Government Puts Data Sharing In The Spotlight
News Commenting on the security breach at HM Revenue and Customs that led to the loss of 25 million child benefit records, Dr Walport said: "The recent loss of millions of peoples' private details serves as a stark illustration of what can happen when...
[December 12, 2007, 16:27]
Don't Blame 'stupid Users' For Data Breaches
News Ashenden claimed that although breaches such as HMRC had led to a new focus on IT security, based around improving processes and technology, the incidents were down to human factors. There has been a spate of high-profile security breaches dating...
[April 2, 2008, 14:30]
HMRC Fiasco: Security Experts Predict Fallout
News A similar scam in Scandinavia recently led to a bank losing £800,000. The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child-benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts.
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
CIOs: Encryption Only Part Of Data-security Solution
News Encryption has been back in the spotlight following the data breach at HM Revenue & Customs that led to two CDs containing unencrypted records of 25 million people on the child-benefit database getting lost in the post.
[December 10, 2007, 7:49]
Cameron Urges Brown To Rethink ID Cards
News David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, called on the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to rethink his plans for the National Identity Register, following the "appalling blunder" which led to the huge loss of child-benefit data from HM...
[November 23, 2007, 13:26]
HMRC Offers £20,000 For Return Of Lost Discs
News The search for the missing CDs has been led by a core team of 47 detectives and computer experts from the Metropolitan Police's Specialist and Economic Crime Command. The government is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds the missing discs...
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Privacy Watchdog May Get Powers To Raid
News The Poynter Review recently highlighted systematic data handling failures in the HM Revenue & Customs that led to it losing the personal details of 25 million people. The UK's privacy watchdog could get new powers to raid organisations under...
[July 18, 2008, 8:30]
Infosecurity Europe 2008: Preview
News A series of keynotes by high-profile security figures will begin with a discussion led by information commissioner Richard Thomas into data-loss incidents in 2007. Following the numerous data-loss reports in the aftermath of HM Revenue & Customs...
[April 21, 2008, 15:34]
Darling Blames Officials For Data Loss
News The incident has led to the resignation of Paul Gray as chair of the organisation. Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has said employees of HM Revenue & Customs were responsible for the loss of sensitive child-benefit data.
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
ID Cards: Data-protection Minister Calls For Review
News The review is being led by PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran Poynter and it will make interim recommendations on any urgent measures that need to be put in place to strengthen data security at HMRC.
[November 28, 2007, 8:07]
MPs Attack 'flimsy' Gov't Sums On Shared Services
News A major technology failure in the last quarter of 2006 led to a return to manual invoice processing, but the Prison Service told the committee that the system is now working well and it is in the process of agreeing a memorandum of understanding...
[May 8, 2008, 11:32]
Darling: Greater Accountability Key To Data Security
News The interim Poynter review was set up to look at what led to the loss of the HMRC discs, and to make recommendations on how procedures should be changed to mitigate future data loss. In the wake of the loss of 25 million personal records by HM...
[December 17, 2007, 17:23]
Internet 'heroes And Villains' Vie For ISPA Awards
News There is now a one-step, customer demand-led approach to migration, which is what industry wanted us to deliver," read Tuesday's statement. French president Nicolas Sarkozy also gets a drubbing for trying to tax internet access and mobile phone use...
[January 15, 2008, 15:54]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News The temporary suspension has led to minor delays in some of our back-office work; however, these are now being cleared. Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
Government Sites Continue To Flout Standards
News Development of the eGMF, which forms part of the e-Government Interoperability Framework (eGIF), was led by the Office of the E-envoy, as an essential element of modernising government; it enables "better use of official information, joined-up...
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
Taxman's £236m IT Nightmare
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is currently in a stand-off with EDS over compensation for a litany of IT problems that led to massive overpayments and is threatening to take the supplier to court. The government has revealed that a total of £236m...
[October 27, 2005, 16:10]
Software Fraudsters Escape Raid
News The raids led to the arrest of two individuals for the sale of counterfeit goods, the detention of a number of suspected illegal immigrants and the identification of a number of benefit fraudsters. A number of government organisations and private...
[January 6, 2006, 12:30]
Tuesday
Blog Each led to the other, but the inventors of each had no idea that would happen. Hm. What doesn't make the news is the ritual nature of the affair, and all the peculiar things that happen when an engineering company gets involved in showbusiness.
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
Scale Of Online Tax Credit Fraud Revealed
News More than half of the 40,000 suspicious tax credit applications detected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during a six-month period last year are believed to have been made by organised criminal gangs, new government figures have revealed.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
