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CompTIA Certification Renewal Policy
CompTIA Certification Renewal Policy
CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ certifications are now valid for three years from the date the candidate is certified. The change brings the CompTIA certifications in line with the practice of other major providers of certifications for IT professionals, such as Cisco, Microsoft and Oracle.
The renewal policy also is required for these three certifications to maintain their accreditation and compliance with internationally accepted standards for assessing personnel certification programs (ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024). CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA Security+ certifications earned the ISO 17024 accreditation from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2008. ISO requires that individuals have a way to renew the currency of their certification on a regular basis. In CompTIAs case, renewal will occur every three years.
The new certification renewal policy is...
Ban on sales of Microsoft Word upheld
Ban on sales of Microsoft Word upheld
Microsoft has failed in its attempt to dismiss a court case that would stop it selling Word.
The software giant appealed against a ruling which found it took code used in Office from Canadian company i4i.
With the failure of the appeal Microsoft must now pay i4i damages of $290m (£182m) and comply with an injunction ending the sales of some versions of Word.
The injunction is scheduled to go into effect on 11 January.
Microsoft said the ban would prohibit the sale of all available versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office software from the date that the injunction comes into force.
Versions of the software sold before that date, including Word 2003 and Word 2007, will not be hit by the ruling.
Full story : HERE
Project Canvas given green light by BBC Trust
Project Canvas given green light by BBC Trust
The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has given a provisional go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV.
Project Canvas is a partnership between the BBC, ITV, BT, Five, Channel 4 and TalkTalk to develop a so-called Internet Protocol Television standard.
It would see a range of set-top boxes available to access on-demand TV services such as iPlayer and ITVplayer.
Set-top boxes, expected to cost around £200, could be available next year.
The Trust reached its provisional conclusions following more than 800 written responses.
Full story HERE
Cisco patches critical WebEx security holes
Cisco patches critical WebEx security holes
Cisco has released a security fix for at least six security holes that expose users of its WebEx Player software to remote code execution attacks.
The affected Cisco WebEx WRF Player is an application that is used to play back WebEx meeting recordings that have been recorded on the computer of an on-line meeting attendee.
Full story : HERE
UK trails on super-fast broadband say OECD figures
UK trails on super-fast broadband say OECD figures
The UK is trailing when it comes to next-generation access, new figures show.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the UK is placed 21st out of 30 in terms of speed.
That puts it below countries such as Greece, Portugal and Spain.
The report suggests that countries that invest in fibre networks are likely to see the best economic returns in other areas.
When it comes to broadband penetration, the UK is doing OK - placed 13th out of the 30 OECD members.
But most of these subscribers still access broadband via so-called DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) rather than via fibre.
Overall, nearly one in 10 OECD subscribers currently accesses the internet over fibre.
In Japan and Korea, most people do; it is also growing fast in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the US.
The report finds that many governments are subsidising the rollout of...
Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Screen of Death"
Microsoft investigates Windows 7 'screen of death'
Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the "black screen of death", which affects its latest operating system.
The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen after logging on to the system.
The firm said it was looking into reports that suggest its latest security update was the cause the problem.
Reports suggest the flaw also affects Vista, XP and other systems.
Software firm Prevx, which has issued a fix for the problem, says "millions" of people may be affected.
"Users have resorted to reloading Windows as a last ditch effort to fix the problem," the firm's David Kennerley wrote in a blog post.
"We hope we can help a good many of you avoid the need to reload."
You can check out the full story here
Many thanks to JK for this one!
iPhone worm creator lands software job
iPhone worm creator lands software job
The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones.
Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley.
Mr Towns has now been employed as a iPhone application developer for Australian firm mogeneration.
Ikee was not malicious but paved the way for a more serious variant which targeted users of the online bank ING.
"It leaves a nasty taste that he has been rewarded like this, yet has not even expressed regret for his actions," Graham Cluley of Security firm Sophos told BBC News.
Mr Towns said that he had created the virus to raise the issue of security. He has not faced any criminal charges.
Full story : HERE
BCS to launch Savvy Citizen initiative
BCS to launch Savvy Citizen initiative
Only 20 per cent of the UK's population are information 'savvy citizens', according to new research commissioned by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, for a new public awareness campaign called 'Savvy Citizens'.
The Institute believes that being able to access, understand and use information is vital to modern societies and has positive benefits for people economically, socially, culturally and politically, an assertion widely acknowledged by the public: 62 per cent of UK adults agree information technology has changed their lives for the better and 83% want more information about public services to be freely available.
Full story : HERE
Hackers target leading climate research unit
Hackers target leading climate research unit
The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.
E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission.
An investigation was underway and the police had been informed, he added.
"We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites," the spokesman stated.
"Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all of this material is genuine.
"This information has been obtained and published without our permission and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from...
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