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Android phones vulnerable to attack, researchers say

...attack in which someone could access calendar and contact data over an unencrypted Wi-Fi network, a team of German researchers has said in a... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

London councils fined thousands over lost laptops

...Information Commissioner's Office has fined two London councils over losses of unencrypted laptops containing sensitive data. Ealing Council was fined £80,000, while London... Read more

9 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

NHS Trust and building society guilty of data breaches

...Trust over lost patient records. The financial customer data was on an unencrypted laptop stolen from the offices of Chelsea Building Society (CBS), which recently... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Zurich Insurance hit with record fine over data loss

...a South African subsidiary, Zurich SA, which in August 2008 lost an unencrypted back-up tape in transit. The affected customers, who were holders of... Read more

25 August, 2010 by David Meyer

ICO revives probe into Google's data harvesting

...the websites they had visited and whole emails during its interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi data from Street View cars. "It's clear from... inspections... Read more

25 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ICO will not take 'knee-jerk' reaction against Google

The privacy watchdog has said that MPs have misunderstood the action it has taken over Google Street View's data collection, after being criticised in Parliament Read more

2 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

BT sent customers' details unencrypted to ACS:Law

BT sent details of some of its customers in an unencrypted Excel spreadsheet via email to ACS:Law, the ISP admitted on Tuesday... Read more

29 September, 2010

NHS trust loses unencrypted data stick

A doctor lost an unknown number of patient details on an unencrypted data stick, according to the Information Commissioner's Office. A junior doctor... Read more

21 September, 2010

Nuclear safety employee lost 'stress test' USB

An employee of the Health and Safety Executive lost an unencrypted USB data stick containing nuclear 'stress test' data, the watchdog has admitted... Read more

17 February, 2012

Researchers warn of Google Wallet security flaws

...payments app is good at storing passwords but leaves other crucial data unencrypted, researchers working on a rooted device have found. Image credit: ViaForensics Data... Read more

13 December, 2011 by Elinor Mills

London tenants' data left in pub on USB

...London housing associations had their data exposed after a contractor left an unencrypted memory stick in a London pub. Banking details of 800 Lewisham Homes... Read more

4 August, 2011

Google fixes Android Wi-Fi snooping issue

...an Android hole that could have allowed someone to snoop on an unencrypted Wi-Fi network and access calendar and contact data on the smartphones... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

ICO lets BT off the hook over data handling

...The ICO investigation focused on BT's broadband subsidiary PlusNet, which sent unencrypted customer details to solicitors ACS:Law as part of an alleged copyright... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

West Berkshire Council loses children's health data

West Berkshire Council, which lost an unencrypted USB stick containing sensitive details of children and young people, has pledged... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

India threatens BlackBerry services block

India has given RIM until 31 August to provide unencrypted access to customers' email and instant messaging, but the company says that... Read more

13 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

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