent of consumers are concerned about internet security... [26 Feb 2008]
Lords take fresh look at data security
News The government's response to the original report rejected many of the committee's recommendations - including its calls for the introduction of a data breach notification law, a move backed by silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign.silicon.com's... [22 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…
Comment So this is normal: "Data breaches: No more than normal" Advertising in this manner as is done online is intrusive, interferes with what we are already trying to do, and is ultimately counterproductive. [21 Feb 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News An e-petition calling for the return of a dedicated unit was set up in the wake of the spate of government data breaches, which began with the loss of 25 million child benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. [14 Feb 2008]
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