The UK government is indulging in fantasies of a massive database with details of every telephone call, text message, email and web visit made by everyone in Britain, according to The Times newspaper today. The government has run plans for the database by industry, even though they haven’t yet been shown to parliament or the [...]

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The US Attorney General’s Office is working out how it can share data between the police, government departments, all areas of industry, and the public. They suggest establishing a National Fraud Reporting Centre and Intelligence Bureau to sift through the data to see whether it can find out who is up to no good. We [...]

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Social networking sites are becoming a prime target for criminals according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are prime targets for these attacks, in which rogue criminals steal personal information or match personal details with credit card numbers stolen from other sites. Sites can sometimes provide [...]

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Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, said on Tuesday at RSA 2008 that risks from cyberattacks were increasing and that the consequences were so great that the country needed a “Manhattan Project” for network security. “Cyberthreats have enabled terrorists and criminals to do the kind of damage they would never be [...]

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The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has lost 96 laptops since the beginning of 2001, the latest division of Whitehall to admit to its computer losses, reports Computing.co.uk. The figures take the UK government tally for lost laptops to more than 1 000. The Ministry of Defence previously admitted to losing 347 laptops [...]

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According to reports in today’s WSJ entrepreneur Rod Beckström has been chosen to run a new National Cyber Security Center. Created by a classified presidential order in January, the center will be housed at the Department of Homeland Security and Mr. Beckström will report directly to Secretary Michael Chertoff, it is understood. His appointment is [...]

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