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• December 19, 2004 19 Dec'04

  Transforming the cybersecurity culture

  Eleven New Year's resolutions can help employees at all levels empower the security function at their organization.

• December 08, 2004 08 Dec'04

  The security lingo of 2004

  This was the year of botnets, zombie PC armies and phishying online schemes.

• October 28, 2004 28 Oct'04

  MoD may write off £200m Chinook helicopters

  The Ministry of Defence could write off more than £200m spent on eight Chinook Mk3 helicopters.

• October 08, 2004 08 Oct'04

  First integrated children's system goes live

  The first web-based system to help councils meet new legal requirements for information sharing among teachers, social workers...

• October 04, 2004 04 Oct'04

  Symantec offers bare metal restore software

• October 03, 2004 03 Oct'04

  Training for CISSP Certification: SearchSecurity.com's Security School

  Study guides for each of the ten domains of the CBK for those preparing to take the CISSP exam or expanding their knowledge of security concepts and practices.

• September 26, 2004 26 Sep'04

  Authorize.Net says it has 'learned' from attack

  The credit card processing service was unprepared for the kind of attack it suffered last week, but it will use the experience to improve security.

• August 27, 2004 27 Aug'04

  Over-specify when buying low cost replacement for Frame Relay

  A project manager reveals how a VPN saved £275,000 a year

• August 24, 2004 24 Aug'04

  Latest worm uses IM to lure victims

  A version of the worm which spread from infected Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers in June has been...

• July 27, 2004 27 Jul'04

  New attacks and vulnerability trends highlighted at Black Hat

  Presentations beginning today will analyze vulnerabilities, zero-day code, phishing and secure wireless deployment, among many other topics.

• July 26, 2004 26 Jul'04

  Fewer IT supplier conflicts are going to court

  Law firms have reported a sharp fall in the number of IT disputes reaching the courts over the past 12 months as more users turn...

• July 25, 2004 25 Jul'04

  Learning about Security Threats: Profiling

  A look at what it means to be a hacker.

• July 18, 2004 18 Jul'04

  Debian fixes multiple flaws

  Denial-of-service, buffer overflow and format string vulnerabilities in Debian GNU/Linux that an attacker could use to remotely execute malicious code has been fixed.

• July 18, 2004 18 Jul'04

  Enterprise-class RAID functions, part 2: N-way mirroring, splitting and more

  With the convergence of RAID and lower-priced storage technologies, advanced RAID functions can be enjoyed by any small-to-medium sized organization with critical data.

• 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

  Report finds computer system likely culprit in Chinook crash

  A former air commodore - one of the highest ranks in the RAF - has questioned the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter...

• June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04

  Chinook 10 years on

  This week sees the 10th anniversary of the Chinook ZD576's crash, as former top military officers cast doubt on the finding that...

• May 28, 2004 28 May'04

  Ex-RAF chief says no to blame on Chinook

  A former RAF air commodore has questioned the integrity of systems and the airworthiness of the type of Chinook helicopter which...

• 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 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

• December 15, 2003 15 Dec'03

  IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

  Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government.

• November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03

  MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever

  Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT.

• 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...

• July 28, 2003 28 Jul'03

  Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

  Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous...

• February 10, 2003 10 Feb'03

  UK firms are offered help to migrate to open source

  Companies are being given help to migrate to free-license software by a joint initiative from OpenForum Europe and the National...

• 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...

• February 05, 2003 05 Feb'03

  NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins

  The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT.

• 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...

• October 13, 2002 13 Oct'02

  Jamie Gruener's position on API sharing

  Key questions on API sharing answered

• June 20, 2002 20 Jun'02

  MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row

  Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications

• March 20, 2002 20 Mar'02

  MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots

  This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the...

• 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...

• January 31, 2002 31 Jan'02

  Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

  The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the...

• November 08, 2001 08 Nov'01

  RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

  Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for...

• October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01

  Chinook pilots feared onboard software

  RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to...

• September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01

  Chinook hearing begins

  A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House...

• September 24, 2001 24 Sep'01

  Semiconductor equipment orders down 75%

  US semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $742 (£507m) in orders booked in August, down 75% from a year earlier, according...

• September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01

  Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

  Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September...

• September 11, 2001 11 Sep'01

  Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

  Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its...

• September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01

  Via ups the Intel ante

  Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair...

• September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01

  Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets

  In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US....

• August 23, 2001 23 Aug'01

  Rambus faces second fraud case

  A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined...

• August 22, 2001 22 Aug'01

  IT spending will rise faster than inflation

  Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five...

• August 13, 2001 13 Aug'01

  Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge

  A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set...