With personal information stored on computer hard drives so easy to access, it seems our security procedures aren't keeping up with technology, says Martin Brampton. The hope that I expressed in last week's column, that we retain at least a degree...
An investigation into the error is ongoing. Microsoft postponed it because of an error that would prevent certain patch management applications from distributing it, Toulouse said. The error was in the associated '.cab' file that contains update...
The information was simply placed on an open server instead of a secure network, a completely preventable and inexcusable error. And one that is getting increasingly difficult as more and more services go online and more data is stored.
The effort of rewriting stored procedures, applications and queries also adds to the complexity of migration, he wrote. While tools now exist to ease the technical side of a migration, these are only capable of handling about four-fifths of the...
In 2007 an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into the loss of child benefit records by HMRC revealed failures in institutional practices and procedures concerning the handling of personal data, including a lack of...
ZDNet.co.uk understands that as the disk was stored in a secure area, under standard EDS procedures the disk would not have been encrypted. This came to light during a priority audit EDS are conducting to comply with the Cabinet Office data...
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