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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being...

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

Regulating the Payment Card Industry

whitepaper Both the fees, especially the interchange fees, and the scheme rules have been scrutinized and in many jurisdictions also regulated. The payment card industry is subject to substantive regulatory pressure.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

AutoNation Achieves Backups 12 Times Faster, Cuts Costs With New Backup Software

whitepaper Also, the tape-based backup scheme required hours of management each week and was often unreliable. Leading automotive retailer AutoNation watched its data expand as rapidly as its car sales. When its data stores hit 15 terabytes, the company could...

Tags: network disaster recovery, backup, file, backups

[03 May 2008]

Role Sharing in Password-Enabled PKI

whitepaper A hybrid password-enabled PKI scheme is developed, which supports both easy password change and misuse monitoring. Password-enabled PKI schemes simplify the management of end users' private keys by storing them in password-protected form on a...

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number to call an ambulance, with...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News The Unesco-recognised scheme to revolutionise rural education, healthcare and sanitation through technology and business acumen, is the work of the Byrraju Foundation - a not-for-profit organisation set up by chairman of Indian outsourcer Satyam...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment And if you don't believe that, look at the number of failed attempts to bring in longer detention for suspected terrorists, they will keep hammering away at that until the next election so don't expect them to drop the NIR and ID card scheme either.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID card scheme should be published. Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway reviews should be published.

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. The government plans to start taking the first biometric details from UK citizens for its National...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers

News The £2.2m scheme will see the Metropolitan Police Service's 31,500 officers have tags fitted to their radio microphones from this autumn. In news reports the Metropolitan Police Federation - the body representing the rank and file officers in the...

Tags: tag, london, police

[11 Apr 2008]

Compress-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying in MIMO-OFDM Systems

whitepaper This paper investigates the capacity of Compress-and-Forward (C&F) cooperative relaying scheme when the C&F relay operates in Time Division Duplex (TDD). Then the authors derive the mutual information of a sub-optimum relaying scheme in which the...

Tags: wireless lan, ofdm, rate, scheme

[11 Apr 2008]

ICI Cancellation Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems

whitepaper Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM), which is a multicarrier modulation scheme, splits high data rate information symbols into lower rate parallel data streams and transmits this parallel information on different orthogonal carriers.

Tags: modems, rate, parallel, frequency

[11 Apr 2008]

BER Performances of a Differential OFDM System in Fading Channels

whitepaper If a differential phase modulation scheme is chosen, data can be encoded in the relative phase of consecutive symbols in each subchannel or in the relative phase of symbols in the adjacent subchannels.

Tags: wireless lan, phase, methods, modulation

[11 Apr 2008]

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction

whitepaper The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11.

Tags: ethernet

[11 Apr 2008]

Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering

whitepaper It also incorporate this scheme into a real-time attack detection framework and prototype presented by the authors in previous work and provide some results from testing against multistage attack scenarios.

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Achieving HIPAA Security Standards Compliance by Implementing an ISO/IEC 27000 Series Information Security Management System

whitepaper The paper shows how these ISMS standards can be applied by a business to demonstrate its compliance with the HIPAA whilst providing additional benefits, such as broader assurance across the whole (or a well-defined sub-unit) of an organization's...

Tags: security standards

[11 Apr 2008]

A Modified Scheme of OFDM Transceiver for Reduction of Its Natural Delay

whitepaper It evaluates BER performance of the proposed scheme to be compared with that of classical one to confirm same performance between them. This paper analyzes the natural processing delay of OFDM systems and proposed two modified functional blocks to...

Tags: modems, delay, ofdm, channel

[10 Apr 2008]

TickIT and IT Service Management

whitepaper The launch of the BS 15000 certification scheme in July 2003 was the culmination of much hard work in both standards-making and scheme development. The publication of an auditable specification for IT Service Management, backed by a code of...

Tags: service management, scheme, certification, code

[10 Apr 2008]

SEG- A Provably Secure Variant of El-Gamal

whitepaper The Zheng-Seberry (ZS) encryption scheme was published in 1993 and was one of the first practical schemes that was considered secure against an adaptively chosen ciphertext adversary. This paper shows that the semantic security of the one-way hash...

Tags: pki, scheme, variant, adversary

[10 Apr 2008]

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