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• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  ISC releases security fix for Bind DoS vulnerability

  The Internet Systems Consortium has published an advisory and an update for the Bind domain name system software versions 9.7.1 to 9.7.2-P3.

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Exxon, Shell, BP hacked in Night Dragon attacks

  Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were among the oil companies targeted by hackers working through internet servers in China, say US reports.

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Government pushes for open standards

  Open standards should be sought in all government IT procurement specifications, says the Cabinet Office

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  The CIO guide to being headhunted

  Senior technology executives need to be aware of the pitfalls and best practices when dealing with recruitment agents and headhunters to find the best opportunity.

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows

  The internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their capability to disrupt communications

• February 21, 2011 21 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: Microsoft promotes co-ordinated vulnerability disclosure

  Software producers remain largely unresponsive to input from security researchers, according to Aaron Portnoy, manager of the security research team HP TippingPoint.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  Government makes changes to immigration scheme

  The government has announced the details of changes it will make to the Intra Company Transfer (ICT) scheme, which has been criticised for being open to...

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: RSA, EMC and VMWare advise on defending against advanced persistent threats

  Security leaders have outlined ways organisations can better defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs) in a paper published by RSA, the security division of EMC.

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Overhaul A-levels and improve teaching to boost science and tech student uptake, says Royal Society

  An overhaul of A-levels and better teaching are needed to boost the numbers of young people progressing to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects in higher education, according to an influential new study.

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Atos Origin boosts profit despite fall in sales

  IT services company Atos Origin has announced full-year profits of €337m (£283m), a 6.7% year-on-year increase. However, overall sales fell by 3.5%...

• February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  Barclays Bank boosts IT staff and project spending

  Barclays has boosted its technology staff and budget, according to the bank's full-year results released today.

• February 15, 2011 15 Feb'11

  RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote

  Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Intellect presses government to promote IT in UK economic growth

  The government has agreed to promote the role of technology in leading the UK's economic growth, following a meeting with IT industry body Intellect.

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Business Software Alliance fines company £24,000 for unlicensed Microsoft software

  Label company System Labelling has been fined £24,800 for using unlicensed Microsoft software.

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility

  Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

  Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP ...

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  BMW's Aida project on song with DS's V6 PLM system

  BMW has selected Dassault Systèmes' V6 product lifecycle management (PLM) software for its cars' future electrical, electronics, and embedded software (E/E)...

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Mobile hacker attacks will damage business in 2011

  Businesses cannot afford to ignore mobile hacking attacks as they are proving extremely lucrative over shorter periods, a study of mobile threats has found.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  ID card database is destroyed

  The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  IT departments are unable to support employee devices

  Security concerns are holding companies back from allowing staff to use their own technology at work.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  Mobile workers practise lax security

  More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering.

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday outlines five critical vulnerabilities

  Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in its monthly security update for February

• February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11

  Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures

  More than 50 postmasters are planning legal action against the Post Office to reclaim money they paid to the Post Office after being accused of theft and false accounting.

• February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11

  AXA in £150m settlement for software glitch

  Financial services giant AXA will be forced to pay millions of pounds to clients after it emerged that errors in trading software were hidden by three of its subsidiaries, prompting bad performance in investment portfolios.

• February 08, 2011 08 Feb'11

  Businesses must learn how to defend against cyberattack, says McAfee

  Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say.

• February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11

  IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010

  The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India

  Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India.

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  OFT to investigate e-book pricing

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is launching an investigation into e-book pricing.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  O2 to apply for e-money licence to support NFC payments

  O2 will apply for an e-money licence this year, signalling its commitment to support contactless payments in the UK in the near future.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  EC plans could open up ICT procurement for SMEs

  Technology start-ups and SMEs could benefit from European Commission (EC) plans to improve SME procurement.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Yahoo blames Microsoft implementation for Windows Phone 7 data charges

  Yahoo has spoken out after being blamed for excessive data charges experienced by some Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  BBC criticised over £133m digital project

  The early stages of £133m BBC technology project with Siemens have been criticised for not offering value for money.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Staffordshire Council rolls out £23m public sector network

  Staffordshire County Council is to implement one of the country's first Public Sector Networks (PSN) in a £23m contract with communications provider Kcom.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again

  Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Vodafone restores services to Egypt after mobile shutdown

  Mobile operator, Vodafone, has restored mobile phone services in Egypt after a 24-hour shutdown.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  SMEs still lack data backup

  Many small business lack data recovery plans, despite a recent uptake in cloud adoption, according to a survey.

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  LinkedIn reveals plans for an IPO

  Professional networking site LinkedIn has revealed plans to raise up to $175m (£110m) in an initial public offering (IPO).

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked

  The personal page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked and an unauthorised update was placed on it

• January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?

  Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena?

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Cybercriminals target data in transit

  Cybercriminals are shifting away from basic "smash and grab" attacks targeting stored data to more complex methods of data harvesting in transit, security research reveals.

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband

  Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company.

• January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  SAP reports 25% increase in sales

  Sales of SAP software and related services grew 35% and 25% respectively during Q4 2010, compared to the same period in 2009.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Gartner outlines six money-making CIO profiles

  A new generation of CIOs with skills to make the business money will replace traditional CIOs by the middle of the decade, says Gartner vice-president and researcher Ken McGee.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Spam level dips

  The recent decline in global spam was the result of a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets and unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?

  A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks?

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand

  HP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Tight budgets will hit IT departments in 2011

  Budget constraints will be the biggest challenge for IT managers in 2011 as UK companies are forced to cut costs

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Gartner: CIOs fail on staff career development

  CIOs are getting better at reinvesting savings into new projects, but investment in skills and career development is still poor.

• 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 20, 2011 20 Jan'11

  Eli Lilly signs Cognizant deal

  Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has signed a multiyear deal with Cognizant to provide a range of business services