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15/05/2008

NATO to build cyber warfare centre

NATO plans to set up a cyber defence centre in Estonia to research and help fight cyber warfare. The Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence will operate out of Tallinn, Estonia, with a staff of 30.

07/05/2008

T5 systems not tested adequately, BAA boss admits to MPs

Select Committee savage BAA for making a fool of the country

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.

23/04/2008

Bank of Ireland reports customer data theft

Bank of Ireland has had four company laptops stolen, containing around 10,000 customer details.

22/04/2008

Cybercrime takes back seat to brand as CSO priority

Despite the escalating levels and sophistication of cyber crime, survey finds that harm to brand is the most unwelcome prospect for security bosses

Information Commissioner warns about growing data losses

The UK has seen an "alarming number of security breaches" in the last six months involving public sector, private and charity organisations according to Information Commissioner Richard Thomas.

Business data theft rising remorselessly says government

Hacking incidents are increasing, data is not encrypted and viruses are down. These are some key findings from the bi-annual 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey.

Economic woes won't affect Europe security spending

Western Europe will increase spending on IT security products despite the shaky economic conditions caused by the credit crisis, according to new figures released by IDC.

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.

14/04/2008

IT managers unaware of USB flash drive risk

SanDisk says IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their businesses.

09/04/2008

Outsourcing blamed for rising security woes

The trend to outsource the coding of applications is now a major contributor to making business software more vulnerable, a survey-cum-report has claimed.

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.

Criminals invest in crimeware-as-a-service

'Crimeware as a service', where criminals use online cybercrime services instead of running their own servers and software, is the latest development in internet crime, according to a report.

08/04/2008

Information Commissioner slams HSBC for data loss

The Information Commissioner's Office and security analysts have slammed HSBC for losing a disc containing "sensitive information" on 370,00 of its customers.

04/04/2008

FBI: Web fraudsters find men easier to con

According to a report compiled from more than 206,000 complaints received last year by the US Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2007 men lost $1.67 to every $1 lost by women in online fraud.

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