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For the second year running Future intelligence has won the prestigious BT Security News Story of the year award for its story “Chinese hackers attack UK Houses of Parliament”.

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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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Winner BT Security News Story of the year award 2007

Last year, the UK’s Houses of Parliament nearly fell victim to a sophisticated hacking fraud. Experts are convinced that such attacks have the support of Chinese authorities

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