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XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics The company had to delay the release of the XP update after discovering at the 11th...

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News Our board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a Microsoft deal. Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Overall service management will be handled by Capgemini in the UK, with operational...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

Apacs IT chief steps down

News Yoe, who was director of technology, information and facilities, has been at Apacs for more than 17 years and headed up a number of important projects including consolidating a database of the organisation's 10,000-odd contacts and implementing an...

Tags: id management, it director, apacs

[28 Mar 2008]

India to train thousands more cyber cops

News Mittal said that with large outsourcers employing about 60,000 people Nasscom was continuing to push employers to put pressure on workers to sign up to the NSR - which allows background and ID checks linked to fingerprints.

Tags: india, data security, nasscom, police

[06 Feb 2008]

ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012

News The status of the review of ID cards and other identity technology issues is also unknown, with chief secretary to the treasury Andy Burnham saying there is no fixed date for the publication of the Public-Private Forum on Identity Management...

Tags: id cards, privacy international, home office, government

[23 Jan 2008]

Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling

News Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said he hoped the chancellor "appreciates the damage to public confidence" caused by the HMRC breach, and that it was "difficult to see how the government could proceed with the compulsory ID...

Tags: gov, dva, law, hmrc

[18 Dec 2007]

How did 25 million records get 'lost in the post'?

News The result is the banking industry and almost every family in the UK have been put on alert because of fear their personal details could now fall into the hands of criminals and ID thieves. It was then nearly three weeks on 8 November before news...

Tags: hmrc, alistair darling, data loss, child benefit

[21 Nov 2007]

Missing: 25 million child benefit records

News The missing CDs were not reported to senior HMRC management until 8 November and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling was then notified on 10 November. He also called on the government to abandon its ID card plans because of the data...

Tags: hmrc, alistair darling, security breach, activity

[20 Nov 2007]

'Stronger data breach laws needed in Asia'

News Explaining what constitutes a foundation of "sound" network security, Cox said that putting up firewalls and antivirus protection, as well as building policies around user permissions, should be completed before implementing ID management.

Tags: full disclosure, asia, data breach

[28 Sep 2007]

How will IT fare under Gordon Brown?

News Cliff Evans, ID management lead for IT services company Capgemini, told silicon.com: "Blair has always been the visionary while Brown has been the man who's more focussed on the detail. Woods added the only possible exception is the ID cards scheme...

Tags: prime minister, blair, tony blair, government

[28 Jun 2007]

CIO Essentials: ID theft, wobbly keyboards and Google

News ID management in the security spotlight Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter.

Tags: brewin dolphin securities, neil bath, cio essentials

[08 May 2007]

ID cards status to be made public

News The status of the national ID cards programme will be made available to the public following a ruling by the Information Tribunal. The ruling, made yesterday, supports the decision of the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, to make the Office...

Tags: id cards

[04 May 2007]

ID management in the security spotlight

News Accenture, which runs ID management consultancy services, is working with a number of businesses to implement identity management systems. However, some IT professionals feel the proposed use of identity management systems in the public sector...

Tags: identity management, two-factor authentication, federated identity, id management

[30 Apr 2007]

Open source ID projects cosy up to Microsoft

News Higgins is a Switzerland of identity management products - these are examples of identity projects that we're interoperating and integrating with. The Higgins and Bandit open source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open...

Tags: microsoft, open source, id

[29 Jan 2007]

Liberty Alliance plugs open source drive

News That is part of ID-WSF [Identity Web Services Framework] but that is not being addressed specifically by open source efforts," he said. Some of the open source projects that could benefit from the Liberty Alliance specifications are Lasso, OpenSAML...

Tags: id management, open source, liberty alliance

[23 Jan 2007]

Big Blue to do federated ID for SMEs

News Joe Anthony, IBM's Tivoli identity management director, said: "The hubs want to sell to smaller partners and before, these partners would have to use the full product to be a spoke. IBM is set to unveil a scaled-down version of its federated...

Tags: federated identity, ibm

[20 Nov 2006]

Blair slams ID cards critics

News Prime Minister Tony Blair has again hit out at critics of the government's controversial ID cards scheme, arguing that biometric technology is crucial for fighting crime and securing the UK's borders.

Tags: tony blair, id cards

[07 Nov 2006]

ID cards plan remains "worryingly vague"

News The government's ID cards plan and cost estimates remain "worryingly vague", according to academics at the London School of Economics (LSE). The LSE response follows the Home Office's first "section 37" report, which will be given to parliament...

Tags: lse, id cards on trial, id cards

[23 Oct 2006]

Top ID cards job goes to Accenture's NHS IT man

News James Hall will take up his post as the first CEO of the newly created IPS on 11 October and will have overall responsibility for the operation and management of the agency, including the ID cards scheme.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: ips, id cards

[25 Sep 2006]

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