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Service Offers Protection From Stolen Goods Online
News Other partners include The Carphone Warehouse, the various mobile operators, the GSM Association and Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs. When asked whether CheckMEND had approached eBay as a partner, DS Bending told ZDNet UK that the police had in the...
[July 6, 2006, 17:20]
CIOs: UK Data Laws Unfit For Purpose
News The UK's data-protection laws have been branded "unfit for purpose" in the wake of the loss of CDs containing 25 million records by HM Revenue & Customs. Two-thirds of a 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel, brought together by ZDNet.co.uk's sister...
[November 26, 2007, 7:44]
HMRC Site Crashes On Last Day For Filing Tax Returns
News HM Revenue & Customs has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after its website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline.
[February 1, 2008, 10:25]
BCS: Gov't Data Breaches Have Eroded Public Trust
News Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 percent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25 million personal records by HM Revenue & Customs last year.
[April 30, 2008, 12:11]
ICO: Data-breach Spate 'no Worse' Than Normal
News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday. The ICO released its annual report in July 2007...
[February 15, 2008, 16:01]
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]
Watchdog: Protecting Data Is Not 'rocket Science'
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of two password-protected CDs containing 25 million personal details of those who claim and receive child benefits was a major blow for privacy, according to assistant information commissioner Jonathan Bamford.
[November 22, 2007, 13:43]
RSA Calls For Specialist UK Cybercrime Unit
News An e-petition calling for the return of a dedicated unit was set up in the wake of the spate of government data breaches which began with the loss of 25 million child-benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs.
[February 15, 2008, 8:15]
Infosecurity Europe 2008: Preview
News Following the numerous data-loss reports in the aftermath of HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million personal details in November 2007, Thomas's panel will discuss who got caught out last year and why.
[April 21, 2008, 15:34]
IT Industry Split Over Data-breach Penalties
News But the report is splitting opinion among senior figures in the IT industry, with disagreement over whether the government should resort to legislation in an attempt to prevent future incidents similar to the HM Revenue & Customs data breach.
[January 7, 2008, 8:10]
Lost Standard Life CD Was Unencrypted
News The CD was lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs Service and financial services company Standard Life, and was unencrypted, HMRC revealed on Monday. However, the courier lost the disc, which was not encrypted, an HMRC spokesperson told...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Ministry Of Justice Loses Four CDs Of Personal Data
News The Ministry of Justice incident joins a steadily lengthening list of reported government data loss within recent months, including the loss by the MoD of three unencrypted laptops containing sensitive information on over 600,000 actual and...
[January 23, 2008, 12:33]
HMRC Still Owed Millions By EDS
News In a settlement EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) due to problems with the tax-credit computer system it designed. Bacon told ZDNet.co.uk sister site silicon.com: "The vast majority of the £26.5m has not been repaid.
[February 6, 2008, 9:40]
RIM And Airwave Vie To Cut Police Paperwork
News "Data breach" is no longer purely an IT security term, having entered common parlance over the last few months thanks to a rash of public-sector data-loss mishaps, including the loss of 25 million personal details by HM Revenue & Customs.
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
SOCA: We Are Tackling E-crime
News SOCA was formed in May 2006 as an amalgamation of the NHTCU, National Crime Squad (NCS), National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the part of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that deals with with drug trafficking and associated criminal finance...
[March 28, 2007, 14:52]
The Russian Approach To Tackling Data Breaches
News InfoWatch's goal is to deal with information-leakage detection and prevention, and that's a big issue at the moment because of high-profile data-loss incidents like the one at HM Revenue & Customs. InfoWatch only has customers in Russia at the...
[April 29, 2008, 17:41]
AOL Broadband Will Dodge VAT
News HM Customs and Excise ruled in 1997 that an Internet access package that involved "the supply of some content in addition to the provision of Internet access" would not be liable for VAT in the UK if the company providing the package was based...
[June 12, 2002, 9:36]
Government Acts Over High-tech VAT Fraud
News Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said on Friday it would be able to more effectively combat "carousel fraud" if the European Commission allows the changes to UK law. We're requesting to operate under different conditions, by taking out the...
[January 27, 2006, 13:25]
Many SMEs Missing Out On Online Bonuses
News If they file their return online, small businesses can claim a £250 payment from HM Revenue and Customs. General manager of the MYOB business division Simon Smith told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com: "We were surprised when our research showed...
[April 25, 2005, 9:35]
Treasury Denies New Tax On PCs
News The Conservative Party is expected to table an amendment to the Finance Bill on Wednesday asking HM Revenue & Customs to issue a guidance note clarifying the situation. Reversing exemptions on personal use of office computers will do nothing to...
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
