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Portable Identity and the BBC

2008-04-29 14:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...BBC have seen the potential and joined the OpenID foundation. Jem Stone , on his blog, makes the bold statement that "getting identity right is key to our future plans." I couldn't agree more. Managing identity is central to the future and long term success of everything from social networking to eCommerce. For their part, the BBC are...
 
Tags: portable identity, identity, user-centric digital identity, bbc, mobile phone, future plans, future, openid, openid foundation
 
 
 
 
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BBC says its Web site is unblocked in China

2008-03-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The BBC says its English-language Web site now appears fully available to Internet users in China after years of being blocked
 
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Cotton Traders confirms that their website was compromised

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2008-06-11 10:45:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...BBC News Information Age CNET Networks (Silicon.com The Register Report Credit BBC News and an informed reader of The Breach Blog Response From the online sources cited above The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website It was initially reported that 38,000...
 
Tags: cotton traders, credit card details, website, card details, information security standpoint, information, card, firm cotton traders, front-end server
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...BBC News Story Report Credit BBC News Response From the online source cited above Names, addresses, date of births, national insurance numbers and pension contributions were included on a data cartridge which has been lost Evan] This is all prime data for theft It had been sent by courier in September from Countrywide Assured signed for...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

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2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...BBC News Story The Hastings Observer Story Report Credit BBC News Response From the online sources cited above Hundreds of documents containing HIV and cancer test results have been found on a street in south-west London The 173 private medical documents, which were discovered in a motorbike bag near Kingston Hospital last Friday, were...
 
Tags: sensitive medical information, information, kingston hospital, hospital, test results, hepatitis test results, data protection breach, breach, kingston hospital spokeswoman
 
 
 
 
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Thousands of customer bank details on stolen Boots backup tape

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2008-04-25 10:14:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...BBC News CIO Magazine online ITPRO CompterWeekly Report Credit BBC News Response From the online sources cited above Personal details of thousands of customers of Boots' dental plan have been stolen after a courier car was broken into in Bristol The information from Boots Dental Plan included customer bank account details officials...
 
Tags: boots, alliance boots, boots dental plan, tape, dental plan, dental plan customers, company employees, tapes, company
 
 
 
 
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42 Days In A Hole?

2008-06-12 13:58:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...BBC Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a noble endeavour to stop the erosion of British civil...
 
Tags: move, british civil liberties, extraordinary move, bush white houses, fundamental british freedoms, recreational horticulture, news consumption, article link, detention limit
 
 
 
 
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Hackers get busted

2007-11-30 11:08:26 by Dan Cvrcek in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...BBC News about how yet another hacker running a botnet got busted . When I read the sentence he is said to be very bright and very skilled , I started thinking. How did they find him? He clearly must have made some serious mistakes, what sort of mistakes? How can isolation influence someones behaviour, what is the importance of external...
 
Tags: hackers, procedures, reconstruct operational procedures, hacker themself, tools, mistakes, hacker, bright, bbc news
 
 
 
 
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Show 009 - An Interview with Bruce Schneier

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2006-12-14 11:45:53 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...BBC plans attacked for TV tax (March 14, 2006 Bruces suggestion for cheap wines: Loire wines , Provence Wines , Southern Rhone wines
 
Tags: security, security theater, software security, crypto-gram security podcast, bruce, computer security, physical security, property rights management, bruces wikipedia entry
 
 
 
 
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Queen Mary's Sidcup Hospital microfiche film goes missing

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2008-01-22 12:22:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...BBC News story Report Credit Linda Piper, News Shopper Response From the online sources cited above PERSONAL information about thousands of workers at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, has gone missing The information, which may include names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, bank details and job titles, disappeared while being held in...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, microfiche film, microfiche, film, hospital, information, medical information