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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Cashless Denmark has no bank robberies in a year for first time

  Denmark saw no bank robberies in a single year for the first time ever, but online fraud continues to increase

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Nordic IT articles of 2022

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Complaints that NCA failed in duty of candour over EncroChat warrants ‘incredible’, court hears

  NCA lawyers argue that a decision by an NCA intelligence officer to disclose notes of a key meeting after two-and-a-half years boosts her credibility as a witness

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Middle East IT articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux articles of 2022

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  NCA ‘wrong-footed’ defence lawyers after agreeing to take expert evidence on EncroChat ‘as read’

  The National Crime Agency argued at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that expert evidence it agreed to ‘take as read’ is limited, flawed and often based on an incorrect interpretation of the law

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  Top 10 crime, national security and law stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 crime, national security and law stories of 2022

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  NCA officer questioned in Investigatory Powers Tribunal over failure to disclose EncroChat notes

  EncroChat hacking warrant was unlawful and in breach of human rights law, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  EU issues draft data adequacy decision in favour of US

  The European Commission has concluded that the United States does ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union and will now launch the process towards the adoption of an adequacy decision

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Finnish government launches information security voucher scheme

  Finland’s government is offering businesses financial support to help them improve their cyber security

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  Finland connects a quantum computer to a supercomputer

  VTT and CSC recently connected a quantum computer with Europe’s fastest supercomputer to enable a hybrid service for researchers

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Italy’s biggest datacentre campus to enjoy €500m growth spurt

  Aruba SpA raises funding to help realise ambitions to further grow mega-datacentre campus in Italy

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: HSBC discusses low-code in financial services

  A member of HSBC’s global transformation team has shared her views on low-code with an audience in Amsterdam

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  UK police arrest 120 in largest-ever cyber fraud crackdown

  The administrator and more than 100 users of the iSpoof.cc cyber fraud website have been arrested in a major counter-fraud operation led by the Metropolitan Police

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence

  Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Dutch national cyber security strategy aims to protect digital society

  Cabinet sets up national cyber security strategy to make the Netherlands digitally secure

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Netherlands coalition aims to demystify artificial intelligence

  Dutch citizens need to learn about the impact of artificial intelligence on society and their lives, says the Netherlands AI Coalition

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Anything can happen so IT teams need to be ready, says Kyiv City Council CIO

  Kyiv City Council’s IT team has experienced challenges faced by no other tech department and is determined to use what it has learnt to take Ukraine forward when the war is over

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Russia risks shortage of PCs and software

  Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Cyber crime officer says French legal challenges to EncroChat are ‘hype’

  Matthieu Audibert, officer of the French Gendarmerie’s cyber space command, gets into a spat with defence lawyers on Twitter over the lawfulness of evidence from the hacked phone network EncroChat

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Dutch lawyers raise human rights concerns over hacked cryptophone data

  Dutch defence lawyers say in an open letter that there is a risk of unfair trials unless they are allowed to test the reliability and legitimacy of hacked cryptophone evidence

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Germany: European Court of Justice asked to rule on legality of hacked EncroChat phone evidence

  Berlin’s Regional Court has asked the European Court of Justice to answer questions about whether the use of hacked EncroChat phone evidence complies with European law

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: The growing divide between the haves and have-nots

  The most successful companies carefully manage how data is taken in and processed – and they use tools to ensure they squeeze the most they can out of every bit of information

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Berlingske Media to go all-digital in 2023

  Danish publisher moves national daily newspaper fully online as it cuts costs and reacts to changing customer habits

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Did Truss authorise ‘war risk’ provocation over Black Sea?

  A UK Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint spy plane was ordered to approach Russian territory in a Cold-War-style provocation just days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Greenland investigates potential blockchain-based election system

  Researchers have been funded to investigate blockchain-based online voting in Greenland

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Skype’s legacy and the rise of the ‘new Nordics’

  Estonia and other Baltic states could be part of a ‘new Nordics’ of technology innovation

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Global IT and business services spending slows amid economic fears

  Spending on IT and business services is declining amid economic fears, with the possibility of a further fall on the horizon

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Dutch influence standards for post-quantum cryptography

  Cryptology group at Dutch research institute is involved in the two primary algorithms of the next NIST portfolio comprising four new standards

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  French Supreme Court rejects EncroChat verdict after lawyers question secrecy over hacking operation

  France’s Supreme Court has sent a case back to the court of appeal after police failed to disclose technical details of EncroChat hacking operation

• October 10, 2022 10 Oct'22

  Dutch infrastructure sector seeks closer collaboration with government

  Although the Netherlands government is increasingly realising how vital the country’s digital infrastructure is, it lacks sufficient policy-making and vision, say industry associations

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  SMEs in Europe ready to invest in real-time payment capabilities

  Small and medium-sized enterprises are losing business because of the time it takes to receive payments, with many considering API-based services to address the problem

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Italian Supreme Court calls for prosecutors to disclose information on Sky ECC hacking operation

  Italy’s Supreme Court says Italian prosecutors and police should disclose information on how they obtained intercepted messages from the Sky ECC cryptophone network

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  France extradites Spanish EncroChat cryptophone distributors for complicity with organised crime

  Three phone sellers have been extradited from Spain to France to face charges that they were complicit in the activities of criminal EncroChat phone users  

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken

  In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  A new take on an old relationship: Nordic startups lure UK investors to their front doors

  When startup worlds collide: investment and entrepreneurship partnerships form across the Nordics and UK

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses

  Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Failure of Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine is most important lesson for NCSC

  Russia has so far failed in its attempts to destabilise Ukraine through cyber attacks due to strength of Ukrainian, security industry and international efforts

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Data protection in Finland, four years after GDPR came into force

  Data privacy has always been a big concern in Finland, so the country naturally has a lot to say about the General Data Protection Regulation four years on

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Russia ready for complete switch to domestic IT infrastructure

  In a bid to counter sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government is implementing a policy of import substitution in the country’s domestic IT sector

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Robo investment platform adopts open banking-based payments

  Nordic consumer investment fintech simplifies customer experience through open banking software from Mastercard-owned Aiia

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How Russian intelligence hacked the encrypted emails of former MI6 boss Richard Dearlove

  Hack by Russian-linked ColdRiver group exposed former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove’s contacts and email communications with government, military, intelligence and political officials

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Copenhagen Fintech connects its members to the world

  Copenhagen-based startup initiative is driving fintech developments across the Nordic region, with Mastercard its latest global partner

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Nordic private equity firms pursue cyber security acquisitions

  Increasing interest in the security sector from Nordic private equity firms is a reflection of growing threats and increasing enterprise security budgets

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  European Central Bank working on prototypes of digital Euro interfaces

  European Central Bank’s digital Euro investigation phase is at the point of developing and testing systems that might interface with consumers

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  5G fixed wireless access services to see huge growth

  Spending on 5G fixed wireless access services is set to explode globally over the next 12 months