Trend Micro reported that data leaks are becoming a leading source of headaches for U.S., U.K., German and Japanese companies, according to the results of a study that explores corporate computer user…
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Facebook has closed down another of its most popular third-party applications following privacy violations.The social networking site has rapidly become one of the most popular internet destinations in the UK, although questions have been asked about privacy issues surrounding both the sheer level of personal data and third party add-ons.Facebook has already been forced to [...]

Sainsbury’s online store crashed for the second time in weeks over lunchtime on 4 July, according Keynote Systems, a specialist in software as a service test and measurement solutions.Keynote reported that Sainsbury’s website was unavailable from 12.45pm to 2.10pm BST on Friday 4 July.Visitors to the third largest UK retailer’s website were unable to see [...]

Guinness World Records has validated Mozilla’s attempt to set a record for the number of software downloads in a 24 hour period. The official count of Firefox 3 downloads was 8,002,530. Firefox 3 was launched on June 18, 2008, and the record attempt was arranged to spur early adoption and to draw attention to the [...]

UK hackers showcase mashing skills by mixing things up at the BBC. With a brief to ‘make something cool’ around fifty hackers did just that.Once a year the BBC hosts an event called Mashed which is put together by the programmers and developers within the aptly named BBC Backstage team. Following a mantra of ‘use [...]

And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings.The UK has had HM Revenue and Customs (the [...]

Nokia struck back against Google yesterday by unveiling plans that should increase sales of its mobile phones and boost revenues from wireless web services.The world’s largest handset maker announced it was taking control of Symbian, the UK company responsible for the most popular operating system on smartphones.Nokia will contribute the computer code behind Symbian’s operating [...]

A UK government-funded body has laid out a battle plan to try to force an improvement in the way software is written, and recommends the formation of a new entity to raise security awareness among developers.The Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) says 75% of security breaches occur as a result of software flaws that [...]

UK businesses are giving out highly personal and confidential details about their customers to third parties in a bid to boost sales reveals a new survey by StrongMail of 900 UK data protection and ma…
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English researchers have developed a robot that can not only create 3-D replicas of objects like shoes and door handles - it also can replicate itself.Scientists from the University of Bath in England unveiled an open-source machine that acts like a three-dimensional printer. Instead of printing out documents or pictures on paper, this printer uses [...]

According to BT the average UK office worker sees less sun than the average coal miner. The growing trend of ‘chain-desking’ where workers feel that being out of the office is the same as being out of touch, is blamed for the vampire-like existence.The research was conducted on behalf of BT Wireless Broadband, and revealed [...]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spokesman Michael Ellam says a Cabinet minister’s computer has been stolen from her office in a new data mishap.Communities Secretary Hazel Blears had her desktop computer stolen from an office in northern England on Saturday. The computer contained government data.Ellam says Brown told ministers to take more care with data [...]