BlackBerry smartphones open to SMS attack
News A certificate notification issue means BlackBerry users could be tricked into visiting malicious websites, RIM has warned [30 Sep 2009]
ID card ad campaign to launch later this year
News The Home Office is to spend over £500,000 this year on a marketing campaign for the identity card which features cartoon fingerprints [28 Sep 2009]
Firewalls failing to protect banks, says security expert
News Banks are spending more than they need on technology they would not miss, according to network security pioneer Nir Zuk [09 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park disappointed by funding rebuff
News The director of Bletchley Park Trust says the amount requested for the home of British World War II cryptography is modest [28 Aug 2009]
- Our Government is disgusting! - martin101
Government changes tack on ID card tech
News The Identity and Passport Service will not use the DWP database to store biographical data for ID cards, at least in the short term [08 Oct 2009]
Tech industry could get crack at ID card security
News The Home Office says it is considering enlisting IT companies to test its ID card security, after rebuffing offers by a researcher to demonstrate how the card's data can be faked [14 Aug 2009]
- So.. - CA
Tories pledge to end the database state
News The Conservatives have promised to reverse the 'rise of the surveillance state' in a policy paper describing plans for fewer giant government databases and stronger powers to protect personal privacy [16 Sep 2009]
London police seek mobile ID checkers
News The Metropolitan Police Service has issued a tender notice for a framework agreement for the provision, support and integration of handheld mobile identification units [27 Aug 2009]
- To contravene one's human rights, etc - 1000215420
Study finds ID scheme cancellation could save £3.1bn
News The next government could save billions of pounds if it cancels identity cards and fingerprints in passports, according to a recent analysis [13 Aug 2009]
- Data Protection - 315483
Wigan loses unencrypted data on 43,000 children
News Wigan Council breached data-protection law by allowing unencrypted data on pupils to be downloaded to a laptop, according to the Information Commissioner's Office [07 Sep 2009]
- More policy - Andrew Meredith
Home Office data loss included drug records
News The volume of data on a lost memory stick was much larger than originally reported, the Home Office has confirmed [27 Aug 2009]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News The £30m Centre for Secure Information Technologies in Belfast is working on powerful processors for data-scanning and other projects to protect people both online and offline [24 Sep 2009]
Attack cracks Wi-Fi crypto in a minute
News Users who have been slow to upgrade are being urged to drop WPA with TKIP as a secure method of protection for their routers [28 Aug 2009]
- Switch your encryption method, but don't panic - Jonathan Bennett
Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices
News Security researchers have found a way to steal keys used for encryption and authentication on mobile devices by analysing electromagnetic signals and radio frequency emissions [21 Oct 2009]
IT managers told: Don't block social networking
News Analysts at the Gartner Symposium advised attendees that trying to lock down communications with the outside world is futile and not to be recommended [20 Oct 2009]
- No! - Tezzer
Microsoft releases critical Windows patches
News The software maker has issued five operating-system related updates as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday [09 Sep 2009]
Google deactivates Gmail account after bank error
News The search giant and Rocky Mountain Bank have asked a court to dismiss a case that stemmed from the bank inadvertently emailing customer data to a random Gmail address [29 Sep 2009]
Police hunt down IT forensics expertise
News The Metropolitan Police Service is setting up a £32m framework to buy forensic analysis of electronic devices [02 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 holes plugged in record Patch Tuesday
News In its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, Microsoft issued fixes for two Windows 7 vulnerabilities plus a number of zero-day flaws elsewhere [14 Oct 2009]
UK gets its own official Pirate Party
News The party will campaign on technology and copyright-law reform, and intends to put up candidates in the next general election [13 Aug 2009]
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption
News A security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers [05 Nov 2009]
