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• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Parliament to debate cost-sharing element of Digital Economy Act

  Secondary legislation on sharing the costs of the Digital Economy Act's measures to tackle online copyright infringement has been laid in Parliament.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  RBI guidelines focus on fortifying IT security by banks

  RBI has issued security guidelines for the Indian banks that touch upon aspects such as IT governance, security, and cyber fraud.

• January 19, 2011 19 Jan'11

  2010 IT security threats point to priorities for 2011, says Sophos

  Cyber threats of 2010 highlight the top risks to business for 2011, including social media sites, whistleblowers, and hacktivists, warns security firm Sophos.

• January 12, 2011 12 Jan'11

  Microsoft January Patch Tuesday misses open security issues

  Microsoft's January 2011 Patch Tuesday security update contains only two bulletins, but misses several open security issues.

• January 12, 2011 12 Jan'11

  Government departments criticised over data sharing mistake

  Three government agencies have been criticised over a data sharing mistake that led to the wrongful disclosure of a woman's personal and financial information.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Update: Who takes the blame for the Lloyds TSB duplicate payment error?

  Over 200,000 people were affected by a glitch at Lloyds TSB, when an error with its merchant system duplicated payments on New Year's Eve. Jenny Williams investigates.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  $21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud

  Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet.

• November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10

  Martha Lane Fox calls for ‘revolution’ in online government services

  Digital champion Martha Lane Fox has published a report calling for a centralised government internet address to replace 750 websites. In a review...

• February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10

  Chinook Mk2's safety-critical backup system was faulty

  Software supplier EDS found so many anomalies in fuel-control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter that it became concerned that the Ministry of Defence and RAF would ignore the potential importance of each flaw because of the high volume of ...

• February 22, 2010 22 Feb'10

  What was the 'dangerous' flaw in safety-critical Chinook system?

  Defence contractor EDS - now part of HP - warned the Ministry of Defence that flaws in a Fadec safety-critical system fitted to the Chinook Mk2 helicopter could cause it to malfunction, months before a fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre.

• January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10

  Senior airmen question safety of Chinook software

  Three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society have questioned whether the Chinook Mk2, of the type which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, was airworthy.

• January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10

  MoD renews attack on dead Chinook pilots despite software flaw disclosures

  The Ministry of Defence has renewed its attack on the dead pilots of Chinook ZD576, after the publication of documents that revealed a "dangerous" flaw in software installed on the type of helicopter that crashed.

• January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10

  Chinook computer flaws - ex-ministers speak out

  Former Defence ministers are calling for a new inquiry into the crash of Chinook 576, after new disclosures of a "positively dangerous" flaw in software...

• January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10

  Chinook computer was 'positively dangerous' say newly-disclosed MoD documents

  A computer flaw in the type of Chinook helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, killing all 29 on board, was known to be "positively dangerous", according to military documents that have not been published until today.

• December 07, 2009 07 Dec'09

  NHS IT scheme to be scaled back

  The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT.

• September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09

  Labour rejects review of Chinook crash

  Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has ruled out ordering a new inquiry into the controversial Chinook crash, which left all 29 people on board dead, including...

• September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09

  Tories commit to Chinook crash review

  The Tories have made it party policy to appoint a senior judge to review a finding of gross negligence against the two deceased pilots of a Chinook Mk2 helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994.

• June 16, 2009 16 Jun'09

  Air France Airbus pitot sensor linked to two fatal crashes

  Faults similar to those on an Air France Airbus that crashed into the sea on 1 June were major factors in two little-noticed fatal losses of passenger...

• June 04, 2009 04 Jun'09

  Chinook crash: critical internal memo on software flaws

  Computer Weekly is publishing, in full for the first time, an MoD memo that is the clearest evidence yet that software problems made the helicopter unsafe to fly at the time of the accident.

• February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09

  Exclusive: Computer Weekly publishes 'secret' gateway review

  This is the first publication of an entire gateway review by an online news service.

• December 10, 2008 10 Dec'08

  MoD was warned not to fly Chinook on day of crash

  A senior defence official warned the Ministry of Defence to suspend flights of a Chinook helicopter because of safety concerns on the day the aircraft crashed...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Chronology: The Chinook

  1985 : Almost at the start of development of the Chinook's Full Authority Digital Engine Control ( Fadec ) computer system there...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Chinook ZD576: How the Fadec engine control software worked and what could have gone wrong

  What follows is some of the evidence ...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Victory over Chinook crash after 14 years

  A brave, independent stand by the Defence Secretary John Hutton and his predecessor Des Browne, against 14 years of obfuscation and immovable arrogance by the Ministry of Defence, has led finally to justice over the notorious crash of a Chinook ...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Tens of thousands of IT jobs at risk in global finance sector

  The investment banking industry will see thousands of job cuts as mergers are completed and companies prepare for a slowdown in business.

• July 31, 2008 31 Jul'08

  Minister hails Fujitsu’s leaving NPfIT as sign of strength

  The termination of Fujitsu's...

• June 16, 2008 16 Jun'08

  Gary McKinnon broke into 73,000 US government computers, Lords told

  Self confessed British hacker Gary McKinnon, who is fighting extradition to the US, broke into more than 73,000 US government computers, including those of the US Army, Navy and Nasa, and deleted critical data, the House of Lords heard today.

• May 27, 2008 27 May'08

  New doubts raised on Chinook crash ruling

  A former senior officer who helped write rules for RAF accident inquiries has spoken publicly for the first time about his concerns over the cause of a controversial Chinook helicopter crash 14 years ago.

• April 04, 2008 04 Apr'08

  How to scope the liability clause in your software license agreement

  Standard limit of liability clauses favour the vendor. Here's how to modify them to protect your firm from IT risk.

• January 23, 2008 23 Jan'08

  Network managers: master project management to get better salaries

  Network technicians will need to learn project manager skills if corporate rollouts of wider and more advanced networks are to be successful, according to attendees at the Cisco Networkers 2008 this week.

• January 22, 2008 22 Jan'08

  Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT

  The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of ­Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT.

• January 16, 2008 16 Jan'08

  Wireless networks as secure as wired, study says

  Wireless security may not be as dire as previously thought, according to a new 3Com study.

• December 13, 2007 13 Dec'07

  Virtualisation provides utilisation and IT efficiency boost

  Yorkshire-based Raleys Solicitors has solved a space problem in its computer room by using virtualisation technology.

• December 11, 2007 11 Dec'07

  San adoption cuts costs and power

  Advanced storage driving datacentre area and energy consumption reduction

• November 26, 2007 26 Nov'07

  Ofcom fines broadband provider

  Ofcom has fined broadband provider Prodigy £30,000 for failing to comply with requirements to provide information on how it allows customers to switch broadband provider.

• November 22, 2007 22 Nov'07

  Security's dirty little secret

  When Simon Sharwood met AVG's Larry Bridwell, he learned the security industry's dirty little secret.

• November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07

  Home Office awards £650m e-Borders contract

  The Home Office has awarded its £650m eBorders contract to a consortium led by Raytheon Systems.

• November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

  Adaptec reports losses

  Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.

• November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

  CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

  CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products.

• November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

  ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

  Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.

• October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07

  NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

  NetApp pushes further down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.

• October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

  Tackling the backup and recovery challenges of tomorrow

  Your data backup and data recovery challenges never stop changing. In this videocast, an EMC executive and a storage analyst discuss the new approaches you'll need to solve tomorrow's backup and recovery challenges.

• October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

  Intellectual property lawsuits dog storage industry

  The proliferation of patent litigation among data storage companies could stifle technological innovation and drive up costs to the user.

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Podcast: the true cost of IT security

  In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Martin Sadler, director of HP's Trusted Systems Lab, about how much should we be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Hackers are getting smarter and Martin believes newly trained IT ...

• October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

  Pillar announces support for 1 TB SATA drives

  Pillar is one of the earliest to announce 1 TB SATA drives in an enterprise array. IBM's SVC becomes the first storage virtualization product certified with VMware.

• October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07

  UK will lead £13m study on electronic ID

  The UK is to spearhead a £13m pilot project covering 13 European countries to test the interoperability of several electronic identity verification systems. This may eventually give citizens and businesses access to e-government services across the ...

• September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07

  Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 RC0

  Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is now available for customer review.

• September 25, 2007 25 Sep'07

  How to purchase a data encryption product

  Data security is now a critical problem for every company, regardless of size. This buying guide explores the factors involved in purchasing data encryption hardware and software products.

• September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07

  PCI council adds Pin security to remit

  The PCI Security Standards Council has added Pin Entry Device (PED) security technology to its payments industry testing portfolio to streamline standardisation.

• September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

  Communications-as-a-service taking hold

  Communications-as-a-service is taking hold worldwide as a viable hosted IP telephony system.