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December 23, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2022
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux articles of 2022
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December 20, 2022
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Dec'22
TSB hit with huge fine after IT migration disaster
TSB has been fined nearly £50m due to failings during its IT migration catastrophe
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December 20, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022
There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted
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December 15, 2022
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Dec'22
Digital Ethics Summit: Who benefits from new technology?
Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public’s near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Ethical hackers flex their muscles in 2022
Ethical hackers working through HackerOne programmes found 21% more vulnerabilities in 2022 than in 2021
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
New cyber approaches ease Registers of Scotland’s AWS migration
As the holder of the oldest national public land register in the world, Registers of Scotland has a storied history dating back centuries. Find out how Palo Alto Networks is keeping its processes and data secure as it goes all-in on Amazon Web ...
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December 13, 2022
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Dec'22
EU issues draft data adequacy decision in favour of US
The European Commission has concluded that the United States does ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union and will now launch the process towards the adoption of an adequacy decision
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December 13, 2022
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Dec'22
More Uber data exposed in possible supply chain attack
A second incident affecting ride-sharing app Uber appears to have originated through a third party in a supply chain attack
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December 13, 2022
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Dec'22
Special educational needs students use virtual reality to help navigate real world
Students on the autistic spectrum are using virtual reality to help them prepare for real-world interaction
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December 13, 2022
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Dec'22
Customer frustrations mount as Rackspace investigation proceeds
Rackspace says it is making progress on restoring services following a ransomware attack on its Hosted Exchange business, but customers are becoming frustrated with a lack of communication
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December 12, 2022
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Dec'22
Cloud-based fingerprint system for UK police nears completion
Police Digital Service announces that a new cloud-based fingerprint system developed under its Transforming Forensics programme is nearly complete, but data protection concerns around the use of US-based cloud providers remain
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December 09, 2022
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Dec'22
Online Safety Bill returns to Parliament
MPs and online safety experts have expressed concern about encryption-breaking measures contained in the Online Safety Bill as it returns to Parliament for the first time since its passage was paused in July
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December 09, 2022
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Dec'22
IT system limitations a factor in passport delays
Limitations in the UK’s passport office IT system led to delays in applicants receiving their documents during a recent period of high demand
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December 07, 2022
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Dec'22
Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon
IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage
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December 07, 2022
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Dec'22
Rackspace email outage confirmed as ransomware attack
An ongoing outage affecting Rackspace email customers is the result of a ransomware attack
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December 07, 2022
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Dec'22
Post Office scandal – “cock-up or cook-up”?
The second phase of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal raised more questions over who did what, when and where, with shocking revelations at every turn
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December 06, 2022
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Dec'22
EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers
Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s ...
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December 05, 2022
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Dec'22
DCMS to assess UK semiconductor industry
The ongoing global chip crisis, geopolitician tension with China and deal-blocking are the backdrop to this latest assessment
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December 05, 2022
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Dec'22
Vodafone CEO Nick Read steps down
As telco operator battles with delivering shareholder value, it has decided it needs a new CEO
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December 01, 2022
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Dec'22
LastPass probes new cyber incident related to August attack
The August 2022 cyber attack on LastPass seems to have begat another incident, according to company CEO Karim Toubba
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November 30, 2022
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Nov'22
Microsoft 365 banned in German schools over privacy concerns
German schools cannot legally use Microsoft Office 365 over lack of clarity about how data is collected, shared and used, as well as the potential for unlawful transfer of European citizens’ personal data to the US
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November 30, 2022
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Nov'22
HPE’s earnings reveal a shift back to less pricey servers
HPE has been focused on higher-end servers due to supply chain issues, but as these ease and memory costs fall, it is set to readjust pricing
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November 30, 2022
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Nov'22
NIS regulations to be extended to cover MSPs
The UK government is moving ahead with plans to update the Network and Information Systems regulations to bring outsourcers and MSPs into scope
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November 30, 2022
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Nov'22
Parity AI talks about auditing recruitment algorithms for bias
Algorithmic auditing firm Parity speaks to Computer Weekly about the process of auditing artificial intelligence for bias, following its partnership with AI-powered recruitment platform Beamery
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November 29, 2022
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Nov'22
‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill
Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm
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November 25, 2022
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Nov'22
Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility
More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year
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November 25, 2022
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Nov'22
Fujitsu put pressure on UK government to sign off troubled Horizon project, public inquiry hears
Telegram from British Embassy in Tokyo to UK government reveals pressure on ministers to sign off controversial contract
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November 23, 2022
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Nov'22
AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices
Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank
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November 23, 2022
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Nov'22
Red team tool developer slams ‘irresponsible’ disclosure
UK security firm MDSec defends its Nighthawk command and control penetration testing framework after suggestions were made that it could be appropriated by threat actors
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
IT services sector hiring slows to pre-pandemic levels
IT services firms have slowed their recruitment after a major acceleration in hiring during the Covid-19 pandemic
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November 21, 2022
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Nov'22
Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data
French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array
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November 21, 2022
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Nov'22
AI adopted without due consideration for workers, MPs told
MPs have been warned that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence in workplaces has changed UK enterprises’ management practices so much that current employment law is no longer fit for purpose
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November 18, 2022
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Nov'22
Post Office scandal inquiry’s expert IT witness ‘troubled’ by his findings
Controversial Post Office Horizon system lacked the integrity required to trust accounting data and contained ‘joke’ coding akin to an ‘overly engineered mousetrap’, inquiry told
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November 16, 2022
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Nov'22
Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’
Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told
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November 16, 2022
16
Nov'22
Global network fragmentation a source of increasing risk
Risk consultancy’s report says the weaponisation of cyber space and geopolitical clashes herald a breakdown of global networks into distinct regional or national architectures
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November 15, 2022
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Nov'22
Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’
Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed
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November 15, 2022
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Nov'22
Commoditisation of NHS tech is a problem, says NHS Digital interim CEO
NHS Digital interim CEO Simon Bolton calls for a stronger mandate from the centre around the systems in use in the NHS, with no more than four to six electronic patient record systems used across the country
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November 14, 2022
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Nov'22
Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board
Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services
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November 10, 2022
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Nov'22
Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits
Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges
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November 09, 2022
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Nov'22
Fujitsu expert witness in subpostmaster trial ‘manoeuvred’ into role, public inquiry told
A former Fujitsu technology expert who defended the Horizon system’s robustness in court was unhappy after being ‘manoeuvred’ into acting as an expert witness, public inquiry hears
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November 07, 2022
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Nov'22
Department for Education escapes £10m fine over data misuse
Department entrusted data on 28 million children to a company called Trustopia, which turned out to be anything but trustworthy, but has escaped a £10m fine under new rules
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November 03, 2022
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Nov'22
Confirmation bias led Post Office to prosecute subpostmasters without investigation, inquiry told
Former Post Office tech leader tells public inquiry that confirmation bias led to hundreds of subpostmasters being prosecuted for financial crimes without proper investigation
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November 03, 2022
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Nov'22
Russia risks shortage of PCs and software
Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software
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October 28, 2022
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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
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October 27, 2022
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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
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October 26, 2022
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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
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October 26, 2022
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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
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October 26, 2022
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Oct'22
Microsoft Cloud grows, but less than expected
CEO Satya Nadella claims the public cloud is the best way to optimise business IT and address rising energy bills
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October 25, 2022
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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
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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