April 2008
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April 21, 2008
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Apr'08
Web 2.0 - creating digital lightening rods
Sometimes you need to be hated to reach nirvan Continue Reading
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April 21, 2008
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Apr'08
Datacentres move towards virtualised future
Although it started life as a back-office support function, the datacentre has transformed from a "glorified computerised filing cabinet" (in many people's eyes) to a major consumer of resources. The big question now is how to rationalise it. There ... Continue Reading
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April 21, 2008
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Apr'08
Environment Agency takes phishing rather too literally?
A friend's application for an angling license reveals may reveal that the Environment Agency is either sloppy with its personal data or is deliberately obfuscating its privacy policies. If ... Continue Reading
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April 21, 2008
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Apr'08
Judge says ministerial statement about ID Card gateway reviews and FOI was "wrong"
A judge has criticised as “wrong” a government statement made to Parliament on its decision not to publish two gateway reviews – independent assessments – of the ID Cards scheme. Stanley Burnton, a ... Continue Reading
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April 21, 2008
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Apr'08
Debate on Inbox snooping to stop terror needs a wider view
Patrick Gray argues that employee email filtering is a dubious anti-terror tactic and debate on the subject needs to reflect a more mature understanding of the true infosec situation. Continue Reading
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April 20, 2008
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Apr'08
Clear communications
For most people, discussions on information security are "filled with strange names and words that would be gibberish in any other context." In fact, I lifted that quote from todays Sunday Times ... Continue Reading
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April 20, 2008
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Apr'08
Storage Decisions Australia 2009 – the washup
Looking for presentations and photos from Storage Decisions 2009? Read on to find all the content from the conference. Continue Reading
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April 19, 2008
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Apr'08
Centralisation – Does it Really Help Security?
According to Computer Weekly, Jesper Frederiksen of Google will be explaining at next week's Infosec Europe 2008 conference that centralising critical applications, services and processes is the ... Continue Reading
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April 19, 2008
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Apr'08
Laptop repairs? If in doubt hammer IT
Reader Alan Thompson wrote in to say that he recently received spectacularly bad service from his local computer shop. “He [the repairman] was smelling of alcohol and tried to repair the headphone ... Continue Reading
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April 19, 2008
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Apr'08
Right on the case Mr White
No sooner did Ian White’s posting about SaaS appear on this blog than a whole heap of info about it pops up in my inbox. This article about Contracts is worth a gander. An analogy Ian once used ... Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
The battle for the Internet
I'm going to draw a line under my Phorm commentary. They've opened up their plans to a privacy expert, held a public meeting, and hired a Chief Privacy Officer. This article outlines my feelings on ... Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Laptop privacy on the train
As one of the unfortunate millions who has to commute, I use my laptop on the train, and sometimes don't want the person next to me looking at what's on the screen. To date, I've used an excellent ... Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
How to ensure Ethernet can support a SAN
Storage Area Networks cannot perform unless the network they rely on has been optimised for their needs. Hence this story on how to design a network to support a SAN. Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Post-It note proves revealing
London mayoral candidate Ken Livingston’s protests that someone hacked the council’s e-mail system to expose crony Lee Jasper’s lurid correspondence with a married woman made entertaining reading. ... Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Phorm answers critics at 'town-hall' meeting
Advertisement serving company Phorm has defended its controversial technology at an unprecedented "town hall" meeting in London on Tuesday. Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
ID cards - analyse the facts
Let's put emotion aside when asked about national identity cards, and analyse the facts presented by the Identity and Passport Service as if someone had put forward a business case for the deployment of identity cards in your organisation, writes ... Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
South Yorkshire Police adopts unified comms platform
South Yorkshire Police is deploying a Siemens SIP-based unified communications softswitch system to converge its voice and data network applications. Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Worldwide PC market grows 12% this quarter, Gartner says
Analyst Gartner says the worldwide PC market grew 12% in the first quarter of the year, despite the threat of a global economic recession. Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Centralising applications key to information security, Google says
Google says centralising business-critical applications, services and processes is key to ensuring information security in the face of increased mobile working and communications convergence. Continue Reading
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April 18, 2008
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Apr'08
Oklahoma Department of Corrections leaks personal data from website
Thousands of residents of Oklahoma state in the US have found their personal details have been freely available on the web for three years. Continue Reading