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The article presents information on various training courses related to the computer industry. A five-day course titled "Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional for Network Administrators," will be held on December 5-9, 2005. A course titled "Fundamentals of Cryptography and Key Management Trust," will be held in Gloucestershire, England. The Cisco CCNA Exam Preparation Bootcamp will be held in Leeds during December 5-9 in Leeds.

Presents news items on technology. Includes Oxford University's certificate-granting Continuing Education courses over the Internet; Baseball cards in multimedia format from CyberAction and Major League Baseball Properties; Unscrambling of the government's data encryption standard code.

The article reports on the statement from Home Secretary Amber Rudd of Great Britain regarding the pressure that the government has put on technology company Facebook Inc. on the need for its intelligence services to access WhatsApp messages after the terrorist attacks in London, England. Topics discussed include the use of the messaging app by terrorist Khalid Masood, the end-to-end encryption on the app, and the privacy policy of the company.

Highlights the software Network Diversity technology of Amino Communications Ltd. in Cambridge, England. Security of communication without encryption; Breakdown of communication into data fragments; Benefits of the software package of Amino.

The article reports that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has levied a penalty of 180,000 pounds on the Ministry of Justice due to his failure in providing data security in the prisons of England and Wales. Topics include loss a back-up hard drive at HM Prison Erlestoke in Wiltshire, England in May 2013, containing confidential data about prisoners, views of ICO's head of enforcement Stephen Eckersley, and action taken by the ministry to ensure encryption of the hard drives.

The article reports on the loss of Rochdale Council's insecure USB stick in England. It states that the USB contains personal details of 18,000 residents, which could be prevented through data encryption and enforced security policies to ensure compliance. It also finds out that the Council's data protection practices have failed to ensure that memory sticks provided to staff were encrypted and insufficient.

The article reports that businesses are vulnerable to wireless threats due to an increase in use of wireless networks in London, England. According to Tim Pickard, area vice president of international marketing at RSA Security, wireless networks could be used for criminal purposes such as distributing pornography or to launch denial of service attacks. It has been discovered that while 74 percent of firms are using basic wireless encryption to secure networks, more access points are unsecured.

This article reports that Reading Borough Council of England has installed an encryption system to protect sensitive data and increase home and mobile working. John Barnfield, Reading's information technology programme and service delivery manager, says that data is increasingly accessed away from council sites and offices, creating a need for an additional layer of security. The DESlock+ system from Data Encryption Systems, installed by Northgate Information Systems, provides an encrypted, password-protected data area on the laptop, and cannot be accessed if someone finds or steals it.

Reports that Cambridge, England-based hardware security vendor nCipher PLC has added a security module to its nShield product portfolio to reduce the cost of hardware-based encryption, decryption and signing functions over Internet telephony networks. Features of the updated product; Operation speed of the device.

The article announces that a flash drive which contained the health records of approximately 6,360 former and current prisoners was lost along with its encryption password on April 17, 2009. Information on the flash drive included the surnames, age, prison numbers, and appointments of prisoners at Her Majesty's Prison Preston in Lancashire, England.

The article announces that hackers have cracked the encryption securing the contactless technology of Oyster transit card uses in London, England. Oyster has used the Milfare Classic technology from Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors. Several groups have disclosed that they can break the Milfare keys in seconds, thus, enable hackers to lift card details from an unwitting cardholder, clone the card, and steal. Meanwhile, the NXP has presented a more secure replacement of the Milfare Classic.

The article reports that a team of Dutch researchers announced that they have mastered a way to breach the security of the Oyster Cards which are used for London, England's public transit system. The author also discusses that the researchers were able to gather the encryption keys off the cards and then use software to skim the card details of commuters.

The article reports on the usage of wireless local area network (LAN) of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in England to enhance the security and accuracy of patient records, and the transfer of digital images of the x-rays. The network enables to identify rogue programs to prevent potential threats such as encryption to all the confidential patient information of the healthcare institution. The hospital has used the £170,000 Aruba wireless LAN to offer healthcare services to more than three million people in southern part of the country and the Channel Islands. The network provides a secure access to the hospital's Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (Pacs) devices for x-ray.

The article informs that Colossus, the world's first digital computer and the wartime codebreaking machine, is the star attraction for the new National Museum of Computing, which is being set up in 2007 at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England. The facility is being developed by the Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust in partnership with the Bletchley Park Trust and it is supported by the British Computer Society (BCS). According to Nigel Shadbolt, Colossus is a genuine milestone in computing history--not just in terms of the important role it played in winning the Second World War, but also how it paved the way for the future of computing.

Focuses on the failure of information technology suppliers to provide basic precautions to secure wireless networks at an Internet technology show in London, England. Number of wireless devices not using encryption; Use of company name as the server set identification on their wireless networks; Vulnerability of the networks.