What is CIPA? The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate …
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£500,000 fine for Data Loss! 0
A new rule, approved by the Secretary of State for Justice and expected to come into force on 6th April 2010, will enable The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to issue fines of up to £500,000 for serious data security breaches. This new power is in no doubt a reaction to several high profile data losses from large organisations including …
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Hacker threat second to employee mistakes 0
New research from IDC and security vendor RSA, that included 400 top level executives, revealed that organisations are more likely to suffer from accidental data security leaks than malicious insider attacks. The research shows that the accidental data leaks often cause more damage than insider attacks; giving reason to doubt the traditional assumption that theft is the highest …
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Ealing council pay £500,000 for infected USB stick 0
A USB stick infected with malware brought Ealing council to it’s knees for several days after a town hall employee plugged it in to a work computer. Despite the use of anti-virus software, the virus spread through Ealing council’s IT network, preventing the use of phones and making it impossible to process payments and fines …
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HSBC fined £3m for data losses 0
HSBC, Britain’s biggest bank, has been fined £3m by the financial regulator for failing to protect customers’ confidential details after data was lost in the post on two occasions. Three companies belonging to the bank’s insurance division have been fined by the Financial Services Authority after it found that large amounts of unencrypted customer details …
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Internet Surfing Restricted for British MP’s 0
An Internet filter on the Parliament IT system blocks access to websites that contain “offensive or illegal content or are sources of malicious software”. The policy emerged after an MP was unable to access the Daily Sport site. “Because of the things they are trying to censor they may have made an assumption about this …
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