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Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News One of the parts, running in the background, has privileged access to the operating system without requiring administrator approval each time the machine boots; the other part, running as a client program, interacts with this back-end service.

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Setting Up a Help Desk: Students Learning From Experience

whitepaper Building a Help Desk from "The boots up", gaining student "Buy-in" and commitment, assuring equity of work all posed difficulties at times. Obtaining employment on a Help Desk is often a "Catch twenty-two situation" for students.

Tags: customer support services

[12 Apr 2008]

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland

News Prior to that, Lister was at Boots, where he overhauled the health and beauty retailer's IT strategy with a £300m modernisation programme and major outsourcing deal with IBM. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Reuters CIO David Lister to help...

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

[01 Apr 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company Gold Medal Travel, before joining Nottingham Building Society. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with.

Tags: customer service, change management, building society, society

[11 Mar 2008]

Safe Termination of Orphan Processes on Windows NT Platforms

whitepaper This method takes a snapshot of the system's objects at a low-level layer (or even before the system boots, called preboot scanning); then it takes another snapshot at a very high-level layer and compares the differences.

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003

[28 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday

Comment Cool as a cucumber, saintly as a messenger from heaven, standing in grey suede boots on the second stair of the staircase outside the GSMA press theatre, Reding delivered her verdict to a conglomerated, sweating, half-crazed scrum of scribbling...

Tags: mobile world congress, google, ericsson, event

[12 Feb 2008]

Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live

News MBR delivers its payload by modifying an infected computer's master boot record, allowing the program to run before Windows boots. Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit had been a proof of concept but it is now being...

Tags: rootkit, trojan, malware, record

[10 Jan 2008]

Offshoring - culture lessons are crucial

News Rob Fraser, ex-CIO of Boots, said cultural difference is something you have to understand to "get the most" out of offshoring. It's essential for businesses to understand the cultures and different ways of working of any potential offshore...

Tags: india, outsourcing, offshoring, cio

[16 Oct 2007]

Niklas Zennström

AS Profile Before Skype, Zennström founded P2P software firm Joltid, and file-sharing software company Kazaa - which means he's got a track record that should have competitors quivering in their boots. Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but...

[12 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...

Comment So isn't it funny that on Saturday morning as I kicked my heels among the construction work at Gatwick's South Terminal, one of the most dramatically crowded departure areas I've ever seen, I was asked for my boarding card about four or five times...

Tags: airport, atlarge, frequent flyer

[08 Oct 2007]

Sony USB device harbouring "nasty" rootkit

News They added that another easy hack for malicious-software authors would be to launch code from their chosen directory and add a start-up entry for the software to ensure it is hidden immediately as the PC boots up.

Tags: security, usb, rootkit, sony

[03 Sep 2007]

Easy, Cost Effective High Availability x10sure

whitepaper x10sure provides an easy, cost effective, high availability IT solution for small to medium size enterprises, using industry standard servers running Windows applications.x10sure manages a server farm of two or more standard, commodity Windows...

Tags: high availability, availability, configuration, production

[23 Aug 2007]

Towards Securing Pocket Hard Drives and Portable Personalities

whitepaper This paper focuses on a subset of this computing model, called portable storage based personalization where the user boots the borrowed PC from her portable storage device, i.e.pocket hard drive. Inexpensive portable storage devices that are...

Tags: removable storage, portable, hard drive, portable storage

[23 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07

Round-Up Oh but there is one more thing.actually there are a few more things but the Round-Up is going to carefully remove its Steve Jobs five o'clock shadow, black polo neck, blue jeans and white trainers and get down and dirty in its usual garb (a white...

Tags: next generation, advertising, microsoft, william gibson

[10 Aug 2007]

CIO Essentials: Facebook, data breaches and email overload

News Boots axes IT chief So, in just one week, both Boots and House of Fraser have announced they are not replacing their outgoing CIOs. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture.

Tags: cio essentials, jane kimberlin, domino's pizza

[07 Aug 2007]

Leader: Should CIOs fear the rise of private equity?

Leader When this publication learnt that Boots head of IT Rob Fraser was to depart after a decade at that high street stalwart, it was made clear the move wasn't related to the purchase of Alliance Boots by private equity interests, notably KKR and the...

Tags: cio, boots, private equity

[03 Aug 2007]

Boots axes IT chief

News High-street health and beauty retailer Boots is axing the role of IT director as it comes to the end of a major, multi-year IT transformation programme. The decision means current IT director Rob Fraser will leave the company this week and Boots...

Tags: rob fraser, boots

[02 Aug 2007]

Retailers fill their baskets with tech

News Boots is rolling out a new Extra Offers kiosk system for use by its 15 million Advantage loyalty cardholders to check their points and offers available to them. The retailer said this represents a significant investment for Alliance Boots and shows...

Tags: retail

[07 Jun 2007]

Nigel Underwood

CIO Profile A graduate of Nottingham University, Underwood spent his early IT career in the fast-moving consumer goods industry with big brands including Boots, Mars and Coca-Cola Schweppes. What they say about him: "A big man with a big presence, who has made...

[06 Jun 2007]

David Lister

CIO Profile Lister joined Boots when the group was trying to integrate 14 different business units into one integrated company and he overhauled the health and beauty retailer's IT strategy with a £300m modernisation programme and major outsourcing deal with...

[06 Jun 2007]

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