Britain becomes top data swapper
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More data now passes through the UK's key net hub in London than any other on the planet.
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InfoWorld - Stolen bank account numbers are commanding the highest price in an underground trade of personal details stolen by hackers, according to a survey released Monday by security vendor Symantec.
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People in the UK are spending more time and money going digital, says communications watchdog Ofcom.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States  -  the latest in a series of government blunders over data
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Euronet is now No. 3 in money transfer, with plans to get even bigger.
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Britons are signing up for broadband net connections in greater numbers than ever, figures by BT show.
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LONDON - The number of newcomers to the internet in Britain has surged this year to its highest level since the dotcom heyday of 2001, according to a study.
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Rich Baich knows about data theft. Back in 2005, Baich was where he is now: at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, a published author and star in the tight-knit community of information security experts. Then the roof fell in as Baich's employer, data broker ChoicePoint, revealed that it had unwittingly allowed identity thieves posing as legitimate customers to make off with the financial records of more than 163,000 consumers.
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A database of internet service provider Bulldog was used to defraud many customers, the BBC learns.
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Spy maps of Britain compiled by the  Soviet Union during the Cold War contain such a wealth of  information that a digital mapping firm has bought them for use  by property developers.
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The number of UK homes with internet access has gone up by nearly a million over the last year, figures suggest.
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The records of nearly 2.3 million consumers have been exposed after an employee of a Fidelity National Information Services subsidiary stole the information and then proceeded to sell it to a data broker.
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The British music industry is to sue 28 internet users it says are illegally swapping music online. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says it is targeting &quot;major uploaders&quot; - those who make music available to share free with others.
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Northrop Grumman Information Technology of Herndon won a $244 million contract to provide advanced biometric identification technology to United Kingdom law enforcement agencies.
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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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The internal menace Security at the British Home Office's Identity and Passport Service (IPS) database has been compromised four times, with individuals' data used inappropriately by Home Office employees and contractors. A fifth breach has hit a Prison Service database.â¦
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Lockdown shuts out pwners BT has sealed a critical security hole in the Home Hub that offered hackers full control of the router, which is in about two million UK homes.â¦