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how many pedophiles can there be annually, the city of Zurich takes in about 40 people for questioning because of suspicions about possible sexual exploitation of children, sexual abuse or posession of child porn, etc. fighting pedophiles is part of awareness raising but much more is needed to allow our children a safer experience on [...]

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failure to be redundancy compliant represents an increasing risk for outsourcing in India and the Middle East Badly dropped ship anchor has damaged an undersea cable located between Alexandria, Egypt, and Palermo, Italy. The disruption slowed services in India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and shut down at least one internet service provider in the United [...]

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Is software valuation really an issue as our colleague from Insead reports? Maybe our colleague is correct. But before we accept that IT valuations are critical, we need to be sure that the research conducted meets what is considered acceptable standards of research practice. We tell you, how the media (Financial Times) got duped and [...]

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all 4 have little privacy and are at risk to loose the rest they may have by choice (Paris Hilton, Bruni and Sarkozy?) or else by accident, as Jeremy Clarkson’s recent case of identity theft illustrates Clarkson branded the UK scandal of lost CDs containing the personal data of 25 millions child benefit records as [...]

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Related stories – risk assessment and risk management – Scandinavian Airlines fails to use the six-step process – SMEs and security metrics – where should one start? Today, legal and regulatory compliance issues are a major focus for businesses. The threat of being found personally liable by the government, or industry governing bodies, is a [...]

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The UK data loss disaster has again illustrated that building large systems entails risks including employees not following procedures. However, the larger the system the bigger the repercussions if something goes wrong. So Brian Randell and Urs E. Gattiker decided to come up with a table outlinining some of the key challenges that must be [...]

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April 2005 we reported in several stories about the problems with fingerprinting, RFID technology, national identity cards systems and so on. In fact, we criticised the UK government’s ID card proposal as too risky and lacking the trust of the public and provided research evidence to suggest that this was a too insecure approach to [...]

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UK Government loses personal data of 25m child benefit records Loosing these data is terrible and represents a critical incident that should have been handled systematically and much faster (e.g., took 29 days for the BANKING INDUSTRY to be informed that 7.5 mio customers account details had been compromised We tell you more about why [...]

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Recently we brought you: 5 data security breach regulation – judge is spelling out the exact costs for TJX CyTRAP Labs regulation watch – Annual Report to Parliament 2006-2007 – Privacy Commissioner of Canada What have HSBC, UBS and the Bank of England and others in common? Insecure onlin banking services UK Government loses personal [...]

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Previously we covered: – 1 Advanced Access Content System – Hollywood against Microsoft – how it all started – 2 Advanced Access Content System – Hollywood causes users great pain – technical matters So what is all the fuss about? making more money faster and-Previously we covered:- European Commission striving to reduce prices for digitized [...]

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