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eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat

News Mark Lee, trust and safety manager for eBay UK, blamed the fact there was "no fear of real punishment" in the countries and highlighted the particular scale of the problem in Romania. Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the...

Tags: romania, ebay, security, crime

[10 Mar 2008]

Laptop theft breaks data protection law

News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. This contrasts sharply with punishment meted out to the...

Tags: dpa, breach, customer data, ico

[21 Feb 2008]

Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss

News That's the view of more than a third (35 per cent) of readers who took part in the latest silicon.com poll and who believe the punishment for data loss should be much more serious. The next most popular punishment - voted for by 21 per cent of...

Tags: full disclosure, criminal, punishment, poll

[14 Feb 2008]

Glasgow: Crackdown on software piracy hotspot

News Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-software-piracy group. Security from A to Z

Tags: bsa, glasgow, software, spyware

[07 Feb 2008]

ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence

News Currently] there is no effective punishment or deterrent available for those who knowingly or recklessly disregard the requirements of data-protection law in a way that causes a significant risk of harm.

Tags: data, dpa, ico, hmrc

[31 Jan 2008]

Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban

News The punishment for being caught driving while using a mobile doubled from £30 to a £60 fixed penalty fine and three points on the driving licence in February this year. The number of motorists flouting the law by talking on their mobile phones...

Tags: mobile ban, department for transport, mobile phone, figures

[04 Dec 2007]

MiFID - will the banks be ready in time?

News But he agreed that it's still unclear who will enforce punishment for non-compliance. MiFID investment banking regulations come into force, it is still unclear how prepared banks are - and what will happen to those that aren’t ready.

[03 Oct 2007]

Escape the data management minefield

Comment This punishment serves as a stark reminder to organisations in all sectors to be extremely careful about how they deal with data security breaches and to have stringent processes in place to ensure that data is as secure as possible.

[13 Sep 2007]

PC World escapes punishment over chip ads

News PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors. A national press advert for the retailer featured...

Tags: core 2 duo, intel, pc world, asa

[06 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: MiFID

Cheat Sheet But analysts agree that as long as organisations can prove they are working towards MiFID compliance, there will be little in the way of punishment. You're thinking of Triffids. MiFID stands for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.

Tags: mifid

[05 Jun 2007]

Practical Principles for Computer Security

whitepaper Usually the probability is fairly small (because the risk of punishment is high enough), and therefore the risk of loss is also small. Practical security balances the cost of protection and the risk of loss, which is the cost of recovering from a...

Tags: network security, loss, risk, probability

[31 May 2007]

Van driver warning in mobile crackdown

News On 27 February the punishment for using a handheld mobile while driving increased to £60 and three penalty points on the driving licence. Van drivers are being targeted by the government as it kicks off its campaign to stop people making phone...

Tags: drivers, government ad campaign, mobile ban, campaign

[05 Mar 2007]

Carrot and stick to lower roaming rates

News There is also a punishment for anyone failing to impress: a punitive tariff, which will see any operator flouting the legislation compelled to introduce roaming charges lower than their competitors'. Holidaymakers and business travellers could soon...

Tags: roaming, mobile roaming, european commission, gsm roaming

[27 Feb 2007]

Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended

Leader In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former WorldCom boss Bernie...

Tags: extradition

[22 Nov 2006]

Leader: Should McKinnon be extradited?

Leader But irrespective of how far wide of the mark that proves, there are still very real concerns the US will make an example of McKinnon, above and beyond the punishment - and he should certainly be punished - warrant.

Tags: mckinnon

[07 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 8

Comment She was told she could either tell the police the name of the person who viewed the porn website or she had to give some money as the punishment. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month.

Tags: china

[17 Jun 2006]

Google hands BMW its 'death sentence'

News In past cases the punishment has proven to be so effective that many have taken to calling it the 'Google death sentence'. Google has handed out one of its most effective punishments to BMW amid allegations the German car manufacturer was abusing...

[06 Feb 2006]

UK banks escape punishment over India data breach

News UK banks will not face any action over a data breach in an Indian call centre last year, where an undercover newspaper reporter was allegedly sold bank and credit card details of 1,000 customers. The reporter was able to buy bank account, credit...

Tags: information commissioner, india

[13 Jan 2006]

National databases linked to track fine dodgers

News The certain knowledge that offenders will be pursued relentlessly if they try to avoid punishment will encourage them to pay their fine and do their community penalty. The government has allowed magistrates access to police intelligence records in...

Tags: nes, fines, police

[23 Sep 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.07.05

Round-Up But there were those who thought the punishment perhaps didn't fit the crimes Kushnir had committed. "The case is being treated as murder - what else is it going to be treated as? Head massage gone wrong?

Tags: round-up

[29 Jul 2005]

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