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Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo Foster-Miller, a unit of UK defence contractor Qinetiq, was showing off the Talon, which has been used in places like Iraq for bomb disposal missions. Players large and small in the robotics industry descended on Boston,... [20 Apr 2009]
From army officer to IT chief - CPS CIO David Jones
Comment It also has to shepherd information as it moves through a number of other organisations, from the police to defence lawyers. We have no control over the defence and nor should we, so their technology... [08 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo The Ministry of Defence chose March to show off a selection of its robots as part of the unveiling of its Defence Technology Plan. According to the software giant, a worker in the future will find that... [07 Apr 2009]
Should you still be scared of malware?
News A number of organisations in recent months have been finding out about those actions: the UK Parliament, Barts and the London NHS Trust, five Sheffield hospitals and the Ministry of Defence have all been hit by viruses... [06 Apr 2009]
Is your credit card data well enough protected?
News I have no doubt that compliance to PCI standards are the best line of defence," said Robert Russo, director of the PCI Data Security Standards Council. The self-regulatory system credit card companies have created to... [01 Apr 2009]
Photos: Army tech marches into future
Photo It was developed for the MoD's Grand Challenge in August which is a competition to find the best defence technology ideas to help deal with the changing threats faced by troops. This collecting device is part of a DSTL... [11 Mar 2009]
MoD awards tech deals worth £14m
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded three tech contracts totalling £14m in investment and providing work for 14 UK-based companies. According to the Official Journal of the European Union - which publishes public... [18 Feb 2009]
Cisco gives routers defence of their very own
News Cisco has taken a new tack on the perennial problem of keeping security software updated - by adding security software to Linksys routers. The company has announced a collaboration with Trend Micro to introduce the Home Network Defender... [18 Feb 2009]
Military intelligence to get £190m link up
News The £191m stage of the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, will build and link networks capable of handling material classified as "Above Secret". The DII implementation is part of the MoD's drive... [11 Feb 2009]
How to recover from a data breach
Comment The best defence against hackers trying to steal corporate data is a whole lot of preparation, says Danny Bradbury. These days the headlines are full of stories about data being stolen from major organisations - in both... [09 Feb 2009]
UK troops sheltered from friendly fire by £3m tech
News The system is due to be in place by 2010 and is being provided by defence contractors General Dynamics, QinetiQ and Rockwell Collins.silicon.com Public Sector It has been two years since the Ministry of... [09 Feb 2009]
Two-thirds of UK's top IT security jobs unfilled
News Wiltshire said the accreditation process will remain voluntary for most Whitehall security staff but added that some departments already demand ITPC accreditation, including some parts of the Ministry of Defence and The... [03 Feb 2009]
Satyam scandal, police search row and Apple without Jobs
News Sticking with security, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced it had disabled computer systems on Royal Navy warships, following the detection of a virus on a MoD network. One of January's big stories was Apple CEO... [02 Feb 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo Defence and technology company EADS lifted the lid on some of the technology it's developing. Apple unveiled its first Macintosh 25 years ago and the Mac has been a mainstay of the company's product line-up since then. [28 Jan 2009]
Tories slam gov't for lack of open source love
News Aside from anything else, [think of] the money that could be saved in government: schools, hospitals, civil service, defence, by choosing open source and free operating systems and software. The Conservative party has... [28 Jan 2009]
