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• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Australia budget closes in on digital divide, cyber resilience

  Australia’s latest budget is geared towards providing better broadband connectivity in regional and rural areas, shoring up the cyber security posture of its businesses and plugging tech talent shortages, among other areas

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Microsoft Cloud grows, but less than expected

  CEO Satya Nadella claims the public cloud is the best way to optimise business IT and address rising energy bills

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  When technology lets you sleep easy

  Indian mattress supplier Duroflex has taken a leaf out of mattress design in its technology implementation to double its growth in an industry dominated by unorganised players

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance

  Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  US authorities charge two Chinese spies over telco security probe

  Two Chinese nationals have been charged with attempting to obstruct the criminal prosecution of a prominent Chinese telecoms firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  UK needs stronger regional innovation clusters outside South East

  Venture capital fund managers speak to Computer Weekly about the importance of innovation clusters to the UK tech ecosystem, and the need to develop further investment opportunities outside the South East

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  UK finance regulator investigates big tech finance threats and benefits

  The UK financial services regulator is gathering information about the benefits and targets of big tech firms offering financial services

• 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 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Digital-first businesses more willing to accept some fraud

  Companies founded in the past 20 years appear more willing to accept higher levels of fraudulent activity during the customer onboarding process, according to a report

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Government speeds up NHS Digital and NHS England merger

  NHS bodies will now merge in early January 2023, aiming to create a single statutory body for NHS data and technology

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Complacency biggest cyber risk to UK plc, says ICO

  Information commissioner John Edwards warns against complacency as his office issues a multimillion-pound fine to a building company that failed to prevent a ransomware attack

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Half of staff might quit after a cyber attack, report says

  Findings from a survey of CISOs, IT leaders and staffers reveal how experiencing a cyber incident may take a larger-than-thought toll on employee retention

• 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

  Execs feel leadership strain in the new normal of work

  Research finds flexible work policies as the leading factor that has improved company culture over the last two years, but burnout is on the rise globally and executive experience scores for overall satisfaction at work have dropped markedly

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Ukrainian and UK IT sectors to deepen collaboration, partnerships

  BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and the IT Ukraine Association have signed an MoU to deepen collaboration between the UK and Ukrainian IT sectors, and champion new partnerships and growth opportunities

• 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 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Broadband majors, altnets respond to cost-of-living crisis

  With latest UK inflation figures set to see comms contracts rise, industry reacts to mitigate against worst effects of price rises for customers and staff

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  The Security Interviews: Why now for ZTNA 2.0?

  With organisations facing escalating online threats, security teams need to improve their defences using zero-trust network access to preserve the integrity of their systems. Palo Alto Networks’ Simon Crocker shares his views on zero-trust network ...

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Manchester to launch digital strategy

  Four-year strategy to focus on smarter use of technology and data to make Manchester a sustainable and resilient city

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Parliamentary committee launches inquiry into AI governance

  MPs will examine the impacts of artificial intelligence throughout the UK economy and how governance of the technology can be improved ahead of the government publishing its formal regulatory proposals

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Cyber professional shortfall hits 3.4 million

  Shortage of cyber security professionals continues to grow and shows no signs of abating, says report

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  NatWest data breach whistleblower demands bank pay data controller fee to ICO

  Whistleblower calls for NatWest to pay the Information Commissioner’s Office annual data controller fee, as the personal details of 1,600 current and former NatWest customers remain under her bed

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2022

  Computer Weekly has revealed who is on the 2022 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner, Flavilla Fongang

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Why the Most Influential Woman in UK Tech 2022 created a book of role models

  Disruptors, game-changers and scalable impact – just some of the reasons Flavilla Fongang, this year’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech, chose to dive into the sector

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Computer Weekly’s Women in UK Tech Rising Stars 2022

  Each year, Computer Weekly selects a number of Rising Stars in the women in tech sector, women who are making waves in the women, diversity and inclusion in tech space and may find themselves on the top 50 list in the future

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Ransomware crews regrouping as LockBit rise continues

  Overall ransomware activity dropped off in the third quarter of 2022, but increasing attack volumes in September may herald a difficult few months ahead

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Lloyds Bank launches innovation sandbox

  Banking group establishes a sandbox where fintechs can build and test applications for Lloyds

• 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 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Gartner: Hero CIOs are needed again to save businesses

  During the pandemic, IT enabled businesses to remain operational. As the economic crisis worsens, business executives are once again reaching out to CIOs

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Treat cyber crime as a ‘strategic threat’, UK businesses told

  The government’s new National Cyber Advisory Board aims to help elevate cyber discussion and spur action in the business community

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  MoD must have clear delivery plan for digital strategy, says NAO

  While the Digital Strategy for Defence seems to be going well, the National Audit Office is concerned there is no overarching plan to implement it, or a clear way of measuring whether it is on track

• 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 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Apache vulnerability a risk, but not as widespread as Log4Shell

  A newly disclosed Apache Commons Text vulnerability may put many at risk, but does not appear to be as impactful or widespread as Log4Shell

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Virtually all vulnerable open source downloads are avoidable

  Some 96% of known vulnerable open source downloads could have been avoided altogether, according to a report

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Why some businesses are failing at AI

  Deloitte’s ongoing research into artificial intelligence adoption has found that more than 20% of organisations are underachieving in their AI ambitions

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Subpostmaster federation failed its members when they needed it most

  A dereliction of duty saw subpostmaster federation ignore its members when IT problems hit and allowed the Post Office destroy their lives

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GRAID puts RAID on a GPU for cut-price disk protection and rebuilds

  US startup puts its software on Nvidia graphics cards to offload RAID processing and throughput of 110GBps throughput across up to 32 NVMe solid-state drives

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  IR35 reforms repeal scrapped: Government labelled ‘spineless’ over u-turn

  The contracting community has not taken kindly to the news that the government is rowing back its plans to repeal the IR35 reforms in the private and public sectors

• 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 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Government u-turns on plans to scrap IR35 reforms in public and private sector from April 2023

  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirms that the planned repeal of the IR35 reforms in the public and private sector is cancelled

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Biden ramps up China chip sanctions

  The war of words between China and the US has ramifications across the high-tech sector. We report on the latest developments

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Malicious WhatsApp add-on highlights risks of third-party mods

  Kaspersky researchers discovered a malicious version of a widely used WhatsApp messenger mod, highlighting the risks of using so-called mods

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Annual costs of Hackney ransomware attack exceed £12m

  Hackney Council reveals new insight into the ongoing cost of a ransomware attack that devastated its systems two years ago

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Office 365 email encryption flaw could pose risk to user privacy

  A vulnerability in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption could leave the contents of emails dangerously exposed, but with no fix coming it’s up to users to decide how at risk they are

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Fujitsu to finally face blame for its part in Post Office Horizon scandal

  Fujitsu’s part in causing the extreme suffering of subpostmasters will be made clear as the IT supplier begins giving evidence at a statutory inquiry

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Advanced: Healthcare data was stolen in LockBit 3.0 attack

  Advanced has revealed a total of 16 of its health and social care sector customers had their data exfiltrated in a recent ransomware attack

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Protecting children by scanning encrypted messages is ‘magical thinking’, says Cambridge professor

  Ross Anderson argues in a rebuttal to GCHQ experts that using artificial intelligence to scan encrypted messaging services is the wrong approach to protecting children and preventing terrorism

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones