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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.
March 24, 2009 24 Mar'09
Get cracking crushing Conficker

Conficker will activate its botnet on April 1st. Sophos, Symantec, Webroot, BitDefender and other vendors say you should remove it ASAP before the real trouble starts.
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 24, 2008 24 Dec'08
Ian Yates' quite literal year in review

Ian Yates product reviews are unique and make ideal holiday reading.
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.

December 04, 2008 04 Dec'08
How the Mytob virus caused havoc in the NHS

The Mytob virus has been removed from 5,000 PCs at
October 14, 2008 14 Oct'08
Using Wireshark to monitor and secure your network

Learn how to use packet analyser, Wireshark, in this illustrated tutorial.
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.
March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08
Getting the best bargain on network vulnerability scanning

When it comes to enterprise network analysis, is it best to use a commercial vulnerability scanner or an open source product? Mike Chapple explains.
March 10, 2008 10 Mar'08
Web 2.0 presents no new security challenges, is just marketing hype: Secure Computing

Secure Computing's Scott Montgomery says Web 2.0 security is marketing hype, application flaws come from overworked programmers and Australia is doing better at cyber-security than the USA and Europe.
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
Losing the war to lock down networks might help enterprises innovate

While security concerns cannot be set aside, users unwilling to leave their own applications at home might bring some innovation to the office.
February 11, 2008 11 Feb'08
penetration testing tutorial day one the basics

TechTarget ANZ expert Ed Eliff explains botnets and offers advice on how to make sure your machines do not get get caught up in one.
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 17, 2008 17 Jan'08
Wireless network security made easy - from "The Book of PF"

How to get wireless networks running and some options for making your wireless network more secure, including encryption for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks.
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.
January 13, 2008 13 Jan'08
Holidays are over; now beware the gadgets

The post-holiday influx of consumer devices poses increased risk of data leakage and other threats to network security.
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
Cisco Trusted Security to boost network security, management

Cisco's Trusted Security (TrustSec) hardens network security while easing some management.
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 21, 2007 21 Nov'07
Experts: Privacy and security officers living in silos

To better deal with the data breach threat, industry experts say security and privacy officers must break out of their silos and work as a team.
November 20, 2007 20 Nov'07
Unified communications considerations for 2008

Unified communications (UC) created awareness and confusion in 2007. Next year, UC will reach the masses and be used to its full potential.
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 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Cisco upgrades Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switches

Cisco today released updates to its modular Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switch series to add more capacity, scalability and redundancy.
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.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
Riverbed adds disaster recovery features to WAFS

A new version of Riverbed's software will sense when users are doing massive restores over the Wan and optimise traffic accordingly, the company says.
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 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand

Led by EMC's integration of data deduplication and CDP into its backup software, data protection products are prominent at Storage Networking World.
October 11, 2007 11 Oct'07
Juniper updates network access control

Juniper has updated its Unified Access Control NAC products to include better pre- and post-admission, identity and role awareness and other new features.
October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07
Researchers warn of new attack methods against Cisco IOS

Several new attack methods against Cisco IOS were uncovered during an analysis conducted by researchers at Information Risk Management.
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 27, 2007 27 Sep'07
Pacific Hydro finds UTM improves its environment

Renewable energy company Pacific Hydro has found Watchguard's unified threat management devices make a valuable contribution to its defence in depth strategy.
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.