The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £200,000 for failing to encrypt police interviews about violent and sexual crimes stored on laptops that were later stolen. Some of the 43 interviews with victims and witnesses related to historical allegations against “a high-profile individual”, said UK data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which handed down the penalty.
At one of its service depots, LU began a security upgrade project that needed to take into account the limitation imposed by the depot’s location while addressing the need to maintain 24 hour a day access with full audit of who has accessed the site and what equipment had been removed. LU were also keen to avoid using cumbersome pan-tilt-zoom cameras and external housings while still ensuring the site was always covered while using the least number of devices to increase reliability of the system.
Developers of the vBulletin software package for website forums released a security patch Monday night, just hours after reports surfaced that a hack on the developers' site leaked password data and other sensitive information belonging to almost 480,000 subscribers.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/vbulletin-password-hack-fuels-fears-of-serious-internet-wide-0-day-attacks/BSI, the business standards company, has become one of the first certification bodies to receive the official UK accreditation status from The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) for the new Environmental Management Systems Standard, ISO 14001:2015 and the new Quality Management Systems Standard, ISO 9001:2015. This adds to BSI’s previous accreditation status from DAkkS in Germany and global accreditation from ANAB.
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