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News: Researchers race to zero in record time
Publish Date: 2008-08-09
Researchers race to zero in record time

News: Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves
Publish Date: 2008-08-05
Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves

News: Poisoned DNS servers pop up as ISPs patch
Publish Date: 2008-07-30
Poisoned DNS servers pop up as ISPs patch

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News: E-Gold pleads guilty to money laundering
Publish Date: 2008-07-23
E-Gold pleads guilty to money laundering

Brief: States seek workarounds for e-voting systems
Publish Date: 2008-08-20
States seek workarounds for e-voting systems

Brief: Judge nixes gag order against MIT students
Publish Date: 2008-08-19
Judge nixes gag order against MIT students

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Brief: P2P investigation leads to child-porn busts
Publish Date: 2008-08-19
P2P investigation leads to child-porn busts

Brief: U.K. response team releases Net security guide
Publish Date: 2008-08-15
U.K. response team releases Net security guide

News: TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security
Publish Date: 2008-05-27
TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security

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News: Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master
Publish Date: 2008-05-09
Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master

News: Radio Free Europe hit by DDoS attack
Publish Date: 2008-05-01
Radio Free Europe hit by DDoS attack

News: Flash vuln fells Vista
Publish Date: 2008-03-30
Flash vuln fells Vista

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News: Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight spam scammers
Publish Date: 2005-10-14
Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight spam scammers

News: Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace
Publish Date: 2005-10-14
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace

News: Another data security bill in the works
Publish Date: 2005-10-05
Another data security bill in the works

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News: FTC sues company over spyware
Publish Date: 2005-10-05
FTC sues company over spyware

Infocus: Blocking Traffic by Country on Production Networks
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Blocking Traffic by Country on Production Networks

Infocus: Integrating More Intelligence into Your IDS, Part 2
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Integrating More Intelligence into Your IDS, Part 2

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Infocus: Integrating More Intelligence into Your IDS, Part 1
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Integrating More Intelligence into Your IDS, Part 1

Infocus: A Guide to Different Kinds of Honeypots
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A Guide to Different Kinds of Honeypots

Mark Rasch: Get Off My Cloud
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Get Off My Cloud

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Dan Kaminsky: An Astonishing Collaboration
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An Astonishing Collaboration

Don Parker: Bad-Code Blues
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Bad-Code Blues

Federico Biancuzzi: Firing Up Browser Security
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Firing Up Browser Security

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SecurityFocus - Latest Vulnerabilities

Vuln: Neon Digest Authentication Null Pointer Exception Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
Neon Digest Authentication Null Pointer Exception Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Vuln: IBM Lotus Domino Web Server 'Accept Language' HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
IBM Lotus Domino Web Server 'Accept Language' HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vuln: xine-lib NES Sound Format Demuxer 'demux_nsf.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
xine-lib NES Sound Format Demuxer 'demux_nsf.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vuln: vBulletin '$newpm[title]' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
vBulletin '$newpm[title]' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 1630-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
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[SECURITY] [DSA 1630-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: UPDATE: [ GLSA 200804-22 ] PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning
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UPDATE: [ GLSA 200804-22 ] PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning

Bugtraq: [ MDVSA-2008:178 ] xine-lib
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[ MDVSA-2008:178 ] xine-lib

Bugtraq: [ MDVSA-2008:177 ] xine-lib
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[ MDVSA-2008:177 ] xine-lib

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Vuln: Neon Digest Authentication Null Pointer Exception Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
Neon Digest Authentication Null Pointer Exception Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Vuln: IBM Lotus Domino Web Server 'Accept Language' HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
IBM Lotus Domino Web Server 'Accept Language' HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vuln: xine-lib NES Sound Format Demuxer 'demux_nsf.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
xine-lib NES Sound Format Demuxer 'demux_nsf.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vuln: vBulletin '$newpm[title]' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Publish Date: 2008-08-21
vBulletin '$newpm[title]' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 1630-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
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[SECURITY] [DSA 1630-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: UPDATE: [ GLSA 200804-22 ] PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning
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UPDATE: [ GLSA 200804-22 ] PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning

Bugtraq: [ MDVSA-2008:178 ] xine-lib
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Bugtraq: [ MDVSA-2008:177 ] xine-lib
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eBay changes anger smaller sellers
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:15:40 GMT

Goodbye Mom and Pop

Online tat bazaar eBay is changing how it charges to encourage more fixed price sales instead of auctions.?

Fringe box office system provider goes titsup
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:02:05 GMT

Tragedy of errors

The software outfit behind the chaotic implementation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe?s box office system has gone titsup.?

Investors introduce Salesforce to sell-off as a service
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:36:29 GMT

50 per cent Q2 growth won't cut it

Software as a service poster-child Salesforce.com today dished out second quarter results that showed a massive rise in revenue, which did absolutely nothing to impress investors.?

HP makes things personal again in Q3
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:37:27 GMT

Computers and currency do their thing

In a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.?

Network Solutions falls off the web
Publish Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:34:40 GMT

.ohdear

Network Solutions - the company that resells top level domains like .com and .net - seems to have misplaced its own website.?

Tech sector burnt by biz confidence meltdown
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:29:45 GMT

Recession, recession, recession

Finance professionals? confidence in the IT sector is slipping as UK businesses face the toughest trading environment since the early 1990s, according to a new report.?

Does Microsoft already own the BPM space?
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:40:24 GMT

Incumbency creep

Reg Tech Panel Business Process Management is not a particularly new term, but it has received a pretty big boost in visibility recently as some vendors seem to be positioning it as the next big thing in IT.?

Facebook sued for Beacon blunder
Publish Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:17:56 GMT

Eat my class action...bitch

Facebook is being sued for breaking privacy and wire-tapping laws by introducing Facebook Beacon - the ad service which tracked what you did on other websites.?

Yahoo! board! adds! Icahn! allies!
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:13:35 GMT

Bazillionaire waves 55 million shares

Following through on its pact with Wall Street kingpin Carl Icahn, Yahoo! said today that two Icahn pals have been added to its board of directors.?

Former Apple lawyer to pay $2.2m for cooking books
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:16:34 GMT

Settles Jobs backdating case

The former top lawyer at Apple has agreed to pay $2.2m to settle federal charges she illegally cooked the company's financial books to conceal backdated stock options issued to CEO Steve Jobs and other top executives.?

HBOS culls 5% of IT workforce
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:49 GMT

Halifax doesn't need a little extra help after all

Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is slashing around 100 IT jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise aimed at reducing duplication between mortgage brands.?

Logica profits plunge
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:19:28 GMT

Restructure hits bottom line

Restructuring charges battered Logica's first half profits despite first half revenues growing by six per cent, figures released today show.?

EDS knits bigger net for voluntary redundancies
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:17:59 GMT

Blighty staff worry if they'll ever meet HP

Updated EDS has more than doubled the pool of workers pinpointed for possible voluntary redundancies in the UK, The Register has learned.?

NetApp thin provisions income in Q1
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:50:16 GMT

Cultivated surge planned

NetApp's earnings climbed 11 per cent during its fiscal first quarter 2009, but margins were thin due to growing interest in low-end storage and an investment "surge" that the company expects to pay off in the second half of the year.?

Yelp 'pay to play' pitch makes shops scream for help
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:55:50 GMT

User generated discontent

When it debuted in July of 2004, Yelp reinvented the notion of online city guides, giving "real people" the power to write "real reviews." For many, it represents the best of something called Web 2.0, a site built by you and me and everyone else. But in its struggle to turn clicks into cash, the San Francisco startup has been known to hedge this egalitarian ideal, playing games with the very concept that made it so popular.?

eBay wins right to not police counterfeit goods
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:13:37 GMT

Tat seller wins rights to tat

A court in Belgium has thrown out a complaint by L'Oreal that eBay was not doing enough to combat sales of fake versions of the cosmetics giant's products on its site.?

Windfall taxing big oil: how to make the gas crisis worse
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:02:07 GMT

Election crowd pleasing = higher pump prices?

There's something about the oil business that turns even intelligent people into frothmouthed loons: they're raping the planet, shafting Joe Sixpack or, from the other side, insisting that the drill in every back yard is the very definition of America. I realise that in the middle of an election that the small still voice of reason isn't going to get much airplay but let's give it the old school try anyway.?

Rude financial firms to pay, Ombudsman vows
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:45:14 GMT

Distress grounds for additional compensation

Delays, rudeness and poor claims handling are grounds for ordering financial services firms to compensate customers, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has said. Payments can be ordered in addition to other remedies.?

Nvidia pulls off Project Blowout in Q2
Publish Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:05:50 GMT

Disappointing disaster

Last month, Nvidia promised to bomb its second quarter. Today, the company delivered on those promises in smashing fashion.?

Fringe plan box office balls-up post-mortem next month
Publish Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:24:50 GMT

Bringing down the house

Edinburgh Fringe organisers will wait until after the last acts have packed up and gone home before picking over the bones of its box office system fiasco.?

Research firm emails 20,000 addresses in the clear
Publish Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:02:06 GMT

Don't they teach BCC at PR school?

We've almost got bored of stories about people sending emails to lots of subscribers without using the BCC field, but not when the mail is sent to 20,000 people.?

Napster bullish on user engagement
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:44:50 GMT

Investors bearish on Napster sales

Napster continues to bumble along as one of those curious technology oddities haunting the NASDAQ exchange.?

Wikimadness XVII: The Return of Byrne
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:32:32 GMT

Overstock CEO demands naked shorting mea culpa

We spoke too soon. The web's longest running farce is alive and well.?

Fringe organisers launch inquiry into ticketing fiasco
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:54:29 GMT

Joke system leaves promoters baying for blood

Officials at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are to launch an independent inquiry into the failure of its box office system.?

MessageLabs mulls float as economy sinks
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:46:49 GMT

Says Saas bucking market

MessageLabs, the utility messaging service, said it is ready for an IPO if and when market conditions improve.?

UK employers sharpen job axe
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:39:03 GMT

But industry still begging for science skills

Employers expect a dismal time ahead in the jobs market because of a rise in redundancies accompanied by a downturn in recruitment.?

The BPM Buzzword Bonanza
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:12:50 GMT

We need your help to get to the meat

Reg Technology Panel One of the rapidly evolving solution areas in the IT industry is what vendors and analysts refer to as 'Business Process Management', or BPM for short. The premise behind BPM is that operational processes in many organisations cut across departmental and system boundaries, are based on a lot of manual processing, and often don?t work that well because of the resulting fragmentation and inconsistency.?

Verizon faces 65,000 worker walkout
Publish Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:19:03 GMT

Contract talks stalled

Mega American telco Verizon Communications is just three days from a possible union strike that would see the company lose 65,000 employees - about a third of its workforce.?

Rackspace cages lackluster IPO
Publish Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:17:17 GMT

Your financial future looks cloudy

Rackspace appears to have a knack for ill-timed IPOs.?

Google's $1bn AOL stake turns to dust
Publish Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:32:47 GMT

Impairment is 'temporary'

Google told the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday that its investment in AOL is likely to be worth less than it paid for it in 2005.?

IBM hacks into chip peoples' pay
Publish Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:57:29 GMT

Poor reward for record revenue

Bunny people working at IBM's US chip plants face tough times.?

Teradata keeps warehousing money
Publish Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:48:07 GMT

Shrugs off economy and rivals

Teradata appears to be surviving a global economic slowdown that's affecting some of its largest customers.?

Ubuntu gets into unified comms, chides Microsoft
Publish Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:38:53 GMT

Says new suite more sweet for SMBs

Canonical has signed an agreement with Unison Technologies to offer a complete unified communications suite for small to medium-sized firms running Ubuntu Linux.?

Google offloads conflict of interest biz
Publish Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:36:36 GMT

Performics gone to the Frogs

True to its word, Google has unloaded the search engine marketing arm of Performics, the business unit it nabbed as part of its much-discussed DoubleClick acquisition.?

AOL haunts Time Warner's Q2
Publish Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:11:20 GMT

Anyone want to buy a dial-up ISP?

Ridiculously unwieldy web/telecoms/publishing/TV/music/film production giant Time Warner continues to be tormented by its dial-up Banquo, AOL. The group today posted total profits that were dragged down 26 per cent by declining sales.?

Cisco's Q4 sails over US economic slump
Publish Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:44 GMT

Networker's net rises 4.4%

"Despite" is clearly the golden word for financial reports of major US tech corporations.?

DVD distie goes titsup
Publish Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:20:38 GMT

Administrators go in at S Gold & Sons

DVD and CD distributor S Gold & Sons has gone into administration, throwing 120 people out of work.?

Sage brushes off credit crunch
Publish Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:13:28 GMT

Despite 'uncertain and challenging markets'

Sage told the London Stock Exchange this morning that it expects to hit targets for the year but remains cautious of the impact of the credit crunch on its business.?

Yahoo! shareholders! back! Jerry! Yang!
Publish Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:55:10 GMT

Embattled CEO wins 85 per cent support

Microhoo! Despite continued resentment over the aborted merger with Microsoft, Yahoo! shareholders have reelected the company's entire board of directors.?

Sun profits evaporate as darkness falls on US economy
Publish Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:39 GMT

Investors run despite $1bn share buyback promise

Sun promised to buy back $1bn worth of shares from stockholders today as it announced static revenues and a slump in fourth quarter profits.?

Treasury coughs £80m tax credit for R&D
Publish Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:51:09 GMT

Eagle pulls small biz up by scruff of its neck

The UK government will dish up an extra £80m a year in tax credits to encourage small businesses to invest in more research and development.?

Blighty's nuke-power push stalled as EDF buy falls through
Publish Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:43:14 GMT

Pension funds affect all our futures

The British government plan to build a new generation of nuclear power stations is on hold, after French energy giant EDF's bid to buy the UK's existing nuke base was rejected at the last moment. Reports have it that the deal fell through after existing shareholders in British Energy - thought to be large UK pension funds - demanded more than EDF was willing to pay.?

EDS shareholders welcome HP overlords
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:18:06 GMT

Vote favors $13.9bn acquisition

Hewlett-Packard's proposed $13.9bn purchase of the computer services giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has been overwhelmingly approved by its shareholders.?

Motorola accidentally makes a profit
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:34:48 GMT

Someone take an early vacation?

Motorola wrong-footed the markets this morning when it turned in an unexpected profit for its second quarter and said it would be in the black for the year.?

IT career virgins need a cherry on top
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:02:03 GMT

Oversubscribed employers demand overqualified workers

Any Reg readers looking to change their job or simply start work their career will be left confused by the latest batch of news from UK recruitment experts.?

BT shares plummet on margin pressure
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:22:20 GMT

Hits revenue targets

BT hit targets for the first quarter ended 30 June 2008 bringing in revenues of £5.1bn, up three per cent on last year. But the market is distinctly underwhelmed, marking shares down 10 per cent in early trading.?

Global Wii sales nearing 30m
Publish Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:29:50 GMT

Nintendo's Q1 profit up 34 per cent

Nintendo has shifted nearly 30m Wii consoles worldwide since releasing the unit in late 2006, the videogame giant?s Q1 financial results have revealed.?

Sony profits down, but PS3 sales up
Publish Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:00:56 GMT

PS3 still Sony's main attraction

The financial results for Sony's first quarter of 2008 are out, and things aren?t looking good. However, the firm's PlayStation business will be smiling because PS3 and PSP sales increased.?

BO buy takes bloom off SAP Q2
Publish Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:21:14 GMT

But ERP giant dodges economic stormclouds

SAP weathered the intensifying economic storm to post solid second quarter results this morning that showed the German business software giant beating market expectations.?

Barclays and HBOS slash contractor rates
Publish Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:51:05 GMT

Summer in the city, pay down, isn't it a pity

Exclusive: Barclays is cutting IT contractor rates by ten per cent across the group, less than a month after cutting 1,800 IT jobs.?

Financial Director - Audit News

Fed up
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Melanie Stern, Financial Director, Thursday 31 January 2008 at 00:00:00

This month: Fed rate slash; Northern Rock bail-out; predictions of US recession, and more...

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced a 75 basis points cut in interest rates to 3.5% on 22 January....

In proportion
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Sarah Perrin, Financial Director, Thursday 31 January 2008 at 00:00:00

Any company that tries to agree an auditor liability cap that is based on any formula other than proportionality may find it has bitten off more than it can chew, if it can?t get buy-in from shareholders

Official guidance is currently being developed to help companies and their auditors contractually agree a degree of limited auditor liability....

Accounting: Playing low-ball
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Thursday 12 July 2007 at 00:00:00

The Big Four have a stranglehold over the audit market and it?s a position they are not about to relinquish easily

The Big Four say they welcome the idea of more audit choice for large companies. But do they mean what they say? After all, the concept of greater audit choice...

'Fourget' choice
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Sarah Perrin, Financial Director, Thursday 31 May 2007 at 00:00:00

Despite attempts to promote choice and competition, the Big Four still has a stranglehold on the audit market

Auditing is back on the agenda, though this time not because of a major audit failure or the collapse of a Big Four firm....

Search to quantify quality
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Thursday 4 January 2007 at 00:00:00

If the FRC wants to ensure audit quality, it must first define a standard against which performance can be assessed

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is on a mission to discover whether the quality of audits is being maintained and improved within the existing legal and regulatory framework....

Ouside the box: Transparency is key to accounting
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Thursday 28 September 2006 at 00:00:00

Auditors must show that they have the systems in place to provide objective, transparent reports

When accounting systems started to transfer from manual to computerised in the 1980s, auditors had a problem. For a time, until it became unfeasible, auditors attempted to audit around the...

Friends Provident reviews its OFR
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Anthony Harrington, Financial Director, Thursday 28 September 2006 at 00:00:00

As the government ponders plans to introduce a business review, many companies believe that the operating and financial review is still an invaluable report for stakeholders

The government may have got cold feet over the idea of forcing public companies to produce a full-blown operating and financial review, but political jitters have had little impact on...

The tenth annual audit fees survey
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Andrew Sawers, Financial Director, Thursday 28 September 2006 at 00:00:00

FTSE-350 audits are more expensive and slower

Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley and emerging best practice, there is now more uniformity in the way audit, audit-related and non-audit fees are reported....

Lessons from FTSE governance reports
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Neil Hodge, Financial Director, Thursday 31 August 2006 at 00:00:00

Audit committees are leading the trend for improved disclosure, but board reporting remains uninspiring. So how can it be improved?

The quality of corporate governance reporting in the UK?s leading companies is not improving as well as most investors would like, according to corporate governance specialists Independent Audit....

Shed a tier: Competition in the Big Four
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Sarah Perrin, Financial Director, Thursday 31 August 2006 at 00:00:00

Consternation about the Big Four's dominance of the listed company audit market is provoking competition fears and calls for intervention

Interest in the matter of competition in the audit market has been heightened this year. In April, the Oxera report, Competition and choice in the UK audit market, prepared for...

Guidance for auditor disclosure
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Tuesday 27 June 2006 at 00:00:00

Draft guidance aims to help companies comply with requirements to disclose auditor renumeration in accounts

The government has taken another step in using regulation and disclosure in order to head off the perceived threat to auditor independence....

Accounting: Principle rules
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Tuesday 23 May 2006 at 00:00:00

Principles-based accounting may be simpler and more flexible, but much depends on who sets the principles

Arguments for principles-based accounting are seductively simple. Principles-based accounting provides a comprehensive basis for preparing financial statements with the flexibility to deal with new and different situations....

Restricted entry to the audit club
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Peter Williams, Financial Director, Wednesday 26 April 2006 at 00:00:00

The Big Four firms may dominate the audit market for listed companies but, despite concerns over a lack of competition, it?s a situation FDs and the profession seem reluctant to change, writes Peter Williams

Finance directors are being held partly responsible for the current state of the UK audit market. April?s report, Competition and Choice in the UK Audit Market, published jointly by the...

Insight: Less Loose Change
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Neil Hodge and Andrew Sawers, Financial Director, Tuesday 25 October 2005 at 00:00:00

Recovery audit and specialist audit firms are currently gearing up to take on extra business as a result of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act. But it might not be all good news.

Sarbanes-Oxley and its demand for better internal controls has had a positive effect on business at PRGSchultz, the world?s largest recovery audit firm, according to Ian Griffiths, chief financial officer...

Battlefield lessons for the institutes
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Andrew Sawers, editor, editor@FinancialDirector.co.uk., Financial Director, Monday 7 March 2005 at 11:33:14

Not all accountants are the same. ICAEW chief executive Eric Anstee told us recently that English & Welsh chartered accountants arrive at a decision through a process involving judgement; the typical CIMA accountant will make a decision only after analysing a problem to death. As for CIPFA members, their chief exec Steve Freer tells us that the public sector accountants are particularly well versed in analysing options to be presented to politicians, who make the final decision.

One thing that all the accountants seem to have in common is an undying passion for their profession. That much was clear as we read the hundreds and hundreds of...

Computer Weekley - IT Management News

Apple?s iTunes blocked in China over Tibet protest songs
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:04 GMT
Apple's iTunes music...

Proposed e-border trial at Manchester Airport raises security concerns
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:42:57 GMT
Manchester Airport's planned...

M&As offer CIOs a chance to shine
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:40:13 GMT
M&A Ian Grant ian.grant@rbi.co.uk A spate of recent mergers means life is becoming "interesting" for the CIOs at British Airways and Iberia,...

CIOs who understand business in a strong position amid downturn
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:17:52 GMT
CIOs are invaluable during an economic downturn if they understand how technology supports all the business and can communicate their knowledge to business...

Police get £40m biometric fingerprinting kit
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:58:17 GMT
The Home Office is to spend £30m-£40m on a mobile biometric identification service that will use fingerprint...

Mobile workforce management technology meets Olympics challenge
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:38:30 GMT
Olympics telecoms provider China Netcom Group Corporation (CNC) is protecting the games' communications...

Data security breaches at HMRC continue to rise
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT
The government has revealed that data...

Government launches research project to combat identity theft
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:56:38 GMT
A government-funded research project will be launched in October to help develop the next generation of secure...

Fujitsu Services staff will not get bonuses this year
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:01 GMT
IT service provider Fujitsu Services will not pay bonuses to its staff this year as it tightens its belt following its exit...

Police probe international link in chip and Pin fraud
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:00 GMT
Police are investigating a possible link between compromised credit card readers found in Birmingham ...

ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 2008 - The Winners
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:47:00 GMT
The best blogs in the IT industry, as voted for by Computer Weekly readers Following months of anticipation since our quest to find the best IT industry...

Microsoft and Novell expand Windows/Linux integration deal
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:07:07 GMT
Microsoft and Novell are extending their interoperability agreement to tie Windows closer to Novell's SUSE...

Fringe Festival announces review of IT after box office glitches
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has launched...

Lib Dems call for data guardians in public and private sector to protect information rights
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:20:07 GMT
Lib Dems call for data guardians in public and private sector to protect information rights The Liberal...

Case studies: SaaS in action
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:41:00 GMT
When people think about software as a service (SaaS) the company that often comes to mind is Salesforce.com, with its customer relationship management product,...

Microsoft's Steve Clayton is Computer Weekly.com's top blogger
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:00 GMT
Microsoft's Steve Clayton has been voted top blogger in the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 2008 ....

HP targets biggest IT buyers
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:05:50 GMT
HP will target the biggest spenders in IT after it completes...

GCHQ targets IT specialists with recruitment website
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:23:27 GMT
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has made its desire to recruit IT specialists not so top secret with the launch of a recruitment...

Goldfish sends out wrong credit card statement
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:36:00 GMT
Barclays owned credit-card firm Goldfish has sent the wrong account details to customers after a processing error...

Online shoppers spend £4.8bn in wet summer
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:32:18 GMT
Online sales reported by IMRG Capgemini e-Retail...

Computer Weekley - Security News

Government launches research project to combat identity theft
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:56:38 GMT
A government-funded research project will be launched in October to help develop the next generation of secure...

Police probe international link in chip and Pin fraud
Publish Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:00 GMT
Police are investigating a possible link between compromised credit card readers found in Birmingham ...

Goldfish sends out wrong credit card statement
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:36:00 GMT
Barclays owned credit-card firm Goldfish has sent the wrong account details to customers after a processing error...

Spammers prepare new anti-Georgia botnet onslaught
Publish Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:03:22 GMT
Cybercriminals are attempting to create a botnet network to launch cyber attacks against Georgian Government computers, according to Gary Warner, director...

Ministry of Justice loses personal details of 45,000 people
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:06:52 GMT
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has admitted it lost the personal details of 45,000 people over the past financial...

Police warn of security threat to every chip-and-Pin terminal
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:45:00 GMT
Police say that every chip-and-Pin terminal in the country must be checked and modified to counter a security compromise that cracked the payment system. The...

Identity management: an essential guide for IT professionals
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:59:00 GMT
Identity management - being able to know precisely who you are dealing with and being able to prove you are who you say you are - is high on the agenda for governments, businesses and individuals.

Joomla sites hit in latest SQL injection attack
Publish Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:48:00 GMT
Websites that use Joomla, an open source content management system, are vulnerable to the latest round of SQL injection attacks, says a security researcher.

Gangs have cracked Chip and PIN cards, say police
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:06:00 GMT
Police today warned that gangs have developed technology to steal customer bank details from inside Chip and PIN ...

Cyberattacks became part of Russia-Georgia war
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:18:00 GMT
While Russia and Georgia engaged in a vicious military conflict, they have been locked on another battlefront - in cyberspace.

Podcast: Nokia S40 hack - interview with the man who discovered Nokia Java vulnerability
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:40:00 GMT
Nokia S40 hack: Cliff Saran interviews the security researcher who discovered the Nokia and Java vulnerability in Nokia Series 40 phones.

Hackers access data of American bank's customers
Publish Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:08:00 GMT
Hackers have accessed confidential details of an estimated 5,000 customers of an American banking group.

Hospital sacks senior manager over stolen laptop
Publish Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:23:00 GMT
Health chiefs in Colchester fired a senior manager who lost confidential records on thousands of patients after his hospital laptop was stolen. The...

BBC production company loses child data
Publish Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:15:00 GMT
The BBC has confirmed the theft of one laptop and several memory sticks containing child data.

Spam attacks 'quadruple' since beginning of year
Publish Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:50:00 GMT
Spamming attacks in Britain have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the year, according to analysis by anti-spam software company ClearMyMail ....

Internet crime? Global justice?
Publish Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:24 GMT
This week we feature two stories that show how ICT intersects with national legal systems to produce very novel scenarios of crime and punishment. A...

Oyster security breach could mean major headache for other MiFare users
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:39:00 GMT
The recent court victory by Dutch academics, which allows them to publish...

Apple's MobileMe highlights security flaw
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:49:09 GMT
Apple's recently launched MobileMe...

Top 10 information security tips for C-level executives
Publish Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:29:00 GMT
Vernon Poole, head of business consultancy Sapphire , and former security manager for Deloitte...

Lawyers move to delay hacker McKinnon's extradition to US
Publish Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:38:00 GMT
Lawyers acting for British computer hacker Gary McKinnon are planning to delay his extradition to America despite...