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[News] [SOT] The Cost of Computer Security

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UK gets hair trigger privacy penalty

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| The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill gave the UK's Information 
| Commissioner the power to fine people and organisations for failing to look 
| after people's personal data when it was passed into law last Thursday.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/12/uk-gets-hair-trigger-privacy

A lot of data gets stolen when Windows PCs or servers get hijacked (about 4 in
10 these days [1]). Consequence, as just seen in the news:

Hacker splashes data from six million Chileans on Internet: report

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| A hacker broke into Chile's government sites mining data from six million 
| people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for 
| several hours, the El Mercurio daily have said.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/tc_afp/chileinternetcrime

Time for governments to learn.



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[1] Bots rule in cyberspace

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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million 
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses 
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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