David Collins of The Mirror reports: A teenager hacked into his school’s “secure” database and posted pupils’ disciplinary records on Facebook. Lewis Blessed, 15, was suspended from classes for nine days after revealing confidential staff comments about children who had misbehaved. But his mum Andrea, 43, says the school over-reacted – because her son simply…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Morning musing
If posting has been light, there are reasons. For one thing, I’ve been entering most new incidents directly into DataLossDB.org. If you’re not already checking DLDB and you want to really keep up with breach reports, bookmark that resource. But I’m also in data heaven right now, having received 3+ years’ of data breach reports…
UK: Axway provides statistics on complaints to the ICO
Axway issued a press release with some interesting statistics on complaints made to the Information Commissioner Office (ICO). They obtained the data under Freedom of Information requests. Here are some of the statistics they compiled: Since April 2010, 35% of complaints to the ICO involved disclosure of personal data and security breaches. This year alone, the…
Report: Some cloud providers have ‘dirty disks’
Brandon Butler reports: A forensic IT study by a U.K. security consultancy found that some multi-tenant public cloud providers have “dirty disks” that are not fully wiped clean after each use by a customer, leaving potentially sensitive data exposed to other users. Last year, officials at Context Information Security conducted a study to determine if…
Watchdog defends apparent discrepancies in fines for private and public sector data breaches
The UK’s data protection watchdog has defended its policy of issuing fines after newly released figures suggested private sector organisations are issued with disproportionately fewer fines than local Government ones. Read more on Out-Law.com.
UK: Insecure websites to be named and shamed after checks
Mark Ward reports: Companies that do not do enough to keep their websites secure are to be named and shamed to help improve security. The list of good and bad sites will be published regularly by the non-profit Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM). A survey carried out to launch the group found that more than 52%…