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MoD to stick with IE6 despite security concerns
News Most have plans to upgrade to the more secure IE7, and some to IE8, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has no plans to change. The MoD is implementing a secure desktop computing service for 300,000 users worldwide through its Defence Information...
[July 24, 2009, 14:57]
MoD site carried cross-site scripting flaw
News The government department was alerted to the vulnerability by hacker group Team Elite, an MoD spokesperson said on Tuesday. MoD immediately disabled the area concerned so that the vulnerability cannot be exploited and affect other websites.
[August 11, 2009, 15:33]
MoD wastes £30m on failed IT projects
News Already under fire from its own accounts department for scrapping 25 major IT projects, the National Audit Office reveals today that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has wasted nearly £30m on two IT projects.
[January 19, 2000, 16:06]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
News By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS) centres which the Ministry of Defence (MoD) runs around the globe, as well as field hospitals and 25 Royal Navy ships.
[August 2, 2007, 16:30]
Millennium bug: erm, we're not ready - MOD, Inland Rev.
News 20 percent of government departments, including the MOD and the Inland Revenue are not ready for the bug. MOD spokesman Marcus de Ville admitted critical defence systems still to be made bug-compliant include weapon systems, army vehicles and naval...
[June 18, 1999, 14:55]
MoD: Tech scheme not 'unmitigated disaster'
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has responded to a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and Computer Weekly which claimed the project was massively behind schedule and would cost an extra £1bn. But the MoD admitted that last year it had been hit by...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
MoD refuses to account for missing computer equipment
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled in late October, which revealed that nearly 600 computers had disappeared from the department in the last five years, according to a Liberal Democrat MP.
[January 15, 2002, 13:30]
MoD loses 600,000 personal details
News The laptop contained the personal data of 600,000 people who have joined, or expressed an interest in joining, the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, and the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement on Friday.
[January 21, 2008, 13:38]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "There was a feeling that there was a need for stringent security standards and the reason we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver full hard-drive encryption quickly.
[May 9, 2008, 9:25]
MoD boosts military ops with more PCs
News The hardware rollout will cost an extra £270m on top of the original £2.3bn contract with the Atlas Consortium for the provision of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future), or DII(F), programme to provide around 150,000 computer terminals...
[October 11, 2007, 10:51]
MoD gives scores of applications their marching orders
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) hopes to save £10m by cutting 150 unnecessary software applications. The MoD application rationalisation project is part of the Defence Information Exploitation programme which runs alongside the Defence Information...
[February 8, 2006, 15:20]
MoD marches tech plans forward
News The Defence Technology Plan (DTP) will take the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) current Defence Technology Strategy forward and be fully up and running by late 2008. The MoD claims the DTP will allow industry and academia to better direct investment...
[November 16, 2007, 10:07]
MoD sends Skynet satellite into orbit
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said its antennae technology and powerful transmission capabilities will provide a significant boost to the operational capability of the army, Royal Navy and RAF. The first Skynet 5 satellite of the £3bn-plus...
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
MOD: Military spending to favour tech
Talkback The UK's MOD decision to target high tech strategies carries risks. Repeatedly officers lose laptops containing sensitive information. My own company has now developed a unique system for tracking and recovering stolen PCs.
[December 13, 2003, 13:05]
MoD gives scores of applications their marching orders
Talkback As a Tax payer I am very pleased that that at least one part of MoD is joining the 21st centuary. Other MoD departments need now to do the same they are generating too many Defects Per Million Opportunities (DPMO) - I know as have been invlved in...
[February 9, 2006, 11:03]
MoD admits loss of over 11,000 ID cards
News In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "We take the loss of military ID cards very seriously and we are taking steps to improve general security awareness. The government has suffered many data-security breaches over the past five...
[March 14, 2008, 7:31]
MoD completes sale of QinetiQ stake
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) sold its remaining 19 percent stake in QinetiQ, previously the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, on Tuesday, raising £254m for the taxpayer. The minister for defence equipment and support, Baroness Taylor...
[September 11, 2008, 0:01]
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News Both the MoD and its contractors underestimated the complexity of rolling out the project, according to the NAO. Regarding costs, the NAO found an increase of three percent on the MoD's original estimate, and warned that any additional increase may...
[July 4, 2008, 10:16]
MoD revises tally of stolen laptops to 658
News As of January, those without full-disk encryption cannot leave secure Ministry of Defence (MoD) sites without "a strong operational reason" and a waiver from the department's senior information risk owner.
[July 22, 2008, 9:23]
MoD contractors fall short on encryption
News In a written answer to Parliament, defence minister Bob Ainsworth this week said that just over eight per cent of contractors confirmed that they do not comply with the MoD's List-X Notice on laptop and media encryption, while just over 18 per...
[February 27, 2009, 10:26]
