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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:48 +0200 Home Office chucks in the cards?Plans for the widespread introduction of fingerprint passports and ID cards, already delayed until 2012, have receded further into the distance with the publication of the latest Identity & Passport Service cost report for the ID scheme. This effectively pulls the plugs on the network of IPS-run interview centres, and lobs future responsibility for these and for biometric enrolment over to private sector companies.… Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:56:20 +0200 Sweet temptationWomen are four times more likely than men to give out "passwords" in exchange for chocolate bars.… Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:42:01 +0200 Skyhook, line and sinkerPunters using Wi-Fi based positioning systems on their mobile devices would do well to look before they leap. Security vulnerabilities have discovered location spoofing flaws in the Skyhook positioning system that might be used to lead users astray.… Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:52:14 +0200 So who hacked Hansard?At the end of February Home Office minister Meg Hillier explained the UK ID scheme security system to the Home Affairs Committee. "The National Identity Register, essentially," she said, "will be a secure database; ...hack-proof, not connected to the Internet... not be accessible online; any links with any other agency will be down encrypted links."… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:44:24 +0200 Who did you text last night?One in five married UK couples admit to electronic snooping on their spouses, says a report from Oxford University. The report found that many married partners spy on their partner's emails and text messages. One in eight (13 per cent) confessed to checking on internet history files to monitor sites visited by their better halves.… Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:58 +0200 Brands and Cameron pitch the fix for government's Big ID problemEarly last month Jacqui Smith unveiled the latest revision of the ID card roadmap. On the same day, by happy coincidence, Microsoft bought Credentica's U-Prove assets and hired Dr Stefan Brands. On the one hand, a discredited and failing strategy staggers on under its fourth Home Secretary, while on the other...?… Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:02:02 +0200 Customers liable for lossesThe banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took effect on Monday.… Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:47:11 +0200 Pressganged into submissionAn Australian high school has stopped fingerprinting its children, on receiving a caning from the country’s press.… Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:20:56 +0200 Software that knows if you're mad - or a lonerWhen the president of a prestigious patent and trademarking firm began receiving emails threatening to bring down its operations unless he paid a $17m ransom, he knew he had to take action. He reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but agents were unable to identify the culprit.… Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:23:44 +0100 No fakes detected - terrorists all move to BelgiumInterviews for first time passport applicants have been massively successful - because, er, no fraudulent applications at all have been detected since the government introduced the system last May. In answer to a Freedom of Information request, the Home Office said last week that 38,391 interviews had been held to date, 222 applications were currently under investigation, but that so far no application had been rejected.… Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:52 +0100 National security now wholly funded by shoppingThe government, the British Airports Authority and the Information Commissioner's Office are arguing over fingerprinting at Heathrow's new Terminal 5, which is due to open on Thursday. T5 is to use a 'count them all in, count them all out' biometric system to log entry and exit to the departure lounge, but the ICO thinks the move may breach the Data Protection Act, and has demanded an explanation from BAA.… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:11:48 +0100 Supermarket identity sweepA New England-based supermarket chain has warned of an information security breach that exposed an estimated 4.2 million credit card records.… Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:29:19 +0100 Lands security lab on SingaporeIBM today snapped up privately-held security software firm Encentuate for an undisclosed sum.… Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:02:02 +0100 The keys to London Underground, and plenty moreSecurity researchers say they've found a way to crack the encryption used to protect a widely-used smartcard in a matter of minutes, making it possible for them to quickly and cheaply clone the cards that are used to secure office buildings and automate the collection of mass transportation fares.… Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:15:20 +0100 Smith offers series of compelling propositionsThe latest stage in the long slow death of the UK ID scheme became official this morning, as Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiled a two-pronged revised delivery plan, aimed first at selected groups of workers and teenagers. This effectively confirms the strategy proposed by the leaked ID scheme Options Analysis earlier this year, and kicks back the widespread issuing of the cards until 2012.… Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:41:01 +0100 Smokescreen for a retreat?Airport workers could be the first to be issued with compulsory ID cards, claimed Tory shadow home secretary David Davis today, citing government documents leaked to his party. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is due to make a speech on the future of ID cards tomorrow, and Davis suggests that she is likely to announce a postponement until 2012, while making them compulsory for selected groups of victims.… Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:55:43 +0100 Will put privacy at risk for no added securityEurope's top privacy watchdog has condemned planned European border controls as weak and based on inconclusive evidence, claiming they will put Europeans' privacy at risk with no guarantee of increased security.… Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:59:16 +0100 Beefs up data responsibilityHM Revenue and Customs has appointed 37 staff to protect information, since it lost personal records on 25 million people last November.… Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:47:18 +0100 Breaking up with Facebook is (less) hard to doIt was a long time coming but the web's favourite has-been-in-the-making, Facebook, has finally agreed to let users who are bored with it wrest their personal information from its advertising salesmens' clutches.… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:02:03 +0100 Sanity check pleaseCredit checking giant Equifax left Reg reader Thomas flummoxed when it told him to send copies of the front and back of his debit card when he asked for a credit report.… Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:18:25 +0100 Slippery slopeA senior US Department of Homeland Security official has floated the idea of requiring citizens to produce federally compliant identification before purchasing some over-the-counter medicines.… Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:08:10 +0100 Terminal 1 passengers get to be lab ratsQuietly on Friday, Heathrow Airport recruited quantities of involuntary lab rats to test fingerprint-based security/traffic control system planned for Terminal 5. The luckless pioneers were selected at Terminal 1, where biometrics are now being deducted from any domestic passengers wishing to visit the international lounge.… Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:11:19 +0100 All voluntary - for nowSwedish airline SAS is extending a biometric security program on national flights from Stockholm and Gothenburg and will roll it out to international flights in the near future.… Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:26:27 +0100 Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue planTeachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity & Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.… Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:57:42 +0100 Prints might just be needed for 'special' groupsA key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, may be abandoned, according to a leaked Home Office document obtained by the Observer. The document doesn't suggest entirely scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.… Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:56:50 +0100 Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain..."Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, the idea being that ID cards will remain 'voluntary' for as long as possible, while not having an ID card will become more and more uncomfortable. This, precisely what the government has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity & Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People.… Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:02:02 +0100 Halifax customer bites backThe Halifax bank is enrolling unsuspecting customers in trials of a new generation of RFID-enabled bank cards, and trying to keep them in the program even if they have mis-givings about the wave and pay technology.… Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:02 +0100 Ten years' supply of applicants swiped from carPersonal details of the 600,000 people who have applied to join the armed forces over the last ten years were stolen with an MoD laptop earlier this month, it was admitted late on Friday. The computer was stolen from the car of a junior naval officer, which was parked outside his house overnight in Edgbaston, Birmingham.… Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:55:02 +0100 Password complexity be damnedYahoo! has pledged to support OpenID from the end of the month, giving a massive boost for the online identity framework that aims to cut password headaches.… Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:16:23 +0100 Bad timing for J.C. Penney CEOPersonal information belonging to more than 650,000 US customers of J.C. Penney and other retailers is at risk after the company hired to safeguard the data lost a backup tape.… Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:04:21 +0100 Nine nicked laptops hanging on the wallA break-in at Middlesbrough Council has resulted in the loss of nine laptops containing sensitive case files on up to 63 vulnerable children.… Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:20:08 +0100 Privacy advocates, security mavens, states' rights renew assaultCritics have renewed their offensive on a federal law mandating changes to state-issued drivers licenses after the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued final rules implementing the controversial measure.… Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:18:02 +0100 Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge beliefImmigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card slippage and set himself a remarkably unchallenging series of immigration and border control targets in a "ten point plan" for 2008. Humorously described by the Home Office as "challenging", the plan consists largely of low targets, targets already achieved, and harder targets lobbed off into the middle distance.… Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:47:19 +0100 Wishful thinking to solve prison crisis, apparently...The Ministry of Justice is planning to solve the crisis in the UK prison system by fitting prisoners with surgically implanted tracking chips, claims the Independent on Sunday, citing a senior Ministry official. The chips, claims the paper, would be used to keep order in prison and to enforce home curfews.… Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:51:39 +0100 Brace of breachesA box containing the banking details of 200 rich investors was found by the side of the road after apparently falling off the back of a courier's van.… Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:15:10 +0100 Fake user said: 'World would be a better place without you'A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has subpoenaed MySpace and others in connection with a teenage girl who hanged herself after receiving cruel messages on the site from people posing as a 16-year-old boy.… Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:34:12 +0100 Let 'em know they're being watchedUS consumer protection body the Federal Trade Commission has backed a tightening of rules on internet advertising and the use of personal information. It has proposed stronger industry regulation of the tracking of users' habits.… Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:44:40 +0100 Celebrity gamer wants his virtual armor backHackers have hijacked the Xbox Live account of a celebrity gamer and made off with a prized piece of virtual armor in a brazen act that suggests the online Microsoft service still puts the security of its users at risk.… Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:21:36 +0100 Straight answers not compulsory eitherFor the third time in four days, Gordon Brown has sown doubts about the future of compulsory ID cards for UK citizens. Speaking at prime minister's question time today, Brown confirmed that it was "policy" for ID cards to become compulsory, but added the rider that this was subject to a vote in parliament.… Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:10:27 +0100 It'll end in tears, warns ChaosVeteran German hacking group the Chaos Computer Club is fighting the use of electronic voting machines in upcoming local elections.… Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:30:15 +0100 Top Gear chap shoots self in footGobby TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to reverse his position after he lost money after publishing his bank account details in a newspaper column.… Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:08:44 +0100 What's behind the latest cockup?Google can count itself fortunate that a serious privacy storm it caused took place in the run up to Christmas - when world+dog was otherwise occupied. By altering the behaviour of one of its web-services, Google ran foul of its own Privacy guarantee - and continues to violate it.… Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:16:53 +0100 Another no-change rule change?Analysis Immigration Minister Liam Byrne is to celebrate the first wave of the ID card rollout next year with a scary ad campaign threatening employers of illegal immigrants with fines of £10,000 per offence and up to two years in prison. But even by the low standards of the Home Office, "the biggest shake-up of the immigration system for 40 years" promises to be impressively toothless - if Byrne is depending on the fine income for the 2009 New Year party, he will be a disappointed man.… Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:06:32 +0100 14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breachSkipton Financial Services has confessed to losing a laptop containing records of 14,000 customers. Information exposed by the breach includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and fund investment details of clients of Skipton's Fidelity FundsNetwork.… Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:42:07 +0100 Now it only has to worry about disgruntled puntersRetailer TJX has reached a settlement with all but one of the seven banks and bankers' associations that sued it after a security breach put millions of customers' credit data at risk of fraud.… Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:21:33 +0100 Prestige contract goes Pearson shapedA Hard drive containing personal details of three million candidates for the UK driving theory test has gone missing from a "secure facility" in, perplexingly, Iowa, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has told the House of Commons. The hard drive went missing in May, but 'only' includes name, address, phone number and email - no financial data.… Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:55:51 +0100 Details about every citizen revealedThe Dutch Data Protection Authority is investigating claims that a medical database set up by health insurance companies reveals details about nearly every Dutch citizen.… Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:59:05 +0100 Big Brother makes a clerical errorThe stabbing death of a convicted rapist 35 days after he was released from prison may have stemmed from a public database that erroneously described him as a child molester, California police say.… Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:16:03 +0100 Kriss Kringle failing to comply with data protection lawsSanta Claus could be breaking privacy laws in his collection and use of data about British children, experts have warned. Yuletide cheer-bringer Claus could be putting the personal data of millions of children at risk.… Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:01:31 +0100 You gotta protect your personal dataOrganisations and individuals must step up the fight against identity fraud, the Information Commissioner's Office will say today.… |
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