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Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) schemes may work in enterprises but the risks are too great in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), a senior figure at the MoD said today.

At a BT roundtable entitled Rethink the risk, the deputy head of service operations for the MoD, captain Simon Wise, said BYOD schemes wouldn't offer the MoD the same benefits it offers some other organisations because of the security measures that it would have to put in place on the devices.

US company CSC is to cut 640 UK jobs relating to its 'unworkable' Lorenzo NHS IT contract, taking the total of announced job cuts to over 1,100 since February, according to the Unite trade union.

The majority of cuts will affect CSC employees in Chesterfield, Chorley, Leeds and Solihull, Unite said in a statement on Monday.  "This announcement of a further 640 job cuts has dealt our members a severe body blow and left them absolutely devastated," Unite national officer Kevin O'Gallagher said.

Mathematical papers written by WWII code breaker and pioneer computer scientist Alan Turing have been released by government intelligence agency GCHQ after being kept secret 70 years. 

The two handwritten papers, classified as 'sensitive' until a recent reassessment and kept confidential for over half a century, are said by GCHQ to have been authored by Turing when he worked at Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre of British intelligence during the war.

A new investment fund is to pump £40 million into cloud and software-as-a-service companies in the UK. It will use a mix of government and private fundings to target high-growth SMEs with investments of up to £2 million each. 

The fund is named 'Notion Capital Fund Two', after the cloud-focused investment company that will operate it, Notion Capital. It is hoped that it will repeat the success of its predecessor, which backed British technology SMEs including cloud services provider Star and e-invoicing service Tradeshift.

A teenager arrested over claims hackers accessed Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline is to be questioned by detectives for a second night.

A 17-year-old arrested in the West Midlands has been transferred to London but a 16-year-old was released on bail. Hackers Team Poison posted recordings online to YouTube, which apparently show them speaking to the hotline, and officers discussing operations.

Steve Hayes, millionaire owner of London Wasps rugby club is out on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of computer hacking. 

Hayes was arrested in Hertfordshire in February by Scotland Yard detectives from Operation Tuleta, an offshoot of the force's Weeting investigation into alleged illegal activities at News International. 

A 23-year-old hacker in the UK has been sentenced to 26 months in prison after using a Trojan to steal the identities of eight million victims.

Edward Pearson, from York, was able to acquire the data using malware like Zeus and Spyeye, taking information on credit cards, PayPal accounts as well as dates of birth, postcodes and names. Police said he could have gotten away with £834,000 if he had used the stolen data more effectively, yet he only accrued £2,351 illicitly, York paper the Press reported.

Eight UK universities are set to benefit from a capital investment of £50,000 and additional funding after being awarded 'Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research' status by GCHQ.

The universities include University of Bristol, Imperial College London, Lancaster University, University of Oxford, Queen's University Belfast, Royal Holloway, University of Southampton, University College London.

LulzSec's Ryan Cleary, the 19-year-old arrested last June for aiding in the operations of notorious hacking collective LulzSec, has landed back in jail.

Cleary, who was never an official LulzSec member but ran an Internet Relay Chat that the group used to communicate, had apparently been trading e-mails with Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, the recently outed LulzSec mastermind turned FBI informant. That was a direct violation of his bail agreement, which dictated that Cleary was to have no access to the Internet whatsoever.  

A psychiatrist who once said Gary McKinnon would likely commit suicide if deported to the US to face charges of hacking into Nasa and the Pentagon has now apparently changed his tune and is saying the 46-year old is fit for extradition. 

In a 2009 evaluation commissioned by the McKinnon family, Professor Declan Murphy had warned "If Mr McKinnon is deported to the US, he will require - in my opinion - continual observation on a one-one basis during that time period, and for the rest of his incarceration. If this does not happen, he is likely to make a serious attempt at suicide."