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A hacker got into the computer systems of electronic payment processing services provider RBS WorldPay, compromising more than a million customers' records. Formerly known as RBS Lynk, RBS WorldPay, which claims it has more than 20 years in the business, is the US.payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

Ericsson's Mobile Broadband Module would locate a lapton connected to a cellular network. Intel's anti-theft technology in the Centrino 2 mobile platform allows disabling laptops and even a tracking their locations. Others are moving into this demand market for phone and laptop data/anti-theft security.

Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday that Britain had violated two people's privacy by storing their DNA profiles, even though they had not been convicted of a crime. The decision calls into question rules governing use of the DNA database under which police can take samples from anyone arrested for a recordable offence. Civil liberties groups jumped on the ruling to demand a change in the law, which the government rejected.

Recent cases of lost data have damaged Scottish public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. The survey, commissioned by Australian quoted software company, Objective Corporation and conducted by YouGov, has identified a complete breakdown in trust and soaring concerns over fraud and identity theft.

Government has rejected calls for a law that would require significant data security breaches to be notified to the country's privacy regulator, though the Information Commissioner will now be able to perform spot-checks on government departments and public sector bodies to make sure they are complying with the Data Protection Act under new plans announced by the Government, which said that notification to the Information Commissioner should be a matter of good practice, not law. But the powers of Government to share data will be increased. Under new legislation to be introduce is a fast-track procedure to allow data sharing whenever "a robust case" can be made for sharing, says a Ministry of Justice report.

Figures provided to the Sunday Herald by Scottish Raptor Study Groups, a network of dedicated experts who regularly monitors birds of prey across the country show the plight of the hen harrier is nowhere better illustrated than across a vast swathe of southwest Scotland between Kilmarnock, New Cumnock and the M74.

House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has called for more cash to be made available to provide mobile PDA to every front-line police officer. However, seventy per cent of the 349 officers surveyed by the Scottish Police Federation said the PDAs they trialled had made them less efficient, while around 25% said there was 'no change'. Less than 10% said handheld devices made them more efficient. Software problems with the Scottish trial meant electronic notes were often corrupted, forcing officers to spend time re-entering evidence back at the station.

Infoterra, the subsidiary of Europe's satellite specialist Astrium, with offices in France, Germany, Hungary, Spain and England, and supplies geospatial products and services, is working with British Transport Police (BTP) to implement Erdas Apollo 2009, a unified enterprise platform for managing and serving large volumes of geospatial data across an organisation. Erdas is based Atlanta, Georgia, and is now a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden,

Scotland and Wales rejected the FiReControl scheme being implemented in England, where the establishment of nine super centres will result in axing 46 brigade emergency fire controls. Now a firefighter's union boss has called for an inquiry into the delays and the rising cost of nine new 'super control rooms' across England.

Law criminalising denial of service attacks and the supply of hacking tools, already in force in Scotland, has been enacted in England and Wales after a number of delays. There is now a new offence of doing anything without authorisation with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, the operation of a computer.The new offence carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment and a fine. It replaces the more limited offence of unauthorised modification, which carried a five-year maximum sentence. The changes also increases the maximum penalty for unauthorised access to computer material from six months' imprisonment and a fine to two years' imprisonment and a fine.

Napier University computer experts at have secured funding of £199,879 to help in the pre- commercialisation of a unique digital fingerprinting and analysis technology to help companies and other organisations crack down on computer fraud. The patent-pending technology, codenamed ‘digital DNA’, is based on a new collecting and analysing technique that identifies sequences in user access of data, leaving behind a 'digital fingerprint' that will help in later digital forensic investigations.

These days you can take a photograph with almost every mobile phone. However, using this sort of photo to protect confidential data and send it safely is something new. Ileana Buhan, a PhD student at the University of Twente, has been researching this new way of employing biometrics receiving her doctorate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

A Canadian company Aegis Mobility, hopes to offer a downloadable DriveAssist sofware service starting next year that informs a caller or texter that the intended recipient is driving and can't be reached at the moment. The driver would be oblivious to the call and free to focus on driving. While Columbus-based insurer Nationwide has teamed up with Aegis. Service providers have yet to join up.

Accountancy firm Deloitte has admitted that the theft of a laptop containing BSkyB pension plan details, also affects the personal details of Network Rail & British Transport Police employees. The laptop containing the names, pension plans, National Insurance numbers and salary details of more than 100,000 Network Rail staff, British Transport Police and BSkyB employees was stolen from a Deloitte staffer last month.

Police are investigating an alleged fraud in which British Airways staff illegally sold up to £1m worth of plane tickets to a ‘bucket shop’ that resold them for a profit at the last minute. Two junior male BA staff and a woman from an external ticketing agency, all in their 30s, have been arrested, questioned and released on bail. No one has been charged.

Safe as houses, goes one saying, military level security goes another. Nothing, not even the vaunted Bank of England looks that safe anymore. Yet again, the Ministry of Defence and this time EDS are investigating the loss of a portable hard drive containing personal details of 100,000 military personnel and up to 800,000 potential recruits.The unencrypted drive was found missing by EDS, the MoD’s IT outsourcer, during an audit that was ordered by the Cabinet Office as part of an investigation into data security across Whitehall. The investigation was ordered after government departments lost personal information on 4m people in the last year. Weary work reporting it.

The £2.4m Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system were unveiled by the Association of Chief of Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos), which said 450,000 vehicles will be recorded every day through police cameras and publicly-owned CCTV systems which will soon see the majority of car journeys in and between major cities logged by police, giving officers hitherto undreamed-of powers to monitor the public at large in the detection of suspects.

The 14 NHS boards across Scotland are to share £1m to help with securing USB ports to improve IT security. Funding, from Scottish Government's eHealth budget, will be used to help boards comply with new government standards, using software to lock-down computer USB access. The new rules on encrypting NHS data were introduced after the discovery of paper patient records at a disused hospital.

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