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All Risk Management News - May 2006

Technology briefs

News
Author: Computer Weekly reporters
Date: 16 May 2006

Short takes from this week's technology news

Get IT integrated for risk management, bosses told

News
Author: Bill Goodwin
Date: 16 May 2006

IT departments need to become more integrated with other departments if businesses are to make effective decisions on managing risk and protecting their reputations, executives of leading companies heard last week.

IT users hail new software asset standard

News
Author: Lindsay Clark
Date: 16 May 2006

A new standard in software asset management has been welcomed by the IT user community.

Flash patch proves tricky for some

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 16 May 2006

Some users had difficulty installing the critical Microsoft security update for Adobe’s Flash player, which was issued last week as part of the software company’s monthly patch regime.

Need for NHS IT audit raised in parliament

News
Author: Tony Collins
Date: 16 May 2006

A campaign by 23 experts in computer-related science for an independent audit of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is gathering strength after it was raised in the House of Commons.

Shell investigates chip and Pin fraud

News
Author: Lindsay Clark
Date: 16 May 2006

Shell is investigating how supposedly tamper-proof chip-and-Pin pads were altered by fraudsters to enable a £1m scam at its petrol stations.

Staff are biggest threat to security, conference told

News
Author: Justin Richards
Date: 16 May 2006

The biggest IT security threat in most organisations comes from employees, delegates at this month’s BCS Information Security Specialist Group Conference were told.

Learn the lessons of McKinnon case, says Lacey

News
Author: Bill Goodwin
Date: 16 May 2006

IT security chiefs have welcomed a UK court’s decision to recommend extraditing the former systems administrator accused of hacking into US defence systems.

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In Depth
Date: 16 May 2006

Computer Weekly readers have their say

Punish real cyber villains

Opinion
Date: 16 May 2006

New readers of this publication will have much sympathy for hacker Gary McKinnon who was recommended for extradition to the US by a judge last week. But the wise will question the effect McKinnon’s potential sentence will have on those tempted to follow in his footsteps.

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