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‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

GCHQ lost 35 laptops in seven months last year, potentially containing highly sensitive data.

Google Apps covered by advanced backup

Google recently extended what it describes as highly advanced and sophisticated data backup and recovery to all components of its Apps communication and collaboration suite.

Axcient announces new backup and restore service

Axcient today announced an appliance and cloud-based service for managed service providers and SMBs that offers backup, business continuity and disaster recovery tools that can remotely recover a server in about 15 minutes.

Sony PlayStation Network back after 'Millenium bug' glitch

Sony has restored service to the PlayStation Network by resolving a glitch in the internal clock of some PlayStation 3 consoles that recognized 2010 as a leap year and wrongly added a Feb. 29 to the clock.

Winter Olympics IT ‘ready to go’

Winter Olympics IT ‘ready to go’

The technology supporting this month’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver is “in place” and ready to go, according to supplier Atos Origin.

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Power cut hits Santander bank services

Santander’s UK customers were unable to use online banking and more than 2,000 ATMs yesterday when a power failure occurred while internal testing was taking place.

Stock markets in 'data meltdown' threat

Stock markets in 'data meltdown' threat

High speed electronic stock exchanges around the world face a possible data meltdown, as trading volumes grow exponentially with computers doing most of the selling and buying.

UK businesses not prepared for Olympics challenge

The majority of UK companies are not prepared for the impact that the 2012 Olympic Games in London could affect their business, according to a survey by BT Global Services.

HSBC mainframe crash floors ATMs

HSBC mainframe crash floors ATMs

HSBC cash machines stopped functioning for nearly four hours on Friday, after one of the bank’s mainframes crashed.

BlackBerry users hit with second outage in a week

BlackBerry users in the US were hit by a second outage in less than a week, operator Research In Motion confirmed.

Microsoft not guilty of PC deaths, says Prevx

Prevx, the UK security company that started a firestorm after claiming recent Windows security updates caused a widespread "black screen" lockout of users' PCs has retracted its claims and publicly apologised to Microsoft.

Businesses slow to adapt to changing security environment

Businesses are slow to adapt to the changing security environment, according to a major report.

London Stock Exchange server software glitch halts trading

London Stock Exchange server software glitch halts trading

The London Stock Exchange halted trading in nearly 300 stocks on Monday, after a server software problem affected its TradElect and Infolect platforms.

Congestion charge payments crash after IBM takes over contract

London drivers were unable to pay the congestion charge online on Monday, following a system glitch after IBM took over the work from Capita.

Another Barclays system crash hits branches and online banking

Key IT systems at Barclays crashed this morning, hitting online and in-branch banking, as well as ATMs, in the latest of a number of IT problems in recent months at the bank.

After Sidekick disaster, Microsoft talks security for cloud

Microsoft wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services.

Rightmove keeps all datacentres in live use to protect uptime

Rightmove keeps all datacentres in live use to protect uptime

Rightmove.co.uk has said it keeps its three datacentres in live use in the interest of business continuity and sustainability.

Microsoft red-faced after T-Mobile Sidekick data loss

Contacts, calendar entries, photographs and other personal information of Sidekick users has almost certainly been lost for good following a service disruption at Sidekick provider Danger, the Microsoft subsidiary said on Saturday.

Verizon router partially kills US internet

A Verizon router failure in the US caused an outage that Internet engineers and Twitter users reported on Friday afternoon.

HP Unix upgrade boosts business continuity

HP this week unveiled updates to its HP-UX Unix OS and Serviceguard high-availability software, offering capabilities in data protection, data privacy, and business continuity.

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