Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
51 000 reasons for data encryption hit Zurich Insurance
Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
UK CIOs reported 356 data loss incidents last year
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss inciden…
Hackers successfully target Guardian Jobs site
Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.
Weekly brief October 26, 2009
Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.
Man jailed for selling pirated software on eBay
A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
RSA Europe: Information warfare is an overused term
Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
RSA Europe: Barings Bank collapse avoidable if controls were in place
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
RSA Europe: We need revocable personal data says ISF president
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institu…
Rapid7 acquires Metasploit open source project
Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.