Government department wiped out by IT upgrade disaster
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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has suffered what has been described as the biggest computer crash in government history after a software upgrade.
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Business & money: Loss of IT chief is only the latest setback in ambitious scheme to computerise records.
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Company says affected servers were running old, unpatched versions of Ubuntu as well as a number of insecure Web applications.
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A software upgrade was inadvertently given to PCs not intended to receive it, which made payment processing systems at Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions stop working, EDS&#39; investigation revealed.
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Some 40,000 computers in the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions were cut off from their network last month when an IT technician erroneously installed a software upgrade, according to EDS.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States  -  the latest in a series of government blunders over data
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Cures for an update gone bad, a trashed Registry, and a shutdown failure.
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Overture for update error don't impress Chinese customers whose systems were downed.
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Electronic Data Systems has admitted that an error by one of its computer operators during a Microsoft Windows upgrade caused 40,000 PCs at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department of Work and Pensions to crash last month.
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The software company has undergone an extreme makeover.
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No surprise, there A think tank has called for 'root and branch change' in public services, following its damning report on ICT outsourcingâ¦
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Meeting next week to thrash out contracts The government is expected to concede some precious ground to the IT industry over difficult contractual negotiations that have just entered their third year.â¦
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WASHINGTON - The government said Thursday it had recovered a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor's lost desktop computer containing personal data for 16,000 veterans.
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EXPERTS were battling yesterday to deal with the biggest computer crash in British government history. Pension, child benefit and income support payments have been in crisis since a software upgrade ended in chaos on Monday.
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Hard disk containing details on 3 million candidates goes missing at facility run by contractor for the Driving Standards Agency.
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Massive computer failure at the Department for Work and Pensions may affect some benefit claims, says the government. Are you affected?
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The government said Thursday it had recovered a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor's lost desktop computer containing personal data for 16,000 veterans.