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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
...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, drivers license details, family details, doctors addresses, National Health...
 
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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Justice, in one case at least

2008-01-31 16:48:08 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...defence to apply for the court to order Egg to produce the actual transaction logs and supporting material so that we could verify the transaction certificates, if any The prosecution folded and today Jane walked free. I hope she wins an absolute shipload of compensation from Egg
 
Tags: card, circuit card, transaction, john, bank, transaction code, bank statement, emv card, egg
 
 
 
 
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Military allies' collaboration yields secure e-mail spec

2008-02-13 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Secure e-mail communications between the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and their contractors is getting help from the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program, whose director Wayne Grundy discusses what TSCP has done so far and where it's going
 
Tags: secure e-mail communications, kingdom ministry, contractors, department, defence, defense, tscp
 
 
 
 
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More U.K. government laptops go missing

2008-02-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473760 in Network World on Security
 
The Ministry of Defence is launching a new inquiry after admitting to the loss of two more laptops containing unencrypted personal details
 
Tags: laptops, personal details, defence, loss, ministry, inquiry
 
 
 
 
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Global Dispatches

2008-02-25 06:21:54 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into the theft of two military laptop computers. The U.S. government has expressed security concerns over the proposed $2.2 billion sale of 3Com to Bain Capital and a Chinese networking firm
 
Tags: military laptop computers, bain capital, billion sale, security concerns, government, defence, firm, 3com, chinese
 
 
 
 
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Phishing reloaded

2008-04-04 21:18:18 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...Defence ) based on monitoring "several thousand phishing web sites over a two month period". The paper describes mechanisms employed by phishers to effectively deploy a vast number of phishing websites, including A newer architectural innovation dubbed fast-flux that used hundreds of different compromised machines per week, extended the...
 
Tags: fraudulent, fraudulent server replies, paper describes mechanisms, paper, dns lookups, specific dns lookups, fraudulent dns server, traffic redirectors, user authentication method
 
 
 
 
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Infosec Europe

2008-04-15 07:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...defence and prosecution." It should be fun! There are some exciting new exhibitors on the list for this year including Behaviosec whose product "Behavio identifies unauthorized users within seconds by detecting anomalies in keyboard and mouse behavior." I'm looking forward to seeing you there
 
Tags: infosec europe, mock trial, bruce schneier, industry names, real courtroom, interactive theatre, e-crime unit, behavio identifies, olympia
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...defence is to clean up your laptop. A customs agent can't read what you don't have. You don't need five years' worth of email and client data. You don't need your old love letters and those photos (you know the ones I'm talking about). Delete everything you don't absolutely need. And use a secure file erasure program to do it. While you're at...
 
Tags: customs agent pokes, customs agent, british customs agents, customs agents, agent, customs, entire hard drive, hard drive, data
 
 
 
 
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Some of the other noteworthy breaches last week, 6/16/08 - 6/22/08

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2008-06-23 08:11:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...defence and extremism Evan] It is disappointing to read about breaches where the government does not follow its own laws and regulations. Mr. Housden claims that the files were "not secret". They certainly werent public, were they Personal details of thousands of patients stolen from hospital in new security blunder By James Tozer, The...
 
Tags: major security breach, breach, security breach, data, airline systems data, breaches, noteworthy breaches, indiana bank breach, sensitive data
 
 
 
 
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Can The Gov Be Trusted With Your Personal Data?

2008-06-26 12:44:35 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Defence. In all, four MoD computers had been stolen since 2004 and the report said the MoD was probably in breach of several principles set out in the Data Protection Act Well, where do you stand? Do you trust your respective government not to punt on data security Read on Article Link
 
Tags: loss, data loss scandal, britains, britains tax authority, data protection act, details, child benefit records, mod computers, bank details