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Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News Campbell said that despite a trend to spread risk and expertise between many different providers that large companies were trying to simplify the complexities of multi-sourcing contracts. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News It is also interesting to note the move from simply using social-engineering techniques to spread malware to actually exploiting vulnerabilities. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News Dr Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, said in a statement: "We now see the time as being right to spread this development to a new set of locations, provided the requirements of the industry can be met.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[10 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News The security experts also warned about the threat from malware being spread through embedded devices, such as memory sticks, which is now one of the main ways harmful code is brought into businesses. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new...

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News Scroggie said the spread of malicious code was expected to increase, with the growing use of portable data-storage devices. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167 per cent from...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses

News EDS will be the operational integrator for the outsourcing contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors to join EDS, spread throughout 65 countries; about 900 Shell staff transferring to T-Systems and 560 to AT&T.

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

[03 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News EDS will be the operational integrator for the contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors to join EDS, spread throughout 65 countries. Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource the bulk...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News As with everything in life you need the first cluster to come in and spread the word and encourage," she said. The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off roaming charges, Viviane...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'

News Countries also need to resolve issues of law enforcement across national boundaries and the technical challenges of tackling the spread of cyber crime, he added. Suleyman Anil, head of Nato Computer Incident Response Capability Co-ordination Centre...

Tags: nato, terrorism, security, war

[07 Mar 2008]

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

News OpenID is one of the things that we index as a connection, and if you use OpenID to say, "Yes, I own this URL", that means that you can call the Social Graph API and see what assertions spread out from that URL.

Tags: google, myspace, social networking, open source

[03 Mar 2008]

Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop

News The latest quarterly report by executive recruitment company Heidrick & Struggles found a number of major investment banks have reduced IT staff, with cuts ranging from five to 20 per cent and spread around the globe.

Tags: recruitment, financial services, jobs, cio

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News He said: "The robots and astronauts would be spread out from the base to do exploration and some sorts of comms infrastructure would be needed. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News The data is spread everywhere. Bret Hartman has over 25 years of experience building data security systems and protocols for some of the biggest authorities and companies in the world. During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to...

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Web 2.0 security risks being ignored

News Externally, banks are responding to customer demands that their interactions with their bank mirror the other interactions they are used to on the internet while internally banks are using web 2.0 tools to communicate and collaborate across their...

Tags: web 2.0, security, banking, banks

[31 Jan 2008]

UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled

News Work due to be carried out using Hector includes forecasting the impact of climate change, projecting the spread of disease epidemics and developing new medicines. The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh.

Tags: cray, supercomputer, scientists, power

[15 Jan 2008]

Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live

News The MBR rootkit does not appear as a single file, which means the code can be spread across different sectors of a disk and therefore cannot be deleted as a usual file, according to research by GMER - a company that produces software that detects...

Tags: rootkit, trojan, malware, record

[10 Jan 2008]

Poll: Wi-fi sharing not for everybody

News When it comes to sharing home wi-fi, most silicon.com readers are reluctant to spread free wireless love. Asked if they are happy to share their wi-fi, nearly half (46 per cent) of respondents to a reader poll said it is something they would never do.

[15 Oct 2007]

'Security not just about user education'

News Malware can also be spread quickly via Bluetooth or MMS, making its proliferation easier, Runald said. Education is not a viable solution for preventing security issues, according to Patrik Runald, F-Secure's senior security specialist.

Tags: security, trojan, malware

[15 Oct 2007]

Mobile malware threat 'not high'

News In June 2004, F-Secure released details of a piece of mobile phone malware that used Bluetooth to try to spread to other Symbian series 60-based mobiles - which is believed to be the first case of a self-replicating mobile phone virus.

Tags: f-secure, virus, mobile

[27 Sep 2007]

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