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• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Gartner: CIOs will struggle to retain and attract IT talent

  While the latest spending forecast from Gartner shows continued growth in enterprise IT spending, how budgets are invested is set to change

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  Benelux CIO interview: Richard Ventre, SHV Holdings

  In his role at Netherlands-based SHV Holdings, Richard Ventre is tackling the challenge of enabling a diverse set of digital transformations across a range of industries

• January 13, 2023 13 Jan'23

  Unionised contract workers who train Google’s AI win pay rise

  Google contract workers employed at artificial intelligence training supplier RaterLabs have secured their first-ever pay rise, following collective demands that Google fulfil its own commitment to pay its extended workforce a minimum of $15 an hour

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  PC industry sees biggest decline ever, says Gartner

  Gartner figures show an industry stuck between high levels of inventory and a lack of affordable products to tempt buyers in the PC market

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains

  Subpar due diligence processes in the tech sector – including poor purchasing practices, sparsely implemented collective bargaining coverage, and a lack of redress for workers – is leaving supply chain workers open to abuse, says KnowTheChain

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Former subpostmaster Alan Bates, who ‘pulled up trees and moved mountains’, turns down OBE offer

  Alan Bates, who fought for decades to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, says it would be inappropriate to accept an OBE when former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells still holds her CBE

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  How to identify a strategic technology platform

  A strategic platform has to be broad enough to support a range of business functions while being open, extensible and modular at the same time, according to Forrester

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Warning over ransomware attacks spreading via Fortinet kit

  Following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in October 2022, Fortinet VPN devices were exploited in two known ransomware attacks, with access likely sold on the dark web

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Fallout from Guardian cyber attack to last at least a month

  The Guardian newspaper’s offices remained shut into the New Year following a supposed ransomware attack, with disruption likely to last some time

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Nordic IT articles of 2022

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Middle East IT articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services IT articles of 2022, looking back at the moves and changes over the past year

• December 20, 2022 20 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

• December 20, 2022 20 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

• December 15, 2022 15 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

• 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

• 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 ...

• December 13, 2022 13 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

• December 13, 2022 13 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

• December 13, 2022 13 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

• December 13, 2022 13 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

• December 12, 2022 12 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

• December 09, 2022 09 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

• December 09, 2022 09 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

• December 07, 2022 07 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

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Rackspace email outage confirmed as ransomware attack

  An ongoing outage affecting Rackspace email customers is the result of a ransomware attack

• December 07, 2022 07 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

• December 06, 2022 06 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 ...

• December 05, 2022 05 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

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Vodafone CEO Nick Read steps down

  As telco operator battles with delivering shareholder value, it has decided it needs a new CEO

• December 01, 2022 01 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

• November 30, 2022 30 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

• November 30, 2022 30 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

• November 30, 2022 30 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

• November 30, 2022 30 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

• November 29, 2022 29 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

• November 25, 2022 25 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

• November 25, 2022 25 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

• November 23, 2022 23 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

• November 23, 2022 23 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

• November 22, 2022 22 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

• November 21, 2022 21 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

• November 21, 2022 21 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

• November 18, 2022 18 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

• November 16, 2022 16 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

• 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

• November 15, 2022 15 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

• November 15, 2022 15 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