HSBC fined £3m after losing clients’ confidential information – twice

On my way back from a recent business meeting in London my eye was drawn to a newspaper article stating that the Financial Services Authority Board had imposed its greatest fine ever on the bank for losing critical customer information.

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Data recovery systems “flawed”

Less than 30% of Irish companies able to restore data from backups! I saw a very interesting piece in the Business supplement in the Irish Times on Friday which said that “many Irish companies are leaving themselves open to disruption or lost revenue due to poor disaster –recovery techniques”.

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer RC

Microsoft is developing a series of tools to enable easier management of Windows Server 2008 IIS7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS7.5 servers.

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C Infinity IT Manager Renews MVP Status

Aidan Finn, the Systems and Infrastructure Manager with C Infinity renewed his MVP status with Microsoft today.  Microsoft awards Most Valuable Professional status to those who “are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others”.

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Personal Details Of 75,000 People On Stolen Bord Gáis Laptops

You’ve probably already heard the news from yesterday evening about the theft of four laptops from the offices of Bord Gáis in Dublin. If not, a burglary took place on Friday 5th June at Bord Gáis offices in Dublin where the laptops had been stolen.  It has been confirmed that account numbers and personal details of 75,000 customers had been held on the laptops.

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15 Laptops Stolen From HSE Offices

I’ve just been reading in the news about 15 laptops that had been stolen from the HSE. The robbery occurred over the weekend at the Roscommon Primary Community and Continuing Care Department of the HSE.

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13 Laptops Stolen From Belfast Civil Service

At the end of last month a break-in at Royston House in Belfast, the Department of Finance and Personnel, resulted in 13 laptops being stolen. Some of the laptops contained personal information including employee names, addresses, National Insurance Numbers, date of births and even bank account numbers.

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SortMyBooks Selects C Infinity As Backup Provider

We are happy to announce that SortMyBooks have selected C Infinity as their trusted data backup provider.  As part of our partner program users of SortMyBooks can now receive professional support and expert advice as part of our secure online backup service.

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New Managed Monitoring Services Launched

We have launched our new managed monitoring services that can help make you aware of every performance and fault issue in your IT infrastructure.

As a service provider we know how important it is to monitor every critical service within an infrastructure. It’s important to achieve the best possible uptime & availability not only for customers but also for employees who rely on internal IT systems.
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C Infinity’s Infrastructure Manager Speaking At BizCamp Limerick

Our infrastructure Manager, Aidan Finn, will be attending Bizcamp Limerick tomorrow to speak to attendees on choosing the right on-line computing services for a start-up business.

If you are interested in hearing Aidan’s talk on computing for start-up businesses please visit room KBG16 from 10am until 11am. Aidan will be available afterwards to answer any question you may have on what options are available as a new business start-up.