The UK government is facing yet more embarassment over its inability to protect data - this time of a database containing detailed information about children.
IT Security: Shell Aus/NZ customer data hacked
Shell Australia has filed a report with police relating to a data security breach at one of its contractors: some 5900 credit applications in Australia and New Zealand are at risk.
InfoTech: US FTC closes "scareware" vendors
The USA's Federal Trade Commission has obtained orders against two companies advertising fake security products which have suckered millions into "scans" of computer systems that faked results, then encouraged the sale of "fixes&q...
IT Security: UK.Gov loses a million records of armed forces
What is going on with the UK Government? It is possible to lose track of just how often it loses private data. In the last six weeks, three serious data breaches have released details of staff in the Courts system and armed forced personnel. The...
IT Security: Bank phishing scam smacks of malware download
Phishing and identity theft may be stupid names but they represent real problems - and for M&T Bank the risk of damage to their reputation is increased today by fraudsters posing as the bank with an exceptionally well crafted spam that will...
Favours from the Data Protection authority, whitewashing reports and ignoring the problem are the hallmarks of the UK's Labour Government when it...
InfoTech - Laptop catches criminals red fingered
You know how it is - you go to a party and someone's left their nice new Mac sitting on the table so you steal it, take it home and start to use...
InfoTech Security: HP and the Hardly Possible
If you think that HP's bad press days are over, you've not bought one of their "HP USB Floppy Drive Key" devices.
"Trojans now bigger threat than virus" says Kapersky
If your anti-virus software doesn't track and trap trojans, you are mightily at risk, according to new data from security specialist Kapersky Lab.
IT Security: Encryption may be easy to defeat
We all assume that encrypted data on our hard drive is secure. We all walk off for any one of a dozen personal reasons leaving our machines in st...
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