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HP offers security as a service

Updates are made to HP's Application Security Center software.

28 May 2008

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Microsoft: IT vulnerabilities down, threats deadlier

Threats rise even though reported vulnerabilities drop 22 Apr 2008

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Facebook defends social networking security

Refutes "social engineering gold mine" tag 22 Apr 2008

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Conservative party pledges e-police action

David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary pours scorn on Labour e-crime activities 06 Mar 2008

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Flexible working quality mark increases pressure on IT chiefs

Lobbyists mark the start of national Work Wise Week with a quality mark aimed at high-performing firms 16 May 2007

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Two-thirds of workers fall for password honeytrap

Survey finds that it only takes a chocolate bar and a smile to get staff to reveal their passwords 17 Apr 2007

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Crime bill overlooks IT offences

Experts criticise government's lack of focus on IT crime 19 Jan 2007

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Corporate ID theft to cost UK £700m a year

Fraudsters who steal a company’s identity can rack up huge debts 18 Sep 2006

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New web surfing privacy tool launches

Browzar allows mobile workers and hot deskers to surf the web in privacy 31 Aug 2006

Chips & Components

Security fears threaten RFID adoption

The danger of hacked and cloned wireless ID tags poses a challenge to governments and firms alike 09 Aug 2006

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House of Lords investigates internet security

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is to examine how current IT security risks affect society 01 Aug 2006

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Phishers snare victims in customised nets

Targeted phishing attacks pose a growing threat according to security firm MessageLabs 26 Jul 2006

Public Sector IT

Attorney general calls for anti-fraud agency

The recently concluded UK fraud review has led to a call for a national anti-fraud authority 26 Jul 2006

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Email bomber back on the stand as DoS ruling is overturned

A court ruling that denial of service attacks were not illegal in the UK has been overturned on appeal 12 May 2006

Enterprise Security Technology

E-crime experts reserve judgement on Soca

The "British FBI" has said it will continue to focus on e-crimes against business 28 Apr 2006

IT Management

British FBI drops Confidentiality Charter for IT crime victims

The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency has supplanted the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, and made it more risky to report e-crime 07 Apr 2006

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IT chiefs need forensic expertise

Big firms are advised to investigate cross-border hacking internally, before calling in the police 03 Apr 2006

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Law changes promise more jail time for hackers

Hackers and computer criminals could now face longer sentences, extradition 13 Mar 2006

Enterprise Security Technology

Viruses still main threat to UK firms

Department of Trade and Industry survey finds that viruses are still causing headaches for enterprises 06 Mar 2006

Ecommerce

Poor web applications put firms in peril

Poorly tested web applications are bad for business and bad for security, according to Compuware 20 Feb 2006

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In depth

Analysis

Microsoft to attack VMware from below

Uptake of the software giant’s Hyper-V hypervisor is expected to be strongest among smaller companies, where its affordability is most likely to give it an edge over more sophisticated rivals 04 Jul 2008

Analysis

CRM gets more personal

Vendors such as HP and EMC are developing personalised communications platforms that aim to boost customer loyalty 04 Jul 2008

Analysis

Mobility options set to grow

Moves to create a unified and royalty-free Symbian platform should result in a wider choice of handsets and applications 04 Jul 2008

Analysis

E-business success is all in the testing

Firms that cut corners on testing are on a fast track to trouble, says Macro 4’s David Chalmers 04 Jul 2008

Comment

Broadband stakeholders must be more demanding

Enterprise IT managers have a crucial role to play in steering the UK into the broadband fast lane 03 Jul 2008

Analysis

IT Leader Profile: Mark Richardson

Mark Richardson is head of IT for online grocery company Ocado, managing a team of 130 03 Jul 2008

Comment

Kewney: Missed opportunities

Would Microsoft’s internet strategy be in such a mess if it had listened to IT Week five years ago? 03 Jul 2008

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Blogs

The Week in Green: What we need from the G8

The G8 meets in Japan next week with three inter-related issues set to not just dominate the agenda, but tear it up, stamp on the pieces and tell all the... 03 Jul 2008

IT Sneak

Rock n' roll commissioner

Sometimes politicians do things of which they should be very, very ashamed. Perhaps starting a war on spurious legal and moral grounds in which hundreds of thousand are likely to... 02 Jul 2008

Readers' letters

The Eee PC has lost its magic

The Asus Eee PC 901 and beyond will disappear without trace within a year (New Asus models set for UK release, 13 June). Once again, the tech-heads and the marketing... 01 Jul 2008

IT Week Labs

Xerox's print tool helps roaming workers

Xerox's Mobile Express Driver is a free download that helps laptop users connect and print to a variety of printers without having to install specific drivers.If you are a travelling... 26 Jun 2008

BusinessGreen blog

The Week in Green

It's been a pretty good week for the renewables sector.Of course, if you're feeling pessimistic on this fine Friday afternoon you could counter that every week needs to be a... 06 Jun 2008

Lem Bingley

The allure of the subnotebook

It's time for me to buy a new laptop, the old one having gone well past the point of pension.There was a time when I would simply have bought the... 02 Jun 2008

Phil Muncaster

Unlocking information with social intelligence

A relative newcomer to the IT industry, Trampoline Systems, has just launched an even newer product called Sonar Flightdeck. So far so what, you might be thinking, but what Trampoline... 09 Apr 2008

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