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E-Signatures: Progress with Weak Security?
White Paper Both the US Congress and Senate are signing and passing legislation that establishes federal standards for electronic signatures. E-Signatures and "Digital Signatures" incorporate the branch of applied mathematics called cryptography. [03 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment Approximately half of users would consider signing up to a voluntary charter or code but a significant proportion (19 per cent) are either firmly opposed or unsure. It's probably fair to say that most UK bloggers would never have heard of that... [05 Jun 2008]
Surveillance Specialist Enhances Document Management and Achieves Compliance
White Paper To address these issues and achieve compliance with regulatory legislation, Recon/Optical deployed an electronic document transaction solution called IntelliSafe Vault that supports electronic signing, distribution, and storage of legally binding... [19 Feb 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Now they are blending the two strategies so need to extract the meaning from text and images, and to stop us reading the image they are adding noise so it looks like a Captcha test [the textual recognition test that people need to take when... [10 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. This type of legislation leaves organisations with no room to hide. [27 Nov 2007]
Data breach notification laws are 'just the start'
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Speaking at a keynote panel at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Christopher Kuner, partner and head of the... [23 Oct 2007]
SMEs in dark over data protection
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Only 22 per cent of SMEs surveyed are aware the Act requires them to keep customer information accurate and... [11 Oct 2007]
Data security: Brits do care
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. This compares to 42 per cent of French respondents, 40 per cent of Belgians and 35 per cent of German... [10 Oct 2007]
ID fraud: Who's most at risk?
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. And a third of Brits discard everything a fraudster needs to commit ID theft - including passports, driving... [09 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. And HMRC also added another - and probably most significant - ingredient: disclosure.silicon.com's Full... [09 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. But the idea is the same - take any one of the ingredients away and the problem ought to go away too.silicon... [08 Oct 2007]
Tech companies back data breach law
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. More than 50 per cent of the UK's technology companies want legislation forcing companies to notify their... [02 Oct 2007]
'Stronger data breach laws needed in Asia'
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. According to Cox, Japan and Korea are ahead of most parts of Southern Asia in establishing such laws.silicon... [28 Sep 2007]
TJX data heist was "inevitable", says report
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. The privacy commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, said in the report: "The company collected too much... [27 Sep 2007]
Businesses failing to safeguard sensitive data
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. It's not just a matter of deleting information or reformatting the hard disk.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [25 Sep 2007]
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