Data security breaches across private-and public-sector organisations in the UK have risen by an average of 1,000 per cent over the past five years,according to figures obtained from the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). According ...
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Sensitive personal information about more than 1,000 children has been published on the UK Independent Schools Guide website after an alleged cyber attack. The information was contained in a database of applications for top independent ...
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Tesco.com,one of the biggest retail websites in the UK,is to be asked to explain the alleged poor security practices of its website to the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). The inquiry follows investigations by security ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Torbay Care Trust (TCT) £175,000 for a data breach it said was "entirely avoidable". The Trust, based in Devon, had published "sensitive details" of over 1,000 employees on its ...
Google disclosed Friday in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. The Street View vehicles ...
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Optics societies press Iran to release PhD student 12 Jun 2012 Letter co-signed by presidents of SPIE,OSA,EOS and ICO urges Iranian government to overturn Omid Kokabee's ten-year jail sentence. Omid Kokabee The presidents of four ...
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