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Guardian jobs database attack demonstrates difficulties of database security

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:18:00 GMT

Job hunting is a tough job in itself - battling with 8% unemployment, rehearsing for job interviews, adding relevant yet interesting hobbies to your CV - and then you receive an e-mail from The Guardian's job site to say that your personal details may have been stolen in a "deliberate and sophisticated" attack

Cardiff keeps IT staff in innovative 'insourcing' deal

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Cardiff Council has signed an innovative 15-year 'insourcing' deal with Indian supplier TCS in a move that will allow it to transform its IT services...

Intel could face US federal anti-trust investigation, say legal experts

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:00 GMT

Intel could be facing a US federal investigation as the number of legal complaints against the chipmaker's business practices begin to mount up.

UK tightens Ripa surveillance rules

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:18:35 GMT

Days after the European Commission threatened to take...

How the government taxes UK's broadband future

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:00 GMT

In 2003, Vtesse Networks, a small UK fibre network operator, challenged the Valuation Office Agency's assessment of BT for business rates in British and European courts. It argued that the VOA's assessment amounted to an unfair subsidy to BT.

Cloud Industry Forum plans UK code of conduct for cloud computing

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:43:34 GMT

The Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software (FAST IiS) plans to bring IT industry...

Video: Spending on private cloud to take off, says Gartner

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:31:11 GMT

Businesses will begin investing in their own secure private cloud networks over the next three to five years while they wait for the public cloud to mature,...

Conficker infections still growing rapidly

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:31:22 GMT

Statistics published by the Conficker Working Group (CWG) show that the

DDoS attacks on the increase, McAfee report warns

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:29:24 GMT

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks...

US opens cyber security command centre

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:46:00 GMT

The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command centre for government cyber security in Arlington, Virginia.

Technology centre to commercialise research

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:24:00 GMT

A £40m manufacturing technology centre (MTC) has opened in the Midlands to narrow the gap between scientific discovery and commercial exploitation.

DNA database may contain records of one million innocent people

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Over 90,000 innocent people have been added to the DNA database since the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the practice.

Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Thousands of farmers' bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers.

Online back-up or cloud recovery?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:27:58 GMT

Backing up files and data online has been around for quite a while, but it has never really taken off in a big way for business customers. Now new solutions...

Britain stops extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to US

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Home secretary Alan Johnson has called a halt to the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.

SaaS security misunderstood by IT pros, survey reveals

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:37 GMT

IT professionals are unaware of the cost savings that Software...

Gizmodo tricked into serving scareware-laced adverts

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:00 GMT

Internet users are being urged to inspect their computers after technology and gadget blog Gizmodo delivered...

Berners-Lee to develop government data access point

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

The government has asked web inventor Tim Berners-Lee to create a single point of access to public data as its data site begins to take shape.

Patches encourage lax security processes

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:16:00 GMT

I have been in the network security game for over a decade and I am still amazed at the number of organisations that only think about their network security...

Challenges and benefits of physical IT security

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:13:02 GMT

There has been much talk in the physical security market concerning the imminent arrival of IT manufacturers and the likely impact it will have on the...