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Security Bytes: George Mason U. hacked; new Trojans on the loose

Hackers steal personal data of more than 30,000 members of George Mason University. Two new Trojans emerge. BMC Software buys a Parisian company. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Security on a Shoestring: Creating Internet policies on the cheap

No matter how small the organization, it's impractical to stand over employees and make sure they properly use the Internet. So here's how to write a decent acceptable use policy, and make sure everyone abides by it. Continue Reading

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• Mathew Schwartz, Contributor

Transforming the cybersecurity culture

Eleven New Year's resolutions can help employees at all levels empower the security function at their organization. Continue Reading

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• Shawna McAlearney, News Editor

The security lingo of 2004

This was the year of botnets, zombie PC armies and phishying online schemes. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

MoD may write off £200m Chinook helicopters

The Ministry of Defence could write off more than £200m spent on eight Chinook Mk3 helicopters. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

IP everything, essentially

What are the fundamental deliverables of IP networks? How can you use IP networks to gain financial benefits in addition to... Continue Reading

The basis of profitability

Not so long ago, you didn't have much choice - your IT and communications requirements were acquired, implemented and maintained... Continue Reading

First integrated children's system goes live

The first web-based system to help councils meet new legal requirements for information sharing among teachers, social workers... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Symantec offers bare metal restore software

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• Shane O'Neill

Training for CISSP Certification: SearchSecurity.com's Security School

Study guides for each of the ten domains of the CBK for those preparing to take the CISSP exam or expanding their knowledge of security concepts and practices. Continue Reading

Authorize.Net says it has 'learned' from attack

The credit card processing service was unprepared for the kind of attack it suffered last week, but it will use the experience to improve security. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

The gift of CRM

For Red Letter Days, a provider of gift experiences for corporates and consumers, a CRM system was essential to give it market... Continue Reading

Management matters

Cath Everett finds out how you stay on top of networking. What are the management issues related to your telecoms and networks... Continue Reading

Over-specify when buying low cost replacement for Frame Relay

A project manager reveals how a VPN saved £275,000 a year Continue Reading

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• Peter Skipwith

Latest worm uses IM to lure victims

A version of the worm which spread from infected Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers in June has been... Continue Reading

New attacks and vulnerability trends highlighted at Black Hat

Presentations beginning today will analyze vulnerabilities, zero-day code, phishing and secure wireless deployment, among many other topics. Continue Reading

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• Shawna McAlearney, News Writer

Fewer IT supplier conflicts are going to court

Law firms have reported a sharp fall in the number of IT disputes reaching the courts over the past 12 months as more users turn... Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Learning about Security Threats: Profiling

A look at what it means to be a hacker. Continue Reading

Debian fixes multiple flaws

Denial-of-service, buffer overflow and format string vulnerabilities in Debian GNU/Linux that an attacker could use to remotely execute malicious code has been fixed. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Enterprise-class RAID functions, part 2: N-way mirroring, splitting and more

With the convergence of RAID and lower-priced storage technologies, advanced RAID functions can be enjoyed by any small-to-medium sized organization with critical data. Continue Reading

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• Randy Arnott

Users at risk after web host attack

Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services. Continue Reading

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• Arif Mohamed

Report finds computer system likely culprit in Chinook crash

A former air commodore - one of the highest ranks in the RAF - has questioned the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook 10 years on

This week sees the 10th anniversary of the Chinook ZD576's crash, as former top military officers cast doubt on the finding that... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Ex-RAF chief says no to blame on Chinook

A former RAF air commodore has questioned the integrity of systems and the airworthiness of the type of Chinook helicopter which... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Hacking for Dummies: Chapter 10 -- Wireless LANs

Read Chapter 10, Wireless LANs, from the book "Hacking for Dummies" written by Kevin Beaver. Continue Reading

IT experts not losing sleep over code theft

Days after Cisco acknowledged someone may have stolen source code from its network, IT experts said they doubt it will amount to anything catastrophic. After all, source code has made it onto the Internet before, and there's no proof it has ever led to an attack. For them, the bigger question is how to prevent such a thing from happening to their organization. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Hacking For Dummies: Chapter 7 -- Passwords

In his latest book, "Hacking For Dummies," Kevin Beaver takes the reader into the mindset of a hacker in order to help admins fend off vulnerabilities and attacks. Continue Reading

Return to sender?

Several researchers have identified a new e-mail attack that can be used to swamp enterprise e-mail servers, as well as some secondary systems. Continue Reading

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• Hank Hogan, Contributing Writer

Bacs launches online billing service

UK clearing house Bacs has embarked on a joint venture with a US software company to provide an online bill presentation and... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

IBM and Cisco battle remote attack vulnerabilities

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• Edmund X. DeJesus, Contributing Writer

Is the national programme for NHS IT set to be 'the biggest gamble in the world'?

The private concerns of clinicians and IT professionals about the national programme are not being addressed, despite the front... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance

As part of our Storage Decisions conference preview series, Shaun Mahoney, senior storage engineer for Citigroup, Randy Wilson, assistant vice president of IT at Essex Investment Management Company and Enterprise Storage Group's Peter Gerr discussed the best practices for enabling compliance. Continue Reading

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• Mark Lewis, Editor

Achieving the goal of CIO

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

There's no government like no government

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• Niall McKay, Contributing Writer

IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

On the right side of the law

What are the legal and regulatory issues that could affect the running of your company? What are the ramifications of the Data... Continue Reading

MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever

Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC

The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Fujitsu won £800m Post Office contract after misrepresenting itself, says lawyer

High Court claim by ex-employee makes damning accusations Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

What's in an IT name?

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

UK firms are offered help to migrate to open source

Companies are being given help to migrate to free-license software by a joint initiative from OpenForum Europe and the National... Continue Reading

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• Eric Doyle

Users warned as number of software holes soars

IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial... Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins

The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

Courts Libra system 'is one of the worst IT projects ever seen'

The cost of the Libra project to provide a national system for 385 magistrates courts soared from £146m to £390m, and the main... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Jamie Gruener's position on API sharing

Key questions on API sharing answered Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com

MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row

Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Director's cut: Learning to spot winning technologies

Faced with a stream of new technologies it is vital that IT directors keep abreast of the latest developments and are aware of... Continue Reading

The Heat is on

Since the 1960s, Moore's Law has described the progress of the IT industry but overheating could slow down the pace of change Continue Reading

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• Graham Titterington

MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots

This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the... Continue Reading

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• Parliamentary reporter

Lessons to be learned from Chinook tragedy

Since 1997, Computer Weekly has studied the IT-related lessons from the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre... Continue Reading

Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success

The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's... Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner

RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Top Chinook test pilot reveals unease over engine software

A campaign by Computer Weekly and Channel Four News has sought to show that a computer problem not pilot error could have led to... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook pilots feared onboard software

RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook hearing begins

A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Semiconductor equipment orders down 75%

US semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $742 (£507m) in orders booked in August, down 75% from a year earlier, according... Continue Reading

Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September... Continue Reading

Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its... Continue Reading

Via ups the Intel ante

Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair... Continue Reading

Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets

In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US.... Continue Reading

Rambus faces second fraud case

A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined... Continue Reading

IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge

A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set... Continue Reading

Lords vote to undertake limited Chinook enquiry

The House of Lords, in an historic step, has voted to hold an independent inquiry into the RAF's verdict of gross negligence... Continue Reading

Lords call for Chinook crash inquiry

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher was one of 132 peers who voted for a new inquiry over the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on... Continue Reading

Government to train unemployed in IT

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• Arlene Martin

Chinook probe: MPs join Lords

In an extraordinary move, the House of Commons' most powerful committee is to seek the help of the House of Lords as part of its... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Government's Gateway guidelines delay NHS IT contract

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• Chris Mugan

ASP offers wireless access to Microsoft Exchange

Application service provider Netstore is offering users wireless connections to Microsoft Exchange 2000 as an alternative to... Continue Reading

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• Will Garside

Feeling the pinch

The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the... Continue Reading

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• Martin Butler

BCS fights for patient data

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Words' worth

The online retail sector is growing apace and WHSmith.co.uk is finding its place in the lead. Nathalie Towner looks at the story... Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner

Window of the world

Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the... Continue Reading

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• Rod Tyler

Glotel takes US hit

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Web site for black music hits the right note

Glen Yearwood hit the right note when he launched darkerthanblue.com, a site devoted to black music Continue Reading

Think before you link

Laws governing the Net remain a grey area, even for such issues as deep linking, while discrimination laws also apply to the Web Continue Reading

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• Elsa Booth

Silicon Valley looks East

"Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to... Continue Reading

The world is enough

As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

Delivering digital streaming in the Real world

While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes... Continue Reading

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• Danny Bradbury

Sema suffers sharp share drop

A 10% fall in the share price of software and services company Sema has raised questions about the company's financial stability.

Sema, responsible...

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Christmas is cancelled

The US division of Japanese consumer giant, Sony Corporation, has axed the Christmas ad campaign for its e-commerce site, SonyStyle.com, amidst fears its... Continue Reading

A real union in a virtual world?

Amazon faces the biggest unionisation drive the dotcom sector has ever seen. Mike Arrowsmith reports Continue Reading

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• Mike Arrowsmith

The VPN dilemma

With traditional networks choking on data, Liz Biddlecombe investigates the pros and cons of managing a VPN yourself or... Continue Reading

Citizen Portal gets beta launch

The online Citizen Portal, the UK site where the public can access government information and services on the Web, has finally been... Continue Reading

Sema troubles deepen

IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a... Continue Reading

Chinook response sends "wrong signal" to software industry

As defence secretary Geoff Hoon rubbished the Public Accounts Committee report into the 1994 Chinook disaster, an MP at the centre of the case...

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Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale.... Continue Reading

Computer Weekly's evidence to the Public Accounts Committee

We write to the Public Accounts Committee in relation to its consideration of the Chinook's FADEC computerised engine control... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Chinook tragedy demands reform

The Public Accounts Committee report into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash vindicates Computer Weekly's three-year campaign for justice. It... Continue Reading

A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills... Continue Reading

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• Jane Dudman

Independent inquiry into Chinook crash

Tony Collins

An independent inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 is likely to be launched by the House of Lords. It will...

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• Tony Collins

Did MoD deceive RAF inquiry?

New information shows that the Ministry of Defence withheld information from an air chief marshal about software flaws that could... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Tackling Internet misuse at work

Like the technology, Internet abuse appears to have proliferated in recent years. There are, however, two ways to tackle this... Continue Reading

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• Paul Grant

Pathway and the Post Office: the lessons learned

The infamous 1996-1999 Pathway project aimed to computerise the nation’s post offices and tackle benefit fraud. But 18 months... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

James Rogers

Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...

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• James Rogers

MPs fight on for independent Chinook inquiry

As peers and MPs rally to the cause for a new independent inquiry, former defence minister Malcolm Rifkind is among those to criticise the reasons for the... Continue Reading

How to scour the world when outsourcing

Thanks to Y2K compliance programmes, it is now perfectly acceptable for a firm to consider moving all or part of its systems development and support... Continue Reading