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Public sector

Computing research: Industrial control systems under attack

Leon Panetta Defense Secretary
The systems controlling our nuclear facilities could be 20 years old and unpatched. What could possibly go wrong? John Leonard and Danny Palmer investigate
06 Mar 2013

Met Police’s 30,000 smartphones could end up as 'costly paperweights'

Police car with siren
Expert warns that most mobile devices are not suitable for filling in crime reports
06 Mar 2013

Pushing the Roundabout

Old Street sign in the Tech City area of London
With the launch on 1 April of HMRC’s tax-saving ‘Patent Box’ scheme, the government has given a clear signal that it is keen to help tech start-ups. But is there more it could do for firms at London’s Silicon Roundabout? Stuart Sumner finds out
06 Mar 2013

Met Police need to stop buying the 'shiniest new technology' to cut costs

London Assembly questions expert panel on Met's strategy to save millions on IT
05 Mar 2013

'People need to be paid for their personal data' says Jaron Lavier

Web companies fixate too much on being 'market optimisers' and not enough on future financial models, says Microsoft 'scholar at large'
05 Mar 2013

Police prevented from chasing cyber criminals from outside Europe

Evidence standards set by Human Rights Act and uncooperative authorities prevent police from chasing cyber criminals in China and elsewhere
05 Mar 2013

Arvato selected as government’s first outsourced shared service centre operator

Deal part of government's plan to save up to £600m a year on back office costs
01 Mar 2013

Greater London Authority seeks partner for ultrafast broadband rollout

GLA looking for supplier to enable London to become a 'super-connected city'
28 Feb 2013

Metropolitan Police IT strategy under investigation

London Assembly to question how Met can find £102m in savings between 2014 and 2016
27 Feb 2013

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors implements Fairsail to tackle new pension laws

Solution aims to ensure compliance with Auto-Enrolment legislation
27 Feb 2013

Lulzsec hacker Sabu to continue aiding FBI

Founder of hacking group turned double agent has sentence postponed so he can continue to work with Feds
26 Feb 2013

Opinion: What’s missing from the new computing curriculum for schools

Crispin Weston, chair of BSI’s expert committee for education technology, explains why secondary school ICT had to change
26 Feb 2013

HMRC trawling social media to find evidence of tax fraud

Openly available web data being fed into HMRC's anti-fraud data warehouse
25 Feb 2013

Central and North West London NHS Trust issues tender worth up to £80m

ICT services to support 5,200 end users and 5,500 staff over five year period
25 Feb 2013

Ordnance Survey issues £2m tender for IT services

UK national mapping agency on the hunt for agile software development partner
21 Feb 2013

White House unveils trade secret theft prevention strategy

Policy looks to counter a growing threat from state-sponsored hackers
21 Feb 2013

Cabinet Office website switches to gov.uk

Eleven government departments have now been moved to the new umbrella platform
21 Feb 2013

Analysis: In a BYOD class of its own

Peter Gothard reports on a school that has embraced the bring-your-own-device philosophy and rolled out super-fast Wi-Fi for the benefit of pupils and staff
21 Feb 2013

Connecting the dots at HMRC

When HMRC was formed in 2005, its fraud detection systems were arguably far from cutting edge. However, a new system that can work with more data than ever – from different tax systems – is paying for itself many times over
21 Feb 2013

Government slammed for no-show at fibre-to-the-home conference

FTTH Council "disappointed" at absence of Whitehall officials
20 Feb 2013

Down and out: lessons of the 2e2 saga

When a company like 2e2 goes into administration, datacentre users can find just how few rights they have. Graeme Burton examines the options
19 Feb 2013

UK and India to sign cybercrime deal

Prime minister David Cameron wants to strike deal to safeguard Britons' data on Indian servers
19 Feb 2013

EU watchdogs to take action against Google privacy policy this summer, says regulator

Google 'did not provide any precise and effective answers to EU recommendations' on data combining, says CNIL
19 Feb 2013

Special report: Cloud 2.0 begins to take shape

In part two of our special report, John Leonard looks at moves to make cloud more attractive for serious enterprise computing by mitigating risk, enhancing transparency and even handing more control to users
19 Feb 2013