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Wednesday, June 29, 2005How Secure is My Data
 How Secure is my data?With the number of high profile data thefts, such as the one from the call centre in India recently reported by the BBC and others, I'm begining to wonder how secure is my data? and how much control do I have over it? It's all well and good to trot out the mantra 'never give out your credit card details to anyone' but the truth is we all do, we have to if we're to buy anything! We give out quite a considerable amount of highly sensitive data every day. Only yesterday I applied online for a Hertz Gold Card. The amount of data that the application form required was incredible and would have been more than enough to do a full Identity Theft. Related Links posted by Robert Campbell 8:37 AM Tuesday, June 28, 2005North East Fraud Forum Security Workshop
 The North East Fraud Forum presents PREVENTING COMPUTER CRIME in the BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, a seminar to be held at St. Jame's Park Newcastle Upon Tyne on the 12th July 2005. The event will cover some practical aspects of designing and building secure networks, with emphasys on secure mobile computing. Full details of the event can be read on the NEFF site.Related Links North East Fraud Forum SafeGuard Easy Hard disk encryption and pre-boot authentication posted by Robert Campbell 1:34 PM Monday, June 27, 2005Stolen LapTopsWell we put our systems to the real test the other day when some light fingered crook broke into ecommnet's offices on the second floor and knicked one of our laptops. The event was duly reported to the police and we smartly filled in the insurence claims, thinking we'd never see the laptop again but we were wrong. A couple of days later a detective from Northumbria Police came to see us and asked ,'...is this your laptop? pointing to a very dusty looking Dell, '...we can't tell what's on it because we can't get into it and neither could anyone at PC World!' The pc was one of our old laptops from our testing / training lab and had been protected with SafeGuard Easy, no one who had tried to get into the device could do so and due to the speedy work of the police thay hadn't had time to formatt the drive either. The odd thing was the police had had to turn to the local branch of PC World for help that was the only way they could get a power supply for the device. The thief had been disturbed and had not taken the PSU!. Related Links posted by Robert Campbell 8:23 PM
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