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• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array

  Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Political awareness needed to ethically handle migration data, panel claims

  Understanding the political, social and economic relationships between different groups in society is needed to ensure location data is not used in ways that further endanger already vulnerable people on the move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Use of spyware apps linked to domestic abuse soars in lockdown

  The rise in domestic violence during the pandemic has been linked to increase use of stalkerware apps by abusers

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Over 15 billion credentials for sale on dark web

  Research by Digital Shadows reveals the scale of the security threat facing consumers as it uncovers 15 billion usernames and passwords stolen in more than 100,000 different data breaches

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Interview: Mayank Prakash, global consumer CIO, and Daljit Rehal, CDO, Centrica

  Two of energy giant Centrica’s tech bosses talk to Computer Weekly about the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown and the importance of company culture, innovation and using technology to make life easier for customers

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Security funding soars despite Covid-19 slump, but problems lie ahead

  The overall cyber security funding ecosystem in the UK is healthier than ever despite Covid-19, but the figures mask stark and concerning disparities in where the money is going

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Post Office scandal victims have days to raise thousands of pounds or perpetrators go scot-free

  Victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal need to raise thousands of pounds in a week or those responsible for their suffering will avoid scrutiny

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Banks need to think like Google and not just follow it

  Banks are recruiting senior thinkers from within the IT sector as digital transformations mature

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  MSP Xchanging attacked in ransomware incident

  Specialist managed services provider is restoring customer access to systems after an unspecified ransomware incident

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries

  Fujifilm Software Defined Tape allows tape libraries to act as an S3-based object storage archive accessible as a tier of storage on-premise or in the cloud

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Avinor creates contactless airport check-in for Norway

  Norwegian airport operator introduces touchless travel check-in to limit the potential spread of Covid-19

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Ferry port implements terminal operation system remotely

  UK ferry port takes advantage of suppliers remote-working capability to complete IT project during lockdown

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  North Korea behind spate of Magecart attacks

  The Magecart credit card skimmer found on the website of retailer Claire’s Accessories was likely put there by the Lazarus or Hidden Cobra North Korean APT group, reports Sansec

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  CIO interview: David Allison, global head of IT, First Quantum Minerals

  For his first global CIO role, the IT chief had to tackle unusual challenges such as reliable networking and IT use in inhospitable mining environments in developing countries

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  How Infor Nexus is helping to digitalise Asia’s supply chain

  Infor’s Nexus unit has been supporting digitalisation efforts in Asia’s supply chain industry before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has accelerated adoption of cloud-based offerings in the region

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Green tech needed for post-Covid economic recovery

  Green technology investments could help society recover from the coronavirus – and prepare it for the long-term negative social and economic outcomes of climate change

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Is digital art coming of age under Covid?

  Israeli startup Niio is advancing a digital art platform comparable with Spotify. Is the digital medium for high art coming of age in these Covid times?

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  DWP publishes digital delivery results and cost of IT blunders

  DWP released a number of updates of its digital transformation work including several initiatives relating to the Covid-19 outbreak, and reported more than £10m sunk in failed IT projects

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Government to fund diagnostic health tech projects

  Six health projects across the UK, using technologies to detect chronic and terminal illnesses, will be given £13m in funding by the government, while £3m will come from Cancer Research UK

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Nick Burton, chief information and digital officer, Avon International

  The international beauty brand faced a major problem when the UK went into lockdown – how could its door-to-door sales model adapt to a socially distanced world?

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Loan charge MPs denied House of Commons vote on Finance Bill policy amendments

  Despite securing the support of 50 named MPs, an amendment to the forthcoming Finance Bill that could have seen thousands of people fall out of scope of the Loan Charge policy has been denied

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Cops take out encrypted comms to disrupt organised crime

  The UK’s National Crime Agency, alongside other law enforcement agencies in France and the Netherlands, have busted illicit arms and drugs rings after disabling an encrypted comms platform

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Locked-down teens flock to NCSC CyberFirst training scheme

  A record number of 14 to 17-year-olds have signed up to the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst summer school

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Police secrecy over ‘IMSI-catcher’ mass surveillance of mobile phones

  Following a tribunal ruling, constabularies in England and Wales can refuse to confirm or deny whether they use mass surveillance devices, known as IMSI-catchers to monitor people’s location, phone calls and text messages

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Civil and family courts to get video platform for remote hearings

  Video platform that has been used in magistrates’ and crown courts during the coronavirus pandemic will be extended to civil and family courts

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  CMA calls on government to revamp regulations for tech giants

  Competition regulator says current laws are not fit for purpose and wants a new, ‘pro-competition regulatory regime’ that the likes of Google and Facebook must abide by

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

  Transforming legacy systems, making use of real-time data and exploring emerging technologies are high on the agenda for the logistics giant’s IT team

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Société Générale acquires fintech challenger bank

  French bank acquires Shine to expand its services to small businesses and entrepreneurs

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Equity in STEM education more important than ever, says Parliamentary group

  All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in STEM suggests recommendations for increasing equity in education after stating coronavirus makes diversity increasingly important

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

  Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  UK government announces Office for Talent

  The Office for Talent is part of a research and development roadmap, which includes an innovation programme to accelerate innovation in government

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  FCA estimates about 2.6 million Brits have bought cryptocurrency

  UK financial services regulator says there has been a significant increase in ownership of cryptocurrencies in the UK

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Lenovo, top-of-the-world Chinese supercomputer supplier, sweeps all markets

  Supercomputers are not just about computing power, they are a symbol of political ambition. Chinese supercomputer supplier Lenovo is now the dominant supplier across the world

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  FakeSpy Android malware targets Royal Mail app users

  The FakeSpy malware was first identified in October 2017 but is now significantly more powerful and dangerous

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Australia to invest a record A$1.35bn in cyber security

  The Australian government is making its largest ever investment in cyber security over the next decade to identify cyber threats, disrupt foreign cyber criminals and build new capabilities

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  HMRC and Treasury accused of ‘direct interference’ in independent loan charge review

  Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group report pours scorn on claims that December 2019 review of government’s disguised renumeration policy was conducted independently

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Government expands Future Fund eligibility criteria

  The Future Fund will now be accessible to startups that have previously taken part in accelerator programmes, but early-stage firms continue to struggle

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  BNP Paribas uses biometrics to increase contactless payment limit

  French bank BNP Paribas is enabling customers to make higher value contactless payments through fingerprint-recognition technology

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Genomics England taps up AWS and Lifebit to create cloud-based Covid-19 research environment

  Genomics England is looking to open up collaboration on Covid-19 genome datasets with researchers across the globe with new cloud-based research environment, which will be based on AWS and Lifebit’s technologies

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  MPs urged to back Finance Bill amendments to loan charge policy

  Loan Charge Action Group urges its members to ask their MPs to support an amendment to the controversial loan charge policy that could see more people fall outside its scope

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Lawyers learn of fresh US allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from press reports

  The US has filed an updated indictment against Julian Assange alleging that he conspired with hacking groups to obtain information for WikiLeaks. Defence and prosecution lawyers learned about it from press reports

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Qumulo Shift opens up scale-out NAS to AWS S3 in the cloud

  Qumulo Shift will automatically convert file data on its NAS arrays to S3 object storage format in the AWS cloud. The functionality will be free to customers from July

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  MPs to examine fairness of private prosecutions in light of Post Office IT scandal

  Parliamentary Justice Committee to hold short inquiry into the rules and regulations surrounding private organisations’ ability to initiate criminal proceedings

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Lords urge government to take immediate action on online harms

  Select committee calls for tech giants to be held responsible for the harm done to individuals, wider society and democratic processes through online misinformation

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  UKCloud signs MoU with CCS to provide public sector with discounted cloud pricing

  Public sector-focused IaaS firm UKCloud has become the latest supplier to sign a discounted pricing deal with the UK government

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Airports deploy thermal cameras to control Covid-19, science suggests it’s merely ‘safety theatre’

  UK airports are rolling out thermal surveillance cameras to identify people who may have coronavirus, but science says the technology is ineffective at detecting and preventing the spread of the disease

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  CBI: Government must take steps to drive SME business innovation

  The coronavirus pandemic has shown how much can be achieved in a short period with a strong partnership between government and industry – and this needs to continue

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Standard Chartered embarks on virtual internship programme

  Bank offers 300 candidates virtual placements on internship programme

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  NHSX seeks evolution of digital transformation capabilities

  New approaches and team structures could be tested as a result of learnings from the work around Covid-19

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Pub ‘check-in’ apps provoke fresh privacy concerns

  With pubs and restaurants required to collect customer data for contact tracing when they reopen, data privacy risks will be heightened