Saturday, 09 December 2023

Photo: SAC TRACEY DOBSON/MoD.
The Rt Hon Phillip Hammond MP, the Secretary of State for Defence (SofS), visits 906 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW) based at Gioia del Colle, Italy as part of Operation Ellamy.

The purpose of his visit was to aquaint himself with current operations and to congratulate the personnel on a successful operation. He was accompanied by Tom McKane, DGSecPol ; Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) ; Air Commodore Waterfall, Air Component Commander (ACC); Hayden Allen, Special Advisor to SofS (SpAd1); Sian Jones, Special Advisor to SofS (SpAd2), Col Andrew McInerney, MA to SofS; Col Bob Barnes, Defence Attaché Italy and Mr Barry Burton, PS to SofS. Whilst at Gioia del Colle Air Base he was met and guided around by the Commanding Officer (CO) Group Captain Pete J M Squires MA Beng (Hons) RAF. Secretary of State greeting the 906 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW) personnel based at Gioia del Colle, Italy. The 906 Expeditionary Air Wing is currently based at Gioia del Colle as part of Operation Ellamy, the UK contribution to NATO's Operation Unified Protector which enforces UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which aims to protect Libyan civilians from the Qadhafi regime. Photo: SAC TRACEY DOBSON/MoD.

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Organisations like Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, and Groupon share something unpleasant in common: recent security breaches. They are not alone. The list of companies suffering the public humiliation and expense that go hand-in-hand with lax IT security procedures goes on and on. I read in a read last week that the global market for stolen identities is now worth a staggering $5 billion a year. Most of these companies had implemented encryption to protect their data, and yet their efforts were wasted because they had not followed best practices for managing their encryption assets and deployments.

Calum

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Recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed that banking industry initiatives, including PCI have been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account fraud. Payment card fraud losses in 2010 reached their lowest levels since 2000, and have made significant improvement from their all-time high just three years ago in 2008. Overall, they suggested that total fraud losses on UK cards fell by 17 percent alone over the preceding year.  Data protection laws in Europe are getting tougher, with Spain, Italy and Germany now requiring companies to notify customers of a privacy breach. Additionally, as companies take a broader look at business processes in the data-security context, PCI DSS is proving successful as a strong foundation for overall data security, with research pointing to the PCI Standards as effective in efforts to satisfy the European Data Protection Directive.

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Having carried out a very successful military campaign in Libya in the wake of the popular uprising against the monstrous regime of monster Muarmar Qadhafi, Vigilance can report that the Security Council yesterday ordered the end to authorized international military action in Libya, more than seven months after allowing United Nations Member States to take “all necessary measures” to protect civilians during a popular uprising against the country’s former regime.

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