Posted by Simon Perry on 5 February 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, Services
Online directory enquiry service 192.com have launched a new service which combines information on the UK Electoral Roll with the data they hold on phone numbers and addresses.
Those using the service are able to search for a people in the way you would expect with a directory, but by combining the Electoral Roll data with […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 February 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Government, Security
Looks like the State noose is tightening in Myanmar/Burma, particularly where the Internet is concerned.
There are reports that blogger, Nay Myo Latt, has been taken into custody, following his blog postings on the suppression of freedoms currently being enacted in the country.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 4 January 2008 | Tagged as: Security, UK, Legal, Mobile, Cellular
The UK National Mobile Phone Crime Unit carried out a number of raids around London last month - under the grandly titled, Operation Prestige - seizing 324 stolen mobile phones and carried out 56 arrests.
The actions were take in Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon, Brent, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Camden. The police believed that many of […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Services, Search
Ask.com is to allow users of its search engine to delete all of their queries from their server - a stark contrast to other major search engines, especially Google.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Government, Security, UK, Legal
The loss of private records of 25 million residents by a UK government department continues to make headlines.
The News of the World newspaper have obtained a March 2004 letter from Treasury risk manager Richard Fennelly following his analysis of the security of the child benefit records system.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 December 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Security, Investments, Copy Protection
Macrovision, content protection company, has agreed to purchase TV listing company, Gemstar-TV Guide International in a cash and stock transaction with a value of approximately $2.8 billion.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Business, Government, Security, UK
Those in the UK will be all too aware of how government departments have been leaking UK residents data more furiously than a fire-hose blasting through a colander.
Following the loss of the bank details of 25 million UK families a few weeks ago, another loss has come to light.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 6 December 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Security
If you were thinking of settling down in the run up to xmas and getting a bit of relaxing in, Websense, a computer security company has got other ideas for you.
They’ve compiled a list of their predictions for the top ten security risks for the coming year.
Interesting they feel that hackers will start to create […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 November 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Security, UK, Payments systems
Barclays Bank have cut off some of their business customers from making payments to new suppliers, by forcing them to use PIN Sentry hardware that they don’t yet have.
The PIN Sentry is Barclays attempt to stop their customers accounts being hacked and having payment sent to fraudulent accounts. Something that would appear to be a […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 November 2007 | Tagged as: Copy Protection, Press Release, Reviews
Another pocket-pleasing UMPC hits the market.
