IT risk management

The security lingo of 2004

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

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• Bill Brenner

Think Sarbanes Oxley extension changes things? Think again

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• David Foote, Foote Partners LLC

MoD may write off £200m Chinook helicopters

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

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• Tony Collins

IP everything, essentially

What are the fundamental deliverables of IP networks? How can you use IP networks to gain financial benefits in addition to... Continue Reading

The basis of profitability

Not so long ago, you didn't have much choice - your IT and communications requirements were acquired, implemented and maintained... Continue Reading

Symantec offers bare metal restore software

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• Shane O'Neill

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. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Survey shows SOX bringing IT, business together

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• Ed Parry, News Editor

Management matters

Cath Everett finds out how you stay on top of networking. What are the management issues related to your telecoms and networks... Continue Reading

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... Continue Reading

Undercover operations

Computer crime is on the rise, but collecting admissible evidence is a tricky business. Helen Beckett gets expert advice on what... Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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• Shawna McAlearney, News Writer

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... Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Learning about Security Threats: Profiling

A look at what it means to be a hacker. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

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. Continue Reading

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• Randy Arnott

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 relatively loud. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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• Arif Mohamed

Hacking for Dummies: Chapter 10 -- Wireless LANs

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

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 to an attack. For them, the bigger question is how to prevent such a thing from happening to their organization. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

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. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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• Hank Hogan, Contributing Writer

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... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

IBM and Cisco battle remote attack vulnerabilities

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• Edmund X. DeJesus, Contributing Writer

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 the best practices for enabling compliance. Continue Reading

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• Mark Lewis, Editor

Achieving the goal of CIO

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

There's no government like no government

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• Niall McKay, Contributing Writer

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. Continue Reading

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... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

What's in an IT name?

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

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... Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

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... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Who watches the watchers?

The Civil Aviation Authority must come clean about how it has policed Nats' computer systems Continue Reading

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... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

The VPN dilemma

With traditional networks choking on data, Liz Biddlecombe investigates the pros and cons of managing a VPN yourself or... Continue Reading

Chinook: a breach of natural justice

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

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• Tony Collins

Computer Weekly's evidence to the Public Accounts Committee

We write to the Public Accounts Committee in relation to its consideration of the Chinook's FADEC computerised engine control... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

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

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• Paul Grant

Tackling 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

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• Paul Grant

MoD kept RAF chief in the dark

New evidence shows that the air chief marshal who blamed the pilots for the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 was not given potentially vital information related to the helicopter's safety-critical software Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Pathway and the Post Office: the lessons learned

The infamous 1996-1999 Pathway project aimed to computerise the nation’s post offices and tackle benefit fraud. But 18 months... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

How to scour the world when outsourcing

Thanks to Y2K compliance programmes, it is now perfectly acceptable for a firm to consider moving all or part of its systems development and support... Continue Reading

Lifting the lid on secret stiffing techniques

One of the UK's most experienced IT negotiators lifts the lid on some of the sharp practices used by software suppliers to get... Continue Reading

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• Karl Schneider

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... Continue Reading

Leaked RAF memo scathing of safety software evaluation

Computer Weekly's Tony Collins uncovers evidence that the MoD has consistently undermined the authority of its software assessors... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly's Tony Collins

January-February

Tesco target of 300 online shops within one year Continue Reading

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...

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• Tony Collins

Was Y2K a costly non-event?

Many expected catastrophe. In reality, the industry coped well and is now in good shape for the future, writes Bill Goodwin Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

White Paper: Software solutions for effective network power management

Uncertain power conditions can wreak havoc on small businesses, however, there are ways to limit the risk of computer data loss Continue Reading

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