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25 civil servants reprimanded weekly for data breach
25 civil servants reprimanded weekly for data breach
Government databases are full of highly prized and highly sensitive personal information. The upcoming Communications Bill will generate one of the very largest databases. The government says it will not include personal information.
May 17, 2012
US firms team with German institute on cybersecurity center
US firms team with German institute on cybersecurity center
US high-tech firms have teamed with German research institute Fraunhofer FOKUS to open a cybersecurity research center in Berlin.
May 17, 2012
UK council objects to ICO fine for data loss resulting from burglary
UK council objects to ICO fine for data loss resulting from burglary
A UK council is objecting to a 70,000-pound fine levied by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for losing sensitive data as the result of a theft at an employee’s home.
May 17, 2012
UK companies are cyber self-confident
UK companies are cyber self-confident
A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.
May 16, 2012
Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead; it appears that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ plans to ease police tracking of those who use the web for criminal purposes has been shelved.
May 16, 2012
Utah governor fires state's technology director over medical data breach
Utah governor fires state's technology director over medical data breach
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.
May 16, 2012
Online travel industry is most vulnerable to email attack
Online travel industry is most vulnerable to email attack
The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari.
May 16, 2012
McAfee uncovers Pinterest scamming toolkits
McAfee uncovers Pinterest scamming toolkits
US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code.
May 16, 2012
The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile Internet censorship: What’s happening and what we can do about it.
May 15, 2012
McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
At a time when cyberthreats to critical infrastructure are growing, McAfee and Intel have teamed to create a “reference implementation” for the energy sector that integrates a number of McAfee security products for substations and network operations centers with Intel processors and hardware-based security and management technologies.
May 15, 2012
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Windows is not Apple’s iOS, says Mozilla's top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.
May 14, 2012
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.
May 14, 2012