Tech firms tangle with Tories on ID cards
64381
Conservatives put big business in its place The IT industry has found itself in a handbagging spat with shadow home secretary David Davis over the Conservative party's plans to ditch ID cards should they win power from Labour.â¦
99945
Attackers could use hole in small-business software to trick personal information out of people.
472918
Count them in, count them out, count them all about... Immigration Minister Liam Byrne this week unveiled - to a certain amount of derision - his vision of the ID Card scheme as some sort of 21st Century equivalent of the 19th Century railway network or the 20th Century national electricity grid. It will be pervasive, and in 20 years time it will be a great British institution, "part of the fabric of British life."â¦
83396
Still horribly intrusive, though A Home Office minister has said the cost of the proposed ID card could be dramatically reduced if the government used its existing databases as a foundation for the scheme.â¦
527656
British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a key vote Monday in his bid to reintroduce identity cards, seen by the government as a key weapon in its anti-terror campaign.
694621
Imbedding security chips in possessions and pets is nothing new. Chipping people, however, has Orwellian overtones that angers civil libertarians and conservatives alike.
294975
Consultants in frame? Definitely Maybe The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called "hacking tools".â¦
96646
Mike Elgan says a war is shaping up between IT people responsible for company data security and gadget-loving users, who will want to connect to the Wi-Fi network at work and carry sensitive company data around on their iPhones.
349852
Swaps Big Brother for fraternal triumvirate The UK government has ditched plans to put all our identities on one big database, saying that sticking with existing systems will help cut fraud and save money.â¦
184683
A effort by a Seattle company at Black Hat DC to demo a device that easily hacks data from a popular RFID-based ID card system has been met by a patent-infringement claim. Meanwhile, legislators attempt to wrap laws around the security issues.
110683
Banks aren't moving fast enough on requiring online customers to provide two forms of ID, the company says.
286377
Organisations are risking seeing sensitive information ending up in the wrong hands, because they are failing to ensure that their unwanted PCs are properly datawiped.
201838
Responding to an increase in Internet fraud, some banks and brokerage firms plan to begin issuing small devices that would help their customers prove their identities.
167943
Details from chip-and-pin cards could be stolen while shoppers make purchases, scientists say.
610319
Charles Clarke faces his first big test as Home Secretary - bringing in the government's proposals on ID cards. Are they a good idea?
552716
As passports equipped with RFID chips are adopted more widely around the world, successful attempts to crack them are on the rise as well. Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. have already reported compromised data, but countries such as New Zealand remain unconcerned about such threats. But what if the goal wasn't data theft but detonation?
362237
NHS patients may get new smart cards controlling access to personal health data.