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EDS Helps Canadian Department Of National Defence In Migration And Implementation
White Papers The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) manages and directs the Canadian Forces and all matters related to national defence and emergency preparedness, with a combined strength of 90,000 regular and reserve members.
[September 15, 2003, 0:00]
Expert Undermines Hacking Suspect's Defence
News The defence counsel for Aaron Caffrey, who is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, had said that his client's computer could have been compromised by a hacker who had altered the system's log files -- which record how the machine is being used...
[October 9, 2003, 15:10]
Ministry Of Defence Criticised Over EDS Contract
News Last week, a consortium led by EDS won the contract for the second phase of the ATLAS project, the Ministry of Defence's information infrastructure, and at £4bn one of the largest public sector projects in the UK.
[January 11, 2007, 16:30]
Is This A 'Chewbacca Defence' Or Something?
Talkback Explanation of 'Chewbacca Defence': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense Um, this 'OOXML expert' is the chair of the BSI committee that reversed the BSI's decision, isn't he? I don't suppose this has anything to do with the action against...
[May 2, 2008, 17:33]
Russian Defence System Not Y2K Compliant?
News According to the report US military analysts fear that Russia's defence system may not be Y2K compliant and warn that it may be in jeopardy. It goes on to say that the Russians have allocated £2.3m for new hardware and software but the testing...
[March 3, 1999, 11:02]
Naughton Lawyers Try Role-playing Defence
News As Patrick Naughton's trial gets underway Tuesday in Los Angeles, his attorneys will test a new Internet-related defence strategy -- namely that their client was role playing in the fantasy world of chat rooms and never really believed he was...
[December 8, 1999, 6:00]
Kazaa Owner Pins Hopes On 105-year-old Defence
News Sharman License Holdings may be resting its defence on a precedent set over one hundred years ago, according to statements made by its lawyers in court last Friday, as the company prepares to face alleged music copyright infringement charges...
[May 19, 2004, 10:40]
Newest Anti-hacking Defence Systems? Speedier Downloads
News Thanks to the recent attacks on Microsoft's Web sites, technology for speeding downloads has transformed overnight into the latest anti-hacking defence systems. But it turns out these companies' services are also an unexpected defence against...
[January 30, 2001, 8:31]
UK Aerospace And Defence Collaboration Strategies: Executive Summary
White Papers It has been working with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the US Department of Defence (DOD), and has reached agreement on ways to get around these issues, positioning the UK as the bridgehead between the US and the rest of Europe.
[January 9, 2005, 23:00]
Linux Gains Acceptance In Mission-critical Defence App
News Lockheed Martin will use RedHawk real-time Linux in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing of strategic missile defence subsystems. In selecting Lockheed Martin for the THAAD programme, the defence contractor said it was because of "the...
[November 30, 2005, 15:50]
Hackers Attack Brazilian Defence Ministry
News On Wednesday, the Web site of Brazil's defence ministry became a hacking victim. For some 15 minutes, the hackers invaded the site, replacing its original content with pictures of Argentina's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevera.
[January 12, 2001, 9:31]
Israeli Defence Ministry Upgrades E-Mail System In Just Three Days
White Papers The Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) wanted to upgrade its e-mail messaging system for knowledge workers because the existing platform had become too expensive and provided insufficient support for Hebrew.
[February 19, 2008, 23:00]
Firewalls: Your First Line Of Defence
Talkback I have to disagree, the first line of defence is NOT a firewall. First, you ditch, that fragment of excrement, known as windows and deploy Linux. Then, you can deploy a firewall for peace of mind. It would appear that securing windows is an...
[March 1, 2006, 12:44]
Indian President Calls For Open-source Defence Software
News Software maintenance and software upgrade is an important issue for defence," Kalam said at a meeting of Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic System Engineering Establishment in New Delhi last week. Without naming any proprietary software products...
[July 8, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft Unleashes Last-ditch Defence: Part II
News Take me to Microsoft unleashes last-ditch defence: Part I. Throughout the day, Boies, Warden and Jackson sparred over the definition of technology tying, which is at the heart of the case. Microsoft has argued that Internet Explorer and Windows 98...
[February 23, 2000, 9:41]
European Merger Control: Do We Need An Efficiency Defence?
White Papers Should a merger control system and, in particular, the European system of merger control, include an "efficiency defence", i.e.a system allowing to take into account the possible efficiencies from mergers and how should a system be designed to...
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Unleashes Last-ditch Defence
News Boies did say that Microsoft has attempted to use copyright law as its third defence, but he claimed the company did not use this in its court appearances or in its proposed findings. Take me to Microsoft unleashes last-ditch defence: Part II.
[February 23, 2000, 9:02]
Nato Creates Cyber-defence Command
News Nato is creating a cyber-defence command to protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national infrastructures. The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate cyber-defence among Nato allies after its formation was...
[April 9, 2008, 9:30]
Open Source Defence Centre Launched
News A consortium representative said the same $10m legal defence fund that will be used to defend Torvalds from legal attack will extend to Tridgell as well. A prominent intellectual property lawyer in the open source movement is helping launch a...
[February 1, 2005, 8:45]
Trojan Defence Acquits British Teenager
News Even though both the defence and prosecution acknowledged that the attack had originated from Caffrey's computer, the defendant claimed his computer had been taken over by a hacker using a Trojan Horse program.
[October 17, 2003, 12:58]
