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• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Senior judge hears Barnet Council outsourcing challenge

  The second most senior judge in England and Wales will hear a legal challenge against Barnet Council’s outsourcing programme

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  UK cloud users more positive about security than non-users, study shows

  UK SMEs see security, privacy and reliability benefits in cloud-based services, a study from comScore shows

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Universities minister David Willetts backs Chinese telecoms firm Huawei

  Universities and science minister David Willetts praises Huawei a week after the ISC voiced concerns over its involvement in UK infrastructure

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Technology companies call for more transparency over data requests

  Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft call on US government to allow them to publish greater detail about requests to hand over user data

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  CISOs must shape up or ship out, says Forrester

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) must evolve into data risk managers if they are to survive in the future, says Forrester Research

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  BAE Systems latest to join cyber security skills drive

  Aerospace and defence company BAE Systems joins the race to help plug the UK cyber security skills gap

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Security tech market set to grow 8.7% in 2013, says Gartner

  The worldwide security technology and services market will reach $67.2bn in 2013, up 8.7% from 2012, according to research firm Gartner

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Israel says Iran’s cyber attacks are incessant

  Israel has accused Iran of carrying out incessant cyber attacks on its computer systems

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Apple unveils iOS 7

  Apple has unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system, saying iOS 7 is the most significant update since the original iPhone

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  UK links to US internet surveillance remain unclear

  The government insists that UK spy agencies operate within the law, but questions remain

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Zero trust model key to security success, says Forrester

  The principles of network confidentiality, integrity and availability are not balanced, says John Kindervag, principal analyst at Forrester Research

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  NSA surveillance whistleblower reveals identity

  Former technical assistant for the CIA, Edward Snowden, reveals his identity as the whistleblower of US surveillance programmes

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  NAO to judge ‘value for money’ of rural broadband scheme

  The independent auditor promises a report by the end of summer on DCMS' handling of BDUK broadband scheme

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IT industry alliance to sponsor cyber security skills

  IT organisations have set up a sponsorship scheme to encourage people to acquire the cyber security skills to protect UK business

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

  NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  School initiative launched to fill cyber security skills gap

  The UK’s search for cyber security talent is being taken into schools for the first time

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  PM urged to criminalise internet rape porn

  Campaigners are calling for the criminalisation of possessing internet pornography depicting rape

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops

  Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  FBI spies on internet users

  Revelations that the FBI and National Security Agency tap into nine US internet firms implicate Facebook, Apple and Google

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Businesses failing to manage personal devices at work

  Businesses are allowing employees to use personal devices at work but are failing to manage them effectively, survey reveals

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Huawei in the UK: a comedy of process errors

  An ISC report has questioned UK critical infrastructure procurement processes, particularly about the risks of using Huawei equipment

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  UK infrastructure needs better security controls on suppliers, says ISC

  An Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report reveals weaknesses in the UK's approach to critical national infrastructure

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Costs of NPfIT significantly greater than benefits, says Department of Health

  The defunct NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) realised £3.7bn of benefits but cost £7.3bn, says the Department of Health

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Danish tunnel builder Femern opts for DataCore storage virtualisation

  Femern will use DataCore storage virtualisation in place of EqualLogic array, cutting disk costs by 75%

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Warwickshire leads West Midlands BDUK deal

  BT has won another government contract to roll out broadband, winning the bid for Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  US agency collects Verizon phone data with secret court order

  The National Security Agency is collecting from Verizon the phone records of millions of US citizens under a court order

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Microsoft partnership takes down 1,000 cybercrime botnets

  Microsoft has disrupted more than 1,000 botnets in a joint campaign with the financial services industry and the FBI

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Most businesses hit by mobile security incident, study shows

  Almost 80% of businesses had a mobile security incident in the past year, in many cases incurring substantial costs, a study has shown

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Human error causes most data breaches, Ponemon study finds

  Human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, according to a study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Backup and recovery challenges most small businesses, study shows

  Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing difficulties with data backup and recovery, a study has shown

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Turkish protesters make innovative use of technology

  Turkish anti-government protesters are making innovative use of technology to stay ahead of the authorities

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Denise McDonagh takes CTO role at Home Office

  Former G-Cloud director Denise McDonagh is taking the role of chief technology officer (CTO) at the Home Office

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  UK authorities begin tackling pirate websites

  The City of London Police and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau have started contacting websites suspected of profiting by breaking copyright laws

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Whitehall should use Twitter to engage public in open policy-making, say MPs

  Government should use Twitter for an ‘open policy’ approach, says the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC)

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  A malicious charger could hack Apple devices easily, claim researchers

  A modified phone charger or battery could be used to hack Apple devices, say researchers from Georgia Tech

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  France drops controversial anti-piracy penalty

  France has decided to end its controversial policy of cutting off suspected pirates from the internet

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Microsoft evolves disruption anti-cyber crime tactic

  Microsoft, like other major software suppliers, is increasingly using disruption as a key tactic to fight cyber crime

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Transparency, not security, is biggest cloud challenge, says Verizon

  Transparency is the biggest challenge to moving to cloud computing, not security, according to Verizon

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  G-Cloud moves to GDS

  The G-Cloud has become part of the remit of the Government Digital Service (GDS)

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Targeted cyber espionage on the increase, McAfee warns

  The first three months of 2013 saw continued increases in the number and complexity of targeted threats, according to McAfee’s latest report

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Universal Credit will cost taxpayers £12.8bn

  The government’s review of major projects revealed the flagship Universal Credit programme will cost nearly six times more than previously billed

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Care home operator manages Apple estate with Absolute

  Software firm offers the right MDM solutions for LNT Group to manage a fleet of iPhones without needing individual iTunes accounts.

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Google ordered to comply with FBI data demands

  A US judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI demands for customer data, despite ruling previously that such demands were unconstitutional

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Apple to defend against e-book price fixing charges

  Apple is set to begin its defence against US government charges that it colluded with publishers to fix the prices of e-books

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Cambridge Academies to save 70% in licensing cost with new datacentre strategy

  A datacentre upgrade and use of a unified communication and management system across all its schools will help the Trust yield savings

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  US military Plan X aims to make cyber war easy

  Top US military technologists have been working on a programme aimed at making cyber war relatively easy for the past year, it has emerged

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Google sets seven-day deadline for zero-day disclosure

  Google has set third-party suppliers a seven-day deadline for disclosing vulnerabilities in software to help users protect themselves from attack

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  BT to drop Yahoo email after hacking complaints

  BT is to replace Yahoo Mail with its own email service for its six million broadband customers after complaints about hijacked accounts

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Kroes pledges telecoms legislation for 2014

  The vice president of the European Commission responsible for the digital agenda wants an end to mobile roaming and a guarantee of net neutrality in legislation before the next European Parliament elections

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  London trusts adopt BT electronic health records

  BT and CSE Healthcare roll out RiO electronic patient record system to 62 community and mental health trusts in London and south England

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Microsoft and trustworthy computing – not a paradox

  Behind the scenes, Microsoft’s TwC group does a lot of work across security, cyber crime, threat intelligence and malware protection

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Case Study: US supermarket chain solves security challenge virtually

  A US supermarket chain has implemented an endpoint security system to secure legacy applications and to save additional development

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Drupal resets passwords after hacker breach

  Open source content management platform Drupal has reset the passwords for almost one million accounts after hackers breached its systems

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  More than half UK citizens worried about nation-state cyber attacks

  A survey has revealed that 53% of UK citizens are concerned about other countries launching damaging cyber attacks against the UK

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Attackers exploit Ruby on Rails flaw, despite warnings and patch

  Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails web application framework to hijack servers for botnets four months after a patch was released

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  BIS awards Thales five-year PSN contract

  Thales will provide secure network services to The Insolvency Service for its headquarters, regional offices and datacentres

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  NHS publishes £1.2bn GP IT framework

  The Department of Health has announced a £1.2bn framework for GP Systems of Choice, offering central funding of GP IT systems

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  CERN uses ITIL to rethink facilities management

  CERN, the particle physics laboratory, is using IT service management to support operations outside the IT function

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Google may have to revise proposals to EU competition authorities yet again

  Google may have to revise its proposals yet again to allay European concerns about its business practices

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  EU investigates Apple’s iPhone sales strategy

  The European Commission’s competition division confirms it is looking into the distribution practices of Apple when it comes to its flagship smartphone

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Stratfor hacker pleads guilty

  US hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to accessing computers of law enforcement agencies and government contractors illegally

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  China plans first digital war games

  China’s state media say the country’s military plans to hold its first digital war games

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  US anti-piracy group proposes locking infringing computers

  The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property has proposed pre-installing software on computers to identify copyright-violating activity

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  UK masters students to help build online security and trust

  The UK national Cyber Security Challenge and 15 UK universities are calling on masters students for ideas on improving online security and trust

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Syrian hackers deface Sky Android apps

  Syrian hackers have defaced several of Sky’s Android apps, forcing the broadcaster to remove them temporarily from the Google Play store

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Chinese hackers accessed US weapons designs, says Pentagon

  Hackers are feared to have accessed more than 20 designs for advanced US weapons systems, according to a Pentagon report

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Government reveals failing projects

  Government has published a report detailing the status of 191 major projects worth £353bn, in which eight projects were red flagged

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Bolton and Wigan get PSN in £47m outsourcing deal

  Bolton and Wigan councils have signed a seven-year £47m outsourcing contract, which will deliver a ‘PSN ready’ network to the region.

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  BT and Intel invest in lab to research into future cities and telecoms technologies

  A research laboratory has been launched by BT and Intel to develop networking technologies and smart city capabilities.

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  BBC cans £98m Digital Media Initiative and suspends CTO

  The BBC has canned its £98m Digital Media Initiative (DMI) and suspended project head and CTO John Linwood

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Economic future depends on e-ID, says Security Identity Alliance

  The digital economies of Europe could comprise 28% of GDP by 2020 but only with secure electronic IDs, says the Secure Identity Alliance (SIA)

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  UK data breaches largely hidden, says Stroz Friedberg

  The true extent of UK data breaches is unknown because most companies do not report them says Stroz Friedberg

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Capita upgrades Fire service system

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue has replaced its legacy control room technology with a Capita system, part of a 10-year outsourcing contract

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Blue Coat buys big data security company Solera

  Business assurance firm Blue Coat Systems announces it will buy big data security intelligence provider Solera Networks

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  UK ISPs block access to pirate sites

  UK internet service providers have begun blocking access to two sites accused of breaking copyright laws

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Apple calls on the US to cut corporate tax

  Apple has called on the US government to cut corporate tax rates after admitting to sheltering at least $30bn of international profits in Irish subsidiaries

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Vodafone delays 4G superfast mobile internet launch

  Vodafone is to delay the launch of its 4G superfast mobile internet service until August or September to coincide with Apple’s release of a compatible iPhone 5

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Departments handed manual for digital services redesign

  Government releases a manual for CTOs redesigning Whitehall digital services, as contracts with system integrators begin to expire from 2014

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  TfL uses Google maps to power mobile-first web refresh

  Transport for London (TfL) is revamping its web presence using HTML5 and agile development to build a mobile-first site

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

  Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Small firms lose up to £800m to cyber crime, says FSB

  Cyber crime is costing small businesses around £785m a year, according to research by the Federation of Small Businesses

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Privileged accounts key to most APT attacks, says Cyber-Ark

  The theft, misuse and exploitation of privileged accounts is becoming an increasingly key tactic in advanced persistent threat attacks

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Researchers uncover Indian cyber espionage network

  Researchers have uncovered a large and sophisticated cyber attack infrastructure that appears to have originated in India

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Twitter uses open source to automate security

  Twitter is increasingly using open source automation tools to ensure security processes are taken care of in all the code it produces

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Metropolitan Police weighs up outsourcing options

  The Met Police Service is engaging with the outsourcing industry for back-office services as it targets annual savings of £500m

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Atos fights off HP and Capita to retain NS&I contract

  Treasury-backed National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has awarded Atos a seven-year IT outsourcing contract

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Yahoo Japan says hack attack may have exposed 22 million users

  Yahoo Japan has warned that the identity details of up to 22 million users may have been compromised in recent hack

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  London Olympic Park will become home to a datacentre facility

  The London Legacy Development Corporation has signed a deal with a UK provider to develop a datacentre facility at the Olympic Park

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Shanghai cyber hacking unit back in business, says US

  China’s military cyber espionage Unit 61398 is back in business, deploying different techniques, say US officials

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  FT is latest media group attacked by Syrian hackers

  The Financial Times has confirmed that its website and several Twitter accounts were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Government spends £260m on e-prescribing

  Health secretary Jeremy Hunt commits £260m to e-prescriptions, as part of moves to make the NHS paperless by 2018

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Most IT environments immature, Microsoft reveals

  Most business IT environments are immature, analysis of data from Microsoft’s Cloud Security Readiness Tool has revealed

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  ‘Government must be militant about interoperability standards,’ says Maude

  Government must be militant about interoperability standards, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  CSC returns to profitability

  Beleaguered software firm CSC has returned to profitability in its full year results, posting operating profits of $900m (£600m) compared with losses of $1.36bn for the previous year 2011-12.

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Supply chain key to comprehensive security, says Cisco

  A comprehensive security strategy must include the supply chain to deliver the integrity customers demand

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Accept defeat and change the battle plan, says Adobe security chief

  Security professionals are good at lying to themselves that they are evenly matched with their adversaries, says Adobe CSO Brad Arkin

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Adobe uses crises to drive security change

  After hackers broke into one of Adobe's code-signing servers in 2012, CSO Brad Arkin used the crisis to drive security change and improvement