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HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News The Flex framework will see Fujitsu offering shared services to a range of public sector organisations, allowing the public sector to save money by sharing software applications and support and letting civil servants... [25 Sep 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal details, the malicious software developers are hoping to expand the capabilities of old Trojans. The advantages are that you have more... [18 Sep 2009]
Apple Mac OS X security holes get plugged with latest update
News Signing out of MobileMe does not remove all credentials and a person with access to the local user account could continue to access associated systems. Apple on Wednesday issued a security update that... [06 Aug 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News About 35 members of the Postini Site Reliability Engineering team have access on their machines to a dashboard that shows the number of transactions that the Postini service is handling per second, as well as the message... [02 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News Hillingdon invested in software to automatically shut down PCs, server virtualisation, replaced power hungry CRT monitors with TFT screens, bought duplex printers and introduced remote access software... [29 Jun 2009]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News Bapco's Baars also echoed the need for better data connectivity, saying: "The ability to access information is critical to everybody. The case for needing streamed video is less certain in his view - however he pointed... [15 Jun 2009]
And the most flexible town in the UK is...
News The survey also found almost half (46 per cent) of flexible workers have been furnished with a laptop, around a third (35 per cent) have been given a mobile phone, 29 per cent have access to a VPN, and 23 per cent have... [27 May 2009]
Deloitte banking on PIN sharp security
News Up to 1,000 staff at Deloitte and Visa will be given new Barclaycard Corporate Visa cards, revealed by silicon.com last year, which generate one-time-use passcodes that allow remote access to the company... [13 May 2009]
BlackBerry Enterprise Server: Now we are 5.0
News The latest BES can also support a number of features in BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 - set to be released this autumn - including remote access to Windows network file-shares, letting BlackBerry users... [05 May 2009]
Windows 7: Now with one-third fewer annoying prompts
News Smart card provider Gemalto is offering multifactor authentication for Windows 7 for even more secure access to machines accessing the network, said Ray Wizbowski, director of marketing and communications at Gemalto. [21 Apr 2009]
Payment cards: Top target in data breach attacks
News In about four out of 10 hacking-related breaches, an attacker gained unauthorised access to the victim via one of the many types of remote access and management software, typically... [16 Apr 2009]
Conficker wakes up with payload for the infected
News W32.Waledac steals sensitive information, turns computers into spam zombies, and establishes a back door remote access. The update appeared to be attempting to access the Waledac domain,... [09 Apr 2009]
Cops spend £5m on secure access
News The infrastructure will allow police officers and support staff to get secure remote access to police systems across different forces, cutting down on the need for police officers to return to the station. [08 Apr 2009]
Hackers get cracking on unpatched PowerPoint flaw
News When the file is opened, PowerPoint will access an invalid object in memory. Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow remote code... [03 Apr 2009]
Emergency mobile roaming coming to UK?
News The proposal is part of its consultation on Access and Inclusion, published today. At present, mobile calls to 999 or 112 can only be connected if the caller's network is available in the area - which is a particular... [19 Mar 2009]
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