Caught With 'Wrong' IT Degree
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NEW ZEALAND might be mired in an IT skills shortage, but not everyone with IT skills can find work.   One Victoria graduate, who did not wish to be named, has been jobless since he left university in October.
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Business & money: Jon Robins on the credit reference error that linked an innocent Briton to a wanted man.
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Off-shoring continues to take its toll This month has seen the UK's aspiring Prime Minister recycling his views in his Budget Report on the requirements and funding for enhancing the training opportunities and skills to compete globally as a prelude to announcing greater investment in higher education. Some people and organisations, âspeaking on behalf of the UK IT Industryâ, have hitched themselves to this bandwagon in the anticipation that some of the UK Government's proposed increase in its skills and education funding will find its way to the IT industry both in funding terms and in delivering more highly trained and motivated IT professionals.â¦
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Publishing software flaws now an offence? The new Police and Justice Act, published today, could criminalise legitimate IT security activity. There are fears among security experts that changes it makes to the Computer Misuse Act will make it illegal to distribute some vital tools.â¦
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Thousands of university applications are thought to have been delayed by computer problems.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
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Sometimes, a thing looks too bad to be true.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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When you misrepresent yourself to establish a connection and achieve your real end, you are "pretexting."
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Possible Patriot Act entanglement raises hackles A union is warning that the privacy of sensitive information could be put at risk by a statistics agency IT deal.â¦
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&#39;I got it wrong&quot; is not a phrase that passes Gordon Brown&#39;s lips with any regularity. Indeed, in a dozen years spent monitoring his progress first as shadow chancellor and then as head honcho at the Treasury I can&#39;t recall the words passing his lips.
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A record number of university applications have been cancelled because students presented fake qualifications.
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By Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 13--Suggested hed: CSU tackles   CSU to offer computer workshops for educators   Columbus State University officials are tackling a national computer education crisis at the regional level.
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Consultants in frame? Definitely Maybe The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called "hacking tools".â¦
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Letter: They have rational reasons for avoiding IT careers.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.