From PublicService.co.uk Hundreds of council data security incidents have led to the loss of data on more than 10,000 people in Scotland over the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Laptops containing images of children were lost, as was confidential pension information and Blackberry devices containing sensitive emails. These…
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Glasgow City Council slammed for losing 700 computers
Kathleen Hall reports: Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted laptops, according to an audit report. The news follows the theft of…
NG: SSS official laments security breach
Emmanuel Okubenji reports: A senior intelligence official of [Nigeria’s] State Security service (SSS) has that the lives of officers and those of their families have been put at risk. Following the leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of the SSS on the Internet, the official added that two SSS…
UK: Police Security Tightened After Assange Supporter ‘Steals’ Data
Tom Brewster reports: Police security measures have been increased, after a hacker claimed to have stolen logins and passwords from two forces’ websites, apparently as part of the campaign on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Both Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire police forces confirmed to TechWeekEurope that they were investigating the claims, made by a hacker purportedly protesting for…
UK: Child database leak caused by error not hacking
When I posted a news item about a breach involving Gabbitas and The Independent Schools Guide web site, I duly quoted the reference to claims that the leak had been due to a cyber-attack, even though it seemed a bit implausible to me. An article in Computerworld today by John E. Dunn that reports there…
Oops: Ulster Bank apologizes after losing some customers’ records
BreakingNews.ie reports that Ulster Bank has apologized to customers after an employee inadvertently dropped a folder containing customer info outside one of its offices but didn’t notice it. The folder was eventually returned to them.