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Concerns over new NHS IT outsourcing confirmed by Capita
May 30, 2012 By ClareCapita expressed concerns regarding the IT outsourcing of NHS tender for NHS 111 contracts. This comes alongside other private sector government service providers such as Serco and Care UK who have confirmed they are either not bidding or have pulled out of the bid for the 111 contracts. ...
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Flame malware confirmed as most sophisticated cyber attack to date
May 28, 2012 By ClareSecurity experts have discovered a new data-stealing malware dubbed "Flame" which, they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign. IT company Kaspersky located the malware and confirmed it has...
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UK government will take a soft approach to those in breach of new Cookie law
May 25, 2012 By ClareCookies are pieces of personal data stored when users browse the web and recently have sometimes been used to power advertising by tracking your browsing history and displaying adverts to match. From Sunday 27 th May 2012 websites must obtain informed consent from users before saving cookies...
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Business streamlining by HP will cost 27,000 their jobs in less than 2 years
May 24, 2012 By ClareThe decision by Hewlett- Packard (HP) an IT company which specialises in personal computers and other IT products to cut down its current workforce by around 8% by 2014 has come from within the ‘productivity initiative’. There are 20,000 employees of HP in the UK part of 350,000...
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Attack takes 123-Reg hosted websites offline
May 23, 2012 By ClareAn attack on IT company 123-Reg meant that for many clients webpages were offline. 123- Reg stated that there was an attack on the DNS servers which meant users experience problems with loading of initial pages and accessing e-mails. It is believed that the attack came from China and 123-...
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Fight for the title of most popular browser in the world continues
May 22, 2012 By ClareInternet explorer has held the top position for a long time as the world’s most popular browser. Though for limited time periods Chrome has been able to claim the top spot, before now it has never been number 1 for an extended period of time. When looking at the daily variances, it shows...
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Misconceptions of default passwords
May 18, 2012 By ClareIt is a popular misconception that default passwords generated whether automatically or by hand are secure. Randomly generated passwords are not always so and there have been recorded cases of randomly generate password lists being found on the internet. Just because a password is long and...
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The benefits of using SSL certificates
May 16, 2012 By ClareSSL Certificates, (secure socket layer) security is a must have for any online ecommerce website or any site which that wishes to accept payments. SSL certificates allow you to gain a competitive advantage over other sites by appearing more trusted and more legitimate and are important for IT...
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The IPv4 replacement to respond to IP address exhaustion
May 16, 2012 By ClareIPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is new the version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It was designed as a replacement for the current version, IPv4 that has been in use since 1982 and is in the final stages of exhausting its unallocated address space. The IP address space is managed by the...
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AMD releases chip which will allow for slimmer laptop production
May 15, 2012 By ClareAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) an innovation IT company has released its second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units, code-named "Trinity". The chip is a 32 nanameter, high- k metal gate CPU- GPU configuration- it has 4 CPUs and a single GPU. AMD states that this chip will offer...
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