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Whitehall heads to roll in future data breaches

According to The Times newspaper senior Whitehall heads will be held personally responsible for their departments' data breaches.

Security Zone: managing your organisation’s social network footprint

As well as helping to minimise the chances of data theft and the ensuing bad publicity, information security professionals have a more proactive role in helping to protect their organisations in the 21st century, writes Paul Maloney, managing director of Technology Management and Consultancy.

Infosec 2008: Human element is the key to reducing data breaches

The importance of the human element in security has been highlighted at Infosecurity 2008 in London this week, with a government report showing incidents remain high despite overall improvements in controls.

HSBC to validate UK websites in face of increased phishing threat

HSBC is to begin using software to visually demonstrate that its websites are genuine and help prevent its customers becoming victims of increasing numbers of phishing scams.

Rock Phish group adds crimeware Trojan to its financial attacks

RSA has uncovered a new series of attacks from the Rock Phish group, launched to infect unsuspecting users with financial crimeware.

Roll call of major data breaches reaches 100 in six months, says ICO

The UK's information commissioner, Richard Thomas, is warning chief executives of the vital importance of protecting staff and customers' personal information, following an "alarming number of security breaches" reported to his office in the past six months.

UK PLC data remains at risk despite IT awareness, government says

UK companies are spending three times as much on IT security than ever before, but the annual cost of breaches still runs into several billions of pounds, according to a government survey.

Infosecurity Europe show launches online community

The organisers of this week's Infosecurity Europe show have launched an online community for the information security industry.

More intruders found behind firewall, says 2008 Information Security Breaches survey

There has been a twelve-fold increase in the number of large UK companies finding unauthorised outsiders on their internal networks, a government report into security breaches will reveal at Infosecurity 2008 today (22 April).

Employees unaware of business continuity, says BT

Research from BT shows that 75% of UK employees either do not understand what is in their company's business continuity plan or do not know if their company has one.
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