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Internet infrastructure

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Jailed hacker ordered to pay back £270k

  An Essex man jailed in April over malware offences dating back years has been ordered to pay back the profits of his crime spree, and sell valuable assets

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Cyber security takes its place alongside UK’s armed services

  Head of armed services says cyber security will take its place alongside the army, navy and air force as a key pillar of the UK’s defence strategy

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Great Cannon DDoS operation fires on Hong Kong protesters

  AT&T’s security unit has evidence that China is pressing its Great Cannon DDoS tool into service once again, specifically to target pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts debuts in Australia

  Amazon Web Services rolls out Outposts in Australia, enabling enterprises to run a consistent version of the AWS platform at locations that require low latency

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Goldman Sachs reins in cloud-based retail challenger in UK

  Bank does not want rapidly expanding Marcus to breach deposits threshold at which UK banks have to ring-fence their retail operations

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  City of London switches on to connected lighting

  City of London teams with Itron, Wi-SUN Alliance for smart lighting project to brighten up urban experience of historic parts of the UK capital

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  AI may open dangerous new frontiers in geopolitics

  Truly artificial intelligence has the potential to provoke an international geopolitical crisis, warns F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Tim Berners-Lee launches nine principles for the web

  Inventor of the worldwide web sets out Contract for the Web to protect its freedom, data privacy and access for all

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Some 29,000 UK web domains suspended for criminal activity

  Domain suspensions for criminal activity over the past year has dropped for the first time since 2014

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  CityFibre appoints chief delivery officer

  Alternative UK wholesale fibre provider appoints new network delivery chief to ensure roll-out of programme to bring gigabit broadband to the UK

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Labour pledges review of NCSC in UK security overhaul

  The UK's National Cyber Security Centre may get expanded powers under a Labour government

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Holy grail of digital banking is, at first glance, a new channel, not a new concept

  Details of Google’s plans in the financial services sector have emerged with nothing groundbreaking so far, but the sector is guessing what comes next

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses still struggling to reap benefits of cloud, study shows

  Research by global IT firm Unisys shines a light on reasons why some firms are still struggling to reap the benefits of using cloud

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Huawei shrugs off latest US reprieve

  Chinese tech giant dismisses the latest extension of the US Temporary General Licence and maintains that the US government is harming its own interests in banning it