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RSS defence in newsAll-seeing I-Ball gives troops remote skinny on the enemy
News The I-Ball has been picked as the winning entry in the Ministry of Defence's Competition of Ideas, a competition which asked UK industry to come up with technology to solve the MoD's "most pressing problems". [17 Nov 2008]
Are you the new Q? MoD wants to hear from you
News The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep it supplied with the latest and greatest in gadgetry, the department announced today. Among the areas of defence technology the MoD is... [14 Nov 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Sustained cyber espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the UK national infrastructure, a UK cyber defence chief has warned. The computer systems of critical businesses in the UK, such as... [29 Oct 2008]
MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry of Defence data. The Ministry of Defence confirmed to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that a hard disk had been lost by EDS, but... [10 Oct 2008]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and... [09 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News March 2008: The Ministry of Defence confesses 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen over the last two years. January 2008: Some 600,000 records on members and would-be members of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines... [30 Sep 2008]
UK completes £254m QinetiQ defence tech sale
News The controversial privatisation of defence tech firm QinetiQ has been completed. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) sold its remaining 19 per cent stake in QinetiQ, previously the UK's... [10 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News Watchdog the National Consumer Council (NCC) is calling on lawmakers to force businesses to confess to their data breaches. The NCC is petitioning the European Union to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform... [01 Sep 2008]
Legal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News It said yesterday it has appealed the court order as part of an energetic defence of its position. Cubic, a member of the TranSys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally... [14 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]
Nasa hacker loses extradition appeal
News McKinnon is accused of sabotaging vital defence systems after admitting accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers between 2001 and 2002.silicon.com Public Sector Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his fight to block... [30 Jul 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News Ministry of Defence: 11,316 employees and 10,000 external contractors out of a total workforce of 80,070 have secure remote access to department systems. The government may be pushing employers to embrace more flexible... [30 Jul 2008]
BAE Systems tables £538m Detica bid
News Global defence and aerospace company BAE Systems has tabled a £538m bid for business and technology consultancy Detica. Detica specialises in IT security services and technology to counter threats to national security or... [28 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Second permanent under secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Sir Ian Andrews, told the committee the ministry would reduce the number of machines through the Defence Information Infrastructure project to... [16 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's personal data... [11 Jul 2008]
