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Cloud security
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October 10, 2014
10
Oct'14
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich's top ten public cloud security risks
Microsoft Azure cloud CTO Mark Russinovich identified ten key security risks of public cloud services
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October 08, 2014
08
Oct'14
Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs
Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards
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October 03, 2014
03
Oct'14
Google could face $100m lawsuit over nude celebrity pictures
Lawyers of celebrities whose private pictures were published by hackers are threatening to sue Google
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October 01, 2014
01
Oct'14
Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion
Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network
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September 23, 2014
23
Sep'14
Google to build giant '40-football pitch' datacentre in the Netherlands
Google will invest €600m to build a giant, 120-megawatt datacentre in the Netherlands
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September 15, 2014
15
Sep'14
Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack
Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus
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September 02, 2014
02
Sep'14
Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation
Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security
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September 01, 2014
01
Sep'14
Nude celebrity pictures posted online after alleged iCloud hack
Hundreds of nude images of female celebrities have been leaked, allegedly after Apple’s iCloud service was hacked
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July 29, 2014
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Jul'14
Tackle IAM with a risk-based approach, says KPMG
A risk-based approach is the best way to tackle identity and access management, says KPMG
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July 22, 2014
22
Jul'14
Hackers abuse Bitly API in novel attack, reports Websense
A cyber attack targeting MSNBC highlights cybercriminals’ abuse of the public’s trust in news sites, says Websense Security Labs
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July 21, 2014
21
Jul'14
EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market
Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth
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July 18, 2014
18
Jul'14
BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe
BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
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July 04, 2014
04
Jul'14
Barclays passes government’s ‘internet-born threat’ test
Barclays Bank has been awarded the government’s cyber security certificate for digital banking services after independent tests of services such as Pingit
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild
Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Microsoft admits running out of IP addresses for Azure
Microsoft has assured US Azure customers data remains in the US, despite running out of US-registered IP addresses at times
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
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May 22, 2014
22
May'14
Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services
Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco
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May 22, 2014
22
May'14
Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty
Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe
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May 20, 2014
20
May'14
Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything
Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin
A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin
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April 15, 2014
15
Apr'14
EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services
The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365
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April 10, 2014
10
Apr'14
BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud
Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance
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April 08, 2014
08
Apr'14
Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe
Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric
DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency
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March 10, 2014
10
Mar'14
Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries
Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.
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February 24, 2014
24
Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 05, 2014
05
Feb'14
Bank of England publishes Waking Shark II cyber security exercise results
Bank of England publishes the results of its Waking Shark II security exercise, which tested financial institutions' contingency plans for cyber attack
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January 31, 2014
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Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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January 20, 2014
20
Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push
New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
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January 06, 2014
06
Jan'14
Is cloud computing almost too good to be true for banks?
The cloud’s most obvious benefits will enable banks to keep up with technology changes while reducing costs
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December 20, 2013
20
Dec'13
UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks
A British citizen has applied for a judgement against Facebook in a case that will test the right of tech firms to give UK personal data to the NSA.
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December 19, 2013
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Dec'13
Oracle revenues rise as cloud services earn keep
While the rise of big data technology companies has seemed to threaten Oracle, its latest results report indicate a better than expected increase in revenue
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA
A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services
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November 21, 2013
21
Nov'13
CSA appoints Microsoft’s Adrienne Hall to board
The CSA has appointed Adrienne Hall, from Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, to its board of directors
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November 12, 2013
12
Nov'13
Mass surveillance a bad idea, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham says issues of national security must not overshadow concerns of legitimate public interest
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October 16, 2013
16
Oct'13
Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform
Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings
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October 16, 2013
16
Oct'13
Neustar to host first DDoS awareness day
Communications firm Neustar is to host the first international awareness day on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
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September 30, 2013
30
Sep'13
Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones
It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems
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September 23, 2013
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Sep'13
US websites should inform EU citizens about NSA surveillance, says report
US web site providers should inform European citizens that their data may be subject to government surveillance, says a report for the European parliament
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September 16, 2013
16
Sep'13
Risk assessment key to cloud adoption, says Isaca
There is mass confusion among small and medium businesses about cloud computing, says Amar Singh, chair of Isaca UK
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August 23, 2013
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Aug'13
Box.com forges new cloud security model
Service providers and consumers need to move to a security model better suited to the cloud computing, says Box.com
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July 09, 2013
09
Jul'13
Will cloud services follow the evolution of the banking industry?
Cloud service providers say security will become the very reason companies choose cloud services in future
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July 05, 2013
05
Jul'13
NSA Prism scandal could hit US cloud providers, says EC vice-president
EC vice-president Neelie Kroes says US cloud services providers could lose business because of fears over US Prism surveillance programme
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June 26, 2013
26
Jun'13
Encrypting enterprises miss out on cloud benefits
Enterprises sending encrypted data to the cloud are missing out on some of the greatest benefits of cloud computing, says Thales e-Security
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June 25, 2013
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Jun'13
BES extends MDM to Android and iPhones
Aiming to rekindle interest in the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), Blackberry has extended the platform to support Android and iOS
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June 24, 2013
24
Jun'13
Identity management key to browser-based IT strategy
A cloud-based identity management system is key to enabling a browser-based IT strategy at online recruitment firm Reed.co.uk
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June 21, 2013
21
Jun'13
UK businesses failing to secure virtual environments, study finds
Most UK businesses are failing to secure data in virtual environments, a survey of IT decision makers has revealed