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Shell agrees $4bn IT outsourcing deal
News Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn (£2bn) deal to outsource the bulk of its technology infrastructure. About 2,960 Shell IT staff and contractors are expected to be transferred under the deal with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems...
[April 1, 2008, 10:19]
Shell accused of 'dumping' IT staff
News Shell has been accused of keeping IT staff in the dark over their future following the oil giant's £4bn outsourcing deals. EDS will be the operational integrator for the outsourcing contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors...
[April 4, 2008, 9:07]
Shell warns employees of suspected data loss
News Oil company Shell has dismissed one of a third-party contractor's workers, under suspicion of misusing employee data. The employee was engaged in database work, and was removed from US Shell premises when the company learned that the employee could...
[October 8, 2008, 18:18]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. Shell suspended the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations over the weekend as a precautionary measure following the theft...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
Legal action threatens Shell's outsourcing plans
News Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could hit the oil giant's plans to outsource up to 3,200 tech jobs. But the outsourcing plans may be affected by wider legal action being...
[January 8, 2008, 7:53]
Cygwin smuggles Unix shell commands into Windows
News In versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000, DOS was a shell application, while versions since then launch a Command Shell as a process under Win2K/XP. The notion of a shell is very familiar to Unix and Linux developers but isn't necessarily as...
[June 24, 2003, 15:16]
IE may share Mozilla 'shell:' flaw
News The flaw means that MSN Messenger and Word could allow malware merchants to run programs via embedded links included in Word documents or IM messages as it doesn't protect access to the "shell:" functionality.
[July 13, 2004, 15:35]
Kalido offers fix for info management woes
News Kalido, the information management company that grew out of the Shell oil company, launched seven new products on Tuesday aimed at different vertical markets within what the company has dubbed the Active Information Management (AIM) area.
[October 10, 2006, 17:20]
Linux world dismisses new Trojan risk
News A Remote Shell Trojan (RST) is making its way around the Linux community, but security experts say it should not pose a risk if users are vigilant with the programs they run. In order to propagate, RST.b requires a user to run an infected binary...
[January 4, 2002, 16:51]
Hackers a step closer to unlocking iPhone
News Reverse engineers are now able to activate an iPhone without an AT&T account and can gain shell access via a serial connection. In a second hack, enterprising hackers have gained access to an interactive shell through a serial connection.
[July 10, 2007, 10:00]
IBM helps accelerate commercial grid
News IBM will announce on Monday that it has sold grid systems to three major customers -- RBC Insurance, Kansei Electric Power and Royal Dutch Shell -- and is offering grid technology packages for four new types of customers.
[April 28, 2003, 8:51]
Scripting - the basics
News These languages include Windows native shell scripting, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, JavaScript, Kixtart, and Perl. Unix administrators, for instance, have been using shell scripting and its powerful capabilities for decades.
[March 11, 2003, 9:18]
VA Linux acknowledges hack
News The site's "shell server" was compromised on 22 May after a SourceForge employee logged on to an outside Internet service provider that had already been taken over by the intruder, said Pat McGovern, site director of SourceForge.net.
[May 30, 2001, 9:22]
Open source of contention - SSH!
News Helsinki, Finland-based SSH Communications maintains two versions of its SSH Secure Shell product, one it sells and one it gives away free. SSH, which is derived from the term "secure shell", is a set of standards for encrypting the commands and...
[February 26, 2001, 14:22]
Nokia to launch RFID phone kit with a magic touch
News The Nokia NFC shell is designed to replaces the existing case of the mobile maker's 3220 handset. It claimed that the shell is the first NFC-enabled mobile product, although back in August Samsung said it would build NFC phones.
[November 3, 2004, 13:58]
Researcher discovers OpenSSH flaw
News According to ISS, Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH) is included in many operating system distributions, networking equipment, and security appliances. He said that the way some programs did not handle overflowing of buffers very well, which meant that a...
[June 27, 2002, 9:24]
'Important' Windows flaw could turn critical
News Of the new vulnerabilities, Windows Shell (MS04-024) -- has been picked out by security experts as a potential target for future worms and viruses. Ben Nagy, senior security engineer at security researcher firm eEye, said he expects the Windows...
[July 14, 2004, 14:30]
Security flaw found in Mozilla browser
News The flaw, known as the "shell" exploit, was publicised on Wednesday on a security mailing list, along with a link to a fix for the problem. A shell problem could also cause the computer to freeze. Developers at the open-source Mozilla Foundation...
[July 9, 2004, 8:40]
Nokia targets firms with smart RFID kit
News Once the shell has been fitted, the 5140 can interact with objects that contain an RFID tag, for example a meter or billboard, just by being tapped against them. Late last year it launched an NFC shell for its 3220 handset, which is aimed at the...
[February 22, 2005, 16:10]
Opera rolls out security patch
News The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary shell commands on a user's computer by tricking him or her into clicking on a link to malicious Web sites, according to a security advisory from Secunia.
[November 23, 2005, 8:50]
