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IT operations management and IT support
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November 23, 2020
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MPs subjected to over 22 million malicious email attacks in 2020
Members of Parliament are targeted by millions of spam and phishing emails every month, according to a Freedom of Information disclosure
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November 23, 2020
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Subpostmasters want £300m from a government that allowed Post Office ‘reign of terror’
The government allowed the Post Office to “run amok” and destroy lives, says complaint to Parliamentary Ombudsman
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November 20, 2020
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Pioneering companies use AI to drive profit
The latest research from McKinsey shows that there is a strong correlation between an organisation's artificial intelligence maturity and profitability
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November 20, 2020
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Security pros fear prosecution under outdated UK laws
CyberUp, a group of campaigners who want to reform the Computer Misuse Act, finds 80% of security professionals are concerned that they may be prosecuted just for doing their jobs
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November 19, 2020
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Cut jobs or cut software spending?
With little or no growth in IT budgets, IT chiefs will be tasked with cutting costs in 2021. Improving IT asset management can help to avoid job cuts
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November 19, 2020
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Fujitsu staff under investigation for potential perjury in Post Office IT trial named
Court documents reveal the names of the Fujitsu employees under investigation for potentially providing misleading information in criminal trials
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November 18, 2020
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2021 the year of commodity ransomware, says Sophos
Sophos researchers anticipate a trickle-down effect in the cyber criminal underground
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November 17, 2020
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Ransomware stats overload risks confusing buyers
UK-based organisations are either more, or less, likely to pay ransoms, depending on which cyber security supplier you want to believe
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November 17, 2020
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Financial services data volumes heighten risk of insider breach
Financial services organisations hold so much data that it is becoming virtually impossible to safeguard properly against data breaches caused by malicious or careless employees
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November 17, 2020
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Botched software update to blame for Post Office Horizon crash
Post Office says planned firmware update caused the problem that left branches unable to do business for 90 minutes
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November 16, 2020
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Human error blamed in Welsh Covid-19 patient data leak
Public Health Wales accepts recommendations of independent probe into data breach that saw PII on 18,105 coronavirus patients leaked
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November 16, 2020
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Hackney systems could be unavailable for months, says council
A month after a highly disruptive cyber attack on its systems, Hackney Council is still struggling to get back up and running
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November 16, 2020
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Post Office explanation of IT system outage so vague it is ‘pointless’
Post Office criticised over vagueness of its explanation of the cause of a UK-wide IT failure that saw subpostmasters unable to do business
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November 13, 2020
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Ticketmaster fined £1.25m by ICO for failing to protect customer data
Ticket website’s customer data was exposed through an attack on a third-party chatbot
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November 13, 2020
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Dutch IT award recognises importance of research in the wild
Promoter of human-centric scientific research techniques claims the prestigious 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research
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November 13, 2020
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Humanitarian data collection practices put migrants at risk
United Nations report on smart borders warns that data collection about migrants and refugees by humanitarian organisations risks excluding them from essential basic services like access to food
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November 13, 2020
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Police open criminal investigation into potential perjury by Fujitsu staff in Post Office IT trials
Current and former Fujitsu staff could face prosecution for giving false evidence in the trials of subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting
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November 12, 2020
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Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks
International organisation that monitors the finance sector asks for the industry to discuss the risks that IT outsourcing brings to the sector
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November 12, 2020
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TCS acquires Prudential Financial tech operation unit for free
Hot on the heels of its €1 acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s Postbank Systems IT unit, TCS has taken on 1,500 people from the insurance giant’s Ireland-based IT unit
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November 11, 2020
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Security pros coped admirably with remote working transition
Despite facing tight timescales at the onset of the pandemic, security professionals have come through the transition to remote working remarkably well, according to a report
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November 11, 2020
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Microsoft drops fix for serious zero-day among 112 Patch Tuesday updates
November’s Patch Tuesday contains fixes for 112 bugs, including a potentially serious zero-day exploit that malicious actors are already taking advantage of
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November 10, 2020
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IT Priorities 2020: After Covid-19, security goes back to basics
This year’s transition to remote working highlighted big gaps in the fundamentals of security, as updated TechTarget/Computer Weekly data reveals
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November 06, 2020
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NHS warned over Ryuk spreading through Trickbot replacements
NHS Digital tells healthcare organisations to be mindful of a marked rise in usage of the Bazar and Buer loaders
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November 06, 2020
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Finger pointed at Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon system crashes nationally
Post Office branches offline during busy business hours after suffering an IT error that the Post Office said related to IT from supplier Fujitsu
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November 03, 2020
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Robot lawyer gets Sberbank role
Russia's largest state-owned bank creates a robot lawyer to reduce the time taken to process documents and make decisions based on them
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November 03, 2020
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Subpostmasters’ complaint about government begins its journey to Parliamentary Ombudsman
Government faces scrutiny of its handling of the Post Office IT scandal that destroyed subpostmasters’ lives and livelihoods
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November 02, 2020
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NHS weathers cyber crime storm during pandemic, says NCSC
The NCSC dealt with over 700 incidents in the 12 months to August 2020, with over 200 specifically related to Covid-19, and the NHS a critical area of focus
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October 30, 2020
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Accidental heroes: How one scaleup pivoted to cyber
Simeon Quarrie designed his business using virtual reality and interactivity as a tool to tell stories that effect cultural change in enterprise environments – then a cyber criminal emptied his bank account
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October 30, 2020
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CISOs more confident in identity practice after pandemic shock
Identity practice and management has become a critical element of cyber security strategies to support remote workers
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October 29, 2020
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Surge in Ryuk ransomware attacks has hospitals on alert
Russian cyber criminals are conducting a targeted campaign against hospitals with Ryuk ransomware
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October 28, 2020
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Trump supporters targeted by cryptocurrency scammers
The successful breach of Donald Trump’s official website shows up lax security on his campaign team and is yet another timely warning that nobody is immune to cyber crime
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October 27, 2020
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Calls for clarity over Amazon insider breach
Security experts call for more clarity from Amazon over an apparent leak of customer data
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October 27, 2020
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Covid crisis proves tech can replace office space and support cost-cutting at Barclays
Bank says it will continue to look at its use of office space as it targets further cost-cutting measures
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October 27, 2020
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Sopra Steria hit by new version of Ryuk ransomware
IT services company Sopra Steria says it has contained the ransomware virus, but systems will take a few weeks to be fully operational
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October 23, 2020
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Digital public services fail UK citizens on multiple fronts
Commission for Smart Government publishes paper on obstacles facing the UK’s digital government, setting out principles for digital government initiatives to follow
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October 23, 2020
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NHS trust takes another look at its appointment of IT scandal CEO
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has asked for external review of its process when appointing controversial executive
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October 22, 2020
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SonicWall patches 11 firewall vulnerabilities
SonicWall users are advised to download updates that fix 11 CVEs in the SonicOS operating system, uncovered by Positive Technologies
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October 22, 2020
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Protecting remote workers an opportunity to do security better
Securing the fully remote workforce has been a challenge for IT teams, but it presents an opportunity to commit to a higher standard of cyber security, according to a Cisco report
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October 22, 2020
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Nordic CIO Interview: Teemu Salmi, Stora Enso
Working with startup communities helps to drive digital transformation at one of the world’s largest forest industry companies, Stora Enso
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October 21, 2020
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NSA’s top CVE list a timely reminder to patch
Many of the CVEs detailed on the NSA’s top 25 chart are golden oldies
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October 21, 2020
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Financial services staff want work-from-home policies to continue after Covid
About half of workers in the finance sector want their employers to retain remote working policies brought in during the pandemic
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October 21, 2020
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UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts
Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs
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October 20, 2020
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Hackney Council services to be disrupted ‘for some time’
Inability to make housing benefit payments is likely to sting some tenants as Hackney cyber attack drags on
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October 20, 2020
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Pace of digital transformation accelerates
As businesses strive to return to profitability, business leaders are relying on tech innovation to drive economic recovery
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October 20, 2020
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Resilient Trickbot down but not yet knocked out
Global, Microsoft-led effort to disrupt the Trickbot botnet has seen some success, but new command and control servers continue to pop up
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October 20, 2020
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Labour shares concerns over ‘whitewash’ Horizon IT inquiry
Labour MPs write to postal affairs minister expressing fears that the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal does not guarantee cooperation from the Post Office, Fujitsu and government
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October 19, 2020
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Estonian rude awakening spurs tech startup activity
Money laundering scandal in Estonia has sparked tech startup activity in the Baltic country as banks look for answers
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October 19, 2020
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How SATS is streamlining procurement
Singapore-based supplier of ground handling and food services is deploying what it calls ‘touchless procurement’
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October 16, 2020
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Services Australia taps AI in document processing
Services Australia and Capgemini have developed an AI engine to classify and extract information from claim documents in a pilot project
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October 15, 2020
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Post Office races to solve IT error under gaze of public and banks
The Post Office is focusing urgently on fixing an IT error suffered by a subpostmaster amid the ongoing IT scandal