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News Microsoft has announced GSP agreements with Russia, NATO and the UK. A lab to study the Microsoft Windows operating system source code was set up last week in Beijing, China. Called the Source Code Browsing Lab, it is... [26 Sep 2003]
Aussie government to see Microsoft source code
News Microsoft has to date signed up 12 members to the GSP, including Russia, NATO, China, Taiwan and the UK. The Australian government is to gain access to the source code underlying Microsoft's Windows operating system,... [14 Aug 2003]
UK government gets access to Windows source code
News The programme, widely viewed as Microsoft's response to the complete openness of the open-source movement, already includes Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as members. The United Kingdom is the... [03 Feb 2003]
John Lamb's Week: Cyber terrorism and a ship full of IT directors
Comment Speakers from among the good and the great include Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, Secretary General of NATO, William Webster, former Director of the FBI and CIA, and Jurgen Storbeck, Director of Europol. [15 Jun 2001]
Nato kick-starts its systems with Oracle
News Over 700 users in 12 countries will be trained to use the Nato Automated Financial System, (NAFS) to speed up the current paper-based process of budgeting and administration. David Oakley, Nato programme... [16 May 2001]
Beans means barcodes for MoD
News The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) will now issue a barcode on all packages issued under a defence contracting document as part of the department's Total Asset Visibility project. Trade association e-centre UK has been working with the MoD... [12 Mar 2001]
European communications 'wide open' to interception
News A former Nato encryption expert, who advised the EU on communications vulnerabilities in 1996, claimed that the Commission had been in the habit of sending completely unencrypted information, throwing into doubt the EU... [09 Mar 2001]
Nato concentrates defences on email
News Nato has bought its commercial email security software from UK-based software vendor NetTel. NetTel's MailGuard offers boundary protection for NATO's possible 'trust gap' between its intranet and the... [23 May 2000]
Nato denies Kosovo security breach
News A spy within Nato passed lists of bombing targets and flight plans to Belgrade during the Kosovo campaign, according to a BBC investigation. The news organisation has alleged that generous access to a... [09 Mar 2000]
Govt Y2K compliance on target for millennium says Beckett
News Sleigh said that the situation in Kosovo has had very little effect on the MOD's millennium preparations, but he couldn't speak for other NATO countries. We are as reassured as we can be that all our partners in... [17 Jun 1999]
London firms warned of Serbian cyberattack
News Security experts have warned that London's corporate servers risk attack from Serbian hackers retaliating against Nato air strikes. Until now, Serbian information warfare has been limited to government and military... [08 Apr 1999]
Oracle wins Nato finance contract
News Oracle has won a contract to supply its financial software to Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). The deal covers the command and control department responsible for military procurement and budget control and is... [12 Mar 1999]
Intel unveils Pentium III
News In the latest attack, Dr Brian Gladman, technology policy advisor for pressure group, Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties and an ex-NATO encryption expert, said: "The lack of consultation on this issue has been huge. [26 Feb 1999]
In brief: US set to soften encryption export law
News The softening of the laws is expected to apply only to Nato member countries, in a limited range of industries such as ecommerce and medicine. The US government is today expected to relax restrictions on the export of... [16 Sep 1998]
UK MoD abandons joint satellite project
News The satellites are still going to be based on the same NATO standards," he said. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to go it alone on a £1bn satellite project it had planned to co-develop with France and Germany. [18 Aug 1998]
