Marks & Spencer Loses 26,000 Staff Details
News Affected UK employees' names, addresses, national insurance numbers and information about pension plans, including wages but not bank account details, were on the machine. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the retail giant...
[January 25, 2008, 16:32]
Outlook Express Will Not Import All Messages And Folders
Forum Also the address book, although containing subfolders (confirmed by double-clicking the .WAB file) will not display them when imported, with all the names in the main directory. When I use OEQB to restore the email messages, I only get messages and...
[February 23, 2008, 9:37]
Systemic Failure Blamed For HMRC Data Loss
News The NAO specifically requested that personal data, including names, addresses and bank account details, be stripped out. Those discs were returned in April 2007. A report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission states that systemic failure...
[June 25, 2008, 16:38]
Microsoft Admits To Standards Ignorance Pre-OOXML
News Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for over 30 years, it had little or no experience or expertise around software standards until the company was mid-way through the process of getting Office Open XML...
[June 23, 2008, 14:21]
Icann Told Its Registry Options 'suck'
News If the Domain Name Support Organisation and the Names Council were not involved, it makes a mockery of the idea that Icann has a bottom-up policy development model. The involvement of the US Department of Commerce means that Icann must make a...
[March 13, 2001, 9:44]
Council's Security Blunder Exposes Card Details
News The security exercise found an encrypted file containing names, addresses, and credit and debit card numbers had been mistakenly placed on an insecure server. The file contained details of payments for council tax, business rates, parking fines and...
[July 30, 2007, 9:00]
US Hit By 57 Million Phishing Attacks In One Year
News Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. The Gartner survey was carried out during April and...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
MS Loses Messaging Exec
News Microsoft joins a list of technology's biggest names that have signaled their intent to compete for the corporate instant messaging market, including AOL Time Warner's America Online unit, Yahoo! David Gurle, director of programme management for...
[March 28, 2003, 8:28]
