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Defence companies targeted in spear-phishing attack

...his speech, Maude said the effort should eventually be directed by the private sector."Ultimately we want to see industry taking the lead on this... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Government to consult businesses on e-crime policy

...said that the government will tap into the experience of the UK private sector, which has a good track record in information assurance and cybersecurity... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government discusses digital identity plans

...concept of identity assurance and the creation of a new market of private-sector identity service providers and to gain an understanding of its viability... Read more

9 September, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

Government data policy is flawed, report says

...know what information is held on them, by which government agency or private-sector body, or how it is being used. For example, as there... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Mark Say

Cable reveals US concerns over Chinese cyber-warfare

...these links, the US government is concerned about the Chinese state and private sector acting together to develop cyberattack capabilities. "As evidenced with Topsec, there... Read more

6 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Surveillance state on the rise, says report

...from different databases, development of facial recognition, the increased rollout of ANPR, private-sector data gathering and analysis and increased information sharing are of particular... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Kable

Firms shun ICO's free data-protection health check

Even though businesses are the source of one-third of data breach incidents, companies have proved unwilling to undergo free data protection audits offered by the UK's privacy watchdog Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

UK outsourcing generates over £200bn a year

The demand for IT services has nearly made outsourcing a rival of financial services, generating around eight percent of the annual output of the UK economy Read more

4 May, 2011 by Nick Heath
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in pictures

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in pictures

...be the beginning of a new era of space travel — from the private sector.For this mission SpaceX is planning to launch its Dragon capsule... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Andy Smith

ICO to spot company data breaches through analysis

...watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office is to begin aggregating complaints about private sector organisations in an effort to bring more fines against companies for... Read more

26 April, 2012

Gov?t and business to pool clients' personal data

...on trials that pooled information on known fraudsters, drawn from public and private sector organisations. Based on these trials, the service is expected to have... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft prepares botnet intelligence feed

...time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Data from networks of compromised... Read more

12 January, 2012

ICO pushes for compulsory data audits

...of the six penalties served so far involved local authorities.However, the private sector generates the most data protection complaints and only 19 percent of... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Staff

UK launches second Cyber Security Challenge

The government and private sector organisations have launched a second year of competitions to find cyber... Read more

2 June, 2011

US defence deputy proposes private network shield

...extend" a technological shield used to protect its own networks to important private sector computers as well, which could sweep in portions of the internet... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

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