Data Disaster
The recent disaster at HM Revenue and Customs underlines the fact that data protection is still not being taken seriously by Government. And it's not a failure of technology, it's a failure of policy. Read more
The Business of Risk
This week, the Japanese stockmarket suffered a serious blow when a trader accidentally sold 610,000 shares in J-Com, a recruitment company, for 1 yen (half a penny) each. The scale of this error becomes apparent when you realise that the broker concerned had intended to sell only one share, for 610,000 yen (£2,893). Read more