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• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  House of Commons seeks IT security chief

  Interviews for the two-year engagement are due to take place in December 2019

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  John Lewis Partnership taps Google Cloud for AI expertise to bolster customer experience

  The John Lewis Partnership is building on its earlier forays into the Google Cloud by tapping into its artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise to deliver on its omnichannel business ambitions

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Public sector risks downplayed by senior IT leaders

  Sophos reveals a significant cyber security perception gap between senior IT and security leaders in the public sector and their front-line teams

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Macy’s Magecart breach presages Christmas fraud spike

  US retailer Macy’s admits some customer data was accessed by unknown actors during a week-long Magecart attack

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Anti-stalkerware coalition calls time on intrusive abusers

  New coalition plans to tackle the scourge of stalkerware as a tool of domestic and other forms of abuse

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  TSB programme pulled apart in report on IT meltdown

  City law firm tears into TSB’s management of botched core banking platform migration

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Huawei shrugs off latest US reprieve

  Chinese tech giant dismisses the latest extension of the US Temporary General Licence and maintains that the US government is harming its own interests in banning it

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Scottish local government prioritises automation and AI in digital plan

  Use of the technologies will be ramped up as part of the next phase of the Digital Office 2.0 programme

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO

  Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Foreign e-commerce giants threaten Nordic high streets

  Surveys show up to 40% of high-street stores in Sweden and Finland could face closure by 2030 as retailers seek to combat e-commerce threat

• November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19

  Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

  The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Loan charge under review: The 20-year retroactive tax policy pushing IT contractors to the brink

  Thousands of IT contractors are at risk of financial ruin as HMRC pursues them for tax it claims they owe on work they did up to two decades ago and were reimbursed for via loan remuneration schemes. Computer Weekly investigates

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Notorious hackers claim responsibility for Labour DDoS

  Hackers claiming to represent Lizard Squad say they were behind a distributed denial of service attack on the UK’s Labour Party

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Home Office Brexit app contains multiple security flaws

  The Home Office’s Brexit app may be putting EU citizens’ personal data at risk

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Cyber criminals tool up for Christmas fraud season

  Organised criminals are trying to cash in on the festive retail boom with both brand new and tried-and-tested techniques

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  LOTI launches dashboard that maps technology resources of local authorities

  London Office of Technology and Innovation launches dashboard in partnership with Bloomberg Associates to drive savings and identify skills levels

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Google to launch bank accounts in 2020

  Google is launching bank accounts in the US in 2020 as tech giants continue to deepen their activities in the financial services sector

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Finnish biometric identity plans for seamless air travel

  Finnair and Finavia explore options for automatic digital identification and authentication of air travellers

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Attack on Labour shows need for DDoS defence but should alarm few

  After being hit by two DDoS attacks in the space of 24 hours, many commentators are convinced the UK’s Labour Party is the victim of foreign interference in the General Election campaign. It probably isn’t

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  CIO interview: James Freed, CIO, Health Education England

  As well as the usual IT leadership tasks, the healthcare IT chief is also responsible for helping to develop digital skills and awareness for staff across the health and care sectors in England

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  PCI DSS payment security compliance drops again

  Worldwide, barely one-third of companies are maintaining full compliance with the PCI DSS security standard – and the numbers are falling

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  NHS still holds citizen trust on data use

  But the public trust banks more than local or central government bodies when it comes to handling personal information, a new study has found

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  ‘Robust’ security foils cyber attack on Labour Party

  Labour claims to have been the victim of a cyber attack, but says it is confident no data leaked

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Major report on TSB IT disaster expected soon

  A damning report into the 2018 IT disaster at TSB is expected to heavily criticise executives when it is published in November

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  G-Cloud 10 fails to generate business for suppliers, study says

  Research firm Tussell’s study into G-Cloud reveals majority of suppliers listed in its report did not earn any revenue in 2018 through the public sector framework

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs probed over alleged Apple Card gender discrimination

  US financial services regulator is investigating allegations that Goldman Sachs’ credit decisions for its Apple Card offering show gender bias

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Morrisons in new appeal over data breach fine

  The Supreme Court has heard an appeal from retailer Morrisons as it attempts to overturn prior judgments holding it liable for a 2014 leak of employee data

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  HMCTS researches the future of open justice

  A new report by Policy Lab into the threats and opportunities of technology is aimed to support new approaches to policy-making

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  GoCardless and TransferWise create global network for direct debits

  Fintechs’ network will make it easier for small companies to expand their customer bases internationally

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Zopa opens testing for its banking products to customers

  Zopa's move into the banking sector is gathering pace as customers test out its savings product

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Co-operative Bank extends mortgage service deal with Capita

  Co-operative bank has extended a contract to outsource its mortgage platform in a deal with Capita

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Abu Dhabi AI university is key to UAE’s future as the oil dries up

  Abu Dhabi’s fledgling artificial intelligence university is part of a highly ambitious 30-year plan to transform the UAE’s economy and culture

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Marks & Spencer profits drop as digital push ramps up

  Clothing, home and luxury food retailer Marks & Spencer has been pushing to make its business more digital, but its half-year profits have seen a hit

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  General Election affects National Data Strategy

  A series of workshops, including the public’s involvement to guide the plan’s vision, have been postponed

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public today

  Computer Weekly publishes cache of leaked documents disclosed to Congress

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Scality APIs connect Azure Stack to Ring object storage on-site

  Object storage specialist continues its cloud integration journey by adding Microsoft Azure Blob API connectors to allow use of Ring as bulk storage for Azure edge data

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Cloud native core banking enables consumers to personalise what they buy

  Google inspired core banking platform could help banks offer personalised products to millions of people.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Nordic private equity groups drive paytech investments as global actors hover

  Private equity companies in the Nordic region are stepping up M&A activity as international tech firms eye acquisitions in the region

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Welsh government to hire chief digital officer

  The £500,000 of annual funding will go towards a leader and a department dedicated to developing digital initiatives

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs lends billions of dollars through Apple partnership

  Apple Card issuing bank Goldman Sachs has already given billions of dollars in credit to iPhone users since Apple's credit card was launched

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Qumulo gets HPE upgrade as customers ‘come back from object’

  Distributed file system maker Qumulo benefits from HPE Apollo hardware upgrade in a market where Qumulo exec says customers are coming back from object storage for unstructured data

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  ICO launches data security campaign for UK General Election

  Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham launches campaign to remind the public of their rights when personal data is used for political purposes

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Modernisation of justice may leave vulnerable users behind

  A Commons Select Committee report has voiced a number of concerns about the ongoing transformation efforts led by the Ministry of Justice and called for actions such as maintenance of non-digital services

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Government allocates £2m to support growth of lawtech

  New government funding unlocked to help break down barriers to the adoption of emerging technologies in the legal sector

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  IR35 tribunal rules HMRC wrong to pursue ex-DWP IT contractor for £240,000 in unpaid employment tax

  HMRC has vowed to appeal against the outcome of an IR35 tribunal that ruled it should not be pursuing an ex-DWP and Accenture IT contractor for more than £240,000 in unpaid tax as his engagements classify him as self-employed

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Brits moving to digital banking channel faster than people in the US

  Digital banking services rapidly gain popularity, but digital banks face major challenges to make deeper inroads into traditional banks’ customer bases

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  EU patches 20-year-old open source vulnerability

  Ethical hackers taking part in a bug bounty programme on behalf of the European Union have uncovered a 20-year-old vulnerability

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  NHS Digital hit with £4.3m IR35-related tax bill after using HMRC CEST tool to assess contractors

  The digital arm of the NHS used HMRC's much-maligned online tool to assess contractors, only for the tax agency to call into question its IR35 determinations and hit it with a tax bill totalling £4.3m

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  HMRC appoints interim chief digital and information officer

  Jacky Wright's replacement is a financial services veteran who brings expertise in tech-enabled change and payments infrastructure

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Banks let customers down with mixed approaches to security

  Treasury Committee report recommends new measures to tackle financial fraud