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http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Lost-by-the--.3929030.jpBy Ross LydallThe Scotsman31 March 2008A MINISTERIAL limousine and almost 600 laptops are among more than 1.3 million of government items lost or stolen in the past decade, it emerged yesterday.The car, worth 22,550, was taken from the Department for Education and crashed after being stolen. Westminster government sources were unable to shed further light on the incident, but it is likely to have involved a Toyota Prius.Other items to have disappeared sin read more »
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.eceBy Richard FordThe TimesMay 20, 2008A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.The information would be held for at least 12 months and read more »
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9086798By Matt HamblenMay 19, 2008 ComputerworldCameras are available on just about every kind of wireless handheld device, from inexpensive cell phones to high-end smart phones, putting pressure on IT managers to reconsider corporate security policies banning cameras.In 2004, when cameras first became widely available for devices, many companies that purchase devices for their employees dug in their hee read more »
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A pair of critical vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology for mobile devices could be used by hackers to surreptitiously make calls, record conversations, and access information on Nokia Series 40 cell phones, a Polish researcher said Monday. read more »
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The opening up of the mobile industry is great news for application developers but not so good for IT security professionals who want to sleep at night, executives from the security industry said Thursday. read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:26:13 -0500 (CDT)http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/09/28/2003424400[Related: http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0308/8028.html - WK]By Pete WarrenTHE GUARDIAN, LONDONSept 28, 2008Three years ago, Graham Clements - the European managing director of the UK subsidiary of the Japanese packaging multinational Ishida - decided to get rid of his BlackBerry and passed it on to his IT department for recycling. At the start of read more »
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Tobias Engel has reported a vulnerability in various Nokia phones, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).http://secunia.com/Advisories/33359/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other details that are relevant. Learn more about receiving com read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:33:16 -0600 (CST)http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=108996By Peter JudgeTechworld05 January 2009German security experts have built a cheap laptop-based sniffer that can break into cordless phones, debit card terminals and security door mechanisms - and the same gear will also work on the next generation of DECT, known as CAT-iq.The attack on DECT, demonstrated at the 25th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin on 29 read more »
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