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• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Top EU court declares data retention directive invalid

  The European Court of Justice has declared the EU Data Retention Directive invalid

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

  The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analytics

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Microsoft invests in teacher training ahead of curriculum change

  Microsoft has invested £334, 000 in a programme to help train computing teachers ahead of changes to the curriculum in September this year

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  OpenSSL security flaw could affect millions of websites, warn researchers

  At least two-thirds or websites could be affected by an OpenSSL cryptographic library flaw, warn researchers

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  Port Authority uses tablets for cargo inspections

  Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) is using tablet devices and a wireless network to increase the speed and accuracy of its cargo inspections

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  UK cyber security guidelines lack clarity, says IET

  The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) calls on government to clarify what cyber security advice UK firms should follow

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  IET calls on government to set example over Windows XP

  The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) calls on the UK government to replace all copies of the obsolete Windows XP OS

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  ICO issues data protection warning to users of Windows XP

  The ICO has issued a warning about the potential data protection risks due to the end of support for Windows XP

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  Cabinet Office vetoed Home Office plans for 'critical' e-Borders replacement

  Home Office plans for IT systems to replace ageing border security systems that contain “critical vulnerabilities” were vetoed by the Cabinet Office

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  600,000 people expected to use identity assurance by end of 2014

  The government expects 600,000 people to be registered through its identity assurance (IDA) programme by the end of this year

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  Public sector lacks IT skills to deliver services effectively

  IT skills most sort after in public sector if services are to continue to be delivered effectively, reveals survey

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  European parliament votes in support of net neutrality

  The European parliament has voted in support of proposed telecoms legislation that aims to enforce net neutrality rules.

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  Turkey lifts Twitter ban

  Turkey has lifted a ban on Twitter after the constitutional court ruled that the block breached freedom of expression

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  HMRC uses Hadoop to tackle corporate tax avoidance

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) uses open source technology with a Hadoop NoSQL big data engine to analyse tax filings

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  NHS England to invest £230m into GP IT systems

  NHS England has announced its plans to spend £230m to improve the quality of GP practices’ IT systems

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Joan Miller steps down from role as director of parliamentary ICT

  The director of ICT in Parliament, Joan Miller, will retire from her role later this year

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  David Cameron calls on BT to present rural broadband roll-out plans

  Prime minister asks BT to provide more details about its rural broadband roll-out - but BT says it is not its responsibility to do so

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Get rid of Windows XP quick, says Gartner

  Gartner is advising businesses to ditch Windows XP as soon as possible because of the security risks

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Parliamentary computers crash 90 minutes after IT assurances

  Network suffers ‘major incident’ soon after MPs and Lords are told, "It is working much better"

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Why have organisations failed to make PSN compliance deadline?

  A number of organisations have failed to meet the PSN security compliance deadline despite the threat of being cut off from critical services

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Yahoo encrypts users' data to boost security and privacy after NSA revelations

  Yahoo is the latest internet company to start encrypting users' data to try to win back trust after disclosures over National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Government signs £5.5m Microsoft deal to extend Windows XP support

  The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to support Windows XP across the UK public sector for 12 months after 8 April deadline

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks

  Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council migrates from Windows XP to Google Chromebooks

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Millions of routers open to criminal exploitation, study shows

  More than 24 million routers worldwide could be used by cyber criminals to launch DDoS attacks, a study shows

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Study alleges deeper NSA influence on RSA

  RSA adopted a second NSA-developed encryption tool, increasing the agency's spying capabilities, a study claims

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  LinkedIn halts Sell Hack plugin revealing email addresses

  Sell Hack has suspended functionality to reveal LinkedIn email addresses in response to a cease-and-desist order

• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate

  HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialist

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  UK reaches key milestone in cyber security

  CERT-UK is a key milestone in the development of the UK’s cyber security capabilities, says director Chris Gibson

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  Turkey adopts new tactic to block social media

  Turkey has reportedly started hijacking net addresses in an attempt to step up blocks on social media

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  UK update to copyright law imminent

  The UK is to update its 1988 copyright law for the digital age in line with a nearly three-year-old review

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  BT and government under fresh fire over rural broadband

  BT and the government have come under fresh criticism over the provision of broadband services to rural areas

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Government failed at promoting competition over BDUK, say MPs

  The government has consistently failed to promote competition during the roll-out of rural broadband across the UK, according to the PAC.

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Cyber security is economic opportunity for the UK, says government

  Cyber security is an essential feature of the UK’s economy, says government

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Snowden revelations have changed attitudes to cloud, study claims

  Snowden's revelations of internet surveillance have changed attitudes to cloud computing, a study claims

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  UK finally launches national cyber emergency team

  After several delays, government has finally launched the first national computer emergency response team, CERT-UK

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Business counts cost of cyber attackers’ secret weapon

  Businesses are counting the cost of failing to defend against advanced evasion techniques (AETs), a report reveals

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Thales to secure connectivity of Highways Agency

  Thales has been awarded a 5-year contract to provide secure network connectivity services for the Highways Agency

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  BlackBerry posts massive loss, but turnaround remains on-track

  BlackBerry has posted revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 of approximately $976 million, down 64% from $2.7 billion in the same quarter of fiscal 2013.

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  All companies can help fight cybercrime, says Microsoft

  All companies have a role to play in helping to fight cybercrime, says Microsoft

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Last Bletchley code-breaker dies

  Captain Raymond "Jerry" Roberts, one of the last surviving Bletchley Park code-breakers, has died

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Google says government data requests are up 120% since 2009

  Government requests for information about Google customers, have increased by 120% since 2009

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Turkey now targeting YouTube

  Turkey appears to be attempting to block YouTube a day after a court ordered an end to the ban on Twitter

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Security an unnecessary expense, say one in six techies

  One in six IT professionals see security as an unnecessary expense, a study has revealed

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Atos pays “substantial financial settlement” for DWP contract release

  Atos Healthcare paid a substantial amount of money to be released early from the controversial disability testing contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 18 months before it was due to end

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  State surveillance keeping a third of firms from the cloud

  A third of security professionals do not keep corporate data in the cloud because of fears of government snooping, survey reveals

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Russian ministers ditch iPads over security concerns

  Russian ministers have ditched their Apple iPads in favour of Samsung tablets because of security concerns

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Twitter expects Turkey to lift ban after court ruling

  Twitter expects the ban on its service to be lifted in Turkey after a local court issued a stay of execution on last week’s banning order

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  UK plans to professionalise infosec are too rigid, says (ISC)2

  (ISC)2 has raised concerns about aspects of government plans to professionalise information security

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Government predicts 2013 IT savings will exceed £500m

  The government expects IT savings in 2013 to exceed the previous year’s £500m savings, said government CTO Liam Maxwell

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations

  TechUK criticises a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging anti-competitive behaviour and collusion between public sector IT suppliers

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  ICO updates corporate plan for better data protection

  The latest corporate plan from the ICO promises a fresh approach to handling public concerns about data protection

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Labour calls for mandatory cyber breach reporting

  The Labour Party has called for another UK defence review to consider creating a statutory requirement for firms to report serious cyber attacks

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Rural broadband needed to push forward with G-Cloud services

  Broadband in remote areas of the UK needs to be implemented in order for councils to take full advantage of G-Cloud

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Study supports economic approach to tackling cybercrime

  Cybercrime black markets have reached unprecedented levels of maturity and growth, a study reveals

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Broadband users lose out with ISPs failing to deliver advertised bandwidth

  People are getting poor value for money in their broadband contracts, according the European Commission

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Parliament must speed up internal processes to push forward with G-Cloud

  Parliament needs to speed up its internal decision making processes to continue taking advantage of G-Cloud, said director of Parliamentary ICT Joan Miller

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  White House wants to overhaul NSA phone data collection

  The White House is set to call for major changes to the NSA phone metadata surveillance programme

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  China demands explanation of NSA spying on Huawei

  China demands an explanation from the US over reports that its National Security Agency (NSA) infiltrated the networks of Chinese telecoms firm Huawei

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Microsoft set to roll out anti-cybercrime strategy in Europe

  Microsoft plans to expand its botnet disruption strategy beyond the US to Europe and other regions

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Lincolnshire County Council outsources to Serco

  Lincolnshire County Council has agreed to outsource services including IT to Serco in five-year deal worth £70m and will next month embark on a 12-month transition from its existing supplier

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Analysis: Care.data – where next?

  Following the public debate surrounding the NHS Care.data plan, it was unsurprising the topic dominated the UK’s largest health IT event

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  DCMS to fund rural trials of superfast broadband

  The DCMS has opened up its £10m funding pot for suppliers with innovative ideas to help superfast broadband reach remote UK areas

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Turkey attempts to increase block on Twitter

  Turkey has increased its efforts to block access to Twitter after many user found ways around a government-imposed ban

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  NSA infiltrated Huawei, claim Snowden leak documents

  The National Security Agency (NSA) created “back doors” in the networks of Chinese telecoms firm Huawei, claim documents leaked by Edward Snowden

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Customer privacy an ongoing challenge, says Unilever

  Unilever has set up a programme to address the continually evolving challenge of privacy issues relating to customer data

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  NSA considers publishing transparency report

  The NSA may publish transparency reports on the amount of surveillance it is doing, according to its deputy director

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Interview: Dan Taylor, head of BBC iPlayer

  When the BBC set about its coverage for the 2012 London Olympics, it changed audience expectations of how to view content online

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Google encrypts Gmail to protect against NSA snooping

  Google has announced it will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when Gmail users check or send email

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Turkey blocks access to Twitter

  Turkey is blocking access to Twitter after users posted allegations of government corruption

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Microsoft in hot water over email search

  Microsoft is in hot water after looking through a blogger’s email account to find the source of leaked code for Windows 8

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

  Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patients

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Technology focus in securing BYOD is a mistake, say experts

  Focusing on technology in trying to secure mobile devices is a mistake, say IT and legal experts

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

  Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Info sharing key to security, say IT professionals

  Sharing information about cyber threats, attacks and attack mitigations is crucial to data security, says a panel of information security professionals

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

  Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditions

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Budget 2014 – what it means for UK IT

  Chancellor George Osborne has announced his 2014 Budget. These are the highlights and opportunities spotted by Computer Weekly

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Without Care.data “we won’t have a health service for much longer,” says NHS

  Without the care.data programme, the health service will not have a future, said Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS England.

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Pirated software malware to cost business $491bn in 2014, study shows

  Malware deliberately loaded into pirated or counterfeit software is expected cost enterprises $491bn in 2014

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Firms urged to take tough action on Unix-based cyber attack

  Security researchers have urged businesses to take action on a cyber criminal campaign that has seized control of 25,000+ Unix servers worldwide

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Non-compliant organisations risk being cut off from the PSN

  Organisations not compliant with PSN security after the end-March deadline and who fail to engage for help are “effectively opting out”

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Big data analytics key to crime fighting, says Microsoft

  Big data analytics is increasingly playing a role in fighting cyber crime, according to Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Parliament to unify web and ICT with Digital Office

  Parliamentary ICT (PICT) will soon be replaced by a Digital Office which aims to bring together online and Parliament ICT services

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Is the government doing enough to encourage digital international talent to the UK?

  Last week, the government made a series of changes to the immigration rules which it hoped would help UK businesses employ skilled workers from overseas

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Committee report calls for “presumption of openness” with public data

  The government should have a “presumption of openness” when it comes to public data, the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) said

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Three-quarters of UK charities are failing to adapt to digital

  Charities in the UK are failing to adopt digital agendas in their organisations

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  SMEs believes they are immune to cyber attack

  Most SMEs believe they are not at real risk of cyber attack, a survey has revealed

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Morrisons data theft smacks of insider hacktivism, say security experts

  The theft of payroll data from supermarket chain Morrison smacks of insider hacktivism, say security industry representatives

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  UK and Israel sign digital government agreement

  The UK and Israel sign a Memorandum of Understanding on digital government to benefit their citizens, businesses and economies

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  London cyber war game in final of Cyber Security Challenge

  The UK's top amateur cyber defenders will compete to defend the City of London from a simulated attack in the Cyber Security Challenge final

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  37 organisations at “significant risk” of missing PSN security deadline

  The government has flagged 37 organisations at “significant risk” of failing to achieve security compliance for the Public Services Network (PSN)

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Google encrypts search in China to protect users

  Google has started encrypting searches made by people in China to prevent government censors detecting sensitive search terms

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says US spying a threat to the internet

  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  GCHQ helped NSA with spy malware, Snowden docs show

  GCHQ played an integral role in developing a surveillance malware campaign by the NSA, the latest Snowden documents show

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Shropshire hospitals dump NetApp for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN

  Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust retires ageing NetApp and replaces Fibre Channel-connected filers with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs with flash, SAS and SATA tiers

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Mayor Boris Johnson launches London Tech Ambassadors Group

  Mayor Boris Johnson launches the London Tech Ambassadors Group as part of his vision to make London the technology capital of the world

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Why HR departments need to hire IT specialists

  Technology will fundamentally change the way people work, says psychology professor

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  BCS reports £2m losses on commercial activities

  The Chartered Institute of IT (BCS) is 'haemorrhaging cash reserves' while its membership remains virtually static

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Government promotes cyber security profession in schools

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announces plans to teach children as young as 11 about careers in in the cyber security sector

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Government finally ends e-Borders programme

  The government has formally ended the troubled e-Borders programme, with its intended functions merged into a new project