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MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry of Defence data. On Wednesday 8 October we were informed by our contractor EDS that they were unable to account for a portable hard drive used... [10 Oct 2008]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News With the MoD, EDS is the primary contractor in the ATLAS consortium, which is delivering the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure programme to provide a single information infrastructure serving the Army, Navy,... [09 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch pushes techie wages to five-year low
News The recent stock market stumbles are already starting to have an effect on the IT market, with contractor rates slumping. Research by online CV company iProfile.org and the Association of Technology Staffing Companies... [06 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News August 2008: PA Consulting loses a data stick holding records on 84,000 prisoners, a breach that subsequently sees the contractor lose its lucrative contract with the Home Office. December 2007: Another large scale data... [30 Sep 2008]
NHS email upgrade rocked by delays
News Contractor Cable & Wireless is now scheduled to begin the work on 9 January 2009. The NHS has warned hundreds of thousands of staff that it has been forced to push back an email upgrade to next year. At least 300,000... [18 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye late last year with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government and business - most recently a... [01 Sep 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News Details of how unprotected sensitive data came to be on the USB stick owned by Home Office contractor PA Consulting - as well as how the stick itself was lost - remain unclear. The loss of a USB stick containing... [27 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News The spokeswoman also refused to comment on whether the contractor will be sacked following the breach, but she added: "We are investigating the external contractor's contractual obligations. Although the... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored. Contractor PA Consulting alerted the Home... [22 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News The defence contractor will design, build, test and operate an early version of the National Identity Register (NIR) and ID card application system for airport workers, which will go live from the second half of 2009. [04 Aug 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The biggest breach saw about 27,000 people affected in June 2007, when a disgruntled contractor working for the MoJ gave a journalist names, addresses and bank details from a list of MoJ suppliers kept on "inadequately... [25 Jul 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News A Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson said the problem is believed to be the result of incorrect data tables being sent out by the Oyster card contractor, Transys. London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed... [25 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News But Unite warned of higher levels of redundancies in the following years, as many contractor posts will have already been filled by redeployments. Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create... [14 Jul 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The MoD's loss of 600,000 personnel and new recruit details was also heavily criticised in a report by Sir Edmund Burton, who blamed poor management by the Army Recruiting and Training Division and its contractor EDS. [25 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News Meanwhile IT contractor Parity Resources also revealed it expects to do brisk business in the public sector this year, forecasting revenue of £70m. The government has drafted in a former blue chip CEO to help slash the... [23 Jun 2008]
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