UK Online Identities Worth £14,500 To Online Criminals

A survey conducted by Get Safe Online and backed by Microsoft, SOCA and the Government, showed that the average identity is worth roughly £14,500 to online criminals but can be purchased for as little as £80

MON 17 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

280 Million People Affected By Data Losses Worldwide

A study carried out by KPMG shows that data on more than 280 million people worldwide has been lost in the past three years due to data breaches and lax security

SAT 08 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Giant Databases, A Risk for Millions Of UK Citizens, Says Information Commissioner

Nearly 280 serious data breaches have been recorded by the authority in charge of making sure individuals' data is protected and to make it worse, less than a quarter of that number were down to stolen devices

WED 29 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

50 per cent of mobile users snoop on their better half's handset

Research from Omnio.com claims to show that almost 50 per cent of UK mobile phone users have snooped on their better half's mobile, looking for adulterous text messages and the like.

TUE 28 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Government Faces in-fightning Over Big Brother Database Plans

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is facing growing dissent over plans elaborated by the government to build a gigantic, Orwellian, database that can keep a record of every phone calls, emails and internet sessions carried out in the UK

TUE 21 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Big Brother really is watching

I must confess that, when the Big Brother database story broke last week I made a mental note to look at the topic against the backdrop of the Echelon surveillance network and database - which currently records and keyword searches all types of voice calls in the UK.

TUE 21 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Buying A Mobile Phone? You Will Need A Passport (Yes, Another Database coming)

The Government is pushing plans to make it compulsory for anyone purchasing a mobile phone to register on a grand database which, they say, will help them keep a close eye on criminals and terrorists and will include presenting a proof of identity prior to the purchase

MON 20 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Mother of All Databases Could Become Big Brother Nightmare, says UK Government Watchdog

The attempt by the current UK government to log each and every email, browsing session and phone calls made in the UK, in what some have called a Big brother database, has been severely criticised by its s own anti-terrorism watchdog

WED 15 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

After UK Army, Data Loss Hit 100,000 Pensioners As Laptop is Stolen

A laptop containing the details of around 100,000 pensioners was stolen in September 2008 from a personnel of accounting firm Deloitte, who only came forward with it on Friday, a few hours after an Army personnel hard disk drive went unaccounted for

SUN 12 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

US ISPs agree not to snoop on subscribers as much

I was intrigued to read online that the US Senate hosted a hearing behavioural targeting - the process whereby ISPs target advertising and content at subscribers depending on their previously displayed online behaviour - last Thursday.

MON 29 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News