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Authorities Need To Get Tough On Phishers
Talkback I think banks need to be proactive in tackling phishing and work along side the authorities to try to trace and prosecute phishers. Until there are definite consequences and a real interest from the banks and Authorities it will only continue to...
[March 20, 2008, 16:16]
United Kingdom Local Authorities~ Body Streamlines View Of Customers And Improves Services
White Papers The Local Government Association (LGA) represents the local authorities of England and Wales. It acts as a lobbying organisation on their behalf, organises conferences, publishes a range of publications, and provides an enquiry service.
[January 22, 2007, 23:00]
Local Authorities Battle For £10m E-city Prize
News The government launched a £10m contest on Friday to encourage local authorities to use technology to deliver public services. Local authorities will compete in regional 'heats' to win the opportunity to represent their region in the competition.
[April 1, 2005, 16:15]
French Education Authorities Migrate To Linux
News The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of a strategy to invest in open-source solutions and avoid proprietary software lock-ins.
[September 5, 2007, 16:58]
Applications Of Multiple Trust Authorities In Pairing Based Cryptosystems
White Papers This paper investigates a number of issues related to the use of multiple trust authorities and multiple identities in the type of identifier based cryptography enabled by the Weil and Tate pairings. The paper presents various applications of...
[January 7, 2007, 23:00]
Local Authorities Slam Action 2000's Naming 'n Shaming
News While the government refuses to name and shame the 8 major financial institutions falling behind in bug-fix plans, Action 2000 is showing no mercy when it comes to local authorities which fall into its red category -- ie.at severe risk of...
[July 12, 1999, 15:40]
A Weapon On The War For Talent: Using Special Authorities To Recruit Crucial Personnel
White Papers Recently Congress provided four federal agencies with special authorities for hiring professionals and executives to help them compete for highly talented people in highly competitive job markets. The question now facing government is whether its...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Local Authorities Achieve Skills Audit Success With InfoBasis And Employers' Organisation
White Papers InfoBasis was selected by the Employers Organisation in 2004 to deliver a pilot program to four nominated local authorities. The project has re-enforced the value of skills audits to the participating authorities.
[June 23, 2006, 0:00]
Data Security Standards Baffle Local Authorities
Blog Incidents involving a loss of sensitive personal data shows that UK local authorities are still struggling to build essential data security standards based on effective security frameworks, tools which remove the ‘human error’, and the continual...
[April 15, 2008, 14:59]
A Year Ago: Local Authorities Slam Action 2000's Naming 'n Shaming
News While the government refuses to name and shame the 8 major financial institutions falling behind in bug-fix plans, Action 2000 is showing no mercy when it comes to local authorities which fall into its red category -- ie.at severe risk of...
[July 13, 2000, 8:00]
Local Authorities Keen On Open Source
News Cost, security and dissatisfaction with Microsoft will drive almost two-thirds of local authorities to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to new research. The survey of 99 local authorities by local...
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
Federal Action Could Help Transit Authorities Address Security Challenges
White Papers In conducting this assessment, the GAO made 10 onsite visits to transit agencies and surveyed a representative sample of others to study the safety and security problems associated with mass transit systems, steps taken by transit authorities to...
[January 26, 2005, 23:00]
HP's Dunn Surrenders To Authorities
News Patricia Dunn, the former HP chairman at the centre of a corporate espionage scandal, surrendered to authorities on Thursday, a day after being charged with four felonies. Dunn appeared in Santa Clara County Superior Court and was ordered to appear...
[October 6, 2006, 8:50]
Local Authorities Failing On E-accessibility
News Local authorities may not meet the government's "priority" targets for online services, according to an annual survey issued by the Society of IT Management (Socitm). The "top 20" authorities among the 38 with transactional Web sites, are:
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
Local Authorities Face Y2K Problems
News No such results are available for the 430 local authorities in the UK and the public will have to wait until July to find out if their local authority falls into Action 2000's red zone -- at severe risk of disruption as a result of the millennium...
[April 22, 1999, 15:23]
Local Authorities Failing On E-accessibility
Talkback Right here right now I'd like to put Dundee City Council down as a rubbish website, its so basic its unreal. I wish the Government would stop dilly dallying around and copy the leading scandanavian countries e-gov type services.
[March 2, 2005, 19:00]
US Authorities To Put Pinch On Site Hijackers
News The US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to announce a sweeping crackdown on the hijacking of legitimate Web pages to redirect Web surfers to porn sites. The crackdown is set to be announced next week.
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
Blind Israeli Hacking Brothers Baffle Authorities
News A pair of blind computer-mavericks from Israel have been detained and charged with cracking into the Israeli Defence Force radio station using customised braille and voice-activated gadgetry. Munther and Muzhir Badir have been blind since birth but...
[October 22, 1999, 11:36]
Plasmon Case Study: German Public Authorities
White Papers Landkreis Unterallgau, Landkreis Landshut and Landratsamt Miesbach are only three of many German administrative districts that have implemented UDO in their evolution from a paper-based to an electronic archiving system.
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Hysterical Security Stories
Blog In a great blog post he shoots down the hysterical reactions by the authorities to reports of supposed "terrorist" attacks. Supposed counter-terrorist measures at airports, for example, are there so if there is an incident the airport authorities...
[November 1, 2007, 14:28]
