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]
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]
Government starts building ID card database
News The National Identity Register, which underpins the ID card scheme, has added more than 500 people since going live in October [25 Nov 2009]
- How long before we're all on it? - manek
Schmidt: Proprietary code is more securely written 
Video Ex-White House adviser Howard Schmidt says the open-source community needs to catch up when it comes to securing code [11 Nov 2009]
Manchester ID card registration date announced
News People with a home or work address in Greater Manchester can register for an ID card later this month, the government has said [16 Nov 2009]
'Black screen of death' sparks Microsoft investigation
News The software maker is looking into reports that some users' systems are not working properly after installing the latest Windows security updates [01 Dec 2009]
First identity commissioner appointed
News As part of his role, former civil servant Sir Joseph Pilling will act on behalf of the public to ensure information on the National Identity Register is accurate and secure [16 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]
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]
Home Office introduces a dozen ID card readers
News The UK now has 12 identity card readers as part of a pilot scheme, having had none earlier this year [16 Nov 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
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]
Data watchdog lacks bite for business lapses
Comment Tory plans should include beefing up the information commissioner's powers against business breaches, says Alan Calder [24 Sep 2009]
Post offices to collect foreign nationals' biometrics
News The UK Border Agency will trial fingerprinting and photographing foreign nationals applying for identity cards in post offices [25 Sep 2009]
ID cards extended to north-west of England
News The scheme is being rolled out to people living in Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside from January [17 Dec 2009]
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]
Chrome bug undermines web anonymisation
News Google's browser has a design error that keeps anonymisation services such as Tor from working properly, according to researchers [15 Dec 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]
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]
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]
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]
