The computer security guru and futurologist Professor Neil Barrett is to join FI as an adviser. Neil, who advised the UK Government on the creation of the National High Tech Crime Unit and has been one of the world’s top cyber detectives.
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 12:08
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 12:08
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Serial entrepreneur Aamir Butt has become FI’s new reviews editor. Aamir, a computing graduate who has started a number of high-tech businesses and advised the Danish Government on technology start-ups will bring his unique insight to technology products.
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:42
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:42
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Winner BT Security News Story of the year award 2006
Identity thieves are gleaning personal information from scrapped computers. Peter Warren reports on just how insecure our sensitive data really is.
Data, data everywhere
Bill Kerridge is a North Shields publican who runs an award-winning pub in the Tyneside Town and whose daughter is a talented gymnast. Normally, Kerridge would be happy for the readers of a national newspaper to know those details, only he is not because along with a wealth of other information relating to his family, it was recovered from a computer hard drive bought off the internet via eBay that the Kerridges knew nothing about.
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