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• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Danske Bank to make permanent changes to working practices

  Danske Bank has seen the value of remote working during the unplanned proof of concept triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CaixaBank introduces facial recognition ATMs

  Spanish bank broadens its use of facial recognition technology on cash machines

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  6G, European internet, censorship: EU Parliament sets out vision for digital services

  Research outlines trends for the coming decade and an action plan with some controversial recommendations to inform the decisions of policymakers around the upcoming Digital Services Act

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Businesses learn to cope with new normal as only 25% of UK workers crave return to office

  Research from enterprise identity firm finds that even with no playbook, UK workers are coping well with mandated home working and have maintained productivity

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  How Australian firms can defend against supply chain attacks

  Supply chain security risks can wreak havoc if measures are not taken to deter cyber attackers from exploiting a supplier’s security gaps to target another firm

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Honda investigates suspected Snake ransomware attack

  Attack disrupts global operations at carmaker, with assembly lines falling silent and sales suspended

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  SES Water turns on IoT tap to reduce leaks

  Vodafone announces 10-year deal with utility firm to provide internet of things solution to revolutionise how water leaks are prevented and detected

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Churchill gets Ctera hybrid cloud NAS and dodges 3PAR disk spend

  Potteries-based ceramics maker faced the choice between expanding its HPE SAN at great cost or deploying Ctera hybrid cloud NAS. It saved thousands by heading for hybrid cloud

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Cyber security needs more women role models, says report

  A report compiled by security assurance organisation Crest highlights the progress made on gender diversity in cyber security, and offers pointers for next steps

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• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Covid-19 global co-ordination is off the mark, Tony Blair tells CogX

  Former UK prime minister, now head of a global institute that advises governments, tells CogX attendees that global co-ordination to combat Covid-19 is far from where it needs to be

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise

  Italian football club will get variable-price ticketing using artificial intelligence expertise to develop systems. It has also deployed Acronis cloud backup

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Bankers say artificial intelligence will separate winners and losers

  The application of artificial intelligence at banks will be the difference between the ones that succeed and the ones that fail in the coming years

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Major technology companies ‘negligent’ on forced labour practices

  Most of the world’s largest information technology companies continue to leave supply chain workers at serious risk of forced labour, according to a new report that highlights the sector’s inaction

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Huawei launches charm offensive to fight ‘high-risk’ label

  Global communications technology provider begins fightback against perceived high-risk status and stresses its fundamental role in UK telecoms as it finds itself under further attack from UK and US politicians

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Government publishes artificial intelligence procurement guidance

  A document has been published outlining the challenges for public sector buyers as well as best practices on procuring AI technology

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Select committees to continue with Zoom virtual meetings until September

  Although MPs have returned to Parliament, House of Commons select committees will continue with virtual meetings until 17 September

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks

  Cyber criminals are exploiting misconfigured AWS S3 buckets to run credit card fraud and malvertising campaigns, according to new data

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre

  Kao Data rolls out ‘built-to-suit’ service for prospective hyperscale clients, that it claims will speed up the time it takes to bring online new datacentre capacity in a cost-effective way

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  CIO interview: Simon Moorhead of the Rail Delivery Group discusses integration

  Train services across the UK are fragmented, with data and systems in silos, which makes it hard to provide a seamless experience for rail users

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Australia’s AGL to move most systems to Azure cloud

  Energy supplier is moving more than 200 applications and most systems to Azure in a three-year deal with Microsoft

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  How Malaysia’s Gain Secure stood tall amid Covid-19

  Walter Wong, executive director of Gain Secure and former Microsoft employee, talks up how his business is coping during Malaysia’s lockdown

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Progress needed for UK fibre roll-out to catch up to peers

  Even with the best efforts of the government in meeting its target and various initiatives to support deployment, meeting UK full-fibre gigabit goals depends on ultimate switch-off of the copper network

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  South Korea takes global 5G leadership

  Initial Omdia market assessment shows home of Samsung as the world’s powerhouse for establishing and commercialising 5G networks

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Nordic CIO interview: Janne Puustinen, Valmet

  Janne Puustinen built Finnish industrial technology company Valmet’s entire IT organisation from scratch after a demerger

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Cystic fibrosis and Covid-19 patients get tech to monitor condition at home

  NHS at Home programme sees cystic fibrosis patients given home spirometers and coronavirus patients given oximeters, together with an app, to monitor their condition from home and share information with clinicians

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  What it takes to get DevSecOps right

  DevSecOps will drive at least 50% of new applications in Asia-Pacific by 2024, but getting it right will require change management, a collaborative mindset and the right automation tools

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  NHS Covid-19 datastore contracts published under pressure from privacy groups

  The government has published the contracts with Palantir, Faculty, Microsoft and Google for the controversial NHS datastore ahead of court proceedings initiated by civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Third of UK internet users report worse service since lockdown

  Even though operators assured at beginning of lockdowns that their infrastructures could cope with the extra strain on home networks, UK internet users say the quality of their online experiences has demonstrably worsened

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

  Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Police chiefs working with Public Health England on contact-tracing security

  Police force representatives are in talks with Public Health England over operational security concerns arising from the NHS Test and Trace coronavirus contact-tracing scheme

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Digital bank Monzo cuts 120 staff

  Digital challenger Monzo has announced 120 job cuts as it navigates the current economic slowdown

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Gamgee and QuantWiFi announce managed Wi-Fi strategic partnership

  Network technology providers Gamgee and QuantWiFi team up to develop solutions ensuring Wi-Fi for a growing number of consumers whose network experience has become more crucial than ever

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  CaixiaBank gets ready to modernise IT using IBM Cloud Pak

  Spanish bank extends IBM relationship with the roll-out of Cloud Pak to modernise IT, which it says will allow it to innovate in quantum computing and blockchain

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  London Tech Week to go ahead through Zoom

  London Tech week will go ahead next week, with the tech industry attending through Zoom

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Global enterprise WLAN market dips in first quarter of 2020

  Consumer market buoyed but Covid-19 lockdowns blow headwind into enterprise sector for worldwide wireless local area network market for the first quarter of 2020

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Ministry of Defence forms new cyber security regiment

  The 13th Signal Regiment brings together personnel from across the armed forces to provide specialist security services

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why GovTech is building its own robotics stack

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency has developed a robotics technology stack that will power robots using capabilities from commercial suppliers and the open source community

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Elisa enjoys 5G base station energy, emissions reductions from Nokia liquid cooling

  Finnish telecoms operator reduces potential expenses of its base stations by up to 30% and emissions by approximately 80% through liquid cooling

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Dutch organisations invest heavily in compliance – but in vain

  Despite the fact that companies in the Netherlands have invested heavily to comply with GDPR legislation introduced two years ago, 90% of them are still discovering fundamental weaknesses in their IT environment

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why this is the right time for IT

  The coronavirus has put the spotlight on IT capabilities, and people are now willing to embrace technology-driven change to working practices

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Government evades being pinned to a date for online harms legislation

  MPs challenge government on online harms bill timetable, but have to settle for “clear assurances” that it will brought to parliament before the end of the session

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Small businesses failing on remote worker protection

  Only one-third of people working for small businesses have received any guidance from their employers on how to secure their remote working set-up

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Data privacy groups pile in on UK contact-tracing app

  UK-based digital privacy and free speech campaigning organisation files complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office about contact-tracing app

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  OVHcloud brings healthcare-focused private cloud offering to UK market

  French infrastructure-as-a-service provider OVHcloud is making its sector-specific portfolio of private cloud and bare metal services available to UK-based healthcare providers

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Black Lives Matter activists targeted by cyber attacks

  Civil liberties organisations are being targeted by far-right trolls as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread worldwide

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Outlook for 5G remains positive despite Covid-19

  While the current health crisis and economic uncertainty will have a short-term impact on adoption of the next-gen network, analyst insists future for 5G remains bright with more than a billion global 5G connections by 2022

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  The Security Interviews: How the BSI protects the IoT from itself

  David Mudd of the BSI reveals how a pragmatic and realistic approach to security vulnerabilities underpins its internet of things kitemark, helping give users the confidence to buy smart devices safely

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  MPs' investigation into Post Office Horizon IT scandal bares teeth

  Select committee chair writes to former Post Office CEO demanding answers over her role in IT scandal

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Cyber criminals target laid-off workers

  Malicious actors are targeting workers laid-off or furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  UK employees complain of lacking tools to work at home effectively

  Even though employees expect to continue working remotely for the foreseeable future, a significant proportion of teleworkers lack access to the required technological equipment

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Covid-19 drives Zoom boom in first quarter of 2020

  Now ubiquitous conference software firm Zoom cashes in as coronavirus spurs higher demand for distributed, face-to-face interactions and collaboration

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Malaysian minister backtracks on spectrum allocation decision

  Amid reports of a surreptitious decision to allocate spectrum to five Malaysian operators, the communications minister rescinds his own order, calling for a more transparent review of the allocation process

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Sodinokibi data auctions highlight changing criminal tactics

  The operators of the Sodinokibi ransomware strain are auctioning off swathes of stolen data in an apparent bid to raise cash. What is motivating this new tactic?

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Lidl Finland speeds up with new local server racks

  Lidl brings server racks to its Finnish stores in a bid to improve connectivity and introduce new services to its customers

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Security procurement framework goes live for NHS and public sector

  Cyber Security Services Framework, developed by NHS Shared Business Services, has formally launched

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  CCRC sends 47 subpostmaster miscarriages of justice for appeal, asks for prosecution powers review

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission sends 47 more subpostmaster cases to Court of Appeal and asks government to review private prosecution powers

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  US senator implores UK legislators to ban Huawei from telecoms networks

  US senator tells committee of MPs that deployment of Huawei in UK 5G phone networks would have been the equivalent of allowing Russia to build submarines during the Cold War

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Infosec 2020: Covid-19 an opportunity to change security thinking

  The annual Infosecurity Europe is being held virtually this year, and speakers at an online panel session have been considering the impact of the pandemic on security awareness

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  How Teams and Office 365 connect NHS staff during the lockdown

  NHS’s AGEM Commissioning Support Unit has migrated from on-premise SharePoint to Office 365 and is now using Teams

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Aston Martin swaps out legacy antivirus for AI-driven service

  Luxury car manufacturer says the advent of artificial intelligence-powered services will revolutionise its security posture

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Worldwide user spending on cloud-based web conferencing technology will grow by nearly 25% in 2020

  Global workplace restrictions will drive expansion of cloud conferencing user base throughout 2020, but growth will taper off next year

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Keeping IT operations running for remote workers

  Measuring employee experience and enabling self-service are some of the ways businesses can manage and empower a remote workforce

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Telefónica Deutschland, Bell Canada select Ericsson as 5G network partner

  Ericsson scores wins for next-generation infrastructure technology on both sides of Atlantic for both core and radio segments

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Interxion cuts energy cooling costs by 20% in West London datacentre through EkkoSense deployment

  Digital Realty-owned Interxion said deployment’s success will pave the way for similar roll-outs of EkkoSense technology in other facilities within its portfolio across Europe

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Google Cloud eyes public sector push after signing MoU with UK government procurement chiefs

  Google Cloud follows in the footsteps of Microsoft and Oracle by signing MoU with the UK government, which should pave the way for broader adoption of its technology by public sector

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  How Australia’s Shockbyte scales with cloud

  Australian game server provider Shockbyte uses bare metal servers on the cloud to meet the needs of demanding gaming applications and to grow its global footprint

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Government departments could cut payment costs through API deal

  The UK government adds fintech to its approved procurement list which promises to cut the costs of receiving payments

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Revved-up electric vehicle market to drive associated connected services to 270% growth

  Projected end of sales of petrol-engined cars set to propel higher adoption of electric vehicles and generate boom in connected vehicle tech to $378m by 2024.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Vodafone gives six months’ free business broadband to UK SMEs

  UK telco introduces scheme to help UK small businesses attempting to cope with new phase in Covid-19 lockdown

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover

  Ethical hackers from Citadelo uncovered a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that left private cloud owners open to takeover

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  OneFS for Cloud is a heavyweight entrant in cloud file storage

  Dell EMC’s porting of its Isilon OneFS scale-out file system to cloud and hybrid use cases brings a big player to a market that has had some innovative incumbents for some time

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Covid-19 pandemic accelerates work on NHS App

  The coronavirus health crisis has sped up work to integrate online consultations in the NHS App, exceeding roll-out targets and driving uptake

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Hull supercomputer helps fight Covid-19

  University’s Viper supercomputer team join forces with Sheffield-based HPC specialist in global distributed computing project focused on the coronavirus

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Digital transformation held back by lack of skilled people

  Veeam survey finds digital transformation a hot topic, but 44% of firms are held back by skills shortages. Meanwhile, the cost of downtime is found to be $67,651 per hour for the most important apps

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  NIS security regulations proving effective, but more work to do

  The UK’s NIS cyber security and risk regulations are proving somewhat effective, according to a government report

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  How to succeed at site reliability engineering

  Adoption of site reliability engineering is growing in Asia-Pacific, but organisations need to have the right organisational structure and culture to succeed

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Enterprises planning future with 5G and Wi-Fi 6

  Deloitte study shows advanced wireless technologies increasingly seen as a ‘force multiplier’ for emerging technologies including AI, IoT, cloud and edge computing

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Subpostmasters to force scrutiny of government’s role in Post Office IT scandal

  The government's role in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal could soon be put under the microscope as subpostmasters take their complaints to the Parliamentary Ombudsman

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Covid-19: Global smartphone sales take a tumble in Q1 2020

  Leading analyst Gartner attributes 20% year-on-year decline in device sales to effect of coronavirus pandemic, with leading brands showing sharp falls

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Employees must be consulted on technologies monitoring the return to work

  Experts say the workforce must be ‘in the room’ and given a meaningful say about technologies introduced to monitor their return to work following the Covid-19 pandemic

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Egypt offers free tech scholarship to 100,000 citizens

  Egypt's youths are being offered free training to help them to prepare for the careers of the future

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Privacy campaigners call for radical changes to contact-tracing app

  Liberty, Privacy International and the Open Rights Group join calls for the government to either put in place better data protection policies or abandon its Covid-19 contact-tracing app altogether

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  SmarTone deploys Ericsson Spectrum Sharing to open the gates to 5G-based smart city

  Hong Kong operator deploys 5G broadly across territory using dynamic spectrum-sharing technology

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  HSBC platform uses AI to analyse trading data thousands of times faster

  HSBC is offering its US share trading customers artificial intelligence-powered insights into public information about listed companies

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange misses court hearing due to respiratory problems

  The WikiLeaks founder is expected to call 21 witnesses during a three-week extradition hearing in September

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Former Sage boss becomes chairman of Tech Nation

  After five years as chair of Tech Nation, Eileen Burbidge has stepped down. Replacing her is Stephen Kelly, who says he wants to support the next generation of tech scaleups

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  GSMA, O-RAN team to open up 5G networks

  Collaboration aims to accelerate an ‘industry-wide consensus’ on the adoption of open, interoperable interfaces and radio access network virtualisation

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  How Saudi Arabia is using cloud to navigate the Covid-19 downturn

  Organisations in Saudi Arabia are using cloud computing services to help them navigate challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  UK-Ireland frictionless border tech far from ready, EU Select Committee finds

  The government has promised a frictionless UK-Ireland border, but currently technology only has the capacity to mitigate rather than eliminate friction, and the government’s technical advisory group on the border seems to be on hiatus

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Government under renewed pressure to ramp up support for limited company directors

  Chancellor of the Exchequer's announced extensions of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme prompt renewed calls for more tailored financial support for limited companies

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Councils don't have a consistent view of cyber security, says report

  The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government releases findings around security perceptions of local authorities

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  Inside India: The world’s IT powerhouse

  The Covid-19 pandemic is turning out to be a big fork in the road for many companies. But what about the industry that keeps the lights on for them?

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  How managed threat hunting helps bust malicious insiders

  Managed threat hunting services can help take some of the pressure off security operations centres and help ensure potential breaches don’t escalate into something far worse. We explore one such case with a happy ending

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Wireless Broadband Alliance calls for single global Wi-Fi network

  Global wireless ecosystem consortium unveils WBA OpenRoaming to offer automatic and secure connection of billions of devices to millions of Wi-Fi networks

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Qualcomm aims to tap into Wi-Fi 6E with ‘world’s most advanced’ mobile wireless portfolio

  Hot on the heels of FCC action described as milestone and watershed moment for innovation that will supercharge connectivity, wireless processor giant aims to cash in on new wireless standard

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Government launches IoT security funding round

  A £400,000 funding pot is on offer for innovators to design schemes that boost internet-of-things security

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Trump signs executive order targeting social media firms

  US president moves to weaken legal protections for social media companies after Twitter takes action on his posts

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Test and Trace has not passed data protection impact assessment

  Public Health England failed to complete the required impact assessment before launching the Covid-19 Test and Trace programme

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Cisco eyes up ThousandEyes purchase

  Networking giant says acquisition of internet and cloud intelligence platform provider will enhance its network performance and monitoring capabilities across the enterprise and into the cloud