Essex round-up
UK police investigating a suspected Zeus Trojan e-banking fraud ring have charged 11 people with a variety of fraud and money laundering offences.…
We didn’t do nothing
The European Commission is suing the UK government over authorities’ failure to take any action in response to BT’s secret trials of Phorm’s behavioural advertising…
Feel the need for it though
Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them…
Exclusive: PC Pro investigation reveals price-comparison websites are failing to protect customers’ personal data
A detective is ordered to pay a total of £5,000 after disclosing information from a police computer to a suspected criminal.
Do you want identity theft with that?
Dixons has had its wrist slapped for leaving customer details in a skip outside one of its PC World stores.…
Writing that courts have provided little guidance on what actually constitutes a “disaster recovery” backup tape as distinguished from an information archival tape, David Lender and Jason Lichter…
Three-quarters of people want cold calling to be banned, according to a survey by the consumer group Which?
Hackers feast on financial sector security mistakes
Cybercrooks continue to be a menace to corporate security, with hackers and malware authors collectibly responsible for 85 per cent of all stolen…
NHS staff told to uninstall Microsoft Office on home PCs following end of discounted licensing deal
Over at Management Matters, guest blogger Steve Burrows writes of high profile systems failures at Tesco and Barclays in the UK:
These instances, two major private sector failures of…
The first thing attorney Eric B. Mayer does after receiving a copy of an employee-filed complaint — before he reads it — is check the plaintiff out on Facebook and other social networks. “Just…
