Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday [09 Jun 2008]
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 [01 May 2008]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses [09 May 2008]
The Russian approach to tackling data breaches
Q&A Kaspersky Lab co-founder Natalya Kaspersky aims to move beyond the consumer antivirus business by helping companies guard against data breaches [29 Apr 2008]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough [08 May 2008]
Bank of Ireland loses four unencrypted laptops
News The stolen laptops contained sensitive details of around 10,000 customers, including names, addresses, account details and medical records [23 Apr 2008]
UK nears 100 data breaches in six months
News The information commissioner has bemoaned an 'alarming number' of data breaches among private and public bodies over the last six months [23 Apr 2008]
Companies told to disclose data breaches
News The EU's online security body is calling for mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses [28 May 2008]
HP adds fault tolerance to blades
News High availability is the main feature of HP's latest blade server as the company grows its family of c-Class systems [17 Jun 2008]
DWP punishes 20 staff for data-protection breaches
News The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted disciplining 20 staff in the past financial year over data-protection infringements [04 Jun 2008]
Lords backs amendment to data-loss law
News The House of Lords has supported a change to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data [29 Apr 2008]
