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Laptops containing police payroll data stolen
News Three laptops containing Metropolitan Police payroll details have been stolen from LogicaCMG, the UK IT services firm. Sources close to the inquiry have claimed that the laptops contained the payroll and pension details of over 15,000 Metropolitan...
[November 22, 2006, 10:59]
MoD revises tally of stolen laptops to 658
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted that 658 laptops have been stolen over four years, with another computer stolen last week in Liverpool. A spokesperson said that the ministry banned unencrypted laptops leaving secure sites without a strong...
[July 22, 2008, 9:23]
Nine laptops stolen from Middlesbrough Council
Blog Nine laptops containing sensitive data have been stolen from Middlesbrough Council's teaching and learning centre, the BBC reports. The laptops were used by child workers and contained case files on children and their families.
[January 17, 2008, 16:24]
Government admits to 200 more stolen laptops
News The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice, since 2001. The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135...
[February 20, 2008, 7:13]
Nine laptops stolen from Middlesbrough Council
Blog Comment tbh expect to see these on sale on ebay.
[January 18, 2008, 5:13]
Support grows for thin-client computing
News Given the number of recent stories revealing how many laptops get stolen each year, it is perhaps no surprise that companies are looking at ways of securing their corporate data. Bob Cope, operations IT manager at UK insurance company Towergate, a...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
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. A series of questions by Teather led to the revelation that more than 850...
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
Gov't departments reveal laptop losses
News Ministers have revealed the number of laptops lost or stolen from their departments, with the Department for Work and Pensions mislaying 41 laptops last year. Work and pensions minister Jim Knight said that out of around 9,700 laptops used by his...
[July 14, 2009, 8:42]
Tracking down the laptop thieves
News Now, laptops are the most stolen article of property in San Francisco," said Richard Leon, an inspector in the San Francisco Police Department burglary detail. We get reports of hundreds of laptops stolen each month.
[August 23, 2002, 8:40]
Hospital loses information on child patients
News Wendy Saviour, the chief executive of Nottinghamshire Primary Care Trust, said on Monday that three laptops had been stolen from offices at the Kings Mill Hospital near Mansfield last Wednesday. Any damage can easily be circumvented with full disk...
[March 27, 2007, 16:26]
3 Steps to Protect Confidential Data on Laptops: Guidelines to Secure Data Before and After a Laptop Is Stolen or Missing
White Papers From 2005 to 2006 there was an 81% increase in the number of companies reporting stolen laptops containing sensitive information. The impact of stolen or missing laptops is no longer merely the capital loss.
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
It was STOLEN from an employee
Talkback Laptops are not invariably 'lost', they are stolen from premises, cars, fancy bags and cases and the like. Another issue is the urgent need for the money form these fines, the FSA has a conflict of interest in that money is needed to balance the...
[February 16, 2007, 8:42]
Police fund tracking software for at-risk laptops
News This should enable the police to locate any stolen laptops that go online. In 2007, there were 665 burglaries in the city in which laptops were stolen. People often forget to back up information on laptops and, if they are stolen, it is lost forever.
[October 15, 2008, 15:58]
Department of Health beats MoD for device losses
News The ministry has faired better in terms of theft, with 58 laptops reported stolen, against a peak of 272 in 2004. The department's latest figures, for 2007-08, show that 14 laptops were lost or stolen, against a peak of 35 in 2001-02; for mobile...
[November 26, 2008, 10:20]
Businesses address laptop data theft
News An exclusive investigation by ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com earlier this month revealed a sharp rise in the number of laptops stolen in the UK, while in recent months organisations such as Marks & Spencer, the Metropolitan Police, Nationwide...
[May 16, 2007, 11:56]
Most laptop thieves not after data
News While informal surveys have indicated that one out of every 1,000 laptops are stolen, about ten to 15 percent of those laptops are stolen by criminals intent on selling the data, said William Malik, vice president and information security research...
[September 19, 2000, 12:03]
Net Politics Focus: Ministers log on to 'virtual' Red Box
News Laptops are now stolen to order".We know of one CEO of a top international firm who had his laptop stolen at an airport in a sophisticated switch scam - whilst he was queuing to go through the scanning equipment.
[August 7, 1998, 11:21]
Laid-off techies swiping goods on way out
News The most common items stolen from tech companies by employees are laptops and handheld computers that cost less than $1,500 per item, asset managers say. Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld...
[September 25, 2001, 13:20]
Losing the laptop blame game
Leader The correct approach, rather than purely focusing on how to prevent laptops and other mobile devices from being stolen, is to put processes and technologies in place to make sure that it does not matter.
[February 15, 2007, 16:46]
BlackBerrys grounded by Whitehall data ban
News Last month, defence secretary Des Browne admitted that three MoD laptops containing around 600,000 details of servicemen and recruits have been stolen since 2005. In addition, figures obtained by the Conservatives claim the department has lost a...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
