Monthly Archives: May 2014

Student Loan Company rapped after data breaches

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has criticised the Student Loans Company Limited after a series of data breaches involving customers’ records.

The business reported several incidents where information held about customers, including medical details and a psychological assessment, had been sent to the wrong people.

 

An ICO investigation found that not enough checks were carried out when documents were being scanned to add to customer accounts, and more sensitive documents actually received fewer checks.

Student Loan Company rapped after data breaches.

Weekend Run #6

 

Rainy day, didn’t do the parkrun, but ran later instead. Still raining. Also was very tired since I was up till past midnight reflashing my phone and tablet devices. Not sure why, but my phone was complaining of low space (120MB left) on internal storage, and I could not seem to free up anything. Spent the night letting Titanium Backup try to restore the apps.

My tablet was running ICS, but now I’ve got it up to KitKat thanks to XDA.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR, Nike+

Note to self

If tablet doesn’t boot, use cold boot option (hold down, don’t go into recovery, confirm cold boot)

To fix problem, in terminal:

su
echo boot | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=0

 

The IE flaw that Microsoft refuses to patch – Telegraph

And why are you still using Windows?

A flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which leaves users vulnerable to hackers has not been fixed, despite its discoverer giving the company six months grace to do so before publishing details.

The IE flaw that Microsoft refuses to patch – Telegraph.

Video: eBay cyber attack: why you should change your password now – Telegraph

Auction site eBay asked all its 233m users to change their passwords following a “cyber attack” that saw their names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth fall into the hands of hackers.

(Video inside link)

Video: eBay cyber attack: why you should change your password now – Telegraph.