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All Risk Management News - February 2009

Japanese cybercrime stats are a red flag for West

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 27 February 2009

Japan's cybercrime cases jumped by 15.5% to a record 6,321 in 2008, the country's National Police Agency ...

Retailers cut security budgets despite being vulnerable to attack

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 27 February 2009

More than half of retailers have cut their IT security budgets as a direct result of the credit crunch, and over a third will cut security spendnext year, despite most being victims of cyber attacks.

NSA should beef up civil cybersecurity

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 26 February 2009

The American equivalent of GCHQ is being promoted as the guardian of the US's cybersecurity, according to reports. Congress yesterday heard National...

UBS makes £21bn trading blunder

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 26 February 2009

I nvestment bank UBS blamed a system error for a blunder which led it to place an order...

Campaign: Government made to look foolish over ID card reviews

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Author: Tony Collins
Date: 26 February 2009

The credibility of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has taken a beating, after a ruling this month that two early gateway...

DPP has no evidence for a UK prosecution of hacker Gary McKinnon

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 26 February 2009

McKinnon The director of public prosecutions will not prosecute self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, despite McKinnon's willingness to plead guilty...

More than half of staff steal information when they leave the company

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 26 February 2009

More than half of people take company information with them when they leave an employer, the US-based Ponemon Institute has found. The institute interviewed...

Internet users prefer weak passwords

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 25 February 2009

Internet users are happy to use the same couple of passwords to access different e-commerce sites, despite the risk of fraud. Users risk givng away...

War on terror 'justifies massive invasion of privacy'

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Author: Ian Grant
Date: 25 February 2009

The fight against terrorism justified a massive invasion of privacy by government, says the architect of the government's national security strategy.

ID cards database breached by nosey council staff

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Author: Mark Ballard
Date: 24 February 2009

Staff at 30 local authorities have been responsible for "serious security breaches" in the government database that will form the core of the national ID cards programme.

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