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• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  General Election 2019: Labour’s technology policies and digital plans

  With the UK gearing up for its third General Election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Labour Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Conservatives propose national cyber crime force

  Manifesto also says Tories would “empower the police to safely use new technologies like biometrics and artificial intelligence, along with the use of DNA, within a strict legal framework”

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Court of Appeal dismisses Post Office application to appeal damning judgment

  The Court of Appeal has rejected a Post Office application to appeal judgments made in the first trial of its multimillion-pound battle with subpostmasters over IT system failures.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  England manager Gareth Southgate tells how data analytics and cloud have helped the FA modernise

  England football manager tells Google Cloud Next UK conference how the FA is using big data and cloud collaboration tools to change the organisation's culture and improve players’ performances on the pitch

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  CIO interview: Paul Stein, CTO, Rolls-Royce

  The aerospace engine manufacturer is at the leading edge of technology developments such as electric power, and already makes extensive use of advanced IT systems such as AI

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  TSB tech woes continue with overnight systems failure

  TSB customers have experienced problems receiving money into their accounts due to an IT error, just days after the bank was slammed in a report on its IT problems last year

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Some 29,000 UK web domains suspended for criminal activity

  Domain suspensions for criminal activity over the past year has dropped for the first time since 2014

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Labour pledges review of NCSC in UK security overhaul

  The UK's National Cyber Security Centre may get expanded powers under a Labour government

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  British Airways cancels flights due to technical issue

  British Airways customers are suffering delays and cancellations as a result as a technical issue

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Swiss packaging manufacturer powers digital maintenance with GE and ServiceMax

  Carton and packaging company SIG, which also sells IoT-connected machines to food and beverage firms, has developed a digital maintenance service

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  SMEs prevail in expanded FutureNHS tender

  Health service is looking to procure a larger sharing and collaboration platform for health and social care

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  HSBC builds API digital platform with MuleSoft to forward open banking

  At Dreamforce 2019, HSBC announced the building of a digital platform with Salesforce MuleSoft to forward open banking opportunities

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Western Union transfers to AWS cloud

  Western Union is the latest financial services form to set out a future in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Lib Dem election manifesto: Party vows to scrap loan charge and review IR35 private sector reforms

  The Liberal Democrats’ General Election manifesto sees the party pledge to scrap the controversial loan charge policy, and undertake a review of the IR35 private sector reforms

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Collaboration is key to rapid adoption of govtech across Europe

  Government technology is spreading across Europe, but policy-makers and senior civil servants are still figuring out best practices

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Fashion retailer AllSaints on using Google Cloud to handle online shopping traffic peaks

  AllSaints shifts website workloads into Google Cloud to protect against website downtime, as well as embarking on microservices-led push to modernise its infrastructure

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  How Nicigas is disrupting Japan’s gas market with IoT

  Japanese energy retailer Nicigas is deploying 850,000 IoT devices to convert traditional gas meters into smart meters to unlock consumption data amid efforts to shake up the utilities industry

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  NHSX seeks chief information officer

  Role is the latest in a series of senior positions the digital unit is looking to fill in order to build its leadership

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Swedish hospitals suffer IT crashes

  Hospitals in Sweden’s West Götaland region have suffered computer problems because of as-yet unexplained hard drive crashes

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Met Police launches £600m IT infrastructure tender

  Force aims to move away from a multi-supplier approach and enable flexibility and savings in technology

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Mimecast blocked 99 billion suspicious emails in third quarter

  Latest threat intelligence report reveals the scale of the threat posed by malicious emails, with the transport, legal and financial sectors hit hardest

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors

  NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Finland’s ministry of transport floats tech-enabled four-day week

  Government department says four-day working week is made possible by technologies such as artificial intelligence

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Massive increase in fraud attacks on TSB customers during IT meltdown

  There was a massive spike in attempts by fraudsters to steal from TSB customers when the bank’s IT systems failed in 2018

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Holy grail of digital banking is, at first glance, a new channel, not a new concept

  Details of Google’s plans in the financial services sector have emerged with nothing groundbreaking so far, but the sector is guessing what comes next

• 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