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• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Impact of Lapsus$ attack on Okta less than feared

  Okta’s investigation into Lapsus$ breach of its systems via a Sitel workstation has concluded that the impact was significantly less than the maximum potential

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Tech to account for over half of regulatory compliance spending

  By 2026, regtech will account for more than half of the money that businesses spend on compliance with regulations

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  European cities moving fast to change business of parking

  German cities are using the latest smart parking technology to reduce traffic and car pollution while collecting more fees for parking

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Dutch schools struggle with digitisation

  Now is the time for schools in the Netherlands to determine how the opportunities of distance and digital learning resources can be made to work and how the risks involved can be mitigated

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  More Scottish subpostmaster conviction reviews expected as part of Post Office scandal

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission expects more subpostmasters with potential wrongful convictions to come forward

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service

  The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How Veeam helped grocery chain Franprix escape its backup hell

  French supermarket chain had backup windows that ran well into the next working day and restoring deleted files could take days. It chose Veeam in a contest with Cohesity

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Bots could help businesses polish up their green credentials

  Metrics are a key aspect of a sound sustainability strategy and Oracle believes automation can help businesses achieve their environmental goals

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  One-third of scams that hit TSB are impersonation fraud

  TSB reports an increase in fraudsters impersonating trusted organisations to trick consumers into making payments to them

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Home secretary Priti Patel to decide whether to extradite Assange

  Home secretary will decide in four weeks whether to approve Julian Assange’s extradition to the US, where he faces espionage and hacking charges

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch

  AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Nationwide Building Society streamlines payment dispute process through software

  Building society has speeded up the resolution of customer disputes over Visa payments by using Pegasystems software

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

  Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner

  Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Median threat actor ‘dwell time’ dropped during 2021

  Security teams appear to be getting better at detecting attackers within their networks, according to a report

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Windows 7 and XP still more popular than Windows 11

  Lansweeper audit of Windows devices finds more people are running unsupported Windows operating systems than the newest release

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Softbank and UnaBiz team up on internet of robotic things

  Japan’s Softbank Robotics and Singapore-based UnaBiz are bringing IoT and robotics technology together to improve facilities management, among other applications

• April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

  Singtel expands datacentre footprint in Indonesia

  Singtel’s datacentre platform will host selected datacentre assets from Indonesia’s Telkom as part of the telco’s move to grow its datacentre footprint in key regional markets

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Kyndryl kindles cyber incident recovery pact with Dell

  IBM spin-out Kyndryl hops into bed with Dell Technologies in a joint cyber resilience proposition

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Multi-ERP systems are on the menu for SAP implementations

  Organisations using SAP may build future ERP systems from composable building blocks from multiple software providers

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Zhadnost DDoS botnet deployed against Finland

  A coordinated DDoS attack hit two government ministries in Finland at the same time as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a virtual address to the Finnish parliament

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Incontroller ICS malware has ‘rare, dangerous’ capabilities, says Mandiant

  Mandiant joins a growing chorus of warnings over novel nation state threats to ICS systems

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources

  Campaign group Liberty to launch legal appeal that will call for journalists to receive stronger legal protections from state surveillance

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Hybrid work catching on in India

  More tech workers in India now enjoy flexi-work arrangements and higher salaries, but talent retention remains an issue in the subcontinent, study finds

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  WatchGuard firewall users urged to patch Cyclops Blink vulnerability

  The US authorities have seen fit to add the WatchGuard vulnerability used by Sandworm to build the Cyclops Blink botnet to its list of must-patch vulnerabilities

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  News UK hires former Discovery Inc tech head as new CTO

  Simon Farnsworth, who previous worked as chief technology officer at Discovery Inc, is now driving News UK's tech strategy

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Microsoft patches two zero-days, 10 critical bugs

  Patch Tuesday is here once again. This month, security teams must fix two privilege escalation zero-days in the Windows Common Log File System Driver and the Windows User Profile Service

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Criminals researched hacking TTPs post-breach in ‘messy’ cyber attack

  Sophos shares details of a cyber attack that saw attackers hang out in their victim environment for five months while they prepared to sow further mischief

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Executive interview: How Audi provides developer self-service

  Audi is transforming IT in line with digitisation across the VW Group. We look at how Audi’s IT architecture is supporting developers

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  More ANZ organisations warm to DevSecOps

  About four in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand are undertaking the transition to development, security and operations, while a further 36% plan to do so in 2022, study finds

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Scotland 5G Centre issues call to business for improved healthcare delivery

  S5GC launches innovation challenge to use advanced connectivity to transform and improve healthcare delivery in Scotland, with three shortlisted projects to receive access to a private 5G testbed

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Universal IAM policy failings put cloud environments at risk

  Almost all organisations lack appropriate IAM policy controls to effectively secure their data in the cloud, according to a damning study

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Multiple arrests made in RaidForums takedown

  A Portuguese national and a 21-year-old man from Croydon are among a number of individuals arrested ahead of the closure of RaidForums by police

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  PassiveLogic to get more active in smart building tech with $15m funding

  Global alternative asset manager partners with provider of autonomous building systems and foundation technology for smart cities to bring the first general-purpose autonomous platform to the building market

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Sandworm rolls out Industroyer2 malware against Ukraine

  A second generation of the Sandworm-linked Industroyer malware has been identified by ESET researchers and Ukraine’s national CERT

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  The metaverse: A virtual reality check

  The so-called metaverse is years away, but many businesses are keen to ride the industry hype in a bid to benefit from first-mover advantage

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  AI researcher says police tech suppliers are hostile to transparency

  Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee’s findings but questions whether its recommendations on how to end the ‘Wild West’ of police artificial intelligence and algorithmic technologies in the UK would be implemented

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  UK altnet demands regulatory probe into broadband mid-contract price hikes

  UK full-fibre broadband provider ‘startled’ to see majority of broadband customers are unaware of being locked into large-scale price rises

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Border IT system fixed after 10-day outage

  Post-Brexit border IT system failure fixed after going down at the start of April, allowing traders to once again file customs documents electronically rather than by hand

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Open source CMS platform Directus patches XSS bug

  A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Directus platform could have enabled malicious actors to gain access to valuable data

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Mastercard opens European tech hub in Dublin

  Mastercard is doubling its technology workforce in Dublin through a new European tech hub in the Irish capital

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Raspberry Pi Foundation ditches default username policy

  Raspberry Pi owners will no longer be able to use the default ‘pi’ username, as the Raspberry Pi Foundation clamps down on insecure practices

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Nordic countries discuss joint cyber defence capability

  Nordic countries are in talks to increase their cyber defences in the face of the threat from Russia

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  EncroChat: France says ‘defence secrecy’ in police surveillance operations is constitutional

  Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional. Defence lawyers now head for the supreme court

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Ukrainian cyber criminal gets five years in jail

  A US court has sentenced Denys Iarmak, who worked as a penetration tester for the FIN7 cyber crime group, to a five-year prison sentence

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Was Spring4Shell a lot of hot air? No, but...

  Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  IT contractors warned as HMRC draws on ‘IR35-adjacent’ legislation in tax avoidance clampdown

  IT contractors are being urged to take action now, as details emerge about how HM Revenue & Customs is drawing on some IR35-adjacent legislation to send out five-figure tax bills to individuals who engage with contractor-focused accountants

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app

  AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Goldacre review outlines recommendations on safer use of health data

  The findings of an investigation into use of health data for research and analysis includes a number of proposals to improve innovation in the NHS

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  US shuts down Russia’s Cyclops Blink botnet operation

  Operation by US authorities has taken the Russia-attributed Cyclops Blink botnet ‘off the board’