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How to detect data leaks
Insight The good news is there are methods organizations can use to prevent sensitive data from getting out.
Tags: Data security
UK privacy watchdog cracks down on NHS breaches
News The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is asking the Department of Health to tighten up data protection after a series of breaches.
Tags: Data security, Breach, Spokesperson, Hardware, University of Cambridge, Microsoft Office, data protection, Data Loss, private data, patient
UK pumps funds into espionage tech
News The information security industry will get more funding to develop spying technologies, according to U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown.
Tags: Security
More data breaches to come, warns UK govt
News U.K. government departments are seven months into an ongoing process of cataloging all of the information they held for a "register of information assets", says official.
Tags: Data security, Hacking, Government, Data, Conference, Officer, Information Security, London, tax revenue, Silicon.com
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News HM Customs & Revenue has reprimanded over 600 staff since 2005 for data-protection breaches, including 11 'major' incidents.
Tags: Data security, Security, customer information, chancellor, financial, bank, Microsoft Office, data protection, data security, secretary
Government data breaches have eroded public trust
News The British Computer Society has lashed out at the government, saying its poor data-control practices have harmed people's trust in information sharing.
Tags: Security, Data security, Trust, Survey, public sector, U.K., Security, Data security, HM Revenue & Customs, HMRC
1980s computers hold up UK taxman's hunt
News Outdated computer systems have resulted in a 16.2 million backlog of people in the United Kingdom who waiting to be checked manually to see if they are paying the right amount of tax.
Tags: Taxes, Backlog, computer, insurance, tax credit, job, U.K., revenue, spokesman, tax
U.K. government loses pensioner data
News HMRC, the U.K. government department responsible for collecting taxes, has admitted losing the personal details of more than 6,500 people who file pension claims.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Security Management
U.K.'s lost CD data not filtered due to cost
News Sensitive details were not stripped from the data on two missing CDs due to cost, an e-mail exchange published by U.K. National Audit Office reveals.
Tags: Security, Security Management, Policy and management
U.K. government in massive personal data loss
News The U.K. government has admitted that its Revenue & Customs department has lost the details of 25 million individuals after two disks went missing in the mail.
Tags: Government
U.K. businesses shunning encryption tech?
News Fewer than half of U.K. companies use encryption technology to secure their data, according to a survey by Check Point.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management
UK govt loses 600,000 personal details
News The U.K. Ministry of Defence has lost over half a million personal details of actual and potential employees, including 3,500 bank details.
Tags: Security
Watchdog: Protecting data is not 'rocket science'
News The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has called for government to use privacy-enhancing technologies after the biggest data breach in the country's history.
Tags: Security, Security Management, Authentication and encryption
e-Borders to cost US$2.1B over next decade
News The United Kingdom government plans to spend £1.2 billion (US$2.5 billion) on its e-Borders program over the next decade, as the electronic passenger-screening system is fully implemented.
Tags: Authentication and encryption
Should data loss be made a criminal offense?
News The U.K. IT industry is divided over whether new laws are needed to make the reckless loss of personal information by public and private sector organizations a criminal offense.
