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• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Finnish IT sector demand increases after months of decline

  IT sector in Finland sees small signs of recovery as demand increases after months of Covid-19-related decline

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Security pros agree: We need to take a break

  As many as 85% of security staff engage in leisure activities during working hours, but they have excellent reasons for doing so

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Emotional intelligence, empathy increasingly valued in CISOs

  The pandemic has highlighted the value of soft skills, rather than technical ones, in security

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Law firm and cyber criminals clash over source of stolen data

  Cyber attack victim Jones Day says its data was stolen in a supply chain attack, but the gang holding it to ransom disagrees

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  TransferGo to harness Google-inspired tech capability

  Payments fintech TransferGo chooses cloud-native core banking platform to build a digital wallet and expand its services

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  RDP, SSH exposures off the charts thanks to remote working

  The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on the prevalence of certain vulnerabilities in the wild, according to a report

• February 14, 2021 14 Feb'21

  Cancer Council NSW fixes data silos in integration move

  The Cancer Council in New South Wales has integrated its core systems to eliminate data silos and improve productivity

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  University benefited from early virtual desktop investments when pandemic struck

  Edinburgh Napier University was able to react quickly to some of the main challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Goldman Sachs reopens UK digital savings account

  US banking giant resumes online account for UK savers after temporarily withdrawing it in response to high demand

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Low-complexity CVEs a growing concern

  Analysis of thousands of CVEs logged with NIST in 2020 reveals some unwelcome developments

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Société Générale adopts work-from-home policy

  French bank formalises remote working policy after discussions with labour unions

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  TCS to recruit 1,500 UK tech professionals this year

  Indian IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services commits to recruiting UK IT professionals

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Windows 10, Server 2019 users must patch serious zero-day

  Another dangerous zero-day exploit is among 56 vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in February’s Patch Tuesday update

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Century-old insurer uses low code as digital demands increase

  Lloyds of London insurance and reinsurance broker Miller breaks from the past by adopting low-code software development platform

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Helpdesk meltdown due to absenteeism, low morale and increased workload

  Remote working has put a strain on the helpdesk, and there is a backlog of unresolved tickets that is taking days to clear

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Facebook sued for data-sharing practices with third parties

  Data protection claim filed in London against social media giant for its alleged failure to give at least one million users in England and Wales meaningful control over their personal data

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Cyberpunk 2077 developer refuses to pay up after ransomware attack

  Polish video game developer CD Projekt has released details of a ransomware attack on its systems

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  ‘Batman Begins’ cyber attack is a warning to CNI providers

  A thwarted cyber attack in a Florida town that could have resulted in the poisoning of the water supply is a timely reminder of the vulnerability of critical services

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  NHS reports fewer phishing emails in 2020

  The NHSmail email service saw a steady decline in suspected phishing emails during the course of 2020

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  UK Cyber Security Council to take charge of skills strategy

  New government-backed body will be set up to boost careers opportunities and professional standards in the cyber security sector

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Interview: Robert Opp, chief digital officer, United Nations Development Programme

  Chief digital officer of the United Nations Development Programme talks about the relationship between digital technologies and sustainability, and how it can be used for a more environmentally-friendly and inclusive future

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Too few UK organisations offering cyber training for remote work

  Nearly a year into the pandemic, a study reveals a concerning tendency for organisations not to bother offering security training for remote workers

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Data of thousands of Dutch citizens leaked from government Covid-19 systems

  Weak access controls and outdated systems blamed for leaking of the personal details of thousands of Dutch citizens tested for Covid-19

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Google Chrome update to patch serious zero-day

  A serious heap buffer overflow vulnerability means Google Chrome users should patch their browsers as soon as possible

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Financial regulatory body bombarded with malicious emails

  New disclosures reveal the FCA’s systems bounced almost a quarter of a million malicious emails in a three-month period

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Security firm Stormshield loses source code in cyber attack

  Source code from two products developed by French cyber security firm was compromised in a December 2020 incident

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  How Yarra Valley Water is tapping APIs

  The largest water retailer in Melbourne has rolled out application programming interfaces to improve operations and customer service

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Revolut rewrites policy to include permanent remote working

  Challenger finance firm Revolut is redesigning its office spaces and introducing permanent remote working policies

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Woodland Trust hit by cyber attack in December

  Conservation charity is investigating what it describes as a ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack but has waited nearly two months to inform its members

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Boeing outsources to Dell affecting 600 IT jobs

  US aircraft manufacturer contracts hundreds of IT roles to Dell as it accelerates outsourcing plans

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Crypto malware targets Kubernetes clusters, say researchers

  Newly identified Hildegaard malware targets Kubernetes clusters and seems to herald a new campaign from the TeamTNT gang

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Has Covid-19 made bank branch closures easier to sell?

  Big banks continue to close branches and invest more in technology as the Covid-19 pandemic makes a case for digital banking

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  ‘Classic’ Cerber ransomware targets health sector in high volumes

  Cerber ransomware-as-a-service seems to have re-emerged as one of the most critical cyber threats facing healthcare organisations, reports VMware Carbon Black

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  SolarWinds patches two critical CVEs in Orion platform

  New vulnerabilities disclosed as SolarWinds reels from December 2020 Solorigate/Sunburst attack – but do not appear to have been exploited yet

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Agent Tesla trojan finds new ways to sneak past defences

  Updated versions of Agent Tesla Rat include new techniques that fiddle with code to disable endpoint protection tools on target systems

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Serco confirms Babuk ransomware attack

  Outsourcing firm was hit by the ransomware last week but insists most of its operations are running as normal

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  UKRI suspends services after ransomware attack

  UK Research and Innovation was hit by an undisclosed strain of ransomware at the end of January

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  CISOs invisible to their organisations, says BT report

  Ignorance of cyber issues is leading to misplaced confidence in security in many organisations, as CISOs struggle to make themselves seen and heard

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  SBRC picks Check Point to support cyber helpline

  The Scottish Business Resilience Centre has enlisted Check Point as the first security supplier to join its incident response partnership programme

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Commerzbank announces big job cuts and branch closures

  German bank is closing hundreds of branches and cutting thousands of jobs as it reshapes for the digital age

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Manufacturing particularly at risk of Solorigate-linked breaches

  Every fifth victim of the SolarWinds Solorigate/Sunburst attack was a manufacturing organisation, say researchers

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  Apprenticeships may be a solution to cyber skills shortage, say insiders

  Cyber security professionals are open to new approaches to finding sorely needed talent, according to a poll

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  End of Emotet: A blow to cyber crime, but don’t drop your guard

  The takedown of Emotet is a huge event with repercussions that will reverberate across the cyber criminal world, but unfortunately that’s not to say there will be much of a long-term impact

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Pandemic response has improved privacy posture, says Cisco

  Data privacy seems to be ‘coming of age’ to some extent and organisational responses to Covid-19 may be partly responsible, according to a report

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Mimecast breach was work of SolarWinds attackers

  Mimecast’s investigation into a January 2021 breach of its systems turns up evidence that the culprit was the same group that targeted SolarWinds in December

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  NHS Scotland uses ServiceNow to power vaccination and contact-tracing

  ServiceNow is at the heart of NHS Scotland’s digital response to the coronavirus, supporting the mass vaccination programme

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  How Nottinghamshire County Council saved loads of money on SAP

  The council was paying £100,000 a year just to keep ECC patches up to date and needed to find savings to support frontline services

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  After a push at the start, Mencap’s automation journey is gathering pace

  UK charity was helped out by a bank at the start of an automation investigation that is now a project sweeping across the organisation

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Australia’s IT spending set to bounce back in 2021

  IT spending in Australia will grow by 4% this year, reversing a decline of 1% in 2020 as organisations seek to grow their digital chops

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Customers turn to cash as IT issue hits card payments at major supermarkets

  IT problem at payment processing company has forced shoppers to resort to cash in Morrisons and Co-op stores