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 Posted by SecExtra on January 28th, 2008

Hot on the heels of our recent coverage about M&S losing thousands of Employees personal data files, The Ministry of Defence was forced to admit yesterday that three laptop computers containing personal details of hundreds of thousands of military recruits are missing. None of the data on the laptops was encrypted, and contained details of passport data, National Insurance and driver’s licence numbers, family details and NHS numbers for about 153,000 people who applied to join the armed forces. Richard Farnworth, General Manager, Enterprise Solutions, NEC UK comments:

“This latest announcement should certainly act as a wake up …

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 Posted by SecExtra on January 28th, 2008

ArcSight announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as a Participating Organization and the PCI Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA) as a platinum member.

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 Posted by SecExtra on January 26th, 2008

Marks & Spencer have been found guilty of breaking data protection rules by failing to secure the personal details of some 26,000 employees. This breakdown in security happened when a Laptop was stolen during a burglary at a contractors house and the theives got away with pension arrangement details of the M&S staff.

Thefts are not uncommon, and often the data that goes missing on laptops was not the original target. Indeed it would also not be a bonus for any standard criminal as they likely do not know what they have in their hands and just look for the quick …

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 Posted by SecExtra on January 25th, 2008

SPOKANE JOURNAL | Financial institutions long have been in the business of safeguarding customers’ assets, but gone are the days when an iron-clad vault was sufficient for the task.

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 Posted by SecExtra on January 25th, 2008

Panda Security has announced the general availability of Panda Security for Internet Transactions, an anti-fraud security service that protects banks and online merchants against active malware