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News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. The package will be used to protect data which has a Restricted classification or less, and will now be deployed on laptops not connected to the Defence...
[08 May 2008]
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify...
[06 May 2008]
Photo Seven metres long, with two ramjet engines and four booster rockets it was a pillar of Britain's defence against the Soviet threat during the Cold War. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion...
[01 May 2008]
News The criticism follows a number of high-profile UK government data breaches recently, including the HMRC loss, numerous losses from the Ministry of Defence, and losses from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
[30 Apr 2008]
Comment It was always obvious that outsourcing would be more expensive but this smacks of the olden days when defence companies ripped off the government. Social networking safety plan Social networks to stamp out sex offenders
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Trojan defence; “I didn’t do it, someone else did”- myth or reality? Part I examines the Trojan defence, how Trojan horses are constructed and considers the collection of volatile data. Part II takes this further by investigating some of the...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The success of the mobile internet market is not dependent on one thing only. Marketing, handset development, attractive content, packet-based networks and appealing tariffs are all important variables in the equation.
[10 Apr 2008]
News The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate cyber defence among Nato allies after its formation was backed by members at the Nato summit in Bucharest last week. It is a shift away from Nato's policy of mainly focusing on the...
[08 Apr 2008]
News The EU report specifically challenges the defence by saying arguments about improving services may conceal other uses that go beyond the original reasons the data was collected. Google has defended its policy of retaining data on web users for up...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Ministry of Defence (MoD) road safety officer Major Shepherd said: "As part of our commitment to duty of care, we have an obligation for the safety of all MoD personnel - whether they are drivers or passengers.
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment But the case for the defence is that the OOXML specification is actually well structured, extensible and not a tangled mess. Amid anger and disbelief, it emerged this week the ISO is ratifying Microsoft's OOXML as a standard.
[04 Apr 2008]
News The ban on removal of laptops and portable devices with unencrypted personal data was introduced across all government departments in the wake of a string of high profile data losses, including the loss of 600,000 personnel details by the Ministry...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Baroness Taylor, said in a statement: "Leapp is a new, world-class system. Defence engineering company Lockheed Martin UK INSYS, will supply the system and vehicles, seen here, as part of an £100m deal...
[03 Apr 2008]
News Speaking at the Cyber Warfare 2008 event in London this week, Debi Ashenden, senior research fellow at the Defence College of Management and Technology at Cranfield University, said most companies overlook the importance of employee behaviour when...
[03 Apr 2008]
News Recent reports of government data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child...
[01 Apr 2008]
News In addition to these figures, the Ministry of Defence has previously admitted to losing 347 laptops since 2004. Government departments have misplaced more than 1,000 laptops and almost 500 mobile phones - either lost or stolen - since 2001.
[01 Apr 2008]
Comment In its defence, the airline has stressed the operational move to T5 was "one of the most complex and largest airport moves in history" which perhaps goes some way to explaining why some elements didn't run as smoothly as they could.
[28 Mar 2008]
News Recent reports of data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child benefit...
[28 Mar 2008]
Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the battlefield. Here Baroness Ann Taylor, minister of defence equipment and...
[26 Mar 2008]
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. Defence minister Bob Ainsworth admitted that 4,433 ID cards disappeared in 2006 and a further 6,812 went missing from...
[13 Mar 2008]
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