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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

  Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  EU Act ‘must empower those affected by AI systems to take action’

  Ada Lovelace Institute publishes recommendations on how European institutions can improve the Artificial Intelligence Act by establishing a ‘comprehensive remedies framework’ around those affected by the deployment of AI systems

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Global upheaval shows cyber security isn’t good enough, says GCHQ director

  Generational global upheaval has laid bare significant gaps in national cyber strategies, GCHQ chief Jeremy Fleming has said in a speech

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Lax money laundering controls lands N26 with ban from Italian central bank

  German digital bank N26 has had problems with anti-money laundering regulations in the past, and is now banned in Italy

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  NCSC: Not necessarily wise to ditch Kaspersky

  UK’s National Cyber Security Centre issues refreshed guidance on organisations’ usage of technology and services of Russian origin, but stops short of advising users to expunge all Russian products from their IT estates

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Anonymous claims it has hacked the Central Bank of Russia

  Hackers operating under the Anonymous banner claim to have stolen more than 35,000 sensitive files from the Central Bank of Russia as part of its cyber war against the Russian state

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Chinese state media use Facebook to push pro-Russia disinformation on Ukraine war

  Facebook owner Meta accused of failing to follow its own policies by not disclosing how Chinese state media were targeting Facebook users with ‘propaganda’ ads about the conflict in Ukraine

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Teleperformance’s robotic process automation increases job satisfaction

  A project to introduce software robots at the Dutch arm of Teleperformance has been adopted globally

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Dark web littered with Ukraine crypto scammers

  Cryptocurrency scammers are actively targeting people trying to donate funds to support Ukraine

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Ukrainian cyber defences prove resilient

  Thanks to a combination of prior experience and global support, Ukraine’s defences against cyber incidents are holding strong in the face of Russian attacks

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Russian IT sector faces unprecedented crisis

  The Russian IT sector faces a major crisis as IT professionals and businesses flee the country after its invasion of Ukraine

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Kaspersky CEO: Ukraine war must end through diplomacy

  Eugene Kaspersky speaks out on the war in Ukraine, and rebuffs Germany’s BSI, branding its warnings over his company’s trustworthiness as insulting

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  How multiphysics simulation might accelerate the advent of quantum computing – and vice versa

  Sophisticated tools that simulate more than one physical phenomenon at a time may help designers home in on optimal architectures for quantum computers at less cost – and much faster

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Ukrainian tech journalists join fight to fill news void

  Technology journalists in Ukraine are raising funds to enable them to help Ukrainians survive during the Russian invasion

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Estonian anti-money laundering software pilot reaps benefits

  Estonian startup and local banks have successfully piloted a data-sharing platform that prevents money laundering

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  German authorities warn on Kaspersky but stop short of ban

  Germany authorities warn Kaspersky users to consider alternatives to the firm’s flagship antivirus software, citing national security concerns and the war on Ukraine

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  CaddyWiper is fourth new malware linked to Ukraine war

  ESET’s cyber security analysts have identified yet another destructive wiper malware being used against targets in Ukraine

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  ROC Mondriaan offers Apple skills in Dutch schools

  Dutch school teaches the IT skills that users want but are not available in traditional courses, which is why it has developed a course focused on Apple technology

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Abu Dhabi aims for a paradigm shift in drone delivery

  Abu Dhabi’s drone network could become the world’s first drone platform that serves a wide variety of use cases for different industries across an entire city

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  BNP Paribas to recruit 1,000 more women in IT

  Spanish bank sets target of adding 1,000 more female IT professionals to its workforce over the next two years

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Volvo Cars recruiting 700 tech professionals for Stockholm hub

  Software is increasingly becoming a differentiator for car manufacturers, says the Swedish giant

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Deutsche Bank tests IT operation resilience amid potential loss of Russian centre

  German bank is confident the possible loss of operations in Russia will not affect the day-to-day running of its business

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Ukrainian engineers fight to keep internet online

  IT professionals in Ukraine are working tirelessly and at great risk to keep the country connected to the internet during the Russian invasion

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Direct action is a risky business for Ukraine's volunteer hackers

  Hackers have been responding to Ukraine’s call to create an IT army, but there are many reasons why taking direct action in a kinetic conflict is a bad idea

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Gothenburg University makes breakthrough in energy efficient computers

  Swedish and Japanese universities make advancement in the development of computers that can work as energy efficiently as a brain

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Middle East IT spending to recover to at least pre-pandemic levels

  Middle East IT leaders expect budgets to increase this year, with spending to match or exceed pre-Covid levels

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Ban predictive policing systems in EU AI Act, says civil society

  A coalition of civil society groups has called on European lawmakers to use the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act as an opportunity to ban predictive policing systems

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  ESET details new IsaacWiper malware used on Ukraine

  Having been among the first to report on the HermeticWiper malware used against Ukraine last week, ESET has now identified another destructive malware called IsaacWiper

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Zopa Bank to sponsor 50 Ukrainian tech professionals with visa offer

  IT companies are reaching out to IT professionals in the Ukraine with offers of support for those looking to work in the UK

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  EU big tech laws put in context by Russian invasion of Ukraine

  Pressure is mounting on EU institutions to cut back regulations they are preparing to impose on US big tech firms while forming laws to create a single digital market

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Ukraine cyber attacks seen spiking, but no destructive cyber war yet

  While cyber attacks linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine are taking place, they are having little impact beyond the region

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Mass phishing attacks against Ukrainian citizens reported

  The Ukrainian cyber authorities are alerting people located in the country to be alert to phishing attacks

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  University of Amsterdam teams up with MIT to use analytics for a better world

  Dutch and US universities join forces with tech company to help non-government organisations and the United Nations to harness data analytics to achieve sustainable development goals

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  New wave of cyber attacks on Ukraine preceded Russian invasion

  A wave of DDoS attacks, and a second data wiper attack, were seen hitting Ukraine in the hours leading up to the Russian invasion

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Russia behind dangerous Cyclops Blink malware

  Joint NCSC CISA advisory attributes a dangerous malware, dubbed Cyclops Blink, to Russia’s Sandworm APT, likely a GRU unit, with WatchGuard users at particular risk

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  No imminent cyber threat to UK from Russia

  Intelligence officials say they have no evidence or indication that Russian cyber attackers are preparing offensive assaults on infrastructure or organisations in Britain

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Dutch girls in STEM held back by persistent gender bias

  Gender stereotyping is leading to low numbers of women working in science, technology, engineering and maths sectors

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Helsinki shares its plans to bridge post-Covid learning gap with the rest of the world

  Finnish capital is calling on global education systems to embrace technology as a facilitator of research, ideas and knowledge-sharing, not just as a new way to deliver classes

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Sweden completes phase two of e-krona pilot

  Sweden’s central bank is well into its second year of testing a new digital currency, but so far, no firm decision has been made by the government to adopt it

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  UK joins US in pinning Ukraine DDoS attacks on Russia

  A series of DDoS attacks on Ukrainian defence and banking organisations last week is now being firmly attributed to Russian action

• February 18, 2022 18 Feb'22

  Lawyers say ‘unprecedented’ secrecy deprived EncroChat defendants of fair trials

  Lawyers from seven countries say it is impossible for their clients to challenge the accuracy, authenticity, reliability and legality of the evidence against them

• February 17, 2022 17 Feb'22

  How Signify accelerated automation projects as pandemic challenges mounted

  Dutch lighting manufacturer used robotic process automation technology to help it address Covid-19-inflicted disruption

• February 17, 2022 17 Feb'22

  Helsinki helps lay the groundwork for cities to take on healthcare drones

  Finnish capital is part of a pan-EU project to introduce drone technology into emergency medical services

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  DDoS attacks hit Ukrainian defence ministry and banks

  A further wave of cyber attacks has taken place against targets in Ukraine amid heightened tension in the region

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Nordic countries lack a unified approach to AI

  Nordic countries need to work together on a pan-regional artificial intelligence strategy

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  How the European Commission is responding to chip crisis

  The global supply of semiconductors is still constrained, and this is having a direct impact on European manufacturers

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Lack of knowledge disastrous for effective security strategy within Dutch companies

  Most Dutch companies still haven’t realised that security is an integral part of their IT and company strategy

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Why security professionals should pay attention to what Russia is doing

  Even though the average organisation is an unlikely target for a Russian state cyber attack, here's why security teams still need to watch what Russian threat groups are up to

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  The birth of Estonia’s digital civil servant

  As Estonia finalises the initial version of its government services digital assistant for launch later this year, the man heading the project describes the birth of Bürokratt and beyond