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• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Security leaders investing in automation and AI, study shows

  Automation and artificial Intelligence are being used to defend against cyber threats, says report, but experts warn that these tools and technologies can be exploited by attackers

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Prepare for Y2K style Meltdown strategy

  The days of fixing the date bug in legacy systems may be long gone, but IT now has as much of an effort mitigating the Spectre/Meltdown processor flaw

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  Tech industry signs cyber security charter

  Nine technology organisations have signed a cyber security charter aimed at raising the level of cyber security internationally

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  A third of Brits plan to exercise right to be forgotten

  After the General Data Protection Regulation compliance deadline, a third of Britons polled say they plan to exercise their right to be forgotten, but few fully understand the GDPR and how it will affect them

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Telegram zero-day exploit is a warning

  The discovery of an exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app demonstrates that not all “secure” apps are automatically safe, security experts have warned

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  Norway’s government backs cyber defence mobilisation

  Norway has accelerated plans to scale up its national security infrastructure against threats emanating from the cyber domain

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  Teenager suspected of crippling Dutch banks with DDoS attacks

  A large distributed denial of service attack on banks and other organisations in the Netherlands, first thought to emanate from Russia, is now thought to have been launched by a local teenager

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Third party cyber breach risk set to rise

  Third party cyber security risk should always have been a priority, but this has never been more important than it is now in light of new technology risks and data protection regulations

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Many UK firms ill-equipped to deal the cloud security risks

  Many UK firms do not have the security tools, processes and skills required to ensure their cloud implementations are secure, a security researcher and advocate warns

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Lauri Love plans to use ‘internet as a force for good’

  Engineering student Lauri Love says he plans to help businesses fight cyber crime, after the court of appeal ruled that he can be tried in the UK for allegedly hacking US computer systems, rather than face extradition to the US

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Appeals court rules Lauri Love will not be extradited over US hacking charges

  The lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, says 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love will not be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, in a landmark legal decision, and the Crown Prosecution Service should bring proceedings against Love in ...

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  GDPR: Don’t panic, but seize the chance to build trust, says ICO

  With the compliance deadline for the EU’s GDPR just 112 days away, the UK’s information commissioner has urged organisations not to panic, but to seize the chance to build trust with customers

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  Dutch companies not ready for GDPR despite approaching deadline

  Organisations in the Netherlands are racing towards General Data Protection Regulation compliance, but there is still much to be done

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Data protection a top priority ahead of GDPR

  Data protection continues to be a key focus for IT security investment for European firms in 2018, as does the emphasis on cloud and mobile security as companies move to these technology platforms

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Security spending not on most-effective controls, report reveals

  While planned spending on IT security is up globally, so too are data breaches, with evidence mounting that hackers are hitting the bottom line, a global security survey reveals

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  AI is moving towards acceptance in cyber security, says Check Point

  Artificial intelligence is well on its way to being a useful tool in the cyber security professional’s kit, but according to Check Point, there are still big challenges to overcome

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  New controversies as Trump passes US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

  The amended Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which seeks to legitimise US surveillance on foreigners, has been signed off by president Trump

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Taking complexity out of cyber security

  The key to improving the cyber security posture of organisations is to keep complexity at bay, according to a senior Microsoft executive

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Judge will take time to seek answers from EU court over Max Schrems Facebook privacy fight

  The Irish High Court will take time to decide what questions to put before the European Court of Justice in a case with significant implications for EU and US trade and the privacy of EU citizens

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Privacy International warns of global risk to citizens if Microsoft loses US data access appeal

  Privacy International warns of widespread privacy violations if Microsoft loses US data access appeal

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Sweden steps up cyber defence measures

  Sweden is tightening up its cyber security defences as part of a wider national security strategy

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre: AWS, Google and Microsoft rush to patch cloud chip flaws

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• January 02, 2018 02 Jan'18

  Ransomware to hit cloud computing in 2018, predicts MIT

  Ransomware targeting cloud services is one of the six biggest cyber threats likely to face organisations in 2018, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• December 21, 2017 21 Dec'17

  Top 10 IT security stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 IT security stories of 2017

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  UK government blames North Korea for WannaCry cyber attack

  The UK and US governments say a North Korean group was responsible for the ransomware attacks that hit the NHS and other organisations globally this year

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Barclays Bank stops offering Kaspersky software to new users

  Bank is no longer offering customers Kaspersky anti-virus software after UK security agency issues warning

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  Uber recognises need for consumer trust after breach cover up

  New Uber leadership has recognised the importance of consumer trust and that they never should have attempted to cover up a 2016 data breach that affected millions of customers and drivers

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  GDPR fines may affect almost 80% of US firms, poll shows

  Most US companies risk fines for non-compliance with new European data protection laws that apply to all organisations processing any personal data of EU citizens

• October 27, 2017 27 Oct'17

  Airbus saves millions after building a digital learning library

  Airbus has created a digital learning library that is helping more than 100,000 staff in 35 countries keep their skills updated

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  RSA’s Middle East cyber security conference gains its own identity

  RSA Abu Dhabi conference focuses on region’s cyber security needs as digital technology deployments expand

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  UK intelligence agencies ‘unlawfully’ sharing sensitive personal data, court hears

  A secret court will decide whether Intelligence agencies are “unlawfully” sharing huge datasets containing sensitive information about the population with industry, government departments and overseas intelligence services.

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Dutch government agreement increasingly focuses on IT security

  The coalition government in the Netherlands has agreed its plan for the next four years, with IT security prominent

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  Nation-state actors responsible for most cyber attacks

  Companies of all sizes may find themselves faced with highly capable state-sponsored cyber attacks, but steps can be taken to shore up defences

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Government aligns data laws with GDPR

  The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap

  Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates

• August 28, 2017 28 Aug'17

  VMware making bigger push into cloud, cyber security

  The virtualisation bigwig is making it easier for VMware customers to adopt public cloud services, starting with a partnership with Amazon Web Services

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  Big data means big risk, Swedish Transport Agency leak shows

  The Swedish Transport Agency exposed sensitive information by transferring its databases to a third party cloud provider without following data protection procedures

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  Retail data breaches still high as GDPR deadline looms

  As the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation compliance deadline approaches, retail data breaches remain unacceptably high, a data threat report reveals

• July 17, 2017 17 Jul'17

  IBM claims breakthrough in mainframe encryption

  IBM says its new mainframe ushers in a new era of data protection in response to a call to action from chief information security officers and security experts worldwide

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  Verizon denies data loss but admits potentially huge breach

  Verizon has responded to reports of millions of customer records being exposed to the internet by saying no data was accessed by malicious third parties, but the incident raises thorny issues

• June 16, 2017 16 Jun'17

  Australia’s decryption plan seen as untenable

  Experts say efforts to get technology and social media firms to cooperate with the authorities in decrypting communications will be hard to achieve

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  SAP users look to software suppliers to help with fast-approaching GDPR

  An SAP UK and Ireland user group survey has found user organisations crying out for help as GDPR approaches, with cloud delivery a special concern

• June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

  Islamic State supporters shun Tails and Tor encryption for Telegram

  Confidential communications show terror group’s supporters are turning to simple mobile phone messaging apps to exchange messages and distribute propaganda

• May 31, 2017 31 May'17

  WannaCry shows validity of risk-based security, says RSA head

  WannaCry and other recent cyber attacks underline the importance of adopting a risk-based approach to security, says RSA president