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• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  NHS claws back £1bn as CSC negotiations come to an end

  The Department of Health claws back £1bn from CSC as negotiations with the troubled supplier come to an end.

• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  UK Border Agency ordered to crack down on bogus student visas

  The UKBA must crack down on bogus student visas ahead of the roll-out of its troubled e-Borders program, MPs have urged

• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  Anonymous claims a million Apple IDs in FBI breach

  Hacking group Anonymous claims to have released over a million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching FBI networks

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  Powerful cyber attack tools widely available, say researchers

  More low-level cyber criminals are getting access to sophisticated attack tools, say cyber intelligence specialists

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  Businesses worldwide fail to prepare for cyber threats, says Kaspersky Lab

  Companies around the world have failed to address cyber threats, according to a survey from security organisation Kaspersky Lab

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  VMware users can protect against virtual machine malware, says Trend Micro

  New malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, but users can take basic steps to protect data, says Trend Micro

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  GDS rolls out Drupal

  The Government Digital Service is rolling out open source content management system Drupal.

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Dell expects tough next quarter

  Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2% and 5% on second-quarter levels due to the “uncertain economic environment”

• August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

  At least 9 out of 10 top mobile apps hacked, study shows

  An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  Hunt: Ofcom 'beset by threats of litigations'

  Culture secretary calls on mobile operators to call off the lawyers and focus on the future of 4G to help government achieve broadband targets by 2015

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  More than 1,000 school application details leaked on the internet

  Personal information about more than 1,000 children has been published on the UK Independent Schools Guide website after an alleged cyber attack

• August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12

  John Linwood, BBC CTO, on the Olympics output and digitisation

  The BBC’s chief technology officer John Linwood talks about managing record-breaking Olympics online viewing and the digital future of the BBC

• August 13, 2012 13 Aug'12

  The Olympics in technology stats

  Computer Weekly takes a look at how we experienced “the most connected Games ever” with our round-up of key technology stats

• August 09, 2012 09 Aug'12

  NHS sees £100m reduction in exposure to CSC contracts

  The Department for Health’s financial exposure to its contracts with troubled supplier CSC have decreased by £100m in just three months.

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Good data protection can be cheap and easy, says ICO

  The ICO says charities and third sector organisations stand to benefit most from a data protection check-up.

• August 06, 2012 06 Aug'12

  LinkedIn data breach costs more than $1m

  LinkedIn says the forensic investigation and other recovery costs of the data breach in June could have topped $1m.

• August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

  Atos and Capita win £540m in controversial DWP disabilities testing contract

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed by disabled charities for awarding £540m in contracts to Atos and Capita to test the eligibility of disabled people receiving benefits.

• July 31, 2012 31 Jul'12

  Interview: Denise McDonagh, government G-cloud director

  Denise McDonagh talks about the challenges of the G-cloud programme and how the government is reducing dependence on large outsourcers. 

• July 31, 2012 31 Jul'12

  Cyber threats affect banks worldwide

  Nearly a quarter of the world's banks were hit by security breaches in the past year, a study shows

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  UK public sector sales drive Steria growth

  French outsourcer Steria has posted steady growth in the UK for its second quarter, driven by an improvement in public sector sales.

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Twitter users targeted by Blackhole malware

  Twitter users are being targeted by tweets containing malicious links that claim recipients are pictured in an online photo

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  SQL injection attacks rise sharply in second quarter of 2012

  SQL injection (SQLi) attacks were up 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, warns cloud hosting firm FireHost

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  Australian telco AAPT confirms Anonymous data breach

  Australian telecoms firm AAPT confirms business customer data was breached by hacktivist group Anonymous at an external service provider

• July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12

  Customers urged to boycott CSC over CIA 'torture flights'

  CSC customers are being urged to boycott the supplier over allegations that it took part in illegal CIA rendition flights in the US "war on terror"

• July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12

  Siemens issues software fix to protect against Stuxnet

  German engineering firm Siemens has issued a fix for the software vulnerabilities in its programmable logic controllers that were exploited by the computer virus

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  CIO interview: Sally Howes, National Audit Office

  Sally Howes, CIO at the National Audit Office, talks about how the NAO hopes to perform more IT health checks and fewer project post mortems

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Can IT investment in schools keep pace with change?

  As more schools join the academy programnme, is the next generation getting access to the right technology crucial to the digital world?

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Many global firms unaware of online risk, finds KPMG

  Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers, according to KPMG

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Security researchers join forces to bring down Grum botnet

  Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet of hijacked computers

• July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

  Microsoft faces substantial EC fine over browser rules breach

  Microsoft faces a large fine for failing to offer Windows users a choice of web browser despite apologising to the European Commission (EC)

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Skype works to fix privacy bug as instant messages leak

  Internet telephony service Skype has confirmed that a bug in its software has been sending copies of instant messages to unintended recipients

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Sophos combines endpoint security and UTM

  Security firm Sophos combines endpoint protection and unified threat management (UTM) products into a single physical or virtual appliance

• July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12

  The most influential women in UK IT

  Computer Weekly is pleased to announce the first ever list of the most influential women in UK IT

• July 12, 2012 12 Jul'12

  Metropolitan Police gears up to analyse smartphone evidence

  The Metropolitan Police plans to build a computer system to analyse photo and video evidence gathered from the public using mobile phones

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  EC invests €1.5bn in IT research

  The European Commission (EC) has announced funding for research into IT totaling almost €1.5bn

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Google Android OS Trojan virus hits 100K devices in China

  Trojan malware has hit 100,000 devices using the Google Android operating system (OS) in China, say security researchers

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  Microsoft Office 365 for Education free for teachers

  Microsoft launches Office 365 for Education, as Scottish Government commits to using the free cloud productivity suite.

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  Virus could cut 20,000 UK computers from web on Monday, FBI warns

  The DNS Changer virus could cause 20,000 computers in the UK – of 350,000 worldwide - to lose web access on 9 July, the FBI has warned

• July 04, 2012 04 Jul'12

  BT extends cyber security agreement with MoD

  BT is to extend its cyber security agreement with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in a deal to expand its cyber defence service

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Whitehall could save £33bn with big data analytics, says Policy Exchange

  Government could save £33bn a year applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a report from the Policy Exchange

• June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12

  Key HMRC IT plans delayed due to spending freeze, says NAO

  Key HMRC IT plans have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) says

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt joins Qualys

  Former White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt is to join the board of security and compliance company Qualys

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  Network security: Is new technology bypassing traditional controls?

  Network security practices are among the most mature, but can businesses be sure network traffic is not sneaking past traditional controls?

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  FTC sues Wyndham Worldwide hotel group over data breaches

  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing hotel group Wyndham Worldwide over claims it failed to secure customer data

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  Six arrested in the UK in worldwide FBI-led credit card data sting

  Six people in the UK and 12 in the US arrested in an FBI-led sting operation that netted a total of 24 credit card cyber fraudsters in 13 countries

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Government slashes SAP and Microsoft spend by £150m

  The government expects to slash licence and maintenance spend with Microsoft and SAP up to £150m by 2015, via a framework renegotiation.

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Web surfers keen to compromise own privacy, study finds

  Web users voluntarily compromise their own privacy by typing more personal information into online forms than is needed, a study has found

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Interview: GDS head Mike Bracken on Estonia's digital services

  UK government IT could learn much from Estonia’s open source model, says head of Government Digital Services (GDS), Mike Bracken

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Ethiopian government blocks Tor Network online anonymity

  The Ethiopian government is blocking access to the Tor Network that enables online anonymity, according to Reporters Without Borders

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

  Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology