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Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News Testers can either apply for certification at the corporate level, which costs £7,000, or on a standalone level as a "Crest associate", which will cost them £1,600 to sit the exam. Crest is running certification examinations in two streams...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News As part of this announcement, Microsoft said it now offers Board Support Package certification free of charge. Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News But Barrett said other measures are needed such as email certification. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked

News What's more, the [device] certification process is completely defective. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN terminals: the Ingenico i3300 and the Dione Xtreme.

Tags: chip and pin, cambridge university, connected, entry

[27 Feb 2008]

Security experts slam HMRC over data loss

News John Colley, former head of information security at Royal Bank of Scotland, now European MD of the International IS Security Certification Consortium, believes the solution is more about educating government employees to handle citizens' personal...

Tags: hmrc, security, disclosure, hands

[22 Nov 2007]

South Africa plumps for Open Documents

News OOXML failed to achieve ISO certification in September. The South African government is to adopt Open Document Format (ODF) as its preferred standard for software interoperability. ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word...

Tags: odf, open source, ooxml, format

[29 Oct 2007]

Microsoft's OOXML fails to get ISO stamp

News Microsoft's Office Open XML document specification has failed to achieve ISO certification for now. National standards bodies from 104 countries have been casting votes over the past five months to decide whether OOXML should receive ISO...

Tags: iso, microsoft, ooxml

[06 Sep 2007]

FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics

News ISO certification would result in governments accepting OOXML as a recognised document format, encouraging its use to the exclusion of others. Votes on ISO certification by national bodies in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland...

Tags: iso, fsf, microsoft, ooxml

[31 Aug 2007]

Massachusetts opts for open docs 'third way'

News The company insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and...

Tags: opendocument, open office, microsoft, open source

[03 Aug 2007]

In-flight mobile gets air-safety green light

News OnAir CEO Benoit Debains said in a statement: "This certification validates the integrity of the work that Airbus has done in developing and integrating technology from best of breed suppliers. The launch of in-flight mobile services by several...

Tags: ryanair, bmi, air france, onair

[19 Jun 2007]

Linux fans demand more from Dell

News Dell's EMEA director of client marketing, Eric Greffier, said in May that Dell would offer the rest of the world Linux PCs some way behind the US due to driver certification issues and the logistical difficulties posed by translating support...

Tags: dell, linux

[19 Jun 2007]

Spam busting plan to make businesses pay

News A certification service, such as CertifiedEmail, enables us to help restore that trust and makes it easier for consumers to identify legitimate email messages," he said. Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for...

Tags: delivery, email, spam

[07 Jun 2007]

India gets offshore cyber crime watchdog

News The DSCI will develop common minimum standards for privacy and security policies, offer certification, enforce a code of ethics and best practice, and punish any breaches by Indian IT and BPO companies - which could include expelling members or...

Tags: offshore outsourcing, dsci, nasscom, india

[07 Jun 2007]

'Lame IT pros should be struck off' - Microsoft

News He added: "If we chuck someone out and revoke their CITP it makes little difference to their getting a job, because employers mostly go for people whose certification is job specific, say, in Oracle databases.

Tags: it pros, microsoft

[24 May 2007]

Next-gen wi-fi kit to get early stamp of approval

News The delay between certification and the final standard could mean that access points and client devices cease to interoperate in two years' time when the standard is complete.n promises up to five times the throughput and twice the range of the...

Tags: 802.11n, wi-fi

[17 May 2007]

Air France to trial in-flight mobile use from July

News The airline had been due to launch the in-flight mobile service last month but has been forced to delay it until the summer due to regulatory certification for the on-board equipment taking longer than expected.

Tags: air france, ryanair, bmi, onair

[18 Apr 2007]

Local government tech contract bonanza

News The system will also enable staff to book leave and training courses, check HR policy on benefits such as maternity leave and complete self-certification for sick-leave. This week has seen a blizzard of contract signing across local government...

Tags: government

[29 Mar 2007]

Call for Dell to sell Linux PCs

News Certification should mean Suse would function smoothly on all Dell PCs. Dell has acknowledged that 83,000 users have urged it to sell PCs with Linux pre-installed but it has fallen short of accepting their suggestion.

Tags: dell, linux

[26 Feb 2007]

IE 7 gives secure sites the green light

News VeriSign has about 300 customers, including online retailer Overstock.com, that have signed up for the green bar certification process, said Spiros Theodossiou, a senior product manager at VeriSign. The padlock icon used today was designed to show...

Tags: anti-phishing, ie 7, phishing

[05 Feb 2007]

Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch

News Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the OOXML document formats at Ecma International and is in the process of seeking certification with the ISO, or the International Organization for Standardization.

Tags: odf, open source, microsoft

[02 Feb 2007]

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