Civil servants still sticking unencrypted data in the post
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Court case CDs go missing Groundhog Data Today's story of a cretinous government data giveaway is brought to you by... the Ministry of Justice.â¦
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Computer systems running health, energy and other services remain vulnerable to attack, say MPs.
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Shouldn't be added as an afterthought Government needs to make privacy and data protection principles a core component of its IT specifications, according to the assistant information commissioner.â¦
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Civil servant behind one of the biggest frauds in Whitehall history avoids paying confiscation order
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Defence Ministry spokesman Salih Sarhan said: âThe investigation is under way and we are still collecting information. The investigation is mainly to know whether there was any information leakage.
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MailGate Desktop Messenger encrypts e-mail that stays inside the organization.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators working on rules to secure the calling records and other private information of telephone customers are running into resistance from phone companies and law enforcement agencies.
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Juniors kept in dark, then hung out to dry? Yes Minister HMRC restricted details of its security procedures to senior officials, it has emerged, just weeks after the department pilloried a junior official for loading the UKâs child benefit database onto CDs which were then lost.â¦
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Every month seems to bring another episode of sensitive personal information escaping into the wild because a corporate or government laptop computer is lost or stolen. A common response is a lot of hand-wringing over how the data should have been encrypted.
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A memo sent last week by the While House Office of Management and Budget gives federal agencies 120 days to develop and implement security notification policies, and to start planning to reduce or eliminate the unnecessary use of Social Security numbers and similar personal data.
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Carlos Ramos, assistant secretary at the California Health and Human Services Agency, said: &quot;The investigation is continuing but we have no idea if the [personal] information has been compromised.
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Chertoff: technology will make privacy better The Department of Homeland Security fronted up as a reasonable gent yesterday when it granted state civil servants extra time to implement the Real ID Act.â¦
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'We lost three unencrypted laptops, not one' Defence minister Des Browne has admitted that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost not one, but three laptops containing unencrypted information since 2005.â¦
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Half a million people's records sent unecrypted Personal details of over half a million US service personnel and their relatives may have been compromised by a Pentagon contractor.â¦
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Veterans' personal data and health information remain at risk of identity theft because the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to implement several safety measures, government investigators say.
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More than 1,000 passports being lost in the post each year despite the use of "secure deliveries", a report says.
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