Data Protection

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken further steps to make data protection a priority for businesses and organisations by authoring a study that explores the actual value of private data.
The Privacy Dividend report provides the necessary tools to analyse personal data that firms may have stored on their systems and then calculate just how [...]

IT security firm RSA has released new figures suggesting that criminals are heightening their efforts to target unsuspecting consumers in order to steal their personal data, with a 21 per cent rise in the number of phishing websites hijacking established brands to gain misplaced trust.
RSA said that in December 2009 a fifth more brand-based phishing [...]

The conflict between US search giant Google and the Chinese authorities has been well documented in the media and as each day passes the division between the two parties is deepening rather than diminishing. The first shots were apparently fired by a group of Chinese hackers who broke into the GMail accounts of human rights [...]

A new report into mobile working has predicted that in the next two years the number of people who can be classed as mobile workers will total over one billion. IT expert Mark Tickle has expressed his concerns over the growing threats facing mobile workers as they become more numerous and consequently present a more [...]

A new lawsuit filed in the US claims that a hacker was able to steal the personal information of over 32 million social networking users after exploiting flaws in the security of software produced by the development firm RockYou.
RockYou is behind popular applications used on both Facebook and MySpace and since its creation 4 years [...]

Predictions as to the increasing prevalence of phishing sites during the last month of 2009 have been proven correct by a survey carried out by Network Box.
The study found that attempts to gather consumer data by phishing sites accounted for more than 50 per cent of all the online criminal activity that took place in [...]

A new study by IT security vendor SentryBay has unveiled worrying figures that show that a large number of ‘legitimate’ websites are misleading their users and passing on their personal information to third parties for considerable financial compensation.
Users who do not pay close attention to the terms and conditions of certain websites could be [...]

A new study by a leading international virtualisation firm has found that data protection is the one of the most significant benefits afforded to small and medium sized businesses by virtualisation.
Over the last two years a third of all small businesses have suffered data loss as a result of data centre failures and as such, [...]

A recent spate of data loss incidents in Wales has caused industry experts to call for greater measures to ensure the security of private data within the country. The complacency of some council workers and the inadequacy of data security precautions have been exposed by a number of recent data incidents. IT security advisor Jason [...]

According to a leading security adviser at People Security, the proliferation of social networking sites and the careless use of their platforms by unsuspecting consumers is putting personal data at risk. During a speech at the European RSA Conference, Hugh Thompson outlined three techniques by which publicly available data harvested online could be used against [...]