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Police hunt for moles with security software

Lancashire Constabulary to monitor data input of 7,000 staff in bid to prevent intelligence leaks
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Are you sure you're not a pirate?

It is alarmingly easy for an IT leader to unwittingly exceed the scope of a software licence, and the chances of being caught out have never been greater, as technology lawyers Mark Weston and Paul Gershlick explain
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Student Loans Company to boost IT security

Tender launched for specialist intrusion detection services
Tony Dyhouse

Organisations must instil a culture of data security

Recent high-profile data losses show that worringly lax attitudes to security are still common
Conficker

Greater Manchester Police computers infected by Conficker virus

Greater Manchester Police disconnected from the Police National Computer since Friday

Law firm monitors web traffic violations

Bucks declining global security appliance sales with unified threat management (UTM) platform deployment
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False ID cards bought online by 20 per cent of teenagers

Alcohol, cigarettes, knives, and tattoos easily acquired by underage teenagers
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Google to phase out IE6 support from March

Search giant says enterprise services won't work properly with IE6
John Walker

Security is sacrificed on the altar of competition

In its effort to loosen IE’s grip on the browser market, the EU has done hackers a favour, says John Walker
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BBC releases future technology strategy roadmap

Standard off-the-shelf applications could replace in-house custom solutions, says BBC CTO
Don Tapscott

Video Q&A: Don Tapscott on the Digital Economy Bill

The Wikinomics author gives his views on the controversial provisions, set to become law this summer
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Hacks of war

The spat between Google and the Chinese government highlights how international conflicts are increasingly being played out in cyberspace
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Europeans say "ditch Internet Explorer"

IE's security problems are too much for Germany and France, with governments advising people to use alternative browsers
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Conservatives to put cyber threat in the mainstream

IT security to be tackled in co-ordinated fashion alongside other threats
Mark Tickle

Look to the cloud for mobile protection

Are you ready to shelter the growing number of mobile workers from a malware storm?
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Systems suffer new year hangover

Experts blame poor coding for a wave of system failures at the dawn of the new decade
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham

Privacy watchdog to have power to fine £500,000

Fine will only be issued in the most severe cases
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First of eight mothballed Chinooks dispatched to Afghanistan

Move follows a £90m conversion programme undertaken by Boeing
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Disaster recovery: senior management not interested

Three IT chiefs at UK organisations reveal the problems of getting senior management interested in disaster recovery
Information Commissioner Christoper Graham

Information Commissioner launches online privacy consultation

Common sense approach to individuals' internet privacy

Engineering firm welds email to the cloud

Hosted service reduces downtime and eases support problems experienced with previous on-premise messaging systems
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Enfield Borough Council deploys 3,000 laptops for homeworking

Council deploys Sophos encryption technology across laptops to allow homeworking
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Malware can be hidden in English language text, say US scientists

Breakthrough paper shows hackers could evade anti-virus protection by hiding malicious code in sentences that read like English language spam
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Information Commissioner calls for custodial sentences

Data leak that had lethal consequences highlights need for stiffer penalties, says Information Commissioner
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Everton tackles spam with SaaS option

Club outsources its email security to Webroot
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