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May 12, 2021
12
May'21
UK government publishes Online Safety Bill draft
Bill builds on previous commitments by the government, which has added new measures to uphold democracy and freedom of speech while making tech giants more accountable
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May 12, 2021
12
May'21
The Security Interviews: Why helpful bots could hurt vaccine roll-outs
Earlier this year, spikes in traffic to websites containing information about Covid-19 vaccines were attributed by Imperva to automated bots scraping data. Why is that a problem?
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May 12, 2021
12
May'21
Running a bees and spirits business on low-code
We look at how a small honey and gin producer has adapted and grown its business without requiring external software development expertise
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May 11, 2021
11
May'21
Swedish court finds ambiguities in hacked EncroChat cryptophone evidence
Defence lawyer claims evidence obtained by hacking the EncroChat encrypted phone network has ‘no legal’ value following Swedish appeal court ruling
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May 07, 2021
07
May'21
Reddit enlists HackerOne to run public bug bounty programme
Online community platform is opening up its HackerOne bug bounty programme to any ethical hacker who cares to have a look under the bonnet
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May 06, 2021
06
May'21
Government urged to add scam protections to Online Safety Bill
Group of organisations calls for the government to use the Online Safety Bill to protect people from cyber scams
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May 06, 2021
06
May'21
Tech startups turn to digital PR platform for media exposure
Digital PR platform Newspage helps early-stage tech startups with limited resources increase their visibility to journalists and news organisations
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May 06, 2021
06
May'21
Scammers accidentally reveal fake Amazon review data
More than 13 million records relating to an organised fake review scam have been found on an unsecured ElasticSearch database, implicating hundreds of thousands of people in unethical behaviour
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May 04, 2021
04
May'21
Nebulon helps DCI offer high-performance edge hyper-converged
Cambridge-based cloud and colo provider DCI will offer DataQube servers with Nebulon, which marries a cloud control plane with local PCIe-connected flash storage
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May 04, 2021
04
May'21
How Transport for NSW is tapping machine learning
Transport agency in New South Wales taps machine learning to restore public confidence in the state’s transportation network amid the pandemic
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April 29, 2021
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Apr'21
Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake
Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market
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April 27, 2021
27
Apr'21
UK supermarkets to trial age estimation tech for alcohol purchases
Biometric age estimation technology developed by Yoti to be tested in UK supermarkets for alcohol purchases as part of government-led digital identities initiative
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April 27, 2021
27
Apr'21
Scality launches Artesca container-native object storage
Object storage specialist gets on a burgeoning container object storage market with Artesca, which runs from Kubernetes to provide persistent storage for containerised applications
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April 22, 2021
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Apr'21
GCHQ: Cyber investment a guarantor of UK’s global status
GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming sets out a vision for the UK’s cyber security future
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April 22, 2021
22
Apr'21
ToxicEye malware exploits Telegram messaging service
The Telegram instant messaging service is being used by malicious actors to manage a remote access trojan called ToxicEye
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April 18, 2021
18
Apr'21
Government puts Facebook under pressure to stop end-to-end encryption over child abuse risks
Facebook faces growing government pressure to abandon its plans to offer users end-to-end encryption to secure the privacy of their messages as the NSPCC raises concerns about child protection
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April 16, 2021
16
Apr'21
Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC
The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey
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April 15, 2021
15
Apr'21
Ireland’s DPC launches probe into Facebook leak
The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched an ‘own volition’ inquiry into the leak of data from 500 million Facebook profiles
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April 14, 2021
14
Apr'21
AET gets Ctera to smooth hybrid cloud access to big files
Remote locations with unreliable WAN connections needed to share large files, which was a real headache until US engineering firm got Ctera edge filers with Azure cloud as a tier
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April 13, 2021
13
Apr'21
Covid-19 left people feeling vulnerable to cyber crime
Around 15 million people in the UK experienced cybercrime in the past 12 months, with a cumulative 64 million hours wasted dealing with the fallout
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
Another 27 Danish banks get access to open banking APIs
Nordic banks gain access to open banking capabilities from Nordic API Gateway, with an agreement through their shared IT service provider
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
Ctera KubeFiler to bring Kubernetes storage to its cloud gateways
KubeFiler uses the container storage interface to allow Kubernetes to access persistent storage as if it were from a local NAS device, and while keeping existing access profiles
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
Tencent Cloud opens Indonesia datacentre
Tencent’s Indonesian datacentre is expected to reduce network latency for local enterprises while providing backbone access for Indonesian and global internet service providers
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April 09, 2021
09
Apr'21
Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak
Researchers at VPN firm Surfshark have been analysing data on 533 million people leaked from Facebook
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April 09, 2021
09
Apr'21
NCSC: Using your pet’s name as a password is very stupid
If your email password is still Rex, Rover or Mr Fluffles, it’s probably best to change it, the NCSC has said
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April 07, 2021
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Apr'21
Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak
Facebook gives its side of the story as data on millions of its users leaks, but is yet to apologise for security lapses that put half a billion people at risk of compromise
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April 07, 2021
07
Apr'21
Digital Markets Unit starts work on codes of conduct for tech giants
Digital markets regulator officially launched to ensure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online
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April 07, 2021
07
Apr'21
VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments
VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management
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April 06, 2021
06
Apr'21
Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR
Regulators may be unable to do much about leaked data on 533 million Facebook users, as it seems to have been stolen before GDPR came into force
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March 31, 2021
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Mar'21
Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe
Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert
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March 30, 2021
30
Mar'21
Asda bags ex-Marks and Spencer CIO
Carl Dawson, who has been CIO at department store M&S for six years, is leaving the retailer to become CIO at Asda
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
Big Tech eclipses telecoms and arms giants as biggest lobbying spenders
Facebook and Amazon are spending more on lobbying and campaign contributions than any other companies in the US, including those in the arms and telecommunications sectors that have traditionally been the highest political spenders
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
How far has open banking come in Europe?
Open banking is a relatively new concept, having come into effect in Europe only in the last couple of years. So what is the state of play?
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
Backup survey: UK councils’ downtimes five times longer than average
Backup product supplier Veeam’s freedom of information request finds councils’ average downtime is seven hours and that backup and disaster recovery testing is not done frequently
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders
The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency
Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes
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March 25, 2021
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Mar'21
Facebook disrupts Chinese espionage operation
Social media giant’s in-house security team has tracked down and disrupted a long-running Chinese campaign targeting the Uighur Muslim minority
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March 25, 2021
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Mar'21
Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network
India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge
Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home
Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Government calls for input into Covid-19 vaccine passports
Evidence gathering exercise will inform the development of the UK’s proposed Covid-19 vaccine passport scheme
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March 12, 2021
12
Mar'21
Web founder calls for ubiquitous, safe internet access for young people
Internet access has a direct correlation to GDP. On the 32nd birthday of the world wide web, its founder calls for improvements to safe access
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March 11, 2021
11
Mar'21
UK digital regulators set out plans to strengthen cooperation
Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum outlines plans for the coming year, marking a shift towards a more collaborative regulatory approach
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March 11, 2021
11
Mar'21
CityFibre extends full-fibre network to Peterborough
Former leading altnet to put a further £1.5m into its high-speed broadband connectivity project
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March 09, 2021
09
Mar'21
UK's Starling Bank reaches unicorn status
UK app-based bank Starling reaches unicorn status following its latest round of funding
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March 08, 2021
08
Mar'21
Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia
Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions
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March 05, 2021
05
Mar'21
Nottinghamshire schools suspend online learning following cyber attack
Cyber attack on central trust that manages secondary schools in Nottinghamshire leaves them unable to access IT systems and deliver remote lessons
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March 04, 2021
04
Mar'21
Bank of Ireland to reduce branch network by almost half
Bank of Ireland is latest bank to pin its future on digital channels as customers change their banking habits
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March 04, 2021
04
Mar'21
UK contactless payment limit more than doubled
UK increases the amount that can be spent in one go using a contactless payments card to £100
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March 03, 2021
03
Mar'21
Pandemic brings good online sales growth for smaller retailers
IMRG data shows smaller retailers did ‘astronomically well’ in online sales growth after Covid-19 took hold last year