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• February 05, 2023 05 Feb'23

  Australian organisations underinvesting in cyber security

  Over half of Australian organisations had not invested enough in cyber security in the past three years, though awareness is improving in the aftermath of high-profile data breaches last year

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  UK seeks head of quantum office

  A vacancy on the civil service jobs site suggests the UK’s new quantum strategy is about to be rolled out – and there’s going to be a new chief

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  Finance regulator finding more misleading promotions quicker through improved digital tools

  UK finance regulator able to find and block misleading promotions faster through improved digital tools

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  AWS talks up 'healthy and robust' customer pipeline as revenue growth continues to slow

  Amazon is the latest tech giant to report a downbeat set of financial results, as enterprises continue to scale back their cloud spending

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  LockBit gang confirms Ion cyber attack as disruption continues

  The LockBit ransomware cartel has taken responsibility for this week’s attack on financial software firm Ion, and is threatening to leak stolen data on Saturday 4 February

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• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  World's first self-driving bus gets in gear through UK government, industry funding

  UK government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Connected and Automated Mobility programme reveals funding for commercial self-driving passenger and freight services projects including self-driving bus service and autonomous taxis

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  FCA cracks down on misleading promos by social media influencers

  Social media is becoming a major part of the FCA’s work in clamping down on misleading financial advertising and promotions, with multiple influencers rapped for their behaviour

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  Record fibre growth fails to halt mixed Q3 for BT

  Strategy of focus on fibre and 5G vindicated in financial results showing leading UK telco buffeted by inflationary headwinds – but also seeing benefit of growing investment in fixed network infrastructure

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  BDx to open fourth datacentre in Hong Kong

  Big Data Exchange’s upcoming HKG8 facility will provide hyperscale and enterprise customers with fail-safe resiliency and connectivity in one of the region’s fastest-growing datacentre markets

• February 03, 2023 03 Feb'23

  MEPs vote to amend platform worker directive

  MEPs have voted in favour of amendments to the European Commission’s platform worker directive that would introduce a presumption of employment and increase algorithmic transparency

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Ericsson, Intel and Microsoft demo enterprise laptop 5G network slicing capabilities

  Comms tech provider teams with chip and IT giants on ‘pioneering’ trial demonstrating the applicability of 5G networking slicing technology on devices beyond smartphones

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Globe Telecom claims improved connectivity with MatSing lens antennas

  Philippines MNO announces first mobile network deployment of lens antenna technology in Southeast Asia designed to deliver improved 4G/LTE and 5G mobile capacity

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Goodbye NHS Digital – a new era of NHS technology is upon us

  As NHS Digital is officially merged into NHS England, Computer Weekly takes a look at the history of the organisation and what the merger could mean for the future of NHS IT

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Government plans to catch tax fraudsters with help of AI

  Cabinet Office signs a deal with data analytics company Quantexa, aiming to use data and artificial intelligence to tackle public sector fraud

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  North Korea’s Lazarus gang exposes itself in opsec failure

  WithSecure researchers linked a campaign of cyber attacks targeting medical research and energy firms to North Korea’s infamous Lazarus APT after a group member accidentally screwed up

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Symbio acquires Intrado Australia’s UCaaS business

  The all-cash A$5m deal will expand Symbio’s footprint in the UCaaS market and deepen its reach into enterprises and government entities

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Suspected LockBit ransomware attack causes havoc in City of London

  A suspected LockBit ransomware attack on trading software firm Ion has caused chaos for City of London traders

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  UK government announces plans to protect consumers through cryptoasset regulation

  UK government wants feedback on its plans to regulate organisations operating in the cryptoasset sector

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Arnold Clark customer data was stolen in Play ransomware attack

  Arnold Clark confirms data leaked on dark web was stolen from its systems in ransomware attack

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Three UK goes data-driven with Amdocs for personalised customer experience

  Software and services provider to let UK-based operator migrate to a modern, cloud-based data architecture, enabling it to serve its customers contextual, timely recommendations and suggestions

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  EE unveils 5G connectivity for London Underground

  Just weeks after 4G landed on the Central and Northern lines for the first time, BT-owned operator now brings 5G to the Tube, with Archway, Notting Hill Gate and Tufnell Park the first stations to benefit

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Romance fraudsters stole £65m from Brits since 2020

  Online romance fraudsters have scammed Brits out of £65m in the past three years, according to retail bank TSB

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  NCSC for Startups inducts four companies into programme

  Four more startups are set to join the NCSC accelerator, which helps the UK government develop technology and approaches to pressing cyber security challenges

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Cisco fixes two bugs that could have led to supply chain attacks on users

  Two vulnerabilities uncovered in Cisco hardware could have opened the door to serious supply chain cyber attacks, according to the Trellix researchers who found them

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Picocom, Antevia collaborate to provide in-building private 5G for enterprises

  5G tech designer forges partnership with 5G silicon manufacturer to create new class of private network coverage for global enterprises, promising creation of cost-effective in-building networks faster than ever

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Cloud security top risk to enterprises in 2023, says study

  A PwC study finds senior executives expect cyber attacks on cloud services to increase significantly this year

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Tech workers seek alternative employment to avoid redundancy

  With rumours of mass redundancies rife in the IT sector, many tech workers are applying for other roles rather than risk becoming unemployed

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  CryptoRom scam abuses Apple and Google app stores to claim victims

  Sophos researchers report on two fake apps used by romance scammers to lure victims into parting with their money, both of which were able to escape the attention of Apple and Google app store safeguards

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust warned in 2018 about datacentre cooling issues, outage report shows

  A review has been published regarding the circumstances that led to two datacentres, hosting healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, overheating during the 2022 summer heatwave

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  PayPal slashes 2,000 jobs in face of tough economic outlook

  Fintech giant making thousands of redundancies as global economic outlook remains poor

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Innovative Technology deploys age estimation tech in shops and pubs

  A company involved in Home Office-led trials of biometric age estimation technologies has begun rolling out its hardware to UK shops and pubs so they can use its facial recognition algorithm to assure customers’ ages

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Malware variant can block contactless payments

  Kaspersky warns that the latest variant of the Prilex malware can block contactless payments to force people to insert cards, enabling criminals to steal money

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  NASA works with IBM on foundational data model for Earth science

  Using IBM’s foundational model for artificial intelligence, NASA plans to offer researchers a way to access the vast troves of data it collects about Earth

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  UK Cyber Council and ISACA launch audit, assurance programme

  The UK Cyber Security Council has teamed up with ISACA to partner on a new audit and assurance programme for security pros

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Reaping green dividends with data management

  Getting data management right has been pivotal for Singapore IoT startup SensorFlow to optimise energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions for its hotelier clients

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Tech Nation to shutter after more than a decade

  Tech Nation due to shutter after losing core funding to Barclays Eagle Labs, which will take over its role in supporting UK technology startups and scaleups

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Cyber training firm launches £20k data protection scholarship

  Training specialist Freevacy has launched a £20,000 scholarship fund to train data privacy and protection professionals

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Russian DDoS hacktivists seen targeting western hospitals

  A swathe of attacks by the Putin-supporting DDoS operation known as Killnet has targeted hospitals and other infrastructure in several Nato countries, with the UK thought to be at risk

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Crédit Agricole tests quantum in finance

  The corporate and investment bank has run experiments with Pasqal and Multiverse to demo quantum computing in finance

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  GitHub warns Desktop, Atom users after code-signing certificates pinched

  Threat actors stole encrypted code-signing certificates for GitHub’s Desktop and Atom applications in December 2022, prompting warnings for users

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  MI5 unlawfully collected and held millions of people’s data

  Secretive court finds MI5 knowingly acted unlawfully in use of bulk surveillance warrants, and the Home Office continued granting warrants despite information the agency was operating outside the law

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Zurich Insurance Group plots multiyear move to AWS public cloud

  Multiline insurance firm Zurich is plotting a move to the AWS public cloud to help revamp its customer offerings

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Private equity investors continued to shape datacentre market M&A activity in 2022

  As deal sizes increase in the face of growing demand for cloud and internet-based services, datacentre operators are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of private equity investment

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Digital banking changing the high street forever as banks close branches and open alternatives

  Banks are reshaping their channels as customers move to digital services, with physical innovation complementing digital strategies

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  University of Stirling taps into Alation data catalogue technology

  The University of Stirling is the first non-US university to participate in a data management education programme provided pro bono by data catalogue supplier Alation

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Royal Mail recovers more International Tracked services

  Royal Mail is making further progress in recovering IT systems hit by a ransomware attack, and has re-enabled another tranche of international export services

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  MPs warned of AI arms race to the bottom

  Expert tells Parliamentary committee that tech companies developing artificial intelligence are cutting corners and placing safety on the backburner, opening up ‘enormous risks’ for the future of AI

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  ATO renews major Macquarie deal

  The contract renewal will enable the Australian Tax Office to tap Macquarie’s security operations centre, among other services, to secure its IT environment and protect sensitive data

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Mark Logan on his vision for a Scottish technology ecosystem

  The Scottish Government’s entrepreneur advisor speaks to Computer Weekly about the philosophy behind an ambitious technology ecosystem strategy

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  BT tests out high-altitude flying antenna

  The trial with Stratospheric Platforms may lead to hydrogen-powered drones being used to provide 4G and 5G rural coverage