Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
Aha-Soft announces a new update of Icons Pack,a complete pack of graphics to be used in Web and application development.Icons Pack include hundreds of images in a variety of sizes,color resolutions,and visual styles to accommodate the use ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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O2 and IT partner IBM have revealed a back-up tape potentially containing customers'personal data has been lost,more than a year after it went missing in Ireland. The telecoms provider says IBM only informed it the tape,used for routine ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has fined a marketing firm GBP440,000 for spamming its customers with text messages. Tetrus Telecoms,owned by Christopher Niebel and Gary McNeish,has been under investigation for 18 months after ...
Tags: ICO, fines, Tetrus Telecoms, Christopher Niebel
The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
Tags: ICO, publishes, anonymisation of data, privacy rights
As the government pushes private companies to release customer data under its Midata initiative,Computer Weekly looks at what this means for the digital economy and who stands to benefit most from this new form of"consumer empowerment". ...
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An NHS trust is to challenge a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)in a case that could set an important precedent. The NHS trust is to be the first public sector organisation to challenge the UK ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
Tags: data loss, ICO, robust data security, Phil Allen
Only 6%of UK citizens think the government has made a clear and compelling argument for the Draft Data Communications Bill,a survey has revealed. In contrast,71%of more than 1,800 adults polled said they do not trust that the data will be ...
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The Department of Health's plan for enabling the public to access their patient medical records online from 2015 needs to take into account the possibility of security being breached,and should include tough sanctions against those who fail ...
The UK’s Draft Data Communications Bill – aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications – will be ineffective against terror, says the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information ...
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Greater Manchester Police has been fined£120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data. An investigation into the force's data protection practices ...
Tags: ICO, Greater Manchester, Data breach
There are concerns about data protection compliance in the public sector, while private organisations are leading the way. That's according to series of reports by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The findings have been ...
Tags: ICO, Essex County Council, data breach, NHS