Security talk pulled after ATM vendor complains
News Juniper Networks has cancelled a researcher's talk at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences following a complaint from a vendor [02 Jul 2009]
Government under fire over ID cards
Analysis The home secretary's announcement that carrying an ID card will never be compulsory for British citizens has prompted many to question its future [02 Jul 2009]
GCHQ takes on gov't IT security training
News Government IT security training co-ordination will shift from the Cabinet Office to GCHQ [01 Jul 2009]
Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News Pilots will not be required to have national ID cards, while pensioners over 75 will be given the cards free under new Home Office plans [30 Jun 2009]
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Scottish minister urges end to ID cards
News Fergus Ewing, minister for community safety, has written to the UK home secretary reiterating the Scottish government's opposition to national identity cards [30 Jun 2009]
EU Chamber urges China to rethink internet filter
News The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China has called on Beijing to reconsider implementing filtering software, saying it raised concerns about security and privacy [30 Jun 2009]
Tory think tank proposes new data model
News A Conservative policy group has proposed an alternative model for managing personal data used in public services [29 Jun 2009]
PC makers lobby, but prepare for China censorware
News Some PC brands say they are prepared to implement the censorship software but will probably wait until the last minute before sending the it to their distributors [29 Jun 2009]
Delay on the cards for gov't ID contract
News The Home Office has indicated that the contract to produce ID cards may not be awarded until 2010, rather than this autumn as previously stated [19 Jun 2009]
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News The Kantara Initiative, which aims to harmonise ID management technologies and standards, has attracted the backing of companies such as BT, CA, Intel, Novell, Oracle, PayPal and Sun [18 Jun 2009]
Experts: Gov't web-monitoring plan is unworkable
News Experts from the London School of Economics say a government plan to record traffic details of all UK web communications is 'an impossibility' [18 Jun 2009]
Tories urge contractors to shun ID card deals
News The Conservatives say contractors should not engage in the 'hugely expensive' tendering process for work on ID cards, when the scheme could be scrapped after the next election [17 Jun 2009]
Gov't awards £400m biometric-passport contract
News The contract with British secure-document specialist De La Rue brings the total earmarked for new passports and ID cards to over £1bn this year [12 Jun 2009]
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. Brown made the announcement in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, during a speech... [10 Jun 2009]
Gotcha!
Blog Maybe it's my eyes. Maybe it's my age. Maybe, like the motorcycle test, they're just harder. Whatever it is, captcha has now turned into gotcha. The captcha above caught me out, locked down... [10 Jun 2009]
Icann: Coders and ISPs vital to net security
News The internet watchdog says DNSSEC encryption, which makes it harder for hackers to subvert web traffic, will only work if developers and ISPs get behind it [08 Jun 2009]
Crypto project to lock down net security
News VeriSign and Icann have joined with two US government agencies to encrypt one of the fundamental internet protocols [05 Jun 2009]
Chink in encryption armour discovered
News An underlying flaw in the OpenSSH encryption protocol has been revealed by academics from Royal Holloway, University of London [19 May 2009]
ID database will retain fingerprint images
News The Home Office has revealed more details about the workings of the biometric database that will support the National Identity Scheme [19 May 2009]
MoD loses 28 laptops this year
News Defence minister Bob Ainsworth has said the MoD has lost the laptops, 20 USB sticks, and 4 PCs this year [15 May 2009]
Microsoft introduces new Geneva beta
News Microsoft has launched the second beta of its identity-management server platform, with new features including compatibility with SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Federation Gateway [12 May 2009]
Home Office in DNA mixed bag
Blog The Home Office has come up with a mixed bag of proposals to get around the inconvenient fact that holding innocent people's DNA details indefinitely has been ruled illegal. Jacqui Smith and her... [07 May 2009]
Experts question high-street ID card enrolment
News The sheer number of outlets could lead to more data breaches, say experts, but the Identity and Passport Service is putting its faith in data-security standards [07 May 2009]
Samsung has SSD with full encryption
Blog Using technology from Wave Systems, Samsung on Thursday launched a solid state disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 256GB and full-disk encryption. Available in a 1.8in and 2.5in form factors the... [17 Apr 2009]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog Reading a paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) last week on privacy guards in EU ID card schemes raised some interesting questions for me. The thing that jumped... [09 Feb 2009]
SSL certificate crack threatens e-commerce sites
Blog A group of security researchers has demonstrated that it is possible to create a "rogue" SSL certificate allowing them to impersonate "any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce... [31 Dec 2008]
India takes step on ID Card road
Blog India has taken a step towards provision of biometric ID Cards for all citizens. According to The Hindu, a group of Indian ministers has approved the establishment of a Unique Identity Authority... [11 Nov 2008]
ID Card on track says government
Blog This just in on the ongoing ID Card issue. (BTW Bruce Schneier says we shouldn't get all hot and bothered over ID cards as they are just a temporary technology before unseen biometrics take over... [06 Nov 2008]
And the data loss goes on...
Blog This time it's a memory stick lost by Atos Origin with usernames and passwords for the government Gateway site. According to the Financial Times, the stick was encrypted, and turned up fairly... [04 Nov 2008]
UK ID card fuss is only temporary
Blog That was the warning from security guru and BT chief security office Bruce Schneier who said that in five years or so, people won't have to worry about ID cards anymore. Not because... [29 Oct 2008]
