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Lost Standard Life CD Was Unencrypted
News A lost compact disc containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people was not encrypted. The CD was lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs Service and financial services company Standard Life, and was unencrypted, HMRC revealed on...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Lost HMRC Data 'worth £1.5bn To Criminals'
News The two lost HM Revenue & Customs CDs containing the personal and financial details of 25 million people could be worth £1.5bn to criminals. Cable also slammed the failure to use encryption technology to secure the data on the lost CDs and said...
[November 29, 2007, 14:52]
Yahoo! Lost $1.4m For Q2 Despite Booming Ad Sales
News lost $1.4 million on $3.3m revenues for its April-June fiscal quarter despite growing revenues and ad sales. A year ago, the firm lost $355,000 on zero revenues. Internet search service Yahoo! Yahoo! blamed infrastructure growth, with sales...
[July 11, 1996, 16:25]
Lost Your Phone Recently?
Blog Interestingly, the survey also shows that 22 percent of entrepreneurs have lost a smartphone or pocket PC in the past, and 1 in 5 has lost multiple devices. According to an "independent European survey" by Toshiba, over 90 percent of entrepreneurs...
[December 6, 2006, 14:44]
Get Lost… No Wait A Minute Google Might Find You.
Talkback Get Lost… No Wait A Minute Google Might Find You. So much for just getting lost. Great article David. What will they think of next? Does anyone else miss the good old days of family vacations without GPS tracking?
[November 29, 2007, 16:42]
Sony Wants To Rescue Your Lost Data
News At the CeBIT trade show in Hannover Sony is pushing a service to help customers retrieve lost data from memory sticks. To use the company's Memory Stick Data Rescue Service — which Sony says will restore 'most data' — users must download free...
[March 9, 2005, 16:10]
Telewest Blames Viruses For Lost Broadband Users
News In its financial results for the third quarter of this year, Telewest blamed the effect of malicious code for lost broadband users, along with house moves and teething problems with a backend system. The swarm of viruses that plagued computer users...
[November 6, 2003, 13:05]
HMRC Offers £20,000 For Return Of Lost Discs
News The Metropolitan Police maintained there is no evidence the lost data has ended up in the hands of criminals. The government is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds the missing discs from HM Revenue & Customs containing 25 million child...
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
RFID To End Lost Luggage?
News British Airways looks likely to be investing in RFID in a bid to cut its lost luggage bills. BA loses around 18 bags per 1,000 it handles and pays customers an average of £55 per lost piece of luggage, largely as a result of the sticker bar codes...
[June 6, 2005, 15:10]
Linux Server Hacks: Piece Together Data From The Lost+Found
White Papers One of the coolest things that fsck brought to Unix filesystems was the notion of the lost+found directory at the root of a Unix filesystem. The fsck utility, created by Ted Kowalski and others at Bell Labs for ancient versions of Unix, removed...
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Lost: Data From 270,000 Bank Accounts
News Mizuho Financial Group, which owns the retail bank, said it had lost customer account numbers and names at 167 branches over several years, according to the Financial Times on Wednesday. Japanese bank Mizuho has admitted losing the confidential...
[March 30, 2005, 12:20]
More Patient Data Lost
Blog The Manchester Evening News is reporting that yet more NHS data has been lost, following on from last week's revelations of a lost NHS USB data stick. After media reports of the lost Stockton data stick, a student in Greater Manchester realised...
[January 23, 2008, 14:51]
Browne: MoD Lost Three Unencrypted Laptops
News Secretary of state for defence Des Browne has admitted that the laptop lost by the Ministry of Defence containing details of up to 600,000 defence personnel was not encrypted, and also that services personnel have previously lost two more laptops...
[January 22, 2008, 10:37]
Shellfish Farm Synchronizes Daily Harvest With Order Data To Avoid Lost Sales
White Papers An incorrect prediction about the demand for shellfish on a particular day might mean lost sales or even wasted shellfish. Taylor Shellfish Farms in Shelton, Washington, is the West Coast's largest producer of oysters, clams, and other shellfish...
[February 19, 2008, 23:00]
Dell Trying To Regain Lost Blade Ground
News Number two HP, number three Sun and number four Dell all lost share in the market. Dell announced a new hardware partnership it says can help improve the connection between storage devices and blade servers for data centres.
[July 15, 2005, 9:50]
Lost Property Costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News In 1997 to 1998, reported cases of lost property totalled £15,290, whereas in 2000 to 2001, this figure had risen to £33,574. More than £100,000 worth of electrical goods have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and Downing Street in the last four...
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
Government Admits Over 850 Laptops Lost Since 2002
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have reported 248 laptops lost, stolen or missing between 2002, the department's first full year of existence, and 2007. Over the same period, the department lost 127 mobile telephones and 20 PDAs.
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
Linux: Lost In The Trough Of Disillusionment?
Talkback In that time a lot of business opportunities will be lost, not only on Linux software as more and more Linux application development toolkits gets ported to windows. Two years ago Red Hat, not even thought there would ever be a Linux Desktop market...
[September 10, 2005, 11:22]
Lost PCs Can Phone Home
News A revolutionary software was launched in Australia today, designed to track down lost or stolen PCs. The software called "PC Phonehome is the brainchild of a New York-based company Codex Data Systems.
[July 19, 2001, 12:31]
Linux: Lost In The Trough Of Disillusionment?
Talkback Linux GUI went into wrong direction. Linux shouldn't copy pattern of the desktop GUI which has been made colony by Apple & Microsoft two decades ago. As a business user, I would appreciate if KDE/GNOME could design a portal interface for me to...
[September 26, 2005, 8:57]
