London Regional ICT champion

Today we focus on security and privacy news…

Web 2.0:

• We all use many collaboration tools for work and home – blogs, wikis, calendars, photo sharing, tagging, etc – and now Groups has created a service that lets you run all of your group’s collaboration tools from one Grou.ps domain using a single login.  More here.

• BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to BT’s 1.6 million business customers.  Sugar CRM – a web based customer relationship management tool – will follow soon.  More here.

One question is whether you trust BT to manage your data, which leads us nicely to…

Security:

• According to ZD Net, the UK is nearing 100 reported data losses since last November’s blow out by HMRC, with the public sector accounting for over 60 losses.  The ICO says this rate of data loss is “no worse than usual”.

• Sites such as Facebook and YouTube are amongst the least trusted websites in the UK, with each brand only trusted by 12% of the population, it says here.

• Privacy disaster at Twitter – one user gets her private tweets aired in public, it reports here.
  

• Over half of UK workers have sent emails to the wrong people according to a new poll by Sendmail, with one in five office workers sending up to three emails to the wrong people everyday.

• Worried about IT security?  You should be - research conducted by the US Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) estimates that almost 40 percent of IT security breaches are perpetrated by people inside the company.

• According to an article in the Financial Times, Google has reneged on a commitment to improve the way it manages consumer data in light of its DoubleClick acquisition.