MoD fights data losses with encryption
20,000 laptops up their defences

Tags: security, army, mod

FSA warns banks to wise up on security
Finance watchdog found gaps in security strategies

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

Motorola suffers a Q1 loss
Restructuring taking its toll?

Tags: profit, motorola

Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
BRC accuses banks of 'exploiting' card charges

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

Google reports sterling quarter
"It's a good time to be a Google bull"

Tags: profits, google

Mobile banking set for boom time
Ringing up billions of transactions

Tags: security, consumer, payment, mobile

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
"Fraudsters clearly aren't giving up"

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

Co-op Financial Services' mail goes digital in £12m deal
Xerox to improve customer service…

Tags: document management, xerox, co-op

Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
Efficiency to blame

Tags: green it, bank, data centres

Experian embraces open source
A "real benefit" to the company, IT security chief says

Tags: implementation, security, culture, open source

PayPal wages war on phishing
"United we stand, divided we fall," says security chief

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details
FSA to investigate?

Tags: hsbc, fsa, data loss

Lloyds TSB beefs up project management
Web-based software paves way to 'agile' company…

Tags: best practice, project management, lloyds tsb

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses
Union says oil giant is "dumping" staff…

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses
Laissez-faire attitude adds to confusion over payments...

Tags: fraud, faster payments, sepa

RIM doubles quarter profits
…but what about the iPhone effect?

Tags: iphone, facebook, blackberry, rim

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount
Paye system can't cope

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland
David Lister heads back north…

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

Banking slowdown will bite IT spending
CBI forecasts a cold summer for financial services…

Tags: insurance, banks, it spending

Apacs IT chief steps down
Sue Yoe off to pastures new after 17 years

Tags: id management, it director, apacs

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
Stories of the month - March 2008

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously
But no cash promises yet…

Tags: e-crime, e-crime crackdown, cyber crime, crime

eSure creates customer 'information hub'
Plug-and-play to manage business 'explosion'

Tags: esure, initiate systems, play, plug

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
Creeping into all organised crime

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
US getting battered

Tags: rsa, banks, phishing, banking

Nationwide banks on SAP
Setting sail on a £300m transformation voyage

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force
Businesses back silicon.com e-Crime Crackdown campaign

Tags: e-crime, police, cyber crime, crime

MiFID compliance warning
Many trading firms going for minimum level of compliance...

Tags: mifid, banks, compliance, europe

Police e-crime funding set for green light?
e-Crime Crackdown: Home Office to copper up its money this month

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, campaign

Police backs calls for e-crime unit
e-Crime Crackdown: Groundswell of support for silicon.com campaign

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
Police, businesses and politicians back our call for a new national police e-crime unit

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, nhtcu, threat

Nottingham Building Society to rip and replace systems
One year's profit invested

Tags: building society, storage, servers, branch

Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
Warning: Denial of service attack "very worrying"

Tags: ddos, security, botnet, attack

Sharia insurance firm signs £87m Capita deal
IT outsourcing for British Islamic Insurance Holdings

Tags: capita, ito, outsourcing, compliant

Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
From key loggers and DoS attacks to software hijackers

Tags: atm, banks, malware, box

HSBC vows to increase tech investment
Despite $17.2bn bad debt writedown

Tags: hsbc, cio, bank, profits

Reuters to save £1.2m with print system revamp
Xerox to streamline document management

Tags: reuters, printer, xerox, print

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
On Islamic banking, the credit crisis and his new role

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
Cambridge University researchers steal PIN numbers and card details

Tags: chip and pin, cambridge university, connected, entry

HSBC computer fault denies customers account access
Debit cards declined all over the shop

Tags: hsbc, atm, bank, fault

Outsourcing gives personal-injury claims company a boost
Xansa deal pushes costs down and revenue up…

Tags: xansa, health, insurance, outsourcing

Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop
Credit crunch bites, latest recruitment stats show...

Tags: recruitment, financial services, jobs, cio

Swinton Insurance gets chatty with IP tech
Alcatel-Lucent tech cutting costs and improving customer service

Tags: swinton, customer service, contact centre, voip