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• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  EBA restores services after Microsoft Exchange attack

  European Banking Authority was breached through vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, but is now back online

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Private equity house buys McAfee enterprise business

  Deal to sell off enterprise unit will see McAfee become a pure-play consumer organisation

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Wipro makes its biggest acquisition ever with $1.45bn takeover

  Indian IT services supplier Wipro makes biggest acquisition in its history as it bolsters consultancy offering

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Scottish consortium unveils new scheme to boost 4G, 5G connectivity

  Programme launched to help Scottish local authorities and public sector organisations reap the benefits from improved connectivity without overburdening their resources

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  UK’s first 5G-connected tram on track across West Midlands

  Leading next-generation network test lab announces latest project offering a showcase for what the future of connected transport could look like in its home region and beyond

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• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  US teases retaliation over state-backed cyber attacks

  Consequences for alleged perpetrators of the SolarWinds attack are expected within the next few weeks

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Foreign Affairs Committee launches inquiry into tech and the future of UK foreign policy

  Committee looks for evidence on how the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office can respond to opportunities and challenges brought by new and emerging technologies

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  UK government offers ‘inadequate’ response to broadband concerns

  DCMS Committee takes government to task for the second time in two months for lack of response in how it will ensure communications strategy is realised

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Cumbria and Nottinghamshire care homes pilot diagnostic telemedicine

  Two care homes trial telemedicine system that allows GPs to carry out detailed patient assessments without leaving the surgery

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Government to change unfair private prosecution rules used to prosecute innocent subpostmasters

  Government agrees to change private prosecution rules that were abused by the Post Office in its pursuit of subpostmasters wrongly accused of financial crimes

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  DZS accelerates network process strategy with RIFT acquisition

  In its second recent strategic acquisition, transport and broadband access solutions provider swoops for automation firm to deliver and manage intelligent network and processing functions at the network edge

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Nordic innovators change emphasis on gender equality in society

  Female technology innovators in the Nordics take a different approach to trying to improve opportunities for women

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia

  Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  T-Mobile targets post-pandemic workplace with remote working suite

  Aiming to address a world of work in which Covid-19 brought a decade’s worth of progress in a year’s time,T-Mobile launches a collaborative solutions suite that it says will meet the challenges of remote working head on

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Connectivity the ‘unsung hero’ of the future of work

  Research finds that by stripping away bureaucracy, flattening hierarchies and streamlining processes, the response to Covid-19 has given an indication as to how work could and should change for the better, but there will be losers along with the ...

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Williams F1 car launch disrupted by data leak

  Williams Formula One team forced to pull augmented reality app it had planned to use to launch its 2021 car at the last minute after an apparent cyber attack

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Mandiant: MS Exchange bugs first exploited in January

  Analysis from technical teams at FireEye’s Mandiant tracked activity exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server more than a month ago

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Clarification needed on IT ‘super-deduction’ allowance

  Chancellor announces that companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will be able to claim a ‘super-deduction’ allowance

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Nottinghamshire schools suspend online learning following cyber attack

  Cyber attack on central trust that manages secondary schools in Nottinghamshire leaves them unable to access IT systems and deliver remote lessons

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Vodafone promises ‘unbreakable’ broadband without breaking the bank

  New hybrid Pro Broadband product aims to deliver Wi-Fi in every room through hybrid router that is claimed to deliver uninterrupted wireless connectivity

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Singapore Airlines the latest victim of supply chain attack

  A restricted set of data of over 580,000 frequent flyer members of Singapore Airlines was exposed in a supply chain attack against Sita’s passenger service system

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Affordable legal advice for all – from a robot

  Artificial intelligence project strives to make legal advice affordable to the whole of society

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Innovation underpinned by trustworthy governance, says CDEI

  Public support for greater use of digital technologies such as AI depends on how much trust people have in its governance, says report

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Mobile business and productivity apps see 7.1 billion downloads in 2020

  App Annie research finds stay-at-home orders and lockdowns drive uptake of business productivity applications such as Zoom Cloud Meetings, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, growing 35% annually

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  APAC leads in open source adoption

  APAC organisations are using open source software to modernise their infrastructure and develop containerised applications, though security concerns linger on

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  UK network users burn through unprecedented data in lockdown 3

  Coinciding with the launch of Call of Duty: Warzone update, Virgin Media records its busiest day on record, with the average user downloading more than 20GB of data

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Okta picks up Auth0 for $6.5bn

  Multibillion-dollar acquisition a vote of confidence in future of identity and access management services

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Microsoft Exchange CVEs more widely exploited than thought

  US CISA issues emergency guidance as impact of four newly disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities becomes clearer

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Bank of Ireland to reduce branch network by almost half

  Bank of Ireland is latest bank to pin its future on digital channels as customers change their banking habits

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  AI, fibre investment sees Comcast ride out massive wave of network traffic in 2020

  Smart hardware and software technologies allow national US network provider to manage unprecedented traffic driven by major growth in online video and gaming

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: HMRC under fire over ‘omission’ of employers’ NI from webinar guidance

  HM Revenue & Customs confirms it has corrected a calculation error in a recent educational IR35 webinar that saw it fail to factor in employers’ NI in examples of how payments should be made between end-clients, agencies and PSCs post-April 2021

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Progress towards gender equality in cyber still slow

  The cyber security sector is making painfully slow progress towards gender equality, according to a report

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Qualys caught up in Accellion FTA breach

  Security services supplier confirms that some of its data was stolen via vulnerabilities in Accellion’s file transfer product

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  UK contactless payment limit more than doubled

  UK increases the amount that can be spent in one go using a contactless payments card to £100

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Parliament bill to create the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency

  The ‘high-risk, high-reward’ UK equivalent of ARPA will be provided with powers to fund and develop projects, including exemption from freedom of information requests and 10 years to prove its own success

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN

  Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Budget 2021: Tax relief for data and cloud, digital skills for SMEs, more IT firepower for HMRC

  Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a slew of tech-related measures in this year's Budget, which also included a visa review for highly-skilled IT professionals and a £375m fund for innovative businesses

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement with unionised workers

  US software startup’s ‘milestone’ agreement with employees focuses on job security and labour rights rather than salaries and benefits

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Pandemic brings good online sales growth for smaller retailers

  IMRG data shows smaller retailers did ‘astronomically well’ in online sales growth after Covid-19 took hold last year

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  UK’s Arkivum up for €4.8m EU science data archive project

  CERN-led multi-petabyte scale research data archive bid will use Google cloud and compete with AWS-based and open source designs from other providers Libnova and Onedata

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Emergency patch addresses MS Exchange Server zero-days

  Microsoft releases an emergency patch to address multiple zero-day exploits directed at on-premise installations of Exchange Server

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Virgin Media trial demos multi-gigabit upgradeable bandwidth

  Virgin Media trials optical networking technology that could pave way to faster internet connectivity that is easier to upgrade

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Hays calls on Treasury to delay April 2021 start date by a year

  UK and Ireland managing director of recruitment giant Hays writes to HM Treasury to demand a delay and review of the government’s plans to roll out the IR35 reforms to the private sector from April 2021

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella backs decentralised clouds to power hybrid working

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sets out his vision for how the world of work, and the IT underpinning it, will need to change to become more flexible and decentralised once the Covid-19 pandemic is over

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics

  LSE’s CIO talks about focusing on team development, her vision of creating a connected network of technologists, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  SME backup: Card maker ditches tape-only for Nakivo 3-2-1 setup

  IG Design Group gains a modern backup regime with data held on disk, in the cloud and long-term on tape in a move that has helped it to slash backup and restore times

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  HPE results show demand for remote data and consumption model

  As businesses prepare for the return to the office, HPE expects many of its customers will continue to need remote working and advanced analytics

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  IBM eyes hybrid cloud opportunity in ASEAN

  The hybrid cloud message is resonating among Southeast Asian enterprises that are looking to modernise their applications and systems, says IBM’s general manager for the region

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  PGA Tour teams up with AWS to improve fan engagement during tournaments

  PGA Tour selects Amazon Web Services as its official cloud service partner as it sets about revamping tournament viewing experience for golf fans

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  How Aberdeenshire Council is using Cherwell’s ITSM platform

  IT leaders are seeing opportunities to expand the remit of IT service management beyond IT

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Google prepares for hybrid return to office work

  As the economy reopens, people are set to return to office work. But some are likely to want the flexibility to work from home

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  EU seeking pan-European Covid-19 passport solution

  The European Union’s proposal could see the creation of a Covid-19 vaccine passport to enable travel across the EU

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Goldman Sachs CEO comments highlight need for home working balance

  The remote working revolution has been prominent in the banking sector and organisations have a balancing act to perform once the pandemic passes

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  More than 20% of tech employees hesitant to speak about diversity

  Despite a large majority of people agreeing that diversity and inclusion initiatives are important, some people are still hesitant to speak about it as a topic, according to TTC research

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HPE called in to overhaul Swedish university’s supercomputing setup

  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing has commissioned HPE to build a supercomputer for one of Sweden’s largest technical universities

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HSBC offers to help customers transitioning to digital banking as branch closures continue

  HSBC is offering its customers training in how to bank digitally in a safe and effective way as it, like many banks, moves customers out of branches and towards using online services

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  CBRE predicts 2021 will be record-breaking year for European colocation demand

  Latest quarterly market tracker report from CBRE paints a positive picture of how the growth of the European colocation market is set to proceed in the years to come

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Openreach taps VIAVI to ensure network quality for UK full-fibre build-out

  Openreach opts for optical network monitoring system to address network quality, including validating new construction, performing pre-activation checks and monitoring ongoing services

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HMCTS rolls out digital case management system

  The Common Platform digital system aims to make it easier to share and manage case information across the criminal justice system

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Reading Borough Council to overhaul IT infrastructure

  Council and its children’s services partner award contracts worth £13.2m for shared IT infrastructure

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  FINN completes Covid-delayed migration to the cloud

  Norwegian online advertising marketplace completes cloud migration in a single night after months of delay due to the pandemic

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Cellular IoT connections to reach 3.5 billion by 2030

  Strategy Analytics survey finds that despite mass roll-out of next-gen networks, in the real world of the internet of things, 4G will continue as the dominant underlying platform, and 5G-based IoT growth will be gradual over the remaining part of ...

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  How SAP is riding the rising tide of cloud

  SAP’s newly minted president for Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s cloud traction and what is being done to ease the transition to S/4 Hana

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Digital secretary Dowden outlines UK post-Brexit data approach

  The UK government is searching for a new information commissioner with an updated remit to use data to support growth and innovation, and plans on reaching new international data partnerships

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  UK government pumps £4.5m into central Scotland gigabit connectivity plan

  Key Scottish population belt identified as the first territory for investment as part of UK government’s £5bn investment in next-generation broadband

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Covid accelerates Bradford University remote working project

  Pandemic injected fuel into university’s existing project to introduce remote working

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Only 12% of worldwide enterprises fully embrace SASE

  Global survey reveals that although many public and private sector organisations have elements of secure access service edge in their IT stack, few have a comprehensive architecture and a significant number do not embrace the philosophy at all

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  What it means to be born digital

  We speak to Robert Wigley about his new book, Born Digital, which looks at the societal impact of Generation Z

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  First Newcastle residents gain CityFibre gigabit access

  UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform provider claims Tyneside digital revolution is gathering pace as the first homes are connected to next-generation full-fibre network

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Royal Mail contractors ‘frustrated’ by tax status test regime

  Royal Mail contractors are ‘frustrated’ by the lack of transparency over their changing tax status, as the company confirms it is moving those ‘likely to be’ inside IR35 onto PAYE working arrangements

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Cyber extortionist threatened to bomb NHS targets

  A German court has convicted a 33-year-old Italian man for making extortion and bomb threats against NHS hospitals at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic’s first wave last year

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  DCMS gives tablet devices to people with learning disabilities

  The government is providing thousands of free tablet devices to those with learning disabilities to help them stay connected

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Argos to offshore work of digital team in Milton Keynes to Mumbai

  Retailer Argos confirms it has ‘identified opportunities’ to offshore tasks performed by its digital team, while its IR35 compliance strategy has seen the majority of contractors declared in-scope of the new rules, sources claim

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Three UK broadens 4G, 5G reach

  UK operator reveals the pace at which its 5G network is expanding according to an expansion plan announced at end of 2020 and gives visibility into its 4G net build

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Dell bets on continued home working to drive PC demand

  The pandemic has led to an increase in PC sales, Dell reports, adding that it expects home working to continue as and when coronavirus restrictions are lifted

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  5G firms tune up for Sonic open networking scheme

  Project offers the opportunity to shape what the UK’s 5G supply chains of the future could look like

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  It’s now or never for UK fintech, government told

  The UK government faces a ‘now or never’ moment if it wants financial technology to play a central role in the economy for years to come

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Nordic startups strive to fuel international e-commerce transformation

  Nordic startups are developing technology for retailers that want to improve the customer experience when buying online

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

  City authorities and datacentre operators will open dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion in the Dutch capital

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Juniper adds WAN, Virtual Network Assistant technology to networks portfolio

  Artificial intelligence-driven networks provider builds on wired/wireless access leadership and record year for campus/branch switching with new AI-driven EX switch

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store

  The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates ...

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

  Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  NCSC Cyber Action Plan emphasises SME security

  NCSC self-assessment tool launched to help sole traders and micro-businesses tackle their cyber security challenges

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  UKtech50 interview: Sarah Wilkinson, CEO, NHS Digital

  The UKtech50’s most influential person in UK IT in 2021, NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson, talks about how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the speed of projects, staff pressures and key leadership lessons

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  UKtech50 2021: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 11th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Contractors call for further delays to April 2021 start date

  Research by the online tax consultancy arm of Ernst & Young reveals lack of preparedness among contractors for the onset of the IR35 tax avoidance reforms in the private sector

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  GCHQ sets out rules of the road for AI in cyber

  A paper produced by GCHQ shows how the intelligence agency can use artificial intelligence responsibly as a tool to protect the UK’s national security

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  HPE launches new comms tech group with ‘industry-first’ Open RAN Solution Stack

  Group will help telcos and enterprises take advantage of the huge 5G market opportunity with technology bringing the company’s IP across telco software, services and infrastructure

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Nearly 80,000 more tech roles filled at end of 2020 compared with end of 2019, says ONS

  Thousands of jobs were created in the UK’s tech sector in 2020, according to ONS figures, with data from elsewhere also showing that the sector is poised for recovery

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Npower shuts off app after credential stuffing attack

  Npower customers will have to log in to their accounts on its website after its app was withdrawn following a security breach

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023

  French IT services giant joins forces with green hydrogen power expert to bring to market a ‘first-of-its-kind’ datacentre by 2023

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Tech-enabled hybrid working enables HSBC to cut 40% of its global office space

  Bank is making huge reductions in the amount of office space it uses through a global hybrid-working policy

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Community Fibre claims progress in London gigabit roll-out

  ISP doubles the number of London homes enabled with its full-fibre broadband to more than 200,000 and increases its customer base by 130% in a year

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Deloitte: How organisations can prepare for new look office work

  In the 1980s, desktop computing changed the workplace. Today, the coronavirus pandemic has led to companies rewriting a 40-year-old rule book

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  EE to extend mobile coverage in more than 500 UK areas in 2021

  As part of £1bn scheme to make sure acceptable mobile connectivity is spread among all UK communities, BT-owned telco reveals mass mobile roll-out plan

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  MHRA and other agencies to offer new resources for scam victims

  New landing page resources will replace .uk domains suspended for criminal activity to help members of the public access appropriate guidance

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  UK 5G offers faster speeds, but availability issues persist

  Research shows UK 5G speeds have increased since initial deployments and are likely to increase further, with London a particular bright spot, but availability remains an issue

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: What IT contractors need to know

  Computer Weekly asks contracting experts to answer questions about PSC bans, compliant umbrella companies and challenging status determinations, with the latest IR35 reforms coming into place

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Transport for NSW hit by Accellion breach

  Australian state agency Transport for New South Wales is the latest victim of the supply chain attack against Accellion’s legacy file transfer system

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Facebook’s AI doctoral research programme makes inroads into UK

  Facebook collaborates with University College London to bring artificial intelligence doctoral research programme to the UK, with aim to open-sourcing the findings