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Hackers were able to break into the US Northwest rail company's network and take control of passenger trains in December, the Transport Security Administration has revealed.

Google has changed how it scans web pages and has provided advice to help Wikipedia, Reddit and others remain high in search results while they black out to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Trenitalia has responded to outrage at 'racist' web commercial by re-launching a new version of the offending video.

The Advertising Standards Authority has reportedly banned TalkTalk's ad campaign after finding the campaign to be misleading and fraudulent.

Brit brand, Rolls Royce has landed a £210 Million deal to supply safety instrumentation and control technologies for the French nuclear reactor modernization programme.

BT has announced a £2.5bn upgrade to bring super-fast broadband of up to 300Mbps to over 250,000 homes and businesses in Scotland.

A member of Network Rail’s governing body has said its bosses do not deserve bonuses to bring the company in line with the deputy prime ministers crackdown on top executive pay.

Julian Assange Monday lashed out at British journalism, calling it a "backstabbing industry" after his whistleblowing website Wikileaks was praised for its "outstanding contribution to journalism" in Australia.

Those close to James Murdoch will not be surprised by his decision to leave the board.

The son and heir of Rupert Murdoch, James, has resigned from his position as a director of News International following the News of the World phone hacking allegations revealed this summer.

The Luton-based airline has seen a rise in the number of business passengers, which hit 9.5 million in the year.

Virgin Galactic is hoping to launch its first paying customers into space in two years' time, and with rocket-powered tests starting next year, almost 500 people have now bought tickets.

BT customers are suffering a major outage today, as a power failure at an exchange in Birmingham has caused problems for customers all over the UK.

Mobile broadband speeds are still in the dark ages and lag some way behind much of America, Australia, and even much of Europe, according to comparison website Broadbandgenie.co.uk.

News Corp.'s iPad-exclusive newspaper, The Daily, is struggling to generate an audience with less than 120,000 readers a week, insiders say.

ITV has issued an apology after it was revealed yesterday that a documentary about the IRA mistakenly used footage from a video game, which was claimed to be IRA video from 1988.

The BBC has today updated its home page, introducing an entirely new design with iPlayer content and rich images appearing front and centre.

Shares in Northumbrian Water were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the water company confirmed it had received a takeover proposal from a Hong Kong based conglomerate.

Before its public announcement, Australia's Qantas Airways halted the trading of its shares in the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX: QAN).

Shares in Rexam were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the packaging company announced the sale of its Closures business to Berry Plastics for $360 million.

Despite the fact that LulzSec openly stated in its recent correspondence with the U.K.'s NHS that it didn't consider the service an "enemy" many of the general public have already begun to question the groups supposedly noble intentions to "help" the service.

Just after the hacking collective LulzSec issued a statement via email to the U.K.'s NHS warning the service that its online security and networks were out of date and vulnerable to cyber attacks, it has been revealed that the London Ambulance Sevice (LAS) suffered a massive software failure this Wednesday.

The hacker group LulzSec has reportedly sent an email to the U.K.'s NHS warning the healthcare service that its computer networks are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Shares in Serco were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the service company said it had agreed to acquire Indian outsourcing firm Intelenet for up to £385 million.

U.K. telecoms giant BT is set to cut the cost of calling mobiles from its landline telephones by up to 24 per cent.

BT Wholesale and Everything Everywhere today announced a new collaboration between the two companies to begin the first stages of next generation 4G high speed broadand trials in the U.K.

It has recently been speculated that cancelling the £3 billion worth of contracts the NHS currently has active with the Computer Sciences Corporation, could cost more that simply letting the contracts run their course, leading to accusations that the U.K tax payer is being held hostage.

A new parliamentary motion has urged Ofcom to extend its next generation mobile broadband to cover 98 percent of the country.

Shares in Sage group were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading ahead of the business software company's half year results, expected tomorrow.