A 'dirty lab' has been established in Malvern, Worcestershire with the support of GCHQ, to help businesses stress-test their networks against attacks.
It is run by the Malvern Cyber Security Group, a partnership of six local computer security companies, which will use the same tactics and techniques as criminals but with the permission of the authorities.
From today, victims of street crime in London will be able to report attacks online, as part of a scheme to get more people involved in keeping communities safe.
The StreetViolence website also allows those who have suffered robbery and other crimes to post witness appeals and warn the local community by pinpointing the crime on a Google map.
Britain shook up its troubled border agency Monday after admitting that security checks at ports and airports had been suspended or applied inconsistently for the past five years.
Home Secretary Theresa May said an investigation had found that the U.K. Border Force, which staffs border posts at airports and ports, had “suspended important checks without permission.”
The Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK, after a High Court judge ruled that the torrent site and its users are committing copyright infringement.
The case was brought before the court by a coalition of major record labels, including Sony, EMI and Universal. They want the court to force internet providers like Sky, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media to block the website. No operators of the Pirate Bay were in court for the hearing.
Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government's technology change agenda has said.
Liam Maxwell, Cabinet Office director of ICT futures, said Tuesday in London that open source has grown up and it's time to dispel lingering misconceptions about this technology and development process.
More than three quarters (76 percent) of Brits are unhappy with their broadband, says MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. Research of 1,647 people by the comparison site revealed 59 percent believe their broadband speed is simply 'too slow' while 37 percent admitted they're unhappy with their provider.
Of those who's issue lies with their provider, 46 percent blamed not being able to speak to anyone at their ISP but more than half (51 percent) admitted 'poor customer service' was the source of their unhappiness.
Three new regional e-crime hubs have been opened at locations around the UK, with the aim of providing police forces with localised support for dealing with cybercrime.
The new hubs, in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and the East Midlands, were launched at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) e-crime conference in Sheffield on Wednesday. Each centre will initially consist of three members of staff – a detective sergeant and two detective constables.
Motorola Mobility is planning to launch a new rail thin, Android 2.3 powered smartphone MOTOLUXE in UK.
MOTOLUXE incorporates Motorola's MotoSwitch user interface, using which it learns who you talk to and which apps you use the most and puts all that information front and centre.
Despite the government having outsourced the majority of its IT delivery, research by Computer Weekly has revealed that Whitehall still has 8,000 in-house IT staff.
With public sector IT spending under growing scrutiny, does the taxpayer get value for money from the IT departments running central government? Consider a few facts that may put the government’s 8,000-strong in-house IT workforce into perspective:
The online competitions for The Cyber Security Challenge UK (CSC) came to a close in December and for one of the winning contestants it has brought a new job in IT security which eliminates him from the competition.
CSC does not promise the competitors a job but it does provide prizes, including training courses and internships, that could lead to a career in IT security. For Channon Powell this has become an irrelevance.
