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• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  NHS advances digital trials with high-tech mobile health clinic

  The NHS’ Find and Treat van uses tech tools including artificial intelligence software and a tele radiology network to care for vulnerable, high-risk Londoners

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Transforming Australia’s national assessment programme

  Education Services Australia has transformed the country’s national assessment programme through an online platform that has enabled teachers to design adaptive tests and improved student engagement

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  UK government promises high-speed internet for all schools by 2025

  Hot on the heels of announcing upgrades to UK mobile networks in hard-to-reach places, and as part of its latest plans to roll out gigabit broadband across the country, government turns connectivity focus on educational establishments

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Spring Statement: Chancellor expands R&D tax relief to cloud computing and storage

  Rishi Sunak announces further measures intended to improve innnovation and tech-enabled productivity in UK businesses

• 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 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Biden issues warning about Russian cyber attacks

  President Biden has said that US companies running critical infrastructure should immediately harden their defences in anticipation of potential cyber attacks from Russia

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  555 subpostmasters to get fair compensation after government U-turn

  Government finally agrees to pay 555 Post Office scandal victims fair compensation

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Siloed data holding back coordinated health responses

  Digital health experts discuss the role of data in coordinating the NHS’s pandemic response and how managing privacy and governance issues are key to further success

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  DWP Digital launches Birmingham hub

  The new space will aim to create 130 jobs and tap into the digital talent pool of the West Midlands

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  University of Reading tracks fruit tree flowering as spring breaks, with Oracle

  University is working with Oracle for research to monitor fruit trees as they blossom into spring

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Electronic patient records key to NHS digital transformation

  Getting EPR systems rolled out across NHS organisations will help boost digital transformation efforts, and are key to fulfilling government healthcare plans

• 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

  Online Safety Bill introduced in Parliament

  The government has introduced its long-awaited Online Safety Bill in Parliament, alongside new criminal offences and sanctions for tech company execs

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Two men convicted after using EncroChat cryptophones to plot killing

  Evidence from the encrypted phone network EncroChat led to the conviction of two men for conspiracy to murder

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  UCL report projects 5,500 ‘open data’ jobs in Newham by 2035

  Report from University College London’s Institute for Global Prosperity says London borough is ‘uniquely placed to seize the data opportunity’

• 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 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Cross-party group of MPs calls on Loan Charge contractors to participate in call for evidence

  The Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness All Party Parliamentary Group is seeking input from contractors about the real-world toll the loan charge policy is having on them

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  IR35 private sector reforms one year on: Assessing the impact on the UK’s tech talent pool

  With the first anniversary of the IR35 reforms taking effect in the private sector fast approaching, IT contractors set out how the changes have affected their ability to find work in the UK

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Supreme Court refuses Julian Assange extradition appeal

  The case will be referred to the home secretary Priti Patel to make a decision. The WikiLeaks founder has yet to say whether he will file further appeals

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  ‘Technical issues’ leave Post Office branches with ATM cash discrepancies

  Discrepancies of up to £2,000 reported after an ‘IT change’ impacted more than 200 Post Office branches

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Majority of UK adults support legal right to disconnect

  The introduction of ‘right to disconnect’ legislation to stop employees having to engage in work-related electronic communications outside their normal hours remains popular in the UK

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Police EncroChat cryptophone hacking implant did not work properly and frequently failed

  Surveillance operation against EncroChat encrypted phone network had repeated technical failures

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Government launches outcome of digital ID consultation

  Government document includes the launch of the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, and a pledge that ID cards will not be introduced

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Tech brands sign on to HackerOne responsible security drive

  Tech companies sign HackerOne’s new corporate security responsibility pledge to bring cyber out of the shadows and promote effective, secure development practices

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Government to force tech firms to stop fraudsters using their platforms for scams

  Changes to legislation will make social media and search engine firms responsible for preventing fraudsters using their platforms to commit crimes

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Paid-for advertising measures included in Online Safety Bill

  New measures to deal with fraudulent paid-for advertising have been included in the government’s draft Online Safety Bill, marking the fourth extension in two months

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Strategic Review of Policing: Police tech needs better ethical scrutiny

  The Strategic Review of Policing confirms the central role that tech will be playing going forward, but warns of the need for greater ethical scrutiny to ensure public trust

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  China’s APT41 exploited Log4j within hours

  APT41 compromised multiple government organisations via the Log4Shell exploit within hours of its initial disclosure, Mandiant claims

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Microsoft serves up three zero-days on March Patch Tuesday

  Three zero-days pop up in Microsoft’s March update, along with a number of other noteworthy concerns for defenders

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Horizon inquiry hearing sheds light on subpostmaster federation’s role in hushing up IT problems

  A National Federation for Subpostmasters official had huge unexplained loss written off by Post Office despite many in the same position being convicted for crimes they didn't commit

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Government publishes update on plan to tackle legacy IT

  A Cabinet Office report outlines progress around areas such as new structures and leadership to address the issue of legacy IT

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Ukraine joins Nato cyber knowledge hub

  Ukraine is to become a contributing participant in Nato’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Scrapping NHS Digital a backward step for patient data rights

  Former NHS Digital chair Kingsley Manning has spoken out over proposals to fold NHS Digital into NHS England, saying that more oversight is needed to safeguard patient data in light of recent events

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Diversity and inclusion in STEM – data, culture and social benefit

  In a recent government Science and Technology Committee meeting, a number of experts shared their opinions on the current barriers to increasing diversity in STEM, as well as ways the sector can move past them

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SAP and Oracle express solidarity with Ukraine against Russia

  SAP and Oracle suspend operations in the Russian Federation after expressing solidarity with Ukraine in the face of the war against it being conducted by Russia

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Boardroom does not see ransomware as a priority

  Less than a quarter of company directors think ransomware is a top priority for their security teams, according to Egress

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Post Office warned of software flaw in 2006, but failed to alert subpostmaster network

  The Post Office and Fujitsu failed to alert subpostmasters to a software error that caused them to be wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Nato Cyber Security unit tests post-quantum VPN

  Nato’s Cyber Security Centre has successfully tested secure communication flows in a post-quantum world using a UK-designed VPN

• 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

  Workplace surveillance ‘spiralling out of control’, says TUC

  Trade union body pushes for workers to be consulted on the implementation of new technologies at work, warning that invasive surveillance practices are getting out of hand

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  UK Treasury publishes consultation on online sales tax

  Online sales tax debate focuses on assessing options to “rebalance” taxation of the retail sector

• 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 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Sajid Javid outlines NHS tech targets

  Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid announces priorities around digital transformation in the health service

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Government set to backtrack on untenable position on subpostmaster compensation

  The government looks set to backtrack on its previous stance and outline a means of providing fair compensation to a group of Post Office Horizon scandal victims so far left out of compensation schemes

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  NAO report praises NHS for data and digital leadership in Covid-19 vaccine roll-out

  The £5.6bn programme has delivered value for money to date – and ‘creative’ use of data despite complexities was among the factors that led to successful delivery, says report

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  KnowBe4 cyber drama tackles Colonial Pipeline in fourth season

  KnowBe4’s ongoing cyber security training drama, The Inside Man, reaches its fourth season with a plot drawing inspiration from one of the most impactful cyber attacks of 2021

• 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