The numbers are like this: Privacy commissioner: 277 data breaches since November '07 - link: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0,1000000169,39534278-39001093c,00.htm
Juha-Matti Jim Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: > If it wasn't gov.uk this would be unbeleivable. Sadly this level of data > security is fast becoming normal for them. > > Obviously they are far too busy building new super-databases to bother > securing the ones they aready have. > > I suppose this is the end result of 'competitive tendering'.. pay > peanuts, get monkeys. > > Jim. > > Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > > "Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key > > Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details. > > > > The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park > > containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, > > which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets. > > > > An urgent investigation is now under way into how the stick, belonging to > > the company which runs the flagship system, came to be lost. > > > > The lost memory stick was found two weeks ago outside a Brewers Fayre chain > > pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, but the Department of Work and Pensions, > > which owns the Government Gateway, was made aware of its loss only last > > week when the 2in device was passed to this newspaper. > > > > An expert who examined it for The Mail on Sunday said it contained > > confidential passwords, security software and the technical blueprint to > > the system known as the 'source code'. > > The memory stick is now in the hands of the police." > > --clip-- > > -- > == Digital Daemons IT Services == > ------------------------------------- > = Signed/Encrypted mail preferred = > = GnuPG Key ID 0x0AD3FFB0 = > ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
