We now have proof that all the government’s waffle about our identities being safe and secure in their care is a load of cr@p.
Computer Weekly has revealed that staff at THIRTY local authorities have been responsible for “serious security breaches” in the government database that will form the core of the national ID cards programme. [...]
The family of illegal immigrants busted last year for running a fake passport factory in London have been jailed.
The police haul included 60 blank Spanish passports, 150 Portuguese passports, 32 Italian passports, 200 blank Portuguese identity cards, 150 UK national insurance cards, £1,400 in cash and a variety of forged utility bills.
The ringleader received a five-and-a-half year [...]
It seems not a week goes past now without another example of public sector officials misplacing our private data. The latest dose of stupidity comes from a NHS Trust staff member in Lancashire. The health worker lost a memory stick being used to backup 6,000 records from clinical databases at HMP Preston.
The memory stick was [...]
A database developer sacked for lying on his CV hacked into systems to spy on his former colleagues and delete emails.
Julius Oladiran, 46, was dismissed from after his employers discovered his boasts of a master’s degree, and top Government jobs were all lies.
Desperate to know what people were saying about him, the conman installed spyware on [...]
According to today’s Guardian, the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use. This latest step towards a full surveillance state will be revealed in a consultation paper to be published next month by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
The article hints [...]
The Liberal Democrats have uncovered figures that show nearly 50,000 Government security passes have been lost or stolen since 2001 - that’s 16 per day. Over 37,000 of these were from the Ministry of Defence.
A MoD spokesman said: “There are approximately 108,000 personnel in the Armed Forces and the number of lost/stolen ID cards for [...]
Researchers have uncovered a weakness in the internet’s digital certificate system that allows them to forge counterfeit credentials needed to impersonate virtually any website that relies on the widely used security measure.
More than 200 Playstation 3’s were used in this proof-of-concept attack that throws the issue of internet security wide open.
