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• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Syria hit by another apparent internet blackout

  Monitoring services have reported that internet access to Syria appears to have been cut off, and Google says traffic has dropped off

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Symantec helps NHS trust cut security costs by a quarter

  The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust cut security costs by 25% in its partnership with security supplier Symantec

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  SME Arcus brings AWS IaaS and PaaS to public sector with G-Cloud

  UK SME Arcus Global has become the first certified Amazon Web Services reseller on the government’s third G-Cloud framework

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  NHS England to publish technology roadmap

  NHS England is to publish a technology roadmap for commissioners investing in IT, according to its Putting Patients First business plan

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Microsoft issues security advisory on IE8 zero-day exploit

  Microsoft has published a security advisory about an exploit for zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  McAfee to acquire Stonesoft

  Intel’s security business McAfee has announced an agreement to acquire Finnish next-generation firewall firm Stonesoft in a $389m deal

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Windows 8 passes 100 million in sales

  Microsoft says Windows 8 OS has sold more than 100 million copies, roughly matching Windows 7 in the six months after launch

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Government consults on mobile broadband deployment

  The government has launched a consultation to lay out its proposals for accelerating mobile broadband infrastructure deployment across the UK

• May 04, 2013 04 May'13

  Cabinet Office confirms public cloud first policy

  Cabinet Office confirms the cloud will be mandated as first choice for all new IT purchases in government to push more departments into using commodity cloud services

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  95% of local councils share services

  Hundreds of local councils are sharing services as government cuts force them to fund new ways of providing services

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  Netherlands considers hacking powers for police

  The Netherlands government considers legislation to give police powers to hack into computers, install spyware and read emails

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  BlackBerry 10 and Samsung Knox approved by US military

  The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on its networks

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Case Study: Solihull Council picks Juniper for BYOD

  The Metropolitan Borough Council upgrades its bring your own device system and reaps the benefits of more efficient staff

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  University does the maths and dumps HDS for Nexenta storage software

  Greenwich university school of computing and maths opts for Nexenta storage software on commodity hardware and gains 20% savings

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Training may be key to website security, study shows

  WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report says vulnerabilities declined in the past year, but most sites had at least one vulnerability

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Report into Post Office Horizon system expected in July

  The findings of an independent investigation into the Post Office's Horizon accounting system are expected to be published in July

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Most UK firms lack data transfer visibility, study shows

  Four out of five UK organisations have little or no visibility of data movement, a study has revealed

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Fujitsu lock-in makes DECC only Whitehall department incapable of cloud

  The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) cannot adopt cloud computing due to lock-in with system integrator Fujitsu

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  MPs to recall Google executives to explain tax position

  Google is to be recalled to parliament to explain the company’s tax position following an investigation into its business practices

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  What’s to be done about data breach discovery?

  The time from first contact by cyber attackers to the victim learning of it is still measured in months and years, not hours and days

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  SMEs hampered by red tape surrounding EU innovation grants  

  British SMEs are being hampered by the time-consuming bureaucracy surrounding EU research and innovation grants

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Chelmsford council sees 50% take-up of online transactions

  Chelmsford City Council to trial online transactions, a move which has seen nearly half of those services now being completed digitally.

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  LogRhythm and FireEye announce partnership

  LogRhythm's next-generation security information and event management technology is to be integrated with FireEye's malware protection system

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  University network adopts Huddle for cloud collaboration

  The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is harnessing cloud-based collaboration technology to share information about applicants between member organisations

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  NIST revises US federal cyber security standards

  The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has revised federal cyber security standards to address threats since 2005

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Security Think Tank: Governance should determine strategy for BYOD

  With the growth of BYOD, what measures can IT take to ensure the security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role?

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Twitter urges news media to improve security

  Twitter is urging news organisations to improve security amid attacks by Syrian hackers targeting western media groups

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Primitive IT is impeding police efficiency

  Primitive technology is impeding police efficiency, according to Tom Winsor, Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Most UK SMEs ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats, study finds

  A minority of UK small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are giving high priority to cyber threats, research has revealed

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  UK consumers fear cyber attacks on smart meters, survey reveals

  UK consumers believe smart meters will capture too much personal information and will be vulnerable to cyber attack, a survey has revealed

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Case study: The DANTE link for Euro academics

  The best technology innovation winners of Computer Weekly’s European User Awards for Networking on how DANTE brings together researchers from far and wide with Infinera solutions

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Hackers open malware backdoor in Apache webservers

  A new threat is targeting Apache webservers, which are among the most widely-used webservers in the world, according to security researchers

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  UK leads roll-out of Skype video in Outlook webmail

  Microsoft has announced that mail service Outlook.com will now support Skype voice and video calling and instant messaging

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Guardian hit in pro-Syrian cyber attacks

  Syrian hackers have launched cyber attacks on the Guardian and other western media groups, the newspaper reports

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Case study: How SAP runs Cape Town

  For the past 10 years, SAP has been running the city of Cape Town, South Africa

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Greg Mulholland MP calls for investigation after Computer Weekly reveals NHS data misuse

  Greg Mulholland MP has called for an investigation into the suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Barnet outsourcing campaigners appeal judge ruling

  Campaigners appeal high court judge's decision not to allow a judicial review against the Barnet One outsourcing programme

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  McAfee warns of unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader

  An unpatched vulnerability in every version of Adobe Reader reveals where and when a PDF document is opened, says McAfee

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Hunt promises opt out for health records scheme

  In a response to Caldicott Review on NHS information sharing, Jeremy Hunt has promised patients will be able to opt out of the system.

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Case study: Omnicom improves security and cuts costs without disruption

  The Omnicom Media Group has cut costs and reduced risk without business disruption by deploying ForeScout’s CounterACT network access control system

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Business struggling with DDoS and other cyber threats, poll reveals

  Many organisations are struggling to keep pace with the changing face of security threats, a poll has revealed

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  ICO warns GP practice over hacked webmail account

  A GP practice is acting on a breach of the Data Protection Act linked to the surgery’s hacked webmail account

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Government must work with business to avert cyber disaster, says Kaspersky

  Greater collaboration between government and private sector is needed to address the threat of cyber warfare, says Kaspersky

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Cyber crime challenges law enforcement

  Cyber crime is forcing police and law enforcement agencies to re-think basic skills needed, according to experts at Infosecurity Europe 2013

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  Lib Dems will block Snoopers’ Charter, says Nick Clegg

  The draft Communications Data Bill will not go ahead while the Lib Dems are in government, says deputy prime minister Nick Clegg

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  (ISC)2 and the CSA announce certification for cloud security

  Information security professional body (ISC)2 and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have signed an agreement to collaborate on a new professional certification for information security

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  Twitter tests two-factor authentication

  Twitter tests a two-factor authentication system internally, aimed at making it more difficult for hackers to take over users’ accounts

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Cyber threats unlikely to disappear, says security researcher

  The past decade was the best for cyber defences but cyber security will still be a concern in another ten years, says F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Sophos updates free Android security app

  Google’s Android mobile operating system is an increasingly popular target for malware and SMS phishing, says security company Sophos

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: ICO expects clarity on EU data rules only in 2014

  The ICO expects a clear picture of the coming European data protection framework in early 2014, says deputy commissioner David Smith

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Taxpayers oblivious to smart meters as government plans to spend big

  Government awards billions of pounds' worth of IT contracts in the smart meter roll-out despite less than half the UK population knowing what it is

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Global enforcement of law in cyberspace years away, says BCS

  Governments and international law enforcement have much to do to catch up with the criminals who have adapted to the online world, claims a report by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Every business in the cyber war frontline, says Kaspersky

  Every business is on the frontline of the fight against cyber threats, says Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of security firm Kaspersky Lab

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Health minister Jeremy Hunt tells SMEs: ‘The NHS needs you’

  The health secretary admits there is ‘a long way to go’ before NHS procurement is as open to SMEs as large tech providers

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Cost of cyber breaches rises three-fold, research shows

  The cost of cyber breaches rose three-fold in the past year, says the government's latest annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Cyber threats, challenge and opportunity for UK, says minister

  Cyber threats are a challenge to UK businesses, but they also present exciting opportunities, says Cabinet Office minister, Chloe Smith

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Research shows value in crowd-sourced threat intelligence

  Businesses can reduce risk by sharing information on attacks targeting multiple sources, research reveals

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Every business a target of cyber attack, Verizon breach report shows

  Every business is a target of some kind of threat, the most comprehensive Verizon data breach report to date has shown

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: University research challenges reliability of IPS

  Research shows intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are not as effective at detecting malicious activity as some might think

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Tech firms among top cyber targets, report shows

  Technology organisations are among the most frequent targets of cyber attacks, according to a report from security firm FireEye

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Industry needs to address security poverty line, says analyst

  A lack of security expertise is one of the biggest and broadest problems in information security, says Wendy Nather, enterprise security research director at 451 Research

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Security spend misaligned with threats, says security veteran

  Security budget allocations have remained the same for the past 15 years, but threats have changed, says Shlomo Kramer, chief executive at security firm Imperva

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Government reveals ecommerce scheme for SMEs

  The department for business, innovation and skills admits a programme to help SMEs take advantage of digital will launch later this year

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Embedding security: Simply does it, says Channel 4 CISO

  The best way to demonstrate the value of information security to board members is simply and concisely, says Brian Brackenborough, CISO at Channel 4

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  London schools offered superfast Wi-Fi

  Virgin Media Business and London Grid for Learning team up to offer affordable Wi-Fi to 2,000 of the capital’s schools

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Business skills key to CISO’s survival

  Business skills are key components of any CISO says Paul Swarbrick, CISO at aeronautical information service, NATS

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  US jails LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger

  The US has jailed a member of hacktivist group LulzSec for a year for his role in breaching computer systems at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2011

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Google is tax law compliant and key to UK growth, says Eric Schmidt

  Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the company is tax law compliant and key to electronic commerce expansion in the UK

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Conficker makes way for web-based attacks, says Microsoft

  Web attacks emerge as top threat as businesses finally begin to win the battle against Conficker and other worms, says Microsoft

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

  The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Democrats support Cispa cyber bill despite White House veto threat

  US House of Representatives has passed the Cispa cyber bill aimed at helping companies and government share information on cyber threats

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Mobile ads boost Google’s Q1 results

  Online revenues have helped boost Google's net profit to $3.35bn in the first three months of the year, up 16% from the same period in 2012

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions

  Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Vaizey: NAO conducts ‘standard audit’ of 4G auction

  Ed Vaizey says there is nothing sinister about the National Audit Office's examination of the 4G spectrum auction

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Communication key to risk management in security, says CISO

  Challenges to security risk management are largely due to incorrect perceptions by the business, says News International CISO Amar Singh

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Mobile devices could transform patient care

  The director of the health informatics unit at the Royal College of Physicians reveals a greater need for using mobile

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40PB of DDN storage

  The US Oak Ridge lab builds home-grown HPC NAS for 40PB DataDirect Networks with 1TBps of throughput as a SAN to back-end Spider II file system on Titan supercomputer

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  US team claim revolutionary battery breakthrough

  US researchers claim they have made a technological breakthrough to shrink the size of batteries by 10 times yet still offering the same power

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  White House still unhappy with cyber security bill

  The White House has threatened to veto a controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa)

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Mobile access to council websites increases

  There is a high demand for mobile access to council websites, according to Socitm, the Society of IT managers

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Professional Record Standards Body launches

  Standards body launched at HC2013 to help health and social care organisations move towards electronic health records

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  NHS ‘missing a trick’ with junior doctors

  The NHS is missing out on innovation their junior doctors could bring says Dr Wai Keong Wong from the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  New approach blocks all zero-day malware, says Trusteer

  Stateful application control blocks 100% of previously unknown malware, closing the security gap left by traditional AV software, says Trusteer

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Oracle releases mega security patch for Java

  Oracle releases major security update for the version of Java that runs inside web browsers in an attempt to halt ongoing hacker attacks

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  UK government website wins global design award

  The UK government's website, Gov.uk, has beaten off competition from the Shard, the Olympic cauldron and a folding wheel for a wheelchair to win the global 2013 Design of the Year award

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Electronic health record issues exist on paper

  One of the lead consultants for protection of online health records claims a lot of the issues that will arise have already surfaced with paper records

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  Public sector IT professional guide to moving to private sector

  Research from Barclays Bank has revealed that the UK’s largest businesses are increasingly willing to take on ex-public sector workers

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  UK firms need to work harder at trust online, survey shows

  UK firms need to work harder to address a serious lack of trust by customers who shop and bank online, a survey has revealed

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  Mobile malware up 163% in 2012, says NQ Mobile

  Mobile malware threats increased 163% to more than 65,000 in 2012, according to the latest security report from NQ Mobile

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Government names members of Open Standards Board

  The Cabinet Office has named the 10 members of its Open Standards Board to help government bodies comply with open standards principles

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

  After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Enterprise security moving to the cloud, says Gartner

  By 2015, 10% of IT security enterprise product capabilities will be delivered in the cloud, according to a report by research company Gartner

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  US and China co-operate on cyber security

  The US and China are to set up a working group on cyber security to co-ordinate joint efforts in safeguarding cyberspace

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Anonymous hacks North Korean websites for a second time

  Members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective claim to have again hacked several prominent North Korean websites

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Google reaches deal with EU competition authorities

  Google has reportedly reached a deal with European Union (EU) competition authorities over concerns about its business practices

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  mRAT spyware bypasses mobile enterprise controls, research shows

  Mobile remote access Trojan (mRAT) infections are bypassing mobile enterprise security controls, putting businesses at risk of cyber espionage

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Planes vulnerable to smartphone-based hack attack, says researcher

  Aircraft can be hijacked or even crashed by a smartphone app, a security researcher has claimed

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Google has another go at allaying EU competition concerns

  Google has submitted a fresh set of proposals to address European concerns about its business practices and avoid punitive action

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  IT manufacturers fight cyber espionage risks in the supply chain

  Technology companies are collaborating to secure their supply chains from cyber spies and hackers