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Army captain loses military data after drinking session in pub

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 13 February 2008
An army captain has left his unencrypted laptop with the personal details of more than 200 soldiers plus details on their movements, army exercises and the locations of their weapons stores after a drinking session in a London pub, a newspaper reported today.

Petition calls for a lead department on public sector business continuity

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 12 February 2008
Business continuity professionals are calling on the prime minister to create a single department to consolidate, simplify and clarify public sector business continuity plans.

Data security fears increase among mobile phone users

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 11 February 2008
Mobile phone users are increasingly worried that PC-based information security risks are threatening their phones, leaving network operators with a choice: protect customers against malware and other threats or lose their business.

FSA calls in the consultants

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is bringing in external consultants to benchmark its investment in new systems and ensure its IT processes and controls are in line with industry standards.

Government should copy councils on data security, says Pitcom

Central government should look to local government for ideas about best practice in data security, according to the Parliamentary IT Committee (Pitcom).

The boundaryless network

The idea of "my network" and "your network" is effectively obsolete.

Retailers need to step up IT security, says Deloitte

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 07 February 2008
Retailers are losing the battle against IT security threats because most have no strategy for their long term defence and merely respond to incidents, says...

Users warned to update Adobe Reader to tackle PDF security threat

Adobe has fixed a vulnerability in its widely used document-viewing program Reader, but the firm is not revealing the details of the security flaw.

Npower puts salesforce incentives on front burner

The UK's largest electricity supplier RWE npower has implemented a salesforce management system to improve its processes for rewarding sales staff.

UK has lessons to learn from Hong Kong on ID cards

  • Opinion
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 06 February 2008
Whether citizens like it or not, their governments are anxious to know everything about them.
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