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Department for Transport secures financial data

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-04T12:14:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 4 July 2008 at 12:14:00

Government agency hires a security consultancy to ensure data security of its main financial platform

The Department for Transport (DfT) has hired security consultancy Sapphire to protect its main financial management database. The agency used the standard procurement process and the work was commissioned by...

Trusted city travellers to get biometric test access to US

Tom Young — 2008-07-03T15:39:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 15:39:00

Iris and fingerprint scans will allow city workers to spend less time passing through airport immigration

The Home Office today announced plans to introduce technology to allow regular travellers between the UK and the US to pass through border controls more swiftly....

Chinese bloggers evade great firewall

Neon Kelly — 2008-07-03T10:56:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 10:56:00

Text-altering tools help dissidents get news of a riot to the West

Bloggers in China are using backward-written text as a means of evading censors while reporting on a riot that took place last weekend....

IT chiefs caught up in power crunch

Computing — 2008-07-03T05:15:00.000Z

Computing, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 05:15:00

Nobody will benefit from ignoring the issue until it is forced on you

More than two years ago, Computing first reported that firms in the City of London and Docklands were facing serious power supply problems that could restrict their IT expansion plans...

Keep your head in the cloud

Bob Tarzey — 2008-07-02T17:38:00.000Z

Bob Tarzey, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 17:38:00

The changing face of malware prevention will protect your business from a rainy day, says Bob Tarzey

Most of the malware that threatens businesses comes from the internet, so it makes sense to fight it there. And while hackers were quick to exploit the web as its...

Reports reveal poor security practices behind data losses

Tom Young — 2008-07-02T17:35:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 17:35:00

Data handling review spells out what the government must do to regain the public’s confidence

Poor public sector information security practices were highlighted last week by four separate reports into data handling. Two of the reports focused on the failures that led to the loss...

Barclays Bank offers free security software online

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-02T12:19:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 12:19:00

The bank is giving away security software to its online customers to protect against phishing and data leakage

Retail bank Barclays is offering free security software to its two million online customers. Barclays.co.uk users will be offered the security software free of charge for download from the web...

Société Générale overhauls global IT

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-02T05:45:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 05:45:00

Investment bank revamps IT structure and launches business transformation project

Société Générale is setting up new global functions for its technology and back office as part of a major business overhaul....

UK is the favourite target for Nigerian spam

Tom Young — 2008-07-01T10:01:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Tuesday 1 July 2008 at 10:01:00

UK surfers receive nearly a quarter of the global total of Nigerian spam emails

UK web users are the most likely to be targeted by fraudulent spam emails from Nigeria, according to a survey by McAfee....

Top vendors collaborate on IT security

Janie Davies — 2008-06-30T16:08:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 16:08:00

Big five IT companies have set up a consortium to tackle internet security issues

A dedicated IT security forum has been created by a consortium of leading vendors, to allow co-operation between companies around the world in addressing security threats....

Unencrypted NHS laptop lost

Tom Young — 2008-06-30T15:21:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 15:21:00

Patients' medical details were on hard drive

An unencrypted laptop containing medical details of several thousand patients has been stolen from the car of a senior Colchester University Hospital manager....

UK firms are warned to tighten up on security

Janie Davies — 2008-06-30T11:40:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 11:40:00

SMEs are slack when it comes to data security

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are most likely to fail at effectively securing their data said a warning from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) potentially compromising a...

France signs IT partners for biometic passport system

Janie Davies — 2008-06-27T11:58:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Friday 27 June 2008 at 11:58:00

Biometric passports will improve security and reduce passport fraud in line with EU requirements

ANTS, France’s national secure credentials agency, has signed Atos Origin and Sagem Securite to manage the implementation and deployment of the country's biometric passport system....

Google and Microsoft want to share your ID

Angelica Mari — 2008-06-27T10:10:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 27 June 2008 at 10:10:00

Duo front organisation to push the adoption of digital identity cards in an attempt to tackle online fraud

Google and Microsoft have launched the Information Card Foundation (ICF) to jointly develop tools to improve data protection for consumers and businesses....

Data privacy a low priority for IT chiefs

Tom Young — 2008-06-26T14:33:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 14:33:00

Corporate breaches and data protection regulation were ranked just sixth in audit chiefs' top 10 IT risks for an organisation

Nearly two thirds of internal audit chiefs do not recognise data privacy and IT fraud as a serious threat to their business, according to a survey by consultancy Ernst &...