Security Companies Worried About the Recent Data Breaches

This year, the Christmas has come a bit earlier than we've expected, but with some unexpected gifts. Especially addressed to Britons: several data losses affecting millions of residents, who are now vulnerable targets of identity theft or other types of illegal activities. And this matter was caused by the UK government/organizations/officials that were supposed to handle Britons' information and take care of it. Now, their names, their addresses, their vehicle registration numbers and other sensitive details are lost and can always fall into criminal hands.

The security companies from all over the world have always urged the firms working with so important information to improve their security technologies, in order to avoid such losses. These days, following the recent UK data loss affecting the country's learner drivers, the security vendors came out again, talking about the weak security measures that boosted the number of data losses.

"Despite public apologies and reassurances of tightening security measures, this recent misplaced disk debacle can only cement the public's distrust of government agencies", said Yogita Parmar, a spokesperson at Sophos.

"The HMRC scandal was a well overdue wake-up call to both the public and private sector to secure and encrypt data to avoid it falling in the hands of fraudsters. Although the DVLA claims that in both these instances, no bank details and national security numbers were lost, criminals can still exploit the data available, highlighting that governments must ramp up their IT security to avoid embarrassing and damaging leaks in the future."

And I think the security companies really have the right to comment these incidents, because they are the ones that fight for better security, even if such disasters occur every once in a while. It all started some weeks ago when the HMRC lost two CDs containing information of about 25 million Britons, after they had been sent to another department, but never reached the destination.