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Government to scrap 'appalling' IT GCSE following employers complaints

  • News
  • Date: 19 October 2009
The government is to scrap the ICT GCSE in an effort to stop children turning away from the subject. Ministers have commissioned e-Skills, the computer...

UFO Hacker Gary Mckinnon suicidal over health

  • News
  • Date: 11 November 2009
Protracted extradition proceedings have turned UFO hacker Gary McKinnon into a nervous wreck who is on medication to quell his suicidal tendencies, his mother, Janis Sharp, told MPs yesterday.

Suicidal hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition must be stopped

  • News
  • Date: 13 November 2009
An influential group of MPs has told the home secretary that he should stop the extradition of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon on compassionate grounds.

Opposition stalls government e-mail snooping plans

  • News
  • Date: 10 November 2009
Widespread opposition to government plans to track people's electronic communications has removed any chance their making the statute before the general election.

Councils get a bad deal from outsourcing, says Deloitte

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  • Date: 09 November 2009
Local authorities have got a bad deal from kitchen sink outsourcing deals with private industry and should take their most important IT functions back...

CIOs rain on Google’s cloud

  • News
  • Date: 15 October 2009
Google received a sceptical reception from CIOs for its cloud computing services at the National Computing Centre's annual conference. Robert...

Save jobs with national accreditation for IT departments

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  • Date: 15 October 2009
The National Computing Centre has launched an accreditation scheme for IT departments which it says they can use to defend themselves from cost-cutting...

Court throws out hacker McKinnon's appeal to Supreme Court

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  • Date: 09 October 2009
The High Court has thrown out Pentagon hacker's last chance of having his extradition stopped in the British courts on humanitarian grounds.

Tories blame government for cyber threats

  • News
  • Date: 25 September 2009
The Conservative party blamed the government for cybersecurity threats yesterday as it launched its cybersecurity roadmap.

Expert challenges UFO hacker's $700k bill

  • News
  • Date: 22 September 2009
The US inflated the $700,000 bill for damages it slapped on UFO hacker Gary McKinnon by stuffing it with costs incurred for patching the gaping holes...
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