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The response of the Financial Services Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office has been disappointing, says the man who discovered the personal bank details of more than one million people on a computer bought on eBay last week. Andrew Chapman, an IT manager at the University of Oxford, found the details when exploring a second-hand computer he had bought to store music files. ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Chapman to get his perspective on the discovery.

Warwick Ashford rounds up the UK IT industry news highlights for ComputerWeekly.com, including a report from Ian Grant on how a recent spate of company mergers has made life “interesting” for the CIOs at British Airways and Iberia, the Co-op and Somerfield, and EDF and British Energy.

Computer Weekly reporter Rebecca Thomson speaks to ten- year-old Shayan Ahmed, who has become one of the youngest students to pass the Computing AS Level in the UK.

In this interview Adam Gowdiak, founder and chief executive officer of Polish security start-up, Security Explorations, speaks to Cliff Saran about the holes he uncovered in the Nokia S40 handset that could be combined with weak security in Mobile Java, to take control of the phone's functions, without the user's consent.

Leading technology industry analyst Richard Holway tells Mark Watts that the IT sector will be hit by the effects of the credit crunch.

My country has disappointed me, says the man accused of the biggest military hack in history, Gary McKinnon.

The self-confessed hacker today lost his appeal in Britain’s highest court against extradition to the United States where he faces charges that, if convicted, could lead to him spending the next 60 years in jail.

Ian Grant spoke to Gary McKinnon just after the law lords handed down their decision. Here’s what he had to say.

Stories include: Westminster City Council outsources all IT services; how IT suppliers are avoiding the worst effects of the credit crunch; Royal Mail's future IT spending plans.

As the closing date for entering the British Computer Society’s IT Industry Awards approaches, Warwick Ashford talks to two of the moderators of this year's awards, to find out more about the selection process.

In this week's UK IT news round-up from Computer Weekly stories include: Sun Microsystems axes 1,000 staff positions in the US and Canada. The cuts come as the first of 2,500 job losses Sun Microsystems announced in May, which are expected to include further redundancies in Europe and other regions.

The biggest contribution CIOs can make to fighting climate change may not be in the datacentre but by applying IT innovatively to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the business itself. Taking Tesco's current measures to reduce its carbon footprint as an example, we ask can IT really make a contribution to reducing a company's carbon footprint?