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Chancellor faces up to UK’s worst-ever data breach

cricketfiend — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:56:40 +0000

Chancellor Alistair Darling told MPs that last month a junior employee used the department’s internal mail system to send two password-protected discs that contained a full, unecrypted copy of HMRC’s data relating the payment of child benefit . But the discs never arrived. What he didn’t say was why a basic breach in security procedures occured

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SANS Institute team lists security skills for Java programmers

cricketfiend — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:18 +0000

A group of senior security experts, pulled together by the SANS Institute, has laid out the essential skills needed for secure Web application development.

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Berners-Lee: Vendors must keep mobile internet open

cricketfiend — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:28:22 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee has powerfully reiterated that the mobile internet should be kept as open as the web has become.

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TradElect boost LSE profits

cricketfiend — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:28:05 +0000

The London Stock Exchange has posted a 41% rise in profits in its interim half yearly results, boosted by increasing volumes of electronic trading after the launch of its new TradElect platform.

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Ellison turns his back on BEA

cricketfiend — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:27:50 +0000

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has claimed that the company is no longer interested in buying BEA Systems, at least not for as much as it offered last month.

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Lose an unencrypted laptop and ‘face criminal action’

cricketfiend — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:27:32 +0000

The data protection watchdog has called for criminal action against those who lose individuals’ personal data on unencrypted laptop computers.

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Where is Microsoft’s Green story?

cricketfiend — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:20:35 +0000

I just got back from Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona. The company’s new strategy seems to be… if it moves virtualise it, if it doesn’t move virtualise it anyway, and if its virtualised already then virtualise it some more and manage it.

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Capgemini to cull 20% of HMRC’s Aspire IT staff

cricketfiend — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:32:46 +0000

Capgemini is set to axe the jobs of up to 600 staff working on its Aspire IT contract with HM Revenue and Customs – 20% of the total.

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Predicting the 2008 security risks

cricketfiend — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:53:38 +0000

If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, with the TJX break-in topping a long list, then what troubles are in store for 2008?

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Government calls on NHS IT contractors to spell out delivery deadlines

cricketfiend — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:53:23 +0000

The government has accepted a series of recommendations from the House of Commons health committee on the future of the NHS’s £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

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