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Last Update: Thu Jun 5 08:38:31 2008 | | + US bank loses unencrypted data on 4.5m people +
IT finally hits the fan months after tapes go AWOL Couriers lost magnetic tapes containing the personal details of 4.5 million [...] emerged. The incident happened three months ago, but has only surfaced after legal papers were filed in the state of Connecticut.… |
| + ID fraudsters soak the rich +
Soaraway losses Identity fraud grew alarmingly in the UK last year, with affluent Londoners particularly at risk, according to ... |
| + Facebook poked by XSS flaw +
Social spamming Updated Facebook has fixed a cross site scripting flaw that left its users at risk from scripting attacks.… ... |
| + Private sector saviours wanted for desperate ID scheme +
Home Office chucks in the cards? Plans for the widespread introduction of fingerprint passports and ID cards, already delayed [...] IPS-run interview centres, and lobs future responsibility for these and for biometric enrolment over to private sector companies.… |
| + Transcript disappears minister's 'hack-proof' ID register claim +
So who hacked Hansard? At the end of February Home Office minister Meg Hillier explained the UK ID scheme security system to the [...] not connected to the Internet... not be accessible online; any links with any other agency will be down encrypted links."… |
| + Online spousal spying widespread in the UK +
Who did you text last night? One in five married UK couples admit to electronic snooping on their spouses, says a report from [...] One in eight (13 per cent) confessed to checking on internet history files to monitor sites visited by their better halves.… |
| + Microsoft lines up with the good guys on identity tech +
Brands and Cameron pitch the fix for government's Big ID problem Early last month Jacqui Smith unveiled the latest revision of [...] Brands. On the one hand, a discredited and failing strategy staggers on under its fourth Home Secretary, while on the other...?… |
| + Awed fraudsters defeated by UK's passport interviews +
No fakes detected - terrorists all move to Belgium Interviews for first time passport applicants have been massively successful - [...] had been held to date, 222 applications were currently under investigation, but that so far no application had been rejected.… |
| + ICO queries Heathrow T5's huge fingerprint scam scan +
National security now wholly funded by shopping The government, the British Airports Authority and the Information Commissioner's [...] to the departure lounge, but the ICO thinks the move may breach the Data Protection Act, and has demanded an explanation from BAA.… |
| + IBM buys Encentuate to accumulate +
Lands security lab on Singapore IBM today snapped up privately-held security software firm Encentuate for an undisclosed sum.… ... |
| + Microscope-wielding boffins crack Tube smartcard +
The keys to London Underground, and plenty more Security researchers say they've found a way to crack the encryption used to [...] and cheaply clone the cards that are used to secure office buildings and automate the collection of mass transportation fares.… |
| + 'Boil a frog' ID card rollout to continue until 2012 +
Smith offers series of compelling propositions The latest stage in the long slow death of the UK ID scheme became official this [...] by the leaked ID scheme Options Analysis earlier this year, and kicks back the widespread issuing of the cards until 2012.… |
| + Airport staff to be first with compulsory ID cards, say Tories +
Smokescreen for a retreat? Airport workers could be the first to be issued with compulsory ID cards, claimed Tory shadow home [...] suggests that she is likely to announce a postponement until 2012, while making them compulsory for selected groups of victims.… |
| + HMRC appoints 37 data guardians +
Beefs up data responsibility HM Revenue and Customs has appointed 37 staff to protect information, since it lost personal records ... |
| + Please don't leave me... bitch +
Breaking up with Facebook is (less) hard to do It was a long time coming but the web's favourite has-been-in-the-making, ... |
| + Trial for T5 mandatory biometrics kicks off at Heathrow +
Terminal 1 passengers get to be lab rats Quietly on Friday, Heathrow Airport recruited quantities of involuntary lab rats to test [...] Terminal 1, where biometrics are now being deducted from any domestic passengers wishing to visit the international lounge.… |
| + Forget passports - teachers and kids are the new ID card targets +
Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the [...] and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.… |
| + IPS leak suggests ID card fingerprint chop +
Prints might just be needed for 'special' groups A key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, [...] scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.… |
| + 'Coercion' plan to force ID cards on first time drivers +
Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain... "Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, [...] has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity & Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People .… |
| + Join the army, get your ID pinched - MoD laptop goes AWOL +
Ten years' supply of applicants swiped from car Personal details of the 600,000 people who have applied to join the armed forces [...] computer was stolen from the car of a junior naval officer, which was parked outside his house overnight in Edgbaston, Birmingham.… |
| + Yahoo! backs! OpenID! +
Password complexity be damned Yahoo! has pledged to support OpenID from the end of the month, giving a massive boost for the ... |
| + US.gov sets Real ID rules in stone +
Privacy advocates, security mavens, states' rights renew assault Critics have renewed their offensive on a federal law mandating [...] licenses after the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued final rules implementing the controversial measure.… |
| + Immigrant ID cards and border checks slip towards 2009 +
Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge belief Immigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card [...] the plan consists largely of low targets, targets already achieved, and harder targets lobbed off into the middle distance.… |
| + Tag-a-lag: Chip implants mooted for UK prisoners +
Wishful thinking to solve prison crisis, apparently... The Ministry of Justice is planning to solve the crisis in the UK prison [...] citing a senior Ministry official. The chips, claims the paper, would be used to keep order in prison and to enforce home curfews.… |
| + FTC issues ad-tracking guidelines +
Let 'em know they're being watched US consumer protection body the Federal Trade Commission has backed a tightening of rules on ... |
| + Is it or isn't it? Brown keeps bottling the ID card question +
Straight answers not compulsory either For the third time in four days, Gordon Brown has sown doubts about the future of [...] that it was "policy" for ID cards to become compulsory, but added the rider that this was subject to a vote in parliament.… |
| + Google borrows Facebook's privacy manual +
What's behind the latest cockup? Google can count itself fortunate that a serious privacy storm it caused took place in the run [...] the behaviour of one of its web-services, Google ran foul of its own Privacy guarantee - and continues to violate it.… |
| + Byrne puts fake ID frighteners on illegal employers +
Another no-change rule change? Analysis Immigration Minister Liam Byrne is to celebrate the first wave of the ID card rollout [...] be impressively toothless - if Byrne is depending on the fine income for the 2009 New Year party, he will be a disappointed man.… |
| + Skipton in lost laptop security woes +
14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breach Skipton Financial Services has confessed to losing a laptop containing records [...] includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and fund investment details of clients of Skipton's Fidelity FundsNetwork.… |
| + MIA in Iowa - personal data on 3m UK driving test candidates +
Prestige contract goes Pearson shaped A Hard drive containing personal details of three million candidates for the UK driving [...] of Commons. The hard drive went missing in May, but 'only' includes name, address, phone number and email - no financial data.… |
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