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IT security

• Talking is not dissent

  Behind the scenes alarm bells are ringing at the lack of consultation as the Government prepares the anti-terrorism legislation.  Continue Reading

• IT community should heed Turnbull recommendations on risk

  Compliance with the Turnbull Report's recommendations has been a mandatory element of company report procedures for all London...  Continue Reading

• Soon all you'll need is a small plastic card

  The concept of digital identity has moved on so far that PKI is fast becoming outmoded  Continue Reading

• Would you let a doctor fix your car?

  Five reasons why you shouldn't let your in-house staff develop your security systems  Continue Reading

• Welcome to the old economy

  It is time to man the lifeboats for an increasing number of dotcoms; and some senior executives over in the US are definitely...  Continue Reading

• Super Hackers: Truth or reality?

  Does the 'super hacker' exist or is it all just myth-making on the part of the press? Two industry specialists give EBR their...  Continue Reading

• Super Love Bug will strike this year

  New versions of the Love Bug e-mail virus with far more devastating payloads are likely to strike IT departments over the next 12...  Continue Reading

• More to B2B than counting e-costs

  The B2B e-commerce sector has an unhealthy pre-occupation with costs. Customers, both on the buying and selling side, are...  Continue Reading

• Why security must come first

  Keeping your site secure should be your first New Year's resolution, says Glyn Moody  Continue Reading

• Ethical Hacker: Gotcha!

  Someone was spending hours every night hacking his friend's PC. Call the ISP? No. For Sten Kalenda the fun was just beginning  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery solutions

  A good disaster recovery solution is essential - especially if your IT department is one man band.  Continue Reading

• Solution: Internet misuse at work

  Like the technology, Internet abuse appears to have proliferated in recent years. There are, however, two ways to tackle this...  Continue Reading

• Lessen the risk of buying IT

  Colin Beveridge, director of the interim managers association Premit, warns of some of the pitfalls in corporate IT procurement  Continue Reading

• Questions raised over Jini as Sun joins rival plug-n-play consortium

  Pervasive computing took another step forward last month when Sun Microsystems joined the Universal Plug and Play Consortium...  Continue Reading

• Report any e-crime to local police

  
  
  John Riley

  Groundswell

  When it comes to tackling computer crime, especially e-crime, there's a crippling Catch-22 situation....

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• e-Government: the whats, whys and whens

  Cabinet Office minister Ian McCartney says UK Online means the Government wants to get people online rather than having to wait...  Continue Reading

• RIP Act extends culpability

  E-commerce expert Catrin Turner explains the implications of the RIP Act, which makes firms criminally liable for intercepting staff e-mails and similar communications  Continue Reading

• Internet security must be taken seriously

  Security is not being taken seriously by a great many UK companies that trade on the web. This could be an expensive mistake,...  Continue Reading

• So it'll never happen to you?

  
  
  P> The Internet changes everything, so the saying goes, and while most investor attention has been focused on dotcoms, then infrastructure and security,...  Continue Reading

• Who cares if closed IT tendering is unlawful?

  The use of framework contracts of questionable legality could lead to all public sector IT purchases being met by a small number...  Continue Reading

• Act now on distance selling laws

  
  
  Andrew Rigby

  The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations, which implement the EU's Distance Selling Directive come into force on 31...

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• Security tops list of concerns for IT managers

  
  
  IT managers are not happy about the UK's Internet trading security measures, according to the results of this week's Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big...  Continue Reading

• Normal trading rules apply for e-procurement

  
  
  Most business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces have the potential to generate enormous savings over more traditional methods of selling or procuring goods...  Continue Reading

• Web host glitch exposes data

  Security: Business data is left exposed while security standard lies idle  Continue Reading

• Web control or Web anarchy?

  The ignorant in pursuit of the uncontrollable.  Continue Reading

• Two-Jags Prescott in online petrol auction

  The petrol crisis may have caused problems for drivers up and down the country, but others saw it is a golden opportunity to make...  Continue Reading

• Counting the cost of security

  Internet security giant Baltimore Technologies has just splashed out 91 million of its shares to buy Content Technologies  Continue Reading

• Make a case for security before it's too late

  Why is the UK still lagging when it comes to security policies? IT managers should take the opportunity to take the lead in this...  Continue Reading

• Is Unix infallible?

  
  
  Paul Ducklin

  Soapbox

  There seems to be a lot of debate about whether Unix anti-virus products are useful. Some people even think...

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• Outlook carries Pokemon virus

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  So, what do an obscure Pokemon character and Microsoft Outlook have in common? They share the same address...

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• Managing growth can mean living on the edge

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• Take time to consider security

  Security specialist Gordon Stephenson thinks firms are preparing for catastrophe when the dangers are far more mundane. Ross...  Continue Reading

• RIP: a well-intentioned act that only hits the good guys

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  The European proposals on cybercrime, reported in last week's issue, are strangely similar to Jack Straw's...

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• Caveat vendor

  Many senior corporate users are bracing themselves for an increased outbreak of software licence abuse this autumn.  Continue Reading

• Why adopt a Knowledge Management strategy?

  Key pointers about the value of adopting a knowledge management strategy. Is KM a business or an IT tool?  Continue Reading

• Technology turmoil begins to turn

  
  
  

  There are signs that life is returning to technology share prices. The Nasdaq Index has been flirting with the psychologically important 4,000...

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• RIP is threat to Net safety

  
  
  Geert Kampschoer

  Soapbox

  A ll sorts of emotions have been stirred by the RIP Act - anger, offence, mistrust. Opponents claim that...

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• RIP Act negates tenet of e-friendly country

  In an open letter to the home secretary Jack Straw, David Taylor asks for clarification of some disturbing implications of the...  Continue Reading

• Stand firm on data privacy

  The EU's decision to back a report questioning the USA's willingness to protect personal data may cause delays in legislation, but will benefit user-privacy in the long run.  Continue Reading

• Learn the Y2K lesson

  
  
  Neil Kell

  Soapbox

  The cynical opinion now says that the millennium bug was over-hyped. But this assessment dismisses the fact that a...

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• Time for revisiting long-term strategies

  IT suppliers face tough times for some time to come, to judge from those who pay the wages - corporate IT users.  Continue Reading

• Constellar win top footy prize

  David Bicknell reports from the final of the Computer Weekly five-a-side football tournament  Continue Reading

• No respite in face of ongoing innovation

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside Track

  In the first of an occasional series of interviews with leading IT directors, David Taylor asks Chris...

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• Y2K still ripples through the market

  Y2K may no longer be an issue that bothers IT directors very much, but the reverberations continue to be felt in the City where...  Continue Reading

• EU comes out fighting

  e-business The plan by the European Union to levy tax on foreign companies for services delivered in Europe via the Internet...  Continue Reading

• IT share fall out cause for fire sales

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City briefing

  It has been a week for fire sales, with Bright Station (formerly known as Dialog) picking up the...

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• Was it too easy for the Love Bug?

  Basil Cousins of the X/OPEN Group believes business paid heavily for the Love Bug because of its over-reliance on one system,...  Continue Reading

• Scenario planning is the way to manage business uncertainties

  This column could seriously damage your consultants' wealth  Continue Reading

• Potential cheer as well as tears from Boo hoo-ha

  The Boo disaster could be good news for the Web industry. But that depends on everyone, from HTML coders to venture capitalists,...  Continue Reading

• The late show

  Late changes to RIP Bill are not the way to legislate  Continue Reading

• Download, play, no need to pay

  A new free games site has global potential, Roisin Woolnough meets the gamer behind freeloader.com  Continue Reading

• Devastating in its simplicity

  There's nothing innovative about the Love Bug's technology, writes Lindsay Clark  Continue Reading

• How we allowed the I Love You virus to happen

  A lack of diversity among corporate IT systems allowed the virus to spread, aided by inadequate corporate policy. Guy Campos...  Continue Reading

• Y2K firm leaves UK

  Greenwich Mean Time, the company run by one of Britain's best known year 2000 gurus, Karl Feilder, is to close down its British...  Continue Reading

• Firms quit UK over RIP Bill

  I've heard that petrochemical firms and several banks have been quietly taking their international secure IT processing out of the UK - to Ireland, Singapore and the US.  Continue Reading

• Market picks up after Y2K embargo

  Happy days are here again! After the delayed pick-up in work after the Y2K lockdown, it looks like the UK software and services...  Continue Reading

• Love Bug prompts security shake-up

  Cost of lax security hits home as virus takes a heavy toll worldwide  Continue Reading

• Let's get tough on users of unlicensed software

  We need muscle to combat software sharp practice  Continue Reading

• Tomorrow wreaks revenge on today

  It was somewhat ironic that the IT industry's trade body, the CSSA, should choose as the theme 'Tomorrow came today' for last...  Continue Reading

• Watch out, Big Brother's here

  
  
  John Riley

  Groundswell

  Beware suppliers offering juicy Web-based, one-to-one, drill-down customer relationship management...

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• Counter Net crime with a dose of classroom ethics

  Tony Blair is worried that a lack of computers at school and high charges for Internet access might leave British kids falling...  Continue Reading

• Connect with your Intranet

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside Track

  The new global agenda is on everyone's lips. Any organisation that follows the simple rule, that there...

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• ISPs need legal clarity

  
  
  The case of Godfrey-v-Demon - the Internet libel case settled out of court last week - leaves IT professionals mystified and concerned as to what it means...  Continue Reading

• CSL admits benefit IT chaos

  
  
  Mike Simons

  IT outsourcing company CSL is failing to deliver an adequate service on more than half of its housing benefits...

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• Internet voting has huge impact on US state election

  
  
  The voters of Arizona, USA, may just have made political history. Eighty thousand of them turned out in a presidential primary that was already as good as won...  Continue Reading

• Thomas Cook integrates Web and back-office to offer two million holidays online

  
  
  Thomas Cook has integrated its Web site with its back office systems to offer any of two million holidays online, writes Guy Campos.

  The agency...

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• Users shy of PKIs

  
  
  Suppliers of public key infrastructure technology (PKI) are facing a market shakeout as users shun their marketing message.

  Suppliers such as RSA,...

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• You can't blame the boffins

  The flawed development of Chinook's systems holds vital lessons for IT managers.  Continue Reading

• IT is the business

  Sir John Harvey Jones complains that it is about time Britain saw the importance of IT to business and argues that if we don't we...  Continue Reading

• Safety buck should stop at company directors

  Security is crucial to the growth of e-business - so much so that company directors should be pilloried if their policies are lax  Continue Reading

• Improve your company's credibility by making security a priority

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City Briefing

  The IT illiterate and those who have missed the boat are growing more vocal about the prospect of a...

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• Y2K: an endless search for scapegoats

  Y2K hysteria has followed the pattern of HIV, writes Karl Fielder  Continue Reading

• Two successful link-ups

  FI Group's merger with Druid has received a lot of publicity  Continue Reading

• Skimping on business continuity costs dear

  
  
  Tony Collins

  The anatomy of success and failure

  Any IT directors who have trouble extracting money from the board for measures to...

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• Y2K: the biggest non- event of all time

  Unless someone dies as a result of the Millennium Bug, it's not newsworthy  Continue Reading

• Law fetters e-revolution

  
  
  Andrew Hilton

  Soapbox

  Conventional techie wisdom holds that the Internet is sweeping everything before it. But the technological...

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• Lax security threatens future of UK e-commer

  Poor security could jeopardise UK e-commerce  Continue Reading

• Find the time for IT

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City Briefing

  It's traditional at this time of year to consider the year ahead. So, how will 2000 be for the IT...

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• Reaping the rewards of your Y2K fix

  
  
  John Riley

  Groundswell

  Senior IT staff members emerging bleary eyed from their Y2K bunkers this week are finding that the...

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