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• July 14, 2004 14 Jul'04

  Continuous backup gains traction

  For continuous backup technology, 2004 is the year that vendors have moved from promises to actual products. Although the market is still small -- inhabited by startups such as Revivio, Mendocino Software, Alacritus and XOsoft -- the buzz is ...

• June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04

  Users at risk after web host attack

  Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services.

• June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04

  From exposition to exploit: One security book's story

  A new manual that discloses vulnerabilities may have had a hand in compromises at supercomputing centers this spring.

• May 23, 2004 23 May'04

  Hacking for Dummies: Chapter 10 -- Wireless LANs

  Read Chapter 10, Wireless LANs, from the book "Hacking for Dummies" written by Kevin Beaver.

• May 19, 2004 19 May'04

  IT experts not losing sleep over code theft

  Days after Cisco acknowledged someone may have stolen source code from its network, IT experts said they doubt it will amount to anything catastrophic. After all, source code has made it onto the Internet before, and there's no proof it has ever led...

• May 16, 2004 16 May'04

  Consequences of Cisco source code theft unclear

  Opinions are divided on the impact of stolen data now circulating on the Internet.

• May 13, 2004 13 May'04

  Hacking For Dummies: Chapter 7 -- Passwords

  In his latest book, "Hacking For Dummies," Kevin Beaver takes the reader into the mindset of a hacker in order to help admins fend off vulnerabilities and attacks.

• May 02, 2004 02 May'04

  Return to sender?

  Several researchers have identified a new e-mail attack that can be used to swamp enterprise e-mail servers, as well as some secondary systems.

• April 15, 2004 15 Apr'04

  Bacs launches online billing service

  UK clearing house Bacs has embarked on a joint venture with a US software company to provide an online bill presentation and...

• April 11, 2004 11 Apr'04

  IBM and Cisco battle remote attack vulnerabilities

• March 17, 2004 17 Mar'04

  Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance

  As part of our Storage Decisions conference preview series, Shaun Mahoney, senior storage engineer for Citigroup, Randy Wilson, assistant vice president of IT at Essex Investment Management Company and Enterprise Storage Group's Peter Gerr discussed...

• March 01, 2004 01 Mar'04

  There's no government like no government

• February 24, 2004 24 Feb'04

  Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Chapter 7 -- Buffer Overflow

  This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw.

• January 04, 2004 04 Jan'04

  Security legislation: Where's the breach?

  Security legislation isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Find out how California's SB 1386 is letting some breaches fall through the cracks.

• November 10, 2003 10 Nov'03

  NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC

  The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in...

• February 06, 2003 06 Feb'03

  Users warned as number of software holes soars

  IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial...

• January 29, 2003 29 Jan'03

  Courts Libra system 'is one of the worst IT projects ever seen'

  The cost of the Libra project to provide a national system for 385 magistrates courts soared from £146m to £390m, and the main...

• February 07, 2002 07 Feb'02

  Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

  An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of...

• March 13, 2001 13 Mar'01

  Government trials digital signatures on mobile phones

• January 24, 2001 24 Jan'01

  Government Gateway due to launch today

  Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow...

• November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00

  Chinook: a breach of natural justice

  MPs slam MoD over 1994 crash whitewash. Software, not pilot error, could have killed 29

• March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00

  MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

  Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing...

• March 01, 2000 01 Mar'00

  Chinook software probe due

  MPs are next week expected to investigate the air-worthiness of the engine control software on the type of Chinook helicopter involved in the crash

• February 09, 2000 09 Feb'00

  NAO report puts software at the heart of Chinook debate

  
  
  Tony Collins

  Government auditors will report tomorrow (Friday) that defence staff put into operational service a fleet of Chinook...