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BCS presents IT Awards at Stormont BCS presents IT Awards at Stormont

Published: Tuesday 29 January 2008

The BCS Northern Ireland region's 2008 IT Professional of the Year awards were held in the magnificent surroundings of Stormont's Long Gallery. This year's winner was David Mawhinney, Managing Director of ICS Computing Ltd.



Why the government lost your data

Published: Tuesday 1 January 2008

Underlying the recent IT Security disasters where the government lost citizens' data are a few glaring security breaches. How widespread are these dangerous practices? And do they happen in your organisation?



Diplomatic email password leak Diplomatic email password leak

Published: Monday 3 September 2007

100 Embassies' email passwords were disclosed on Friday by a Swedish security consultant. Some of them wouldn't have been very hard to guess!



BBC too generous to consumers, says Ofcom BBC too generous to consumers, says Ofcom

Published: Wednesday 24 January 2007

Ofcom wants to prevent viewers from downloading a whole TV or radio series at once from the BBC, and is insisting that book readings and classical music should only be made available in restrictive proprietary formats.



50 Amazing Years 50 Amazing Years

Published: Thursday 18 January 2007

This is the 50th year of the BCS!