June 2009

London Stock Exchange could soon ditch core trading platform

The London Stock Exchange's could abandon its core trading system. Tradelect.  Continue Reading

Government's cyber security plan limited in scope

Yesterday the government brought out the Cyber Security Strategy, writes Stuart Oakin. On first glance the cynic inside me asked "what has changed?".

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Study shows high vulnerability of social networkers

Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter users are more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infection than they realise, a survey has revealed.  Continue Reading

Lloyds denies skills gap by replacing UK workers with Indian staff

Lloyds has denied that its strategy to offshore IT roles to Indian workers is creating a shortage of certain types of skills.  Continue Reading

Cybercriminals exploit Michael Jackson’s death

Just eight hours after Michael Jackson's death, cybercriminals unleashed the first wave of related spam, according to security firm Sophos.

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NHS CIO Christine Connelly's email in full

This is an email from NHS CIO Christine Connelly on the departure of her right-hand man Martin Bellamy: Dear colleagues, Position on Programme and Systems Delivery The Director of Programme and ...  Continue Reading

NPfIT - Some good news

Editorial for the print edition of Computer Weekly At last some good news on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT], thanks largely to the NHS CIO Christine Connelly. True, the good news is ...  Continue Reading

Hardware cuts messaging latency

SolaceSystems is one relatively new company specialising in messaging middleware and content networking hardware. Solace equipment is being used as the foundation...  Continue Reading

Pirate Bay four denied retrial

The four men fined and sentenced to prison for running file-sharing website Pirate Bay will not get the retrial they hoped for.  Continue Reading

Websites struggle to meet demand for news on Michael Jackson's death

Response times by top US news sites were slowed as millions of Michael Jackson fans scrambled for confirmation of rumours of his death.  Continue Reading

Is NHS CIO the answer to a failing NPfIT?

NHS CIO Christine Connelly announced the departure of the man who is running the £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in an e-mail last week.  Continue Reading

Router backdoors put businesses at risk

Businesses and government systems are at risk from undocumented administrator accounts that provide a backdoor for unauthorised access.

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US to develop offensive cyber-weapons

The US military is to establish a special unit to develop cyber-weapons to defend military networks.

The unit will also help safeguard...

EC wants pan-European agency to run security systems

The European Commission has proposed setting up an agency to manage the region's large IT systems containing passport, visa and fingerprint information.  Continue Reading

NHS CIO email announces departure of NPfIT head

Article on Computer Weekly's homepage "Computer Weekly understands that Bellamy's job description was not clearly defined. One executive who works in the NHS said that Bellamy had vague ...  Continue Reading

Executive Overview: Mobile applications services

In order to become more flexible and agile, and more capable of surviving the current economic climate, companies are making their workers increasingly more distributed and mobile.  Continue Reading

W-tech starts the drive to bring women in IT together

W-tech is one of the first larger-scale IT events to be aimed specifically at women.  Continue Reading