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Britain mulling "random" audits to enhance data protection..

2007-11-07 17:41:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Britain's House of Lords recently issued a report on Internet security , urging the Government to examine as a matter of urgency that country's laws regarding standards of data protection as they apply to businesses. The report says current laws on the books don't have enough teeth; it says the government should have the authority to conduct...
 
Tags: data, data protection, apparently treat data, personal data, secure data, businesses responsible, current laws, data safe, businesses
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Britain, Canada and New York Reference URL Star-Telegram Story Sacramento Bee Story Report Credit Barry Shlachter, Star-Telegram Response From the online sources cited above An international gang of cyber criminals hacked into OmniAmerican Bank's records, the bank's president disclosed Wednesday They stole scores of account numbers,...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Scary Knife Makes for Great Newspaper Headlines

2008-07-21 06:12:58 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Who can not feel a little chill of fear after reading this : "Britain on alert for deadly new knife with exploding tip that freezes victims' organs." Yes, it's real . The knife is designed for people who need to drop large mammals quickly: sharks, bears, etc. I have no idea why Britain is on alert for it, though
 
Tags: knife, alert, britain, mammals quickly, freezes victims, chill, fear, drop, deadly
 
 
 
 
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MI5 on Terrorist Profiling

2008-08-22 06:18:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Britain, according to a classified internal research document on radicalisation seen by the Guardian The main findings include The majority are British nationals and the remainder, with a few exceptions, are here legally. Around half were born in the UK, with others migrating here later in life. Some of these fled traumatic experiences and...
 
Tags: mi5, terrorism, british terrorism, british terrorists, terrorists, violent radicalisation, majority, individuals, internal research document
 
 
 
 
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Privacy International's 2007 Report

2008-01-10 06:01:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Britain and the United States fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies
 
Tags: surveillance, endemic surveillance societies, canada, watchdog privacy international, international rights, privacy records, international privacy, european union, governments introduce
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Britain and Northern Ireland (UK Contractor/Consultant/Branch Ministry of Defence (MoD Victims people who have either expressed an interest in, or have joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force Number Affected 600,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, telephone numbers, passport details, National Insurance numbers,...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Al Qaeda Recruiting Non-Muslims

2008-01-24 08:55:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Britain. They pose a real potential danger to our domestic security because, obviously, these people blend in and do not raise any flags Because the only "flag" that can possibly identify terrorists is that they're Muslim, right
 
Tags: british security source, real potential danger, people blend, mi5 source, white britons, non-muslims, domestic security, sunday, islam
 
 
 
 
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Cops with guns...what will they think of next?

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2008-01-12 06:27:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...Britain or India but it is strange to think of any U.S. law enforcement officer not having the authority to carry a weapon No doubt, the tragedy at Virginia Tech. last year changed a lot of minds regarding the need for campus police to be armed. If campus police are trained to the same standards as any other department in the State, there is...
 
Tags: campus authorities, campus, campus police, campus officers, campus police officers, officers, guns, security officers, police officers
 
 
 
 
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Careful - you just might be hiring a "brutal rapist".

2007-12-18 21:06:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Britain. He has hired another boxer to be his bodyguard, or as they often say in the U.K., his "minder". Ricky's "minder", John Paul King, was unable to accompany his employer to Las Vegas last weekend for Ricky's WBC welterweight bout against Floyd Mayweather. The reason King could not attend was due to his having to stand trial for triple...
 
Tags: ricky hatton, hatton, ricky, friend, time, hire, wbc welterweight bout, hallinan, leg
 
 
 
 
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Laptop with 200 children's health records stolen

2008-03-06 13:27:04 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Officials at Britain's National Health Service have cut off network access for a laptop stolen from a medical center, but concerns remain for over 200 children whose personal information was stored on a memory stick attached to that machine