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• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  MPs to debate landmark IoT security law

  Proposed bill mandates tighter protections for connected products, and adds new rules for broadband roll-out into the bargain

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Dutch education anticipates quantum technology

  Dutch academic talks about the Netherlands’ role in a pan-European quantum computing project as university investigates the technology’s possibilities

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Should IT leaders plan for the quantum computing era?

  Quantum computing is still at an early stage of development, but there are a handful of use cases where nothing else matches the horsepower it offers

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  EY to open Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in Manchester

  Professional services firm EY is launching a Neuro-Diverse Centre of Excellence in the UK to create a perfect working environment for neuro-diverse tech innovators

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Demands on Fujitsu to contribute to £1bn Horizon scandal compensation costs

  Fujitsu cannot hide away as taxpayers pick up the bill for the Post Office scandal triggered by its IT system, say peers

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  IBM fourth-quarter results show hybrid refocus

  Big Blue continues its journey to rebuild its business around hybrid cloud platforms, software infrastructure and consulting services

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Vodafone UK to begin 3G switch-off in 2023

  UK mobile operator gives notice that it will begin to retire its legacy network in a year’s time, with 4G and 5G networks to get coverage and speed boost from repurposing of 3G spectrum

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Icelandic research could revolutionise AI

  Icelandic team is researching potential artificial intelligence that will not choke when faced with the unknown

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  More evidence needed to establish 5G’s green credentials

  Research paper from UK university cautions that received wisdom of sustainability associated with next-generation mobile technology is not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Prepare, but don’t panic, over supposed Russian cyber threat

  A fresh alert from the US Department of Homeland Security may have IT security teams jumpy over the possibility that their organisations could be targeted by Russian state actors

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Cyber Essentials programme gets biggest update since launch

  NCSC implements a thorough revision of its Cyber Essentials scheme to reflect the changing security landscape

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  UK government launches internal cyber strategy

  Multi-pronged government security strategy is designed to protect both core systems and public services

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  UK launches international data transfer council

  Businesses, academics and trade bodies convene to help the UK seize data-sharing opportunities

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Twitter to expand Singapore engineering hub

  Twitter will double its engineering workforce in Singapore by 2023, as part of its regional expansion plans

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Subpostmaster campaign group to meet government over unfair compensation settlement

  A group of subpostmasters excluded from fair compensation in the Horizon scandal is to meet government department to discuss their demands

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  CIO interview: Michael Cole, CTO, European Tour and Ryder Cup

  The highly traditional sport of golf is proving to be an innovator in its field, with internet of things technology and cloud adoption transforming tournaments after Covid

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Retailers mired by manual data integration

  Retail relies on third-party data sources to drive business decisions and competitive pricing, but many struggle to pull in this data

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  MPs say Online Safety Bill fails to tackle full range of harms

  A DCMS select committee has warned that the Online Safety Bill should be expanded to cover more types of harmful content, such as child abuse material designed to circumvent content removal

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  CIO interview: Sheri Rhodes, CIO, Workday

  The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital change for many businesses – and even for cloud software leader Workday, there are always new things to learn and introduce

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Outdated systems core to DWP £1bn pension underpayment blunders

  Old software is among the main reasons behind the pension errors affecting 134,000 people, says a House of Commons committee report

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Tinder algorithm charging users more based on age

  Popular dating app Tinder could have broken data protection and equality laws by using personal data about people’s age to set different prices

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  CTO interview: James Donkin, Ocado Technology

  Ocado is a cloud-first business and develops its own software cloud-natively, but some things need to be processed on-premise or at the edge

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Mandiant analysts: Russia-backed APTs likely to ramp up attacks

  More cyber attacks like those perpetrated against targets in Ukraine are to be expected, and they may become more destructive

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Cyber pros: Don’t revel in REvil’s downfall just yet

  The arrests of REvil’s alleged kingpins is a welcome step, but as with any disruption to cyber criminal activity, it is never wise to assume law enforcement action means the threat has passed entirely

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  New normal sees SASE, SD-WAN surge as MPLS is phased out

  Research confirms that MPLS is ‘out’ and SD-WAN and SASE systems are the clear winners in enterprise networking as more and more European organisations are eliminating all on-prem datacentres, with cloud adoption steaming ahead

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  MoJ faces ICO enforcement over subject access requests backlog

  Ministry of Justice receives enforcement notice from information commissioner over ‘substantial’ backlog of subject access requests described as being of ‘significant concern’

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Ransomware attacks dropped 37% in December, claims NCC

  Latest monthly data reveals a significant decline in ransomware attacks at the end of 2021, but a new, emergent gang is making waves

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Government ‘has nothing against’ paying 555 subpostmasters fair compensation

  Government officials are open to finding a way to properly compensate victims of the Horizon scandal without setting a dangerous legal precedent

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Updated cyber security regulations proposed for managed services sector

  The Network and Information Systems regulations are to be updated to include MSPs and outsourcers, following a spate of supply chain attacks

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Data of 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross attack

  The International Committee of the Red Cross is probing a cyber attack that has already seen the personal data of hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people compromised

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows advances in malicious implants

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows evident technical improvements over others, making it a more dangerous threat to organisations. It is being used by Chinese state-backed actors

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Advantages of traditional banks are weakening amid digital challenge, says FCA

  Weakening of the advantages enjoyed by traditional banks over the years is “driven by digital innovation and changing consumer behaviour”, says regulator

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  UK parliamentary committee casts doubt on government’s gigabit connectivity targets

  UK parliamentary committee pours scorn on Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s confidence in meeting targets for gigabit connectivity

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  NCSC for Startups programme seeks ransomware-busters

  Innovative ideas for ransomware-busting technology are being sought by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and startup incubator Plexal

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  UK SMEs to receive tech skills and software boost

  A new government scheme aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and sales online has opened for applications

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Investigators find Beijing 2022 app riddled with security flaws

  Security flaws in Olympic app may put personal health data at risk of compromise in a man-in-the-middle attack

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Content removal will not stop misinformation, says Royal Society

  Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Twelve million jobs to be lost to automation in Europe by 2040

  Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  IT teams blind to Kubernetes observability

  The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Trellix XDR platform forged out of McAfee, FireEye union

  The private equity owners of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye are merging the companies into a new entity to ‘define the future’ of cyber security through XDR technology

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Nordic fintech to use Google-inspired core banking from Thought Machine

  Nordic fintech Lunar is modernising its banking platform as it sets out to expand free of the limitations of its current systems

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Amazon puts UK Visa ban on hold

  Online retail giant Amazon continues to allow UK Visa credit card payments as negotiations over fees with the card provider continue

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Government widens subpostmaster miscarriage of justice compensation

  Government changes its position in billion-pound Horizon scandal compensation

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Police take down VPN linked to multiple ransomware hits

  German police led a multinational effort to seize and take down the LabVPN service, which was allegedly used by cyber criminals to facilitate ransomware attacks

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Cobalt Strike still C2 infrastructure of choice

  Its utility and ease of use, coupled with explosive growth in ransomware actions, makes Cobalt Strike Team Servers the C2 infrastructure of choice for malicious actors

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Test police algorithms in court rather than legislate, Lords told

  Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Automation and interoperability key to UK’s digital energy plans

  Energy Digitalisation Taskforce recommends that policy-makers and regulators drive open standards across the energy sector

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage

  Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Sluggish adoption of Windows 11 with more devices on unsupported OSes

  With Windows 11, existing Windows 10 users have until October 2025 to update. Until they do, they will only get one OS update a year

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Umbrella company Brookson self-refers to NCSC following cyber attack on its network

  Contractor payroll, accounting and compliance firm confirms its networks have been targeted by an ‘extremely aggressive’ cyber attack that has resulted in some of its systems being proactively taken offline