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Week in Review: IDF fever and Government IT
The Intel Developer Forum dominated IT this week, but major public sector stories have also grabbed the attention.
Hackers hunting for corporate IP
As companies move more data off-premise, cyber criminals are increasingly looking at how to steal it.
132 local authorities lose data in three years
A Big Brother Watch FOI shows how lax councils have been with citizens' data.
Week in Review: Axe falls on HP jobs
HP’s merger with EDS means that 25,000 jobs go, Maritz tries to steady the ship at VMWorld 2008, more data sensitive laptops are lost and Jagger...
Mobile apps 'snooping' on users
Many of the most popular apps are passing on user data to third parties, an investigation finds.
Five councils caught breaching data protection law
The ICO urges councils to do better after five local authorities make data protection snafus.
NHS loses more sensitive data
A junior doctor working at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has lost a USB stick, containing sensitive data, on a train.
Businesses warned against cutting security spending
Companies have already driven down their security budgets and further cuts could risk 'impacting core controls', warns security chief.
BBC loses £240k worth of mobile devices
A total of 146 laptops and 82 other mobile devices have been lost by the BBC in the past two years.
All 84,000 prisoner details lost on unencrypted memory stick
A USB stick containing around 130,000 prisoner and ex-offender details goes missing from private contractor PA Consulting.
Camden encrypts all of its laptops
Camden is looking to prevent data breaches, but also wants to use a new data sharing network.
NHS laptop with 8.6 million medical records missing
The NHS could be in for another data loss nightmare after a laptop goes missing.
MoD loses data over 1,500 times in five years
The minister for the Armed Forces came clean in parliament about the large number of data loss incidents that had occurred in his department.
Wikileaks publishes hacked Stratfor emails
WikiLeaks has published some of the five million emails stolen from security think tank Stratfor.
Cambridgeshire council in memory stick blooper
A council is told to shore up its security practices after losing an unencrypted memory stick.
Symantec results better than expected
Symantec posts some positive results, beating Wall Street expectations.
MoD: Cyber threat of increasing concern
The MoD accounting officer Bill Jeffrey has said the cyber threat facing the department is of growing concern.
Majority of users not securing their smartphones
Smartphone users are complacent about phishing attacks, with nine out of 10 failing to do so, even though security experts warn that such devices...
Thousands of Demon passwords exposed by error
Demon Internet has confirmed that a rogue Excel spreadsheet attachment exposed thousands of customer details.
ICO supports prison sentences for serious breaches
In a response to an MoJ call for evidence, the ICO says it supports prison sentences for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.
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