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Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News Notable cyber crime success include Operation Ajowan, where Soca broke up a website where criminals traded stolen bank, credit and identity information that could have cost the UK finance sector at least £6m.

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

EC backs tech for green future

News Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, said the move to a high growth, low carbon economy is essential to achieve European efficiency goals by 2020. The European Commission (EC) is backing the use of technology to cut...

Tags: energy, emissions, carbon, europe

[15 May 2008]

RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours

News Speaking at RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Alan T Panezic, VP of software product management at BlackBerry-maker RIM, said the Bold is all about "balance" as it has a high-resolution screen that gives the user more...

Tags: iphone, rim, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs

News The system, supplied by Vodat International, replaces a process of updating store managers with sales and merchandising information with a twice-weekly pack delivered by fax and post. The technology provides managers at the retailer's 49 stores...

Tags: tj hughes, email, vodat

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft users surf the skies from the web

News The program is similar to Google Sky, a mode of Google Earth that offers views of the universe, including high-resolution photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope and background information on discoveries and constellations.

Tags: google sky, space, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

UK'should 'abandon' software market to China

News The Chinese first quarter figures released by the Ministry of Industry and Information showed software services has generated $4bn, software outsourcing £258m and software sales $7bn in revenue during the first three months of the year.

Tags: uk, saas, software

[14 May 2008]

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

News In a victory for data loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Denise Plumpton, director of information for the HA, described the massive job of rationalising the sprawling IT infrastructure underpinning nine offices. Plumpton added the HA was in talks with sat-nav providers about allowing drivers to access...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News The package will be used to protect data which has a Restricted classification or less, and will now be deployed on laptops not connected to the Defence Information Infrastructure. The MoD has already been using BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline...

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News Atos Origin provides two main IT systems for the games - the Games Management System (GMS) and the Information Diffusion Systems (IDS). Other parts of GMS include the transportation system, the sports entries and qualifications system, medical...

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News The system - supplied by Fidelity National Information services, IBM, Smart Technology solutions and VeriFone - is an integrated mobile chip and PIN payments system that allows the company to channel all payments from its Beefeater, Brewers Fayre...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

News The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need and now demands adequate security...

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News He explained: "From a technology perspective we're supplying information. That information is consumed in applications and services. And within that you can do a correlation between if you've got maybe 1,000 servers in your environment and 300 of...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame

News Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 per cent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25 million personal records by HM Revenue & Customs last year.

Tags: data breach, government, hmrc

[30 Apr 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News Information contained on the system includes addresses, postcodes and national grid references, as well as a unique property reference number for each individual property. An insurance company for example could access the system to make sure its...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in

News The travelling process has been smoothed by linking up customer details, flight information and limousine service information. This relies on a centralised passenger name record database, a system joining up Virgin Atlantic's cargo system and their...

Tags: planes, virgin, heathrow

[29 Apr 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News Richard Steel has been named president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), the professional association for public sector IT managers. Steel replaces head of information services at Belfast City Council, Rose Crozier, as...

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

Those not using IT cite a lack of training and technical support as major barriers — requesting more IT in medical education, more training and better electronic networking among healthcare practitioners wanting to share clinical information.

[29 Apr 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News The decision to double up the IT roles was taken as part of an ongoing review of effective information use in the NHS amid a £12.4bn overhaul of IT in the NHS known as Connecting for Health. IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per...

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News By identifying patterns of fraudulent activity and linking disparate cases the centre would set priorities for fraud policing, focus major fraud investigations and stop information from slipping through the gaps between different agencies.

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

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