A parliamentary committee in the UK is investigating the relationship between China-based networking giant Huawei and BT, following a damning US report that said the Chinese company posed a threat to its national security.
Derek du Preez | 12 Oct | Read more
The UK’s guidelines for policing offensive comments on social media websites are to be reviewed by lawyers, academics and social media companies, such as Twitter and Facebook.
Derek du Preez | 12 Oct | Read more
Natwest Bank has admitted that its GetCash mobile phone application service has been suspended after fraudsters managed to steal thousands of pounds from customers with phishing attacks.
Derek du Preez | 11 Oct | Read more
Enterprises will be forced to invest in Big Data technologies to monitor employee behaviour in order to better control remote access to company systems, which is becoming a problem thanks to the ongoing surge in consumerisation.
Derek du Preez | 05 Oct | Read more
A number of companies, including Twitter and Virgin Media, have raised some serious concerns regarding the government’s Draft Communications Data Bill, which would give police access to communications data for the purposes of tackling serious crime.
Derek du Preez | 13 Sep | Read more
Companies House has confirmed to Computerworld UK that it will be carrying out a review of its systems after it came under fire from a security firm that claimed it has been putting the online details of businesses at risk by storing passwords in plain text on its servers.
Derek du Preez | 12 Sep | Read more
The Information Commissioner has fined Scottish Border Council £250,000 under the Data Protection Act for not putting in appropriate guarantees when it outsourced responsibility to an external company to digitise employees’ pension records.
Derek du Preez | 11 Sep | Read more
Companies House has come under fire from a security firm that claims the registrar for companies in England and Wales is putting the online details of businesses at risk by storing passwords in plain text on its servers.
Derek du Preez | 11 Sep | Read more
Memset has become the second provider to achieve pan-government security accreditation through the G-Cloud, less than a month after SCC was named as the first successful applicant.
Derek du Preez | 11 Sep | Read more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed that it is ‘making enquiries’ into a number of security concerns that have been raised regarding retail giant Tesco’s customer facing website.
Derek du Preez | 21 Aug | Read more
Reuters News Service’s blogging platform has been hacked, allowing false posts claiming that Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died to be published.
Derek du Preez | 16 Aug | Read more
Thomson Reuters’ news service has confirmed that both its blogging platform and Twitter account were hacked this weekend, where false stories were posted relating to the ongoing disputes in Syria.
Derek du Preez | 07 Aug | Read more
Tesco’s website security policies have been cast into doubt after the retailer sent a customer a password reminder email containing the password in plain text.
Derek du Preez | 02 Aug | Read more
One of the UK's largest charities, Cancer Research, is in the process of developing a comprehensive public cloud strategy for bursts in capacity on public facing websites, but was concerned that it still needs to convince its internal security staff that it's viable.
Derek du Preez | 24 Jul | Read more
G4S’ CEO, Nick Buckles, confirmed to MPs today that problems with the company’s scheduling system is partly to blame for the shortfall of over 3,000 security staff for the London 2012 Olympic Games that are to begin next week.
Derek du Preez | 18 Jul | Read more