Company News

• Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation board
  Gordon Brown is joining Tim Berners-Lee on the board of directors of the World Wide Web Foundation.
• Facebook becomes second most targeted phishing site
  Facebook has pushed eBay off its second place position in the list of organisations most often attacked by phishers, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab.
• US Department of Defense plans insider threat detection system
  A US Department of Defense is to develop a system that can identify and stop insiders from stealing information from its networks
• Viewsonic tablet runs Android and Windows 7
  ViewSonic has launch a dual boot tablet device, which runs both Android and Windows 7.
• Free Emet Microsoft security tool available for download
  Microsoft's free tool to bring newer security protections to older platforms and applications is now available for download.
• NHS saving could pay for fibre to the home, says ITU
  A saving of 1% to 1.5% of the cost of healthcare would justify the cost of fibre to the premises throughout the UK, says the International Telecommunications Union.
• Financial services should include risk management in data mining models
  Financial services data mining models should incorporate a level of calibration to manage risk enterprise-wide, said Bart Beasens, a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
• Scammers and spammers attack Apple’s new Ping social network
  Scammers and spammers are flooding Apple's newly-launched Ping music-related social network with fraudulent messages, says security firm Sophos.
• Onapsis SAP tool traps security holes
  Onapsis, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) security software has released a product to assess security risks on production SAP systems.
• International Telecommunications Union leader Hamadoun Touré calls for cyber peace treaty
  The world needs to sign up to a cyber peace treaty to head off the growing threats of infowar and cybercriminality, but industrialised countries are ignoring the risks, according to the secretary-gene …
• UK risks losing broadband lead
  The UK risked squandering its lead in broadband access, speed and pricing because of delays in formulating long terms broadband policy, former communications minister Stephen Carter said on Thursday.
• Samsung, Toshiba challenge Apple’s iPad
  Samsung Electronics and Toshiba have both unveiled tablets computers at the IFA electronics show in Berlin to rival Apple's iPad.
• Directgov seeks ID authentication bids for public sector
  The government has invited tenders for "identity verification and authentication services", in an attempt to assess the public sector's need for something that will confirm a user' …
• Google launches streamlined, faster Chrome 6
  Google has launched the latest version of Chrome to mark the browser's second anniversary.
• SAS A2010 conference: Centralised model factory can reduce IT costs
  Organisations can save IT costs and time by using a centralised analytics model to predict business outcomes, according to SAS .
• Royal Bank of Scotland cuts 1,000 IT jobs
  RBS is axing 1,000 technology jobs as part of a cull of 3,500 positions across the company.
• HP outbids Dell to buy storage company 3Par
  The bidding war between HP and Dell to buy a specialist storage supplier 3Par appears to be at an end, with HP upping its bid to $2.4bn.
• Cloud Industry Forum endorses new ASA internet powers
  The UK's Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has welcomed the extension of the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) remit to cover online media.
• Polymorphic ransomware tops malware charts
  Ransomware variant TotalSecurity is topping the malware charts, according to the latest threat report from security firm Fortinet.
• Welsh Assembly Government staff lose 24 laptops in two years
  IT equipment valued at £21,000 was lost or stolen from Welsh Assembly Government staff in the past two years, a freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed.