The Ministry of Defence has admitted losing the details of 600,000 people after the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham last week.
Ian Angell is a curious kind of dissident. The London School of Economics professor in information systems has emerged as one of the most trenchant critics of the UK's troubled ID card project, but not on any of the usual grounds.
Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on-the-spot ID checks without having to take suspects back to the station.
Developers responsible for the Debian Linux distribution announced on Saturday that they will not implement Sender ID due to Microsoft's insistence on licensing the anti-spam standard. This announcement comes only a few days after the Apache Foundation's refusal to implement Sender ID.
Thousands of UK e-passports stolen this week are likely to sell for up to 20m on the black market, privacy experts have said.
Companies and individual Internet users can now protect themselves against a dangerous piece of malware which steals personal information such as credit card and banking details.
Following the acquisitions of two privately owned security companies last week, Oracle executives claimed they can now supply administrators the sweetest suite of middleware products.
Software that could allow existing phones and PDAs to recognise their owners will be demonstrated at a security show in Japan this week.
China's 960 million citizens will be issued with digital smart ID cards, starting from next year.
In an investigation that led from online forums to a passport-forging facility in Bulgaria, law enforcement officials arrested in the last 48 hours suspects from eight states and six foreign countries on charges of identity theft, computer fraud, credit card fraud and conspiracy.
Latest research shows that firms who fall victim to hacking, viruses or phishing may have to worry about more than just patching up their systems.
The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible.
The HMRC data debacle and other breaches have weakened public confidence in government data security capabilities, says a new survey.
A single law against hacking and spamming could stop the UK looking like a soft touch, according to the Communications Management Association.
The British government is re-evaluating its ID card project as part of a wider review of the Home Office's activities.
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