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IT management

• 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 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  BNP Paribas to recruit 1,000 more women in IT

  Spanish bank sets target of adding 1,000 more female IT professionals to its workforce over the next two years

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards

  Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications

• 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

  AWS launches its first UK healthtech accelerator

  A cohort of 12 startups will use AWS resources to accelerate their technology and business development, with opportunities to sell to public sector healthcare organisations at the end

• 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 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Weikfield bags analytics rewards

  The success of Weikfield Food’s analytics initiative is underpinned by small successive deployments to overcome resistance from users and ensure requirements are met

• 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 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  How Kofax is tapping the groundswell in automation

  Kofax is counting on its pedigree in optical character recognition and other capabilities to tap the growing market for automation technologies

• 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 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Glide connects Proximity Edge 8 datacentre to Birmingham dark fibre ring

  Second-city initiative with infrastructure and utilities business designed to bring increased diversity and additional low-latency connectivity options to edge colocation customers

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Gartner: How to retain and motivate IT staff

  With the return to office-based working, large numbers of IT employees are quitting. Flexible working and understanding their motivation are key to staff retention

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Google buys Mandiant for £4bn

  Acquisition will see cyber defence and threat intelligence specialist folded into Google Cloud’s security suite

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Amazon resists independent audit of warehouse working conditions

  Two shareholder proposals pushing for an independent audit of working conditions at Amazon are being challenged by the ecommerce giant, which claims it is a matter for management rather than shareholders

• 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

  Limelight gains large CDN scale with Edgecast acquisition

  Leading CDN provider gains extra scale with strategic purchase, claiming to have created global leader in edge-enabled software services with diversified revenue across products, clients, geographies and channels

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Challenges for IT providers as Ukraine crisis worsens

  Many IT providers have ceased sales to Russia, but cloud services can operate and be delivered anywhere, helping – indirectly – to fund the invasion

• 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 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  UK government forges closer links with Japan, proposes laws to accelerate mobile

  Agreement with Japan aims for closer cooperation to solve global telecoms supply chain issues, including support for R&D collaboration on future tech such as Open RAN and 6G

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Deutsche Bank tests IT operation resilience amid potential loss of Russian centre

  German bank is confident the possible loss of operations in Russia will not affect the day-to-day running of its business

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Micron 7450 aims its 176 TLC layers at QLC flash use cases

  New 176-layer tech brings densely packed flash cells in drives that come in 2.5”, M.2 and EDSFF form factors, aimed at datacentre workloads from archive to database storage

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  NHS AI framework offers decision support for stroke diagnosis

  Procurement framework aims to help hospitals gain access to pioneering AI-powered image analysis for stroke detection

• 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

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• 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 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Direct action is a risky business for Ukraine's volunteer hackers

  Hackers have been responding to Ukraine’s call to create an IT army, but there are many reasons why taking direct action in a kinetic conflict is a bad idea

• 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

  Raspberry Pi at 10: Cheaper than chips

  We speak to the founder of Raspberry Pi about the power of a low-cost device and its appeal as an educational tool and for space-age projects

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  How FinOps can rein in cloud costs

  More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services

• 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

  Toyota production to resume after supply chain attack

  Toyota production has been set back by over 10,000 vehicles following a cyber attack on a critical components supplier in Japan

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  BBC blasted with millions of malicious emails

  Responding to an FoI request, the BBC has revealed it receives more than 300,000 malicious email attacks every day

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  DCMS opens consultation on telecoms cyber standards

  Proposed rules will set out the specific measures telecoms providers need to take to fulfil their legal duties under the Telecommunications Security Act

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  ESET details new IsaacWiper malware used on Ukraine

  Having been among the first to report on the HermeticWiper malware used against Ukraine last week, ESET has now identified another destructive malware called IsaacWiper

• 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

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Zopa Bank to sponsor 50 Ukrainian tech professionals with visa offer

  IT companies are reaching out to IT professionals in the Ukraine with offers of support for those looking to work in the UK

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery

  Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Nationwide suffers payday payments outage

  Nationwide customers were left unable to pay bills on payday as the building society suffered a software outage

• 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

  EU big tech laws put in context by Russian invasion of Ukraine

  Pressure is mounting on EU institutions to cut back regulations they are preparing to impose on US big tech firms while forming laws to create a single digital market

• 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

  Online Safety Bill updated to deal with anonymous abuse

  Social media companies will be forced to deal with anonymous abuse online by the introduction of new measures in the Online Safety Bill