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Derek Gannon stepped from IT to COO of newspaper company Guardian News & Media and now moves the company into new horizons. Kevin O'Brien, head of IS at Comet sees networking as the key to the future of the electronics retail giant.
TOP TEN CONCERNS > Compliance > NEWS
26/06/2008
HMRC data disc loss 'entirely avoidable'
Systematic failures and "woefully inadequate" processes for handling data at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) led to the loss of personal details of 25 million people, according to two scathing reports published today.
Information commissioner to take action on HMRC, MoD
Information commissioner will take formal enforcement action against both HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Ministry of Defence (MoD), following spate of high-profile data loss incidents.
25/06/2008
Virgin loses 3,000 customer bank details
Virgin Media has lost the bank details of 3,000 of its customers.
09/06/2008
US regulators launch anti-trust investigation into Intel
The US Federal Trade Commission is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel, the chip manufacturing giant.
30/05/2008
Police e-crime unit must make 'visible arrests' says industry
The e-crime police unit promised by the government must result in visible arrests of cybercriminals and look beyond fraud, members of the IT industry and parliament told CIO sister title Computerworld UK.
28/05/2008
Social networking faces EU regulation call
Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, has called for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
27/05/2008
Deutsche Telekom calls in prosecutor against its internal security team
Deutsche Telekom has asked the public prosecutor in Bonn to investigate allegations that its security staff misused call data records on a number of occasions in order to track contacts between board members and journalists, according to company sources.
08/05/2008
ID card scheme still lacks "robust" governance and architecture - official
The ID card scheme lacks “robust” governance and design, according to government advisers of the project.
07/05/2008
Wolverhampton consolidates data protection software
Wolverhampton City Council has reduced the complexity and cost of its data security software, removing eight backup and security applications and replacing them with one program.
02/05/2008
HMRC disciplines 600 staff over unauthorised data access
Over 600 staff at HM Revenue and Customs have been disciplined or fired in a three year period after they accessed sensitive data without authorisation.
29/04/2008
Bank owns up to laptop disaster
The Bank of Ireland has admitted that the unencrypted personal details of 31,500 customers - three times as many as previously disclosed - went missing with the theft of four laptops last year.
24/04/2008
Boots customer bank details stolen
Data tapes containing the personal details of 34,000 Boots customers and employees have been stolen from a security courier.
Whitehall chiefs to be held accountable for data breaches
Senior Whitehall heads are to be held personally responsible if their department loses personal information, under new proposals.
22/04/2008
Vodafone to cut CO2 emissions by 50 per cent
Vodafone will reduce its own CO2 emissions by 50 per cent by 2020, and will help users lessen their burden on the environment.
21/04/2008
UK phishing attacks double in Q1
Phishing attacks on U.K. consumers have more than doubled for the first quarter of this year, according to Apacs, the U.K. payment association.
17/04/2008
London boroughs lose sensitive data
Thirteen London councils have admitted to losing or wrongly revealing personal data, an investigation conducted by the BBC has revealed.
09/04/2008
EU could put six month limit on retention of search data
Search engine companies may be set for a clash with European regulators over how long personal data related to searches should be retained.
CEOs deserve jail for data breaches
A growing number of security pros believe that the way to stop data breaches from happening is simple as it is stark - send the CEOs or CIOs and board members deemed responsible to jail.
08/04/2008
