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• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  All NHS staff should have basic AI training, says report

  A report by the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England calls for all health and care staff to receive training in artificial intelligence as the technology will be increasingly adopted in healthcare practice

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  UK and Japan join forces on digital government

  Countries sign memorandum of cooperation to share ideas and strategies on digital government initiatives

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Shadow digital secretary outlines Labour’s tech priorities

  Labour’s digital and technology plans focus on reining in the power of the tech giants, boosting connectivity across the UK, and improving online safety

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Dropbox code compromised in phishing attack

  Cloud storage service says malicious actors successfully accessed some of its code within GitHub, but insists customer data is secure

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  UK spent £6.4m on secret cyber package for Ukraine

  Westminster has revealed for the first time the existence of a previously top-secret security programme that has been helping Ukraine fend off Russian cyber attacks

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Game of ‘hardball’ in Horizon negotiations left subpostmasters exposed to tragedy

  ‘Hardball’ negotiations between the government, the Post Office and ICL meant subpostmasters were ignored and thrown into a tragedy that could have been averted

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus

  The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

  BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Huawei pushes OceanStor’s Arm chip benefits at Paris love-in

  Chinese giant trumpets green benefits on its Arm processor hardware with OceanStor Dorado V6 range, which offers huge capacities and performance at the high end

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  A third of UK cyber leaders want to quit, report says

  Nearly a third of UK security leaders are considering leaving their current role, and more than half are struggling to keep on top of their workload

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Scotland’s Data Lab CEO Brian Hills on its ambition to change lives

  Brian Hills, chief executive of The Data Lab in Scotland, on why he thinks the organisation’s mission is less about data and more about changing lives by giving people career opportunities

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Prepare today for potentially high-impact OpenSSL bug

  OpenSSL trailed a critical vulnerability patch last week, which will be only the second such flaw ever found in the open source encryption project. Unfortunately, the first was Heartbleed

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Cyber crime officer says French legal challenges to EncroChat are ‘hype’

  Matthieu Audibert, officer of the French Gendarmerie’s cyber space command, gets into a spat with defence lawyers on Twitter over the lawfulness of evidence from the hacked phone network EncroChat

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Post Office warned of Horizon software-induced ‘tragedy’ in 1999

  Problems experienced during live trials of the Post Office Horizon system predicted the ‘tragedy’ that unfolded

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Government ups cyber support for elderly, vulnerable web users

  DCMS announces a funding boost to help the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups stay safe online and avoid being misled by disinformation

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  NCSC’s Levy steps down after 20-year intelligence career

  NCSC technical director Ian Levy bids farewell, telling his successor: ‘Don’t panic’

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  NHS to get new national CISO

  The Department for Health and Social Care is seeking a new national CISO, who will be tasked with providing strategic cyber leadership, direction and expertise across DHSC and the wider NHS

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Horizon system EPOSS code writers lacked basic programming skills, public inquiry hears

  Horizon system code writers lacked basic programming skills, according to the task force set up to investigate reported problems with the controversial software

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  LinkedIn adds new features to safeguard user privacy, security

  Social media platform is adding a number of features and systems designed to protect legitimate users from inauthentic profiles and activity

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Santander calls for cooperation to tackle APP fraud

  New report puts forward key recommendations that the banking sector, government and other industries could take to tackle authorised push payment fraud

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

  ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Reported Horizon errors should have been ‘show-stopper’, public inquiry told

  Subpostmasters should have been given the benefit of the doubt over unexplained losses, but were hounded to pay money back, with lives ruined and innocent people prosecuted

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  New minister asked to pause Fujitsu government contracts

  Parliamentarians keep focus on Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal with demand for pause on government contracts to the supplier

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Australia budget closes in on digital divide, cyber resilience

  Australia’s latest budget is geared towards providing better broadband connectivity in regional and rural areas, shoring up the cyber security posture of its businesses and plugging tech talent shortages, among other areas

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  UKCloud in liquidation: Troubled public sector cloud provider hit with winding up order

  Public sector sovereign cloud provider served with winding-up order nine months after an acquisition that was intended to address a £30m funding shortfall at the firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Apple patches new iPhone zero-day

  Apple’s latest patch fixes yet another zero-day, as security issues keep surfacing in its mobile products

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance

  Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Dutch lawyers raise human rights concerns over hacked cryptophone data

  Dutch defence lawyers say in an open letter that there is a risk of unfair trials unless they are allowed to test the reliability and legitimacy of hacked cryptophone evidence

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Sainsbury’s outsources for cloud-first benefits

  Retailer signs multi-year IT services contract with Tata Consultancy Services to support move to cloud-first strategy

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Apple puts pressure on manufacturing partners to decarbonise their operations through yearly audits

  Consumer electronics giant wants its global supply chain partners to follow its lead on becoming a carbon-neutral company

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  US authorities charge two Chinese spies over telco security probe

  Two Chinese nationals have been charged with attempting to obstruct the criminal prosecution of a prominent Chinese telecoms firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  UK needs stronger regional innovation clusters outside South East

  Venture capital fund managers speak to Computer Weekly about the importance of innovation clusters to the UK tech ecosystem, and the need to develop further investment opportunities outside the South East

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  UK finance regulator investigates big tech finance threats and benefits

  The UK financial services regulator is gathering information about the benefits and targets of big tech firms offering financial services

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Germany: European Court of Justice asked to rule on legality of hacked EncroChat phone evidence

  Berlin’s Regional Court has asked the European Court of Justice to answer questions about whether the use of hacked EncroChat phone evidence complies with European law

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Digital-first businesses more willing to accept some fraud

  Companies founded in the past 20 years appear more willing to accept higher levels of fraudulent activity during the customer onboarding process, according to a report

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Government speeds up NHS Digital and NHS England merger

  NHS bodies will now merge in early January 2023, aiming to create a single statutory body for NHS data and technology

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Half of staff might quit after a cyber attack, report says

  Findings from a survey of CISOs, IT leaders and staffers reveal how experiencing a cyber incident may take a larger-than-thought toll on employee retention

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Berlingske Media to go all-digital in 2023

  Danish publisher moves national daily newspaper fully online as it cuts costs and reacts to changing customer habits

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

  Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Ukrainian and UK IT sectors to deepen collaboration, partnerships

  BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and the IT Ukraine Association have signed an MoU to deepen collaboration between the UK and Ukrainian IT sectors, and champion new partnerships and growth opportunities

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Did Truss authorise ‘war risk’ provocation over Black Sea?

  A UK Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint spy plane was ordered to approach Russian territory in a Cold-War-style provocation just days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Manchester to launch digital strategy

  Four-year strategy to focus on smarter use of technology and data to make Manchester a sustainable and resilient city

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Parliamentary committee launches inquiry into AI governance

  MPs will examine the impacts of artificial intelligence throughout the UK economy and how governance of the technology can be improved ahead of the government publishing its formal regulatory proposals

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Cyber professional shortfall hits 3.4 million

  Shortage of cyber security professionals continues to grow and shows no signs of abating, says report

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  NatWest data breach whistleblower demands bank pay data controller fee to ICO

  Whistleblower calls for NatWest to pay the Information Commissioner’s Office annual data controller fee, as the personal details of 1,600 current and former NatWest customers remain under her bed

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Singapore extends cyber security labelling scheme to medical devices

  The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore is extending its cyber security labelling scheme to medical devices to encourage medical device manufacturers to adopt a security-by-design approach to product development

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Lloyds Bank launches innovation sandbox

  Banking group establishes a sandbox where fintechs can build and test applications for Lloyds

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Greenland investigates potential blockchain-based election system

  Researchers have been funded to investigate blockchain-based online voting in Greenland

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle CloudWorld 2022: Ellison vaunts centrality of healthcare to mission

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison put the company’s healthcare initiatives front and centre of its vision during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Treat cyber crime as a ‘strategic threat’, UK businesses told

  The government’s new National Cyber Advisory Board aims to help elevate cyber discussion and spur action in the business community