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RSS machines in newsBletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked the codes used to... [24 Jul 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News Websites poisoned with malware capable of infecting visitors' machines are being discovered at a rate of 16,173 per day - three times faster than in 2007. Hackers place malware into the database running a website using SQL injection attacks, which... [23 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News A government initiative that has rolled out 419 non-charging cash machines to low income areas is set to increase deployment by a third by the end of the year. These new cash machines will help individuals on low incomes to access financial... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News It also told international users they could get into the act by spoofing their systems into appearing to be US machines and then gave instructions on how to do so. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for) a... [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Security company Symantec is also forecasting a shift from home users and businesses installing security packages on individual computers to accessing security services via remote machines online. Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and... [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News She said the department was also looking at sourcing machines through sustainable supply chains and achieving CO2 savings by measures such as turning off over-complicated screensavers and introducing automatic standby on more machines. [16 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News What is more important is recognising the impact these machines had on the societies of their day. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing... [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News When all of your machines and network links are running at capacity, XML is an extremely expensive proposition. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of... [11 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The Future Firecrest programme has seen 3,000 computers installed at FCO offices in London and Milton Keynes, with new machines and infrastructure planned at FCO sites in Athens, Tbilisi in Georgia, and The Hague from late summer 2008. [07 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The Department of Health recently revealed it would take at least six months for trusts to complete encryption of all machines, from when work began in most trusts in March. A hospital trust faces possible enforcement action by the UK information... [30 Jun 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News It's also true in many schools, libraries and cyber cafes - and it's what users are increasingly asking for as they install ever more foregrounded security software on their own machines. Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain says the web is on the... [30 Jun 2008]
Time finally runs out for Windows XP
News The 23 June letter, entitled 'An Update on the Windows Roadmap', from Bill Veghte, senior vice president, online services and Windows business group, reiterated that PC makers won't be getting more copies of Windows XP to load on new machines... [25 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News A number of health trusts are expected to be months late meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines by 31 March. NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients' personal data held on their computers until later this year. [24 Jun 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Supercomputing, which pits the highest-end machines against challenges such as forecasting the global climate in coming decades or finding oil reservoirs underground, is a fast-changing field. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers... [19 Jun 2008]
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News The portable machines will capture and send 3D snapshots of the surrounding world, helping accident investigators, teachers and doctors work remotely by instantly relaying realistic depictions of car damage, injuries, medical scans or educational... [19 Jun 2008]
