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• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  More than 1,100 DWP workers disciplined over benefits snooping

  More than 1,100 employees at the Department for Work and Pensions have received official warnings since 2008 for prying into benefits records

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Hacktivists hijack Skype social media accounts

  Hacktivists have hijacked the blog and twitter accounts of Microsoft’s Skype internet voice and video calling service

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Snapchat hackers expose details of 4.6 million users

  Hackers have posted the usernames and mobile phone numbers of 4.6 million US Snapchat account holders online

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Business applications under stress, finds Freeform Dynamics survey

  Business applications are coming under increased performance pressure as organisations evolve remote working practices in step with the demands of a modern economy

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Top 10 UK cyber security stories of 2013

  Cyber security has moved up the national agenda in the past year, with the UK government paying increasing attention to bolstering UK cyber defences

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Alan Turing pardoned

  Alan Turing, the second world war cryptanalyst and pioneer of computer science, has been given a posthumous royal pardon for the 1952 homosexuality conviction that destroyed his life

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  RSA denies secret contract with NSA

  Security firm RSA has strongly denied allegations of a secret contract with the US National Security Agency (NSA)

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA

  A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Twitter increases protection from government snooping

  Twitter has announced moves to protect users' data from snooping by government intelligence agencies

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Racing Post warns users of website breach

  The Racing Post is advising users of its website to change their passwords for other sites if they use the same one in case hackers break the encryption

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Gartner: CIOs need to address procurement to buy IT from startups

  Companies must reassess IT procurement to enable them do business with smaller firms, if they wish to ride the innovation curve.

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  University cuts software installation time from days to hours

  The University of Dundee claims to have reduced the time its central IT department takes to install software to over 1,300 academics from days to hours, after investing in privilege management software