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Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Professor of security engineering at Cambridge University Ross Anderson said: "This all goes to show how unwise it would be to rely on the UK government for all authentication. Click on the links below to find out more. [29 Jul 2008]
BAE Systems tables £538m Detica bid
News The company believes the government will double spending in the sector to around £3bn by 2011. From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's alphabetical guide to security. Global defence and aerospace company BAE Systems has tabled a... [28 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News We will continue working closely with Ofcom and the government to achieve this. Click on the links below to find out more. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2... [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Government CIO John Suffolk is expected to launch a national green IT strategy at the end of this month. Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers... [16 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News He said the draft bill was unnecessary as government could gain access to all the communications data it needed from ISPs under the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. At present it is unclear whether the draft bill will call for data... [10 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News The technological measures were announced by the government on the back of a report by ex-chief constable David Blakey on how to stop drugs getting into prisons. The government welcomed the report and pledged to implement all 10 of Blakey's... [08 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News The CMA, which is part of the British Computer Society (BCS), attacked the government for failing to follow through on its promises regarding NGA. David Harrington, the CMA's director of regulatory affairs, said: "The gap between government... [07 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the government's controversial ID cards programme. If the government hasn't been able to convince the air industry that ID cards will bring... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News The CMA has called on the government to create a national broadband strategy that will take account of rising demand for next generation access to the internet over the next 12 to 24 months. Click on the links below to find out more. [04 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Terrorists are increasingly using technology to achieve their aims, according to the government. Click on the links below to find out more. In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West... [04 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could... [18 Jun 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News Secretary for local government Hazel Blears has had a computer stolen from her constituency offices in Salford. The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the Cabinet minister's constituency work, and some "restricted information... [18 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News The government has said it is engaged in tackling ongoing state-sponsored cyber attacks on UK national infrastructure. Security minister Lord West told the House of Lords that the UK continues to be targeted by a "large number of attacks" and that... [16 Jun 2008]
PC security warning for banking online
News She said that banks, along with government and technology organisations, need to take a key role in educating consumers to make them fully aware of what they could be liable for. Click on the links below to find out more. [16 Jun 2008]
Mobile internet use 'rocketing in Europe'
News Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer of the GSMA, said in a statement: "We expect prices to continue to fall as operators further innovate around tariffs and more and more Europeans use these services as a part of their... [11 Jun 2008]
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