EDS: IT upgrade caused software glitch at U.K. agency
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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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BSkyB launched a multimillion-pound lawsuit against EDS yesterday, claiming that the US computer services group breached a contract to create a new IT system that would improve the satellite broadcaster&#39;s handling of customer inquiries.
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The software maker has acknowledged it was wrong when it told users certain file formats were insecure.
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News of holes in security appliances come a few days after company patches operating system bugs.
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Techs scramble to update software as Sunday's early switch to daylight-saving time threatens to spring computer systems forward into glitchville. By the Associated Press.
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By Nichole Monroe Bell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 22--Ever wonder who the office techs call when a glitchy computer problem has even them stumped?   Quite often, they call right down the street.
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By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 12--To troubleshoot their glitchy computer company, Dell Inc. executives are installing an upgrade.
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Software giant says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs.
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LONDON -- After continuous computer failures forced the top civil servant of the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions' Child Support Agency (CSA) to step down from his job this week, the government is considering scrapping a welfare case management and telephony system developed in large part by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
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Staff at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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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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The patch fixes a flaw in the e-mail server software that could be used to get access to in-boxes and information.
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An IT firm is investigating how a hard drive from the Driving Standards Agency went missing in its US premises.
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Microsoft advised users of its Mac version of Microsoft Office that a security patch inadvertently issued through its software update service was not ready for release. It advised those that may have applied the patch to uninstall the update.
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'Unfair and misleading' Some of the biggest software companies are facing possible investigation by the UK's Office of Fair Trading because their licensing agreements are unfair.â¦
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The vendor issued an alert to some customers, telling them to run the flawed application in order to get it fixed.
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The Office 2004 for Mac update released by Microsoft on Tuesday patched a long-standing bug that erases messages, contacts and other information from Entourage 2004 accounts on Exchange mail servers.