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August 24, 2022
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Aug'22
Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2022: Entrants to the Hall of Fame
Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements in the technology sector
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August 24, 2022
24
Aug'22
Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip development platform
The Wujian 600 chip development platform will help developers build systems-on-chip to support edge applications such as home robots, medical imaging and video conferencing
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August 23, 2022
23
Aug'22
Altice gets regulatory green light for added stake in BT
Despite previous worries by UK government of potential threat to levelling-up agenda on broadband, corporate regulatory probe finds no issue with increase in stakeholding by long-rumoured potential buyer of UK incumbent telco
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August 23, 2022
23
Aug'22
DevSecOps: Software developers lack sufficient security focus
GitLab survey shows developers want to produce high-quality code, but ‘shifting’ security left is hard to achieve
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August 23, 2022
23
Aug'22
Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms
Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness
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August 23, 2022
23
Aug'22
NCSC shares cyber guidance for large infrastructure builds
Balfour Beatty and McAlpine are among the large construction firms to have input into latest NCSC guidance for ensuring the security of major infrastructure projects
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August 23, 2022
23
Aug'22
Farming tech projects get £16.5m in government funding
Projects receiving funding through latest round of farming innovation programme include tech to improve fruit farming and the use of artificial intelligence to improve pigs’ welfare
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August 22, 2022
22
Aug'22
Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI
Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI
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August 22, 2022
22
Aug'22
Contracting market weighs in on Liz Truss pledge to review IR35 rules if she becomes prime minister
As Liz Truss continues her Conservative Party leadership campaign, she tells the national press of her plans to review the IR35 rules should she succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister
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August 22, 2022
22
Aug'22
Kaspersky threat data added to Microsoft Sentinel service
Microsoft and Kaspersky have agreed a collaboration to integrate Kaspersky’s threat data feeds into Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM/SOAR service
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August 22, 2022
22
Aug'22
Lloyd’s to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks
Lloyd’s of London has instructed its members to exclude nation state cyber attacks from insurance policies beginning in 2023, saying they pose unacceptable levels of risk
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August 19, 2022
19
Aug'22
Google employees demand end to collection of abortion data
In the wake of the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion rights, Google employees are calling on the company to stop collecting abortion-related data, so that it can never be shared with police
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August 19, 2022
19
Aug'22
Cozy Bear targets MS 365 environments with new tactics
Cozy Bear, or APT29, is trying out new tricks as it seeks access to its targets’ Microsoft 365 environments
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August 19, 2022
19
Aug'22
Apple patches two zero-days in macOs, iOS
Mac users should urgently apply new patches addressing vulnerabilities in its desktop and mobile operating systems
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August 18, 2022
18
Aug'22
LexisNexis sued by immigration advocates over data practices
Four immigration advocacy groups launch lawsuit in Illinois alleging data broker’s collection, aggregation and sale of people’s personal data, including non-public information, to corporations and government bodies
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August 18, 2022
18
Aug'22
Growing MFA use spurs ‘pass-the-cookie’ attacks
The exploitation of stolen session cookies by cyber criminals is once again back on the agenda, thanks to the growing popularity of multifactor authentication tools
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August 18, 2022
18
Aug'22
It takes a breach to force boards to take notice of cyber, says UK government
Too often, it takes a major incident for business leadership to pay attention to cyber issues, according to a government-commissioned study of victims
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August 18, 2022
18
Aug'22
A-level computing results: Progress made in gender diversity
The UK is facing a vacancies crisis and there is no short-term fix, but this year’s A-level results point to an increasingly gender-diverse future workforce
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August 18, 2022
18
Aug'22
Ukraine war drives DDoS attack volumes ever higher
There has been a boom in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first six months of 2022, according to a report, with Russia’s war on Ukraine helping to drive activity
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August 17, 2022
17
Aug'22
CTO interview: Steve Otto, CTO, The R&A
The Open Championship was fully back in 2022 after Covid, and back at golf’s spiritual home of St Andrews – and it was an opportunity for the club’s CTO to reflect on where technology will take the sport next
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August 17, 2022
17
Aug'22
The Turing Trust receives first batch of donated Govia Thameslink computers
Train operator plans to donate 600 computers to the charity, which will refurbish them and send them to schools in Malawi
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August 17, 2022
17
Aug'22
How BE Switchcraft is using RFID to streamline manufacturing
The Australian switchboard manufacturer has rolled out a radio frequency identification system to track production jobs and streamline manufacturing processes
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August 16, 2022
16
Aug'22
Cyber security accelerator launches in Greater Manchester
Accelerator will add to Manchester’s growing cyber security ecosystem, which already includes several tech unicorns, arms companies and the offices of GCHQ
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August 16, 2022
16
Aug'22
Most influential women in UK tech: The 2022 longlist
Each year, Computer Weekly publishes the longlist of all of the women put forward to be considered for its list of the top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech. Here are 2022’s nominees
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August 16, 2022
16
Aug'22
South Staffs Water is victim of botched Clop attack
South Staffordshire Water moves to reassure customers that their supplies remain safe after its attackers screw up their initial assault
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August 16, 2022
16
Aug'22
Why organisations need to harmonise their CIO and CISO roles
Unless properly managed, conflicting responsibilities between the chief information officer and the chief information security officer can cause project delays and budget overruns, says Netskope’s Mike Anderson
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August 16, 2022
16
Aug'22
DWP looks to hire new CDIO
Department is on the hunt for a chief digital and information officer to lead on its digital agenda, offering up to £200,000 pa for the role
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
Lawyers and journalists sue CIA and Mike Pompeo over Assange surveillance claims
CIA and its former director sued over allegations that they authorised unlawful spying on US citizens when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
How clean data helps Southern Water identify vulnerable customers
Escalating prices means households around the country are having to tighten spending, with many struggling to pay their bills. Water4All, a consortium led by Southern Water, is using data to identify low-income and vulnerable households so they can ...
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
England and Wales councils unprepared for PSTN withdrawal in 2025
Freedom of information act request reveals worrying finding that over half of councils in England and Wales have no strategy for the prospective withdrawal of traditional PSTN communications networks
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al
Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
Report reveals consensus around Computer Misuse Act reform
A study produced by the CyberUp campaign reveals broad alignment among security professionals on questions around the Computer Misuse Act, which it hopes will give confidence to policymakers as they explore its reform
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
Royal Mint turns to Circular Computing for remanufactured Lenovo laptops
BSI Kitemark for laptops supplied by Circular Computing intended to certify remanufactured products that are ‘as good as’ brand new devices
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
UK government aims to allow struggling families access to cheaper broadband
New support scheme designed to enable customers to give permission to broadband providers to confirm their eligibility for cheaper deals
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
Major APAC economies to lose 63 million jobs to automation
Workers in India, China, South Korea, Australia and Japan are more at risk of losing their jobs to automation, despite the creation of new jobs in the green economy and ICT industry
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August 15, 2022
15
Aug'22
FCSA appoints independent panel to bolster dispute resolution protocols for umbrella firms
In a statement to Computer Weekly, the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association says the panel will provide umbrella companies with a route to appeal against the decisions made by its CEO
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August 12, 2022
12
Aug'22
Department of Health investigates bias in medical devices and algorithms
The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software
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August 12, 2022
12
Aug'22
UK Amazon workers stage series of wildcat strikes over pay offers
Amazon warehouse workers across the UK have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant’s management offered them pay rises between 35p and 50p
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August 12, 2022
12
Aug'22
Microsoft doles out $13.7m in bug bounties
Microsoft’s Bug Bounty programme has paid a total of $13.7m to more than 300 researchers in almost 50 countries
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August 12, 2022
12
Aug'22
SMEs overwhelmed by distraction of comms technology, networking platforms
Study from collaboration workspace and targeted networking platform provider reveals small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming overwhelmed by the noise and distraction of social media channels
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August 12, 2022
12
Aug'22
Online Safety Bill ‘not fit for purpose’, say tech experts
IT specialists lack confidence that legislation compelling tech firms to tackle online harms will work as intended, with only a small minority believing ‘harmful but legal’ content can be effectively and proportionately policed by internet platforms
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August 11, 2022
11
Aug'22
Researcher finds 10 vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls
At Black Hat USA, Rapid7 researchers report on 10 security issues in popular Cisco firewall products, many of which do not yet have patches
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August 11, 2022
11
Aug'22
NHS may take a month to recover from supply chain attack
Ransomware attack victim Advanced warns its NHS customers they could be waiting until early September to fully recover their operations
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August 10, 2022
10
Aug'22
Increase in UK startups scaling to exit, but half still struggle
Despite more startups scaling to the point of exit than ever before, half are still stuck in low growth stages – particularly those working with emerging technologies
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August 10, 2022
10
Aug'22
GitHub targets vulnerable open source components
There are thousands of vulnerabilities in open source code – GitHub aims to help developers see if their projects are impacted
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August 10, 2022
10
Aug'22
Microsoft fixes two-year-old MSDT vulnerability in August update
August’s Patch Tuesday drop fixes more than 120 CVEs, including another MSDT RCE zero-day that is being actively exploited.
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August 10, 2022
10
Aug'22
‘Coopetition’ a growing trend among ransomware gangs
Sophos shares data from its new X-Ops unit at Black Hat in Las Vegas, revealing a growing number of ransomware victims being attacked by multiple gangs at the same time
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August 10, 2022
10
Aug'22
UK to surveil convicted migrants with facial recognition
A Home Office scheme to biometrically scan the faces of convicted migrants who have already carried out punishments has come under fire from privacy and human rights groups for being discriminatory
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August 09, 2022
09
Aug'22
Cyber insurance getting harder to obtain
Organisations looking to shore up their security postures face more and more barriers to obtaining cyber insurance
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August 09, 2022
09
Aug'22
HS2 sets aside £9.5m to cover cost of IR35 non-compliance
HS2 has become the latest public sector entity to have fallen foul of the IR35 rules, with its accounts confirming that it is anticipating a tax bill of £9.5m for failing to assess the status of contractors provided to it by a third party