A Dutch researcher rode free on the London transit system, having hacked the public transit's card system; he used a clone of a paying passenger's transit cards. His point? The transit smartcards, which are used by millions worldwide, are vulnerable to attack.
HCL Technologies has signed a wide-ranging deal with financial services software vendor Misys that will see the Indian outsourcer make further inroads into Australia's banking sector.
Australian enterprises will increasingly have to engage offshore technology providers to offset declining population growth, according to Arvind Thakur, the CEO of Indian offshoring specialist NIIT Technologies.
IBM is planning to spend up to US$6bn on a major expansion of its operations in India.
A newspaper reporter claims to have bought bank details for 1,000 UK citizens from a call centre worker in India.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) boss Mick Keelty is the latest to voice concern about India becoming an outsourcing no-go zone, but how real is the risk?
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.
Former MI5 boss Stella Rimmington talks about data security, tracking mobile phones and getting 'the tap on the shoulder'.
Outsourcing and layoffs in the IT industry are a fact of life. While you cannot necessarily prevent being laid off, you can take steps to mitigate the impact when it happens.
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