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Password sharing in the National Health Service

Full story available at http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/30/230883/password-sharing-leaves-nhs-audit-trail-in-tatters.htm Investigators have been unable to trace a doctor involved a medical blunder that ended in a patient's death because staff in a Devon hospital had been sharing passwords. The doctor whose password was being used w...

02 June 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...

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HMRC unable to accept encrypted media

Here we are over 2 months after the initial Child Benefit fiasco; you would think the HMRC would have introduced controls to accept encrypted media? The Information Commissioner just issued Marks & Spencer with an Enforcement Notice giving them until 1st April 2008 (ie only 2 months) to complete encryption of all their laptops http://www.ico....

01 February 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...

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NatWest phishing scam

Sunday my daughter got an e-mail purporting to be from Natwest saying that someone had been trying to access her Online Banking. E-mail said they had temporarily disabled her Online Account and if she wanted to use it again she had to go and re-confirm her identity. She clicked on the link supplied, which led to (what she now knows to be) a facsim...

31 January 2008 /security Whatever...

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Quality Programming from HMRC

The former Inland Revenue supplies a PAYE Calculator on a CD-ROM. Adding a new starter today, when I completed uploading her profile I got a warning message “this employee is beyond retirement age”, which would have reduced her National Insurance contributions. I was confused, as she’s only age 50, so had there been a change in Legislation I hadn’...

18 January 2008 Whatever...

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