PreviousSan Francisco 'hijacked' passwords made public
News The San Francisco district attorney's office in a court document has apparently made public usernames and passwords 'hijacked' by a city network admin [28 Jul 2008]
Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt
News Security expert Bruce Schneier says standard software such as Vista interferes with deniable file systems, designed to hide data on users' systems [17 Jul 2008]
Mystery surrounds wiped Oyster cards
News Transport for London has launched an investigation into how 60,000 smartcards were corrupted when swiped at ticket barriers on the Underground on Saturday morning [14 Jul 2008]
ID scheme undermined by poor-quality fingerprints
News Biometrics for the ID cards scheme has been criticised by a government body, which claims fingerprints collected for the over-75 age group would not be of sufficient quality to act as identifiers [11 Jul 2008]
ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft DNS patch
News Check Point has released updated versions of all ZoneAlarm products, after a Microsoft patch caused users to lose internet access [11 Jul 2008]
Microsoft patch leaves ZoneAlarm users in the dark
News A patch for a DNS flaw has left some users of Check Point's ZoneAlarm product experiencing a loss of internet connectivity [10 Jul 2008]
Students condemn ID cards
News ID cards have been branded 'illegal' and 'creepy' on a website launched to canvass the views of young people on the National Identity Scheme [10 Jul 2008]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News The British Air Transport Association says the government is using aviation workers to introduce ID cards incrementally and lend the scheme credibility [04 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to speed travel between UK and US
News Fingerprint, iris and facial-recognition tech will be used to speed up frequent UK-US travellers' journeys through immigration control [04 Jul 2008]
Gov't scales back e-passport upgrade
News The Identity and Passport Service has dropped the Electronic Passport Application project upgrade, claiming to be striving for value for money [03 Jul 2008]
ID cards face fingerprint errors, say experts
News The independent Biometrics Assurance Group says dealing with mismatched fingerprints will drain the ID-cards scheme's resources [23 Jun 2008]
High-risk flaws in corporate security revealed
News Three recent studies have painted a damning picture of business security, with almost 90 percent of breaches found to have been preventable [20 Jun 2008]
EC probes BT-Phorm trials
News The European Commission is looking into ad-serving trials conducted by BT and Phorm in 2006, but says it is unlikely to take any action [11 Jun 2008]
Fujitsu shrugs off Tory threat to cancel ID cards
News The company has suggested biometric passports and the national identity database will proceed, despite Tory threats to cancel the ID cards scheme [04 Jun 2008]
Tories liable to compensate ID scheme vendors
News A future Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well as costs if it cancelled the project [29 May 2008]
Acxiom authentication process gets personal
News The new service asks users random questions based on their personal lives to authenticate them online; but privacy advocates have raised concerns about intrusion [29 May 2008]
ID fraud tops list of UK security concerns
News According to a Unisys report, ID fraud and information theft from mobile phones are greater concerns for Britons than computer security [21 May 2008]
Unisys defends ID cards scheme
News The systems integrator has rejected an independent government body's claims that the National Identity Scheme lacks information- assurance specifications [12 May 2008]
Digging into the underground datacentre 
Photo 'The Bunker', a concrete structure under the Kent countryside, is a major datacentre and backup facility for some of the UK's leading companies [09 May 2008]
ID cards: Cost of scheme set-up rises 37 percent
News The Identity and Passport Service says the cost of setting up the National Identity Scheme for the decade from October 2007 has risen from £245m to £335m [08 May 2008]
