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Why Internet security is more about asking questions than finding answers
News Posing as legitimate businesspeople, the scammers gained access to tens of thousands of consumers' personal information, including social security numbers and credit reports. These online databases of personal information are excellent targets for...
[June 9, 2005, 15:30]
A Personal Assistant Premium
Downloads A Personal Assistant Premium features detailed financial information including a transaction summary screen, balances summary screen, a credit limit summary screen, real time flight information, and a personal pin number.
[June 27, 2009, 5:35]
Watchdog highlights 'horrifying' security lapses
News Over the last year, we have seen far too many careless and inexcusable breaches of people's personal information," said Thomas at the launch of the annual report in London. Although the majority of organisations process personal information...
[July 11, 2007, 12:00]
Internet World: Digitalme does little for privacy, yet
News Digitalme is ushering in the next wave, where simplicity is paramount and the consumer is in control of his or her personal information," said Eric Schmidt, chairman of the board and CEO of Novell, said in a statement.
[October 6, 1999, 16:18]
Desktop search 'a likely target for malware'
News Foad Fadaghi, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, said that most viruses are designed to harvest email addresses and other personal information from an infected system. Desktop search tools, such as those recently announced by...
[December 14, 2004, 11:00]
MoJ lost sensitive data on 1,500 staff
News It contained personal information about HM Prison Service staff and was being used to transfer data between systems. The Ministry of Justice lost an encrypted memory stick containing the personal details of 1,500 people in March this year.
[September 24, 2009, 9:11]
Best vCard for UIQ
Downloads A vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card.vCard is used in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephone applications, call centers, video conferencing, PIMs...
[April 11, 2006, 8:00]
Oracle proposes safe-data standards
News They give better visibility into the use of sensitive personal information, but that's all. That wouldn't have any effect on, say, misuse of the customer relationship management system to gain access to customers' personal data.
[November 30, 2006, 8:06]
Watchdog warns SMEs over data protection
News Furthermore, only around half of respondents said they recognised the importance of keeping personal information secure. Thomas added that, while individuals are being urged to protect their personal information, businesses also have this...
[October 12, 2007, 8:51]
Hilton hacker sent down
News The teenager pleaded guilty last week to a series of hacking incidents, the theft of personal information and making bomb threats to high schools in Florida and Massachusetts, according to a statement from the US attorney for the district of...
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
Lotus founder preps open source Outlook alternative
News The organisation's "personal information manager" software will have many of the same features as Microsoft Outlook, with an emphasis on tools that allow people to work collaboratively in groups and share information, said Kapor, who is funding...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Design Considerations for Using the PIM API for Java ME
White Papers This type of personal information is one of the most important functions found in a handset, just second to voice. The user can use the PIM API for Java ME to enable the mobile Java applications to read and write to/from the locally stored personal...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Google: An Apology
Talkback To illustrate this they used Google to search for and find detailed personal information about Googles CEO Eric Schmidt. Just so we are clear, News.com - a sister company to ZDNet published a story highlighting the amount of personal imformation...
[August 11, 2005, 16:56]
Chip implants aim to save lives
News On Friday, Applied Digital Solutions plans to implant chips in eight test volunteers so their personal information can be scanned with the wave of a wand. The grain-of-rice-size chip will contain a unique verification number that will be tied to a...
[May 10, 2002, 10:30]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. The APWG was formed in November 2003 to provide a forum...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Privacy tsar: Gov't will collect less data
News The outgoing information commissioner has predicted that government will reverse the trend to collect more personal data. I think we will see less instinctive centralisation and less government collection of personal data in future years," he said.
[May 15, 2009, 15:37]
Financial firms unsure where personal data is held
News Most financial-services organisations lack a clear idea of where their employees' and customers' personal data is held, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey has revealed. The Global State of Information Security 2008 survey analysed various industries...
[January 13, 2009, 16:28]
More than policemen needed to safeguard data
Leader Yet our personal information has to be defended at all levels from all who would use it against our interests. Concerns about access and control are at the heart of the controversy over the Government's ID card proposals, and any victim of identity...
[June 20, 2005, 13:35]
Hacking could cost Spanish Big Brother $4m
News Any organisation that collects and inadvertently makes available personal information on the Internet is likely to be in breach of the Data Protection Act, making them liable to compensation claims and also reputational risk," says Phil Jones...
[August 25, 2000, 15:24]
Malware: Do you know your enemy?
News In one example, EarthLink's Spyware Blocker program notes several different kinds of potentially unwanted software found on a subscriber's PC, including Trojans that can steal personal information. It can collect passwords, bank statements and...
[February 4, 2005, 11:30]
