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June 15, 2022
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Jun'22
Public sector bodies accused of freezing out SME IT consultancies over IR35 compliance fears
After details emerged about the multimillion-pound tax bills and penalties some public sector organisations have incurred due to IR35 compliance failings, it is claimed some government departments are cutting their SME consultancy partners loose
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June 14, 2022
14
Jun'22
CIO interview: Morten Holm Christiansen, Haldor Topsoe
There’s no point digitising if there is no benefit to the customer, says the Danish chemicals giant’s head of IT
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June 14, 2022
14
Jun'22
MS Azure Synapse vulnerability fixed after six-month slog
Microsoft patched a critical Azure Synapse vulnerability twice, but each time the researcher who discovered it was able to bypass it with ease, leading to a lengthy saga
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June 14, 2022
14
Jun'22
Spanish bank and Microsoft create innovation lab
CaixaBank and Microsoft partner in artificial intelligence and metaverse innovation
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June 14, 2022
14
Jun'22
Digitising the future of Nordic energy
Finland calls for digital intervention as part of the global transition to renewable energy
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
HSBC to give thousands of staff fintech training
Thousands of HSBC staff will receive training in fintech technologies through a course developed with Saïd Business School
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
UK, US prepare to launch PET project
A transatlantic prize challenge to accelerate development of privacy-enhancing technologies is set to begin
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
Government recommits to UK’s cyber future in Digital Strategy
New strategy leans heavily on cyber security but stops short of announcing any initiatives that have not already been launched or heavily trailed
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
New warning over tech suppliers in thrall to hostile governments
Ukraine war could lead to shakeup of dual-use tech exports, says former UK intelligence officer
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
Health data strategy to exorcise ghosts of GPDPR
Government publishes a revised data in health strategy, with an emphasis firmly on preserving the integrity and privacy of patients’ confidential information
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June 13, 2022
13
Jun'22
Qatar bolsters cyber security in preparation for World Cup
With hackers honing their cyber weapons to target the upcoming football World Cup, Qatar is busy developing countermeasures and raising awareness
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June 10, 2022
10
Jun'22
Snake Keylogger climbing malware charts, says Check Point
Cyber criminals behind Snake Keylogger campaigns have been switching up their tactics in the past few weeks, say researchers
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June 10, 2022
10
Jun'22
Researchers find eight CVEs in single building access system
A series of eight vulnerabilities in Carrier LenelS2 building access panels could enable malicious actors to obtain physical access to their targets
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June 09, 2022
09
Jun'22
CIO interview: Yiannis Levantis aims at total quality for Unipart IT
Unipart has a heritage in quality manufacturing and services that CIO Yiannis Levantis is building on, in part by harnessing SAP’s cloud-based business transformation service Rise
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June 09, 2022
09
Jun'22
More wrongful convictions quashed in Post Office IT scandal
Two more Post Office Horizon scandal victims have had their wrongful convictions overturned
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June 09, 2022
09
Jun'22
SolarWinds CEO offers to commit staffers to government cyber agencies
A new proposal from SolarWinds’ outspoken CEO, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, could see software companies commit key staff to work with government cyber agencies to improve cooperation and incident response
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June 09, 2022
09
Jun'22
IBM winding down its Russian business
After three months in suspension, IBM’s operations in Russia are being wound down, CEO tells staff
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June 08, 2022
08
Jun'22
NHS invites suppliers to apply to join latest tech marketplace
Health service launches new IT framework for suppliers offering technologies that can transform GP operations
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June 08, 2022
08
Jun'22
China using top consumer routers to hack Western comms networks
An advisory from US cyber authorities shares details of multiple vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state actors to hack into Western telecoms networks
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June 08, 2022
08
Jun'22
Danish recruiter provides advice on a crazy market for tech jobs
Global trends make it difficult for Danish companies to hire people with IT skills, and a Danish recruiter is providing both companies and developers with some much-needed advice
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June 08, 2022
08
Jun'22
ProxyLogon, ProxyShell may have driven increase in dwell times
The median network intruder dwell time was up 36% to 15 days last year, thanks to massive exploitation of the ProxyLogon and ProxyShell vulnerabilities by IABs, according to new Sophos data
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June 07, 2022
07
Jun'22
Weak IT and SecOps collaboration in ANZ opens doors to cyber attacks
The weak collaboration between IT and security teams in Australia and New Zealand is exposing their organisations to data loss, business disruption and other potential consequences of cyber attacks
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June 07, 2022
07
Jun'22
Prison and Probation Service’s tagging ambition ‘outstripped its ability to deliver’
HM Prison and Probation Service’s programme to transform the tagging of offenders has failed to deliver after software platform was scrapped
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June 07, 2022
07
Jun'22
Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys
Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards
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June 01, 2022
01
Jun'22
Environmental social governance law enhances Danish tech’s impact
A new environmental and social law in Denmark could help the country’s tech startup ecosystem to differentiate
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May 31, 2022
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May'22
How Police Scotland deployed mobile comms for integrated services
Technology is core to Police Scotland’s 10-year plan to transform policing, and since 2019 it has worked with Motorola to roll out mobile comms
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May 31, 2022
31
May'22
Heineken puts employees in charge of their own careers with new HR system
According to Sanne Noordam, head of SAP SuccessFactors in the Netherlands, companies need to look and listen more closely to the needs of employees in order to attract and retain them
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May 30, 2022
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May'22
Majority of organisations are hiring more IT staff to work remotely
IT leaders are increasingly recruiting staff to work remotely as changing working methods brought by the Covid-19 pandemic look set to stay
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May 30, 2022
30
May'22
Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal
VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
Consultation launched on datacentre, cloud security
The government is seeking views on how to boost the security and resilience of the UK’s datacentres and online cloud platforms
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
Global business insurer saves 50,000 hours through RPA
QBE started its robotic process automation journey in 2017 and has already saved 50,000 hours, enabling staff to focus on customer care
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
Two-thirds of UK organisations defrauded since start of pandemic
Nearly two out of three UK companies say they have experienced some form of fraud or economic crime in the past two years, according to a report
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
Most CFOs being left out of ransomware conversations
Barely a tenth of CFOs are actively involved in planning for cyber attacks, according to a report
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
The barristers that broke their backs to break the Post Office’s shield of lies
Computer Weekly spoke to the barristers at Henderson Chambers that fought the Post Office in the High Court to expose the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history
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May 26, 2022
26
May'22
SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility
Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers
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May 25, 2022
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May'22
IR35 reforms: PAC report blames HMRC for ‘widespread non-compliance’ in public sector
The Public Accounts Committee has shared the findings of its report into the after-effects of the IR35 reforms coming into force in the public sector back in April 2017
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May 25, 2022
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May'22
Most information and comms businesses plan to use homeworking permanently
Proportion of UK employees deploying hybrid working rises from 13% in early February 2022 to 24% in May 2022, with the information and communication industry revealed as a hybrid working hotspot
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May 24, 2022
24
May'22
ICO orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete all data about UK residents
UK data watchdog fines facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5m for multiple privacy breaches. The firm, which offers services to law enforcement, faces growing pressure from regulators and legal action around the world
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May 24, 2022
24
May'22
Ransomware volumes grew faster than ever in 2021
Verizon’s annual DBIR assessment of the security landscape highlights an unprecedented boom in ransomware volumes, to the surprise of nobody
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
Netherlands approves beyond-visual-line-of-sight inspection drones
Drones can automate the traditionally challenging job of inspecting industrial sites, including hard-to-reach infrastructure
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
Government has no plans to review controversial court rules on computer evidence
Government accused of ‘passing the buck’ and ‘not knowing what it is talking about’ after stating it has no plans to review court rules on computer evidence
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
Did the Conti ransomware crew orchestrate its own demise?
Analysts examining the shutdown of the Conti ransomware syndicate suggest the cyber crime collective orchestrated its own demise
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
UKtech50 2022: The longlist of the UK's influential tech leaders
Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2022
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
Reimagining the cities of the future in Finland
New ideas around new space: Helsinki not only imagines, but can see, the cities of the future
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May 23, 2022
23
May'22
How Ivanti views patch management with a security lens
Bringing development, operations and security teams together will help organisations to improve their visibility of IT assets and vulnerabilities while keeping threat actors at bay
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May 20, 2022
20
May'22
Applying international law to cyber will be a tall order
Many in the security community have voiced their support for the UK government’s ambitions to work towards agreement with other countries on the application of international law to cyber space, but not without some reservations
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May 20, 2022
20
May'22
Third of organisations to outsource more IT amid talent shortage
Cutting costs is not the main reason for outsourcing IT in the UK, according to a major study
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May 20, 2022
20
May'22
Microsoft drops emergency patch after Patch Tuesday screw up
Microsoft fixed a certificate mapping issue that caused server authentication failures on domain controllers for users that had installed the most recent Patch Tuesday updates
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May 20, 2022
20
May'22
Chinese cyber spooks exploit western sanctions on Russia
The actor behind an ongoing Chinese espionage campaign targeting Russian defence research bodies is taking advantage of the Ukraine war in their phishing lures
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May 20, 2022
20
May'22
Government will legislate to protect access to cash amid digital revolution
The government is giving the Financial Conduct Authority more powers to force banks to ensure cash withdrawal and deposit services are within easy reach of customers