• Features, Governance, IRM Roundup, Information Security

    Posted on December 1st, 2008

    Written by RiskMonkey

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    Forward the Police State?

    Forward the Police State?

    This week’s data security headline takes an unusual twist. How often is it that action to control the leak of sensitive, confidential information meets with public outrage? The arrest of Conservative MP and Shadow Immigration Spokesman Damian Green acheived just this.
    It has been known, from time to time, for leaked government information to find it’s [...]

  • Comment & Opinion, Features, Information Security

    Posted on November 27th, 2008

    Written by RiskMonkey

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    Oops?

    Oops?

    One of the worst data losses of the year has to be the loss of membership data by the BNP and the subsequent passing of that information into the public domain. RiskMonkey doesn’t think much of the BNP, but knows that many members are not so much evil racists, as disillusioned and misled. To find [...]