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MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News A group of MPs wants to see tougher sanctions for government bodies that commit serious breaches of data-protection law. A report published on 3 January, 2008 by the Commons Justice Committee also calls for new reporting requirements under the Data...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
What happens if you breach mobile data 'fair usage'?
News Vodafone has never charged or disconnected a customer for going over their mobile data usage limit. That's according to John Lillistone, Vodafone's head of enterprise data, who explained the operator's new "3G Broadband", or HSDPA, offering to...
[June 26, 2006, 11:15]
UK government in breach of European employment law
News The European Court of Justice has ruled that the UK government has broken the law in denying freelance workers and short term workers the right to four weeks paid annual leave. In a groundbreaking decision that will now land the government back in...
[June 26, 2001, 14:17]
Security firm U-turns on banking breach
News UPDATE: Security firm TrustDefender has this morning withdrawn claims it made last Thursday that seemed to "prove" that the SMS-based two-factor authentication system used by many online banking systems was vulnerable to attack.
[May 4, 2007, 11:13]
EDS took year to notice loss of prison-staff data
News A Ministry of Justice investigation has found that EDS lost track of data on prison staff a year before the breach was noticed. The ministry's investigation into the data breach, which, when announced in September, was thought to affect 5,000 staff...
[November 24, 2008, 10:08]
Security breaches drive customers away
News Companies whose IT networks suffer a security breach risk losing a large slice of revenue as their customers lose trust and move elsewhere, according to figures published on Wednesday. Energis spoke to more than 100 large companies or government...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
Travelocity exposes customer information
News A security breach at Travelocity exposed the personal information of thousands of the online travel company's customers, the company confirmed Monday. Travelocity executives closed the breach, which involved an insecure directory, on Monday...
[January 23, 2001, 13:05]
Companies trip up on log tests
News In the event of a security breach, the vast majority of companies would find that the logfiles their systems keep are not good enough to nail the trouble, according to a European security testing firm.
[November 13, 2002, 14:48]
The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment
White Papers When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable web applications, leaked passwords, a poorly...
[June 13, 2009, 1:19]
FBI investigating ID theft at Stanford
News The FBI is investigating a computer system security breach at Stanford University that may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk, the university said on Wednesday. When the network breach was detected, the centre's...
[May 26, 2005, 10:20]
RIM and Airwave vie to cut police paperwork
News "Data breach" is no longer purely an IT security term, having entered common parlance over the last few months thanks to a rash of public-sector data-loss mishaps, including the loss of 25 million personal details by HM Revenue & Customs.
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
Hotmail flaw may have been admin tool gone awry
News Inevitably, Microsoft's PR army is patrolling the Web this morning proclaiming this weekend's disastrous Hotmail security breach as fixed and protected against future attacks. According to one source, who requested anonymity, the admin script used...
[August 31, 1999, 11:26]
Man jailed for MSN TV hack
Talkback Perhaps governments should allow hackers to report to them the companies hackers managed to breach the security of and then severly fine the company in question once the breach has been confirmed by them.
[March 17, 2005, 20:18]
Fraudsters swipe 2,000 UK credit card details
News Fraudsters stole the credit card details of 2,000 MasterCard holders in a major security breach last week. MasterCard said it took immediate action together with all the banks concerned as soon as the breach was discovered.
[April 26, 2006, 12:10]
Christmas e-shoppers undaunted by security fears
News Consumers wishing to avoid the high street this Christmas are determined to shop online even if they have suffered a security breach on their PC, according to a survey of 250 consumers conducted by security vendor Kaspersky.
[December 11, 2006, 15:48]
Intel files $50m suit against insurance firm
News Intel has filed a $50m lawsuit against insurance carrier American Guarantee and Liability Insurance, alleging breach of contract. The alleged breach involves the insurance firm's failure to pay for Intel's legal defence related to antitrust...
[February 2, 2009, 16:32]
Data breaches found to cost $6.6m on average
News It costs $6.6m on average when an organisation suffers a data breach, and more than $200 per compromised record, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute that's due to be released on Monday.
[February 2, 2009, 7:07]
Hacking scandal blamed on broken rules
News More details emerged Monday on the cybersecurity breach at a payment processing company that exposed more than 40 million credit-card accounts to fraud. The data security breach, possibly the largest to date, happened because intruders were able to...
[June 21, 2005, 8:55]
Bank of America's security compromised
News A security breach involving an undisclosed company has prompted Bank of America to cancel the debit cards of numerous customers, a spokesman for America's largest bank said on Tuesday. Bank of America issued letters to many customers notifying them...
[February 10, 2006, 8:20]
Powergen's lax security condemned
News In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at British utility service Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site.
[July 19, 2000, 9:21]
