Signalling cable thefts cost Â£3m
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The theft of copper signalling cable from railways has risen significantly, British Transport Police reveals.
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Airports operator BAA will announce on Tuesday that last month's security alert cost the business at least Â£20m.
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SPY ACT would allow fines of up to $3 million for some types of spyware.
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Business & money: A Â£20,000 cheque, a Â£2,000 shopping spree, a 42" plasma TV ... these could be yours if the unsolicited letter is to be believed. Tony Levene investigates.
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Here&#39;s a tip: If you steal a printer used to print driver&#39;s licenses, don&#39;t call the manufacturer asking for driver software.It&#39;s a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he got arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.Short, 33, is facing felony charges for possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft of a Digimarc printer used by the state of Missouri to manufacture driver&#39;s licenses.The printer, along with a PC, were stolen on the evening of Oct. 5 from the St. Charles contract office of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said Trish Vincent, director of the department. These offices are run by individuals who are subcontracted by the department to issue driver&#39;s licenses, Vincent said. The pilfered printer could be used to produce a license, Vincent said.The PC, however, was locked with a key, and because the key was stored in a secure location, the PC was unusable to the thief, said Vincent.So what do you do when you have a stolen driver&#39;s license printer, but can&#39;t use the PC that goes with it? Enter Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.According to a sworn statement by Secret Service Special Agent John Bush, someone who identified himself as &quot;Scott&quot; called Digimarc two days later and asked if he could buy printer drivers for the model of printer that had been swiped from the St. Charles office.The Secret Service agent later listened to a recording of this call and recognized Short&#39;s voice from a prior investigation, Bush said. The caller also gave Digimarc the same phone number Short had used in an unrelated identity theft case, Bush said.Short was charged on Oct. 11, and is facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to court filings.&quot;The stolen equipment contains the identifying information and photographs of between 200 to 500 Missouri residents,&quot; Bush said in the statement. &quot;The only use of the equipment is the manufacture of state identification documents.&quot;The state has sent notification letters to those affected by the theft, Vincent said. The computer contained name, address, and date of birth data, but not Social Security numbers, she added.Digimarc declined to explain how the Secret Service ended up listening to its customer support calls. &quot;Because of a confidentiality agreement with our customer and because this is a criminal matter, we are not able to comment on the incident,&quot; said Digimarc spokeswoman Leslie Constans.
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Buckingham Palace needs Â£3m of repairs to make it safe, the Queen's public accounts reveal.
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A mobile phone service which makes your handset scream when it's been stolen was launched in Britain, with its makers claiming it could spell the end of mobile theft altogether.
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THIEVES and vandals have struck in three parts of the Waterside area of Londonderry.   At Campsie Industrial Estate two Dell laptop computers have been stolen from commercial premises. The computers, valued at around pounds 550 each, were taken between 5.30pm on Monday and 7.30am yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation's largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 ($1.9 million) for "failing to have effective systems and controls to manage its information security risks," the regulator said in a statement. Nationwide, which has about 11 million customers, did not realize the laptop contained customer information and waited three weeks before starting an investigation, the FSA said. The laptop was stolen from an employee's home during a burglary in August 2006, Nationwide said in a statement. The building society believes the thief was after the laptop itself rather than the information on its hard drive. The data was for marketing purposes and did not contain any PIN numbers, passwords, or account balance information, Nationwide said. Nationwide informed its customers of the problem and no losses were reported, it said. It also commissioned a review of its information security, the FSA said. (A building society is a type of cooperative financial institution, similar to a credit union in the U.S.)
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Cable &amp; Wireless plc (NYSE: CWP - message board) is significantly ramping up its investment in local loop unbundling (LLU) in the UK, and it plans to spend up to Â£85 million ($152.
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p2pnet.net News:- British police have arrested a man in connection with source code stolen from Cisco Systems. The Metro police computer crime unit, &quot;searched residences in Manchester and Derbyshire, England, on Sept.
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The Golden Telecom acquisition would cost it $4.3 billion.
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Business & money: Â· Scant detail 'designed to antagonise', says analystÂ· Debt suspected to have soared to Â£300m
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LONDON: Fraud costs Britain a minimum of 13.9 billion a year, and the figure could be as high as 20 billion, according to a report yesterday.Comment
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11,000V + hacksaw = bang Derbyshire Police are looking for a "badly scorched" wannabe copper cable thief who decided it was a lucrative idea to hacksaw through an 11,000V power line, Reuters reports.â¦
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Police have warned businesses and the public to be alert when opening letters and parcels after seven postal devices were received in three weeks.
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Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals? Several weeks ago, security researcher Lawrence Baldwin dispatched an urgent email to abuse handlers at OptimumOnline, the broadband provider owned by Cablevision, warning that one of its customers stood to lose more than $60,000 to cyber crooks.â¦