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Regulatory compliance and standard requirements

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  NHS authorities subject to ICO audits for data protection

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) now has the right to audit NHS authorities to ensure they comply with the Data Protection Act

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google changes privacy policy in light of investigation

  Google has been forced to implement a change in its privacy policy after an investigation from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Most EU businesses unclear on latest cyber security laws

  Most EU businesses feel guidelines to achieve compliance with new European Union cyber security legislation are unclear

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  UK businesses handing over cyber security to third parties

  More UK businesses are outsourcing their IT security because budgets are not growing as fast as the security threat

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Obama pledges to push cyber security reforms

  In his State of the Union address, the US president pledges to urge Congress to pass legislation to improve US cyber security

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  PCI DSS 3.0 still weak on encryption, says WinMagic  

  PCI DSS V3 does not go far enough on encryption, says full-disk encryption software firm WinMagic

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Public sector may get encrypted connections over PSN in defiance of PM

  Civil servants risk clash with Number 10 following remarks made by PSN chief technology officer James Duncan

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  EU data reform long overdue, says information commissioner

  The European directive that led to the UK’s 1988 Data Protection Act is “scarcely fit for purpose”, says Christopher Graham

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Cameron criticised for plans to ban encrypted messaging apps

  David Cameron has been criticised over plans for new surveillance powers that could block encrypted messaging apps

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Obama calls for single US data breach notification law

  The US president is calling for a single US data breach notification law as part of proposed legislation to improve data security

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Attackers bypass conventional security, says FireEye study

  Hackers breach most conventional, signature-based security technologies, with 27% involving advanced threats

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  IT fails to get a grip on shadow applications

  IT managers are unaware how much shadow IT is used by their business, the Cloud Security Alliance has warned

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  North Korea slams 'hostile' US sanctions over Sony cyber attack

  North Korea has denounced fresh US sanctions in response to the November cyber attack on Sony as “hostile” and “repressive”

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Russian hacker group Anunak targets banks and payment systems

  A hacker group based in Russia and Ukraine is gaining access to the internal payment systems of banks and payments providers

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  South Korean nuclear power plant attacked by hacker

  Computer systems at a South Korean nuclear power plant have been hacked, causing the company to conduct drills to test its ability to cope

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Government chief scientific adviser: 'Don’t trivialise the internet of things'

  Government chief scientific adviser publishes report on the internet of things, making several policy recommendations

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Cabinet Office begins procurement for next stage of Gov.uk Verify

  The Cabinet Office has submitted a tender notice for a £150m three-year framework for the provision of identity assurance services

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Delta rushes to fix ticket security vulnerability

  A security vulnerability with Delta Airlines mobile e-tickets potentially allowed people to access other travellers’ boarding passes

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  Move security from IT up to boardroom, says Francis Maude

  Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maud has urged businesses to make IT security a boardroom issue

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  British spying on Belgian telco bigger than originally thought

  A GCHQ hack on Belgacom was more far-reaching than previously thought, according to the latest documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Care.data faces more delays over concerns about patients

  The NHS’s Care.data scheme may face more delays due to concerns over lack of publicity and clarity of the proposed programme

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  GCHQ web surveillance does not breach human rights, says UK security court

  Data interception of citizens by the UK intelligence services complies with the Human Rights Act, according to Britain's top security court

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  KPMG says businesses do not take IT risks seriously enough

  UK businesses are paying out £410,000 per year for unplanned IT problems, a study from KPMG has warned

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Expert institute to offer innovative solutions to cyber threats

  Security specialists will collaborate to find solutions to some of the most pressing cyber security problems facing the private and public sector

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  UK helps in operation to shut down websites selling counterfeit goods

  UK law enforcement officers have aided an operation to seize 292 domain names used to sell counterfeit goods online

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  UK set to establish digital cheques in 2015

  In January 2015 the UK government is expected to make the digital image of a cheque legal tender, leading to the end of paper cheque processing

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  CGI secures communications between pilots and air traffic control

  Satellite communications firm Inmarsat has outsourced the provision of security IT and services to CGI

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  Public sector will benefit from the shared economy, says government report

  Greater shared services in the public sector is among the issues raised in the Unlocking the Sharing Economy government report published today

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service secures email for public sector collaboration

  The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has secured its information exchange with Egress Switch encryption

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  Top technology firms lobby Senate for curbs on NSA surveillance

  Technology firms join calls from civil liberties groups to the US Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act to curb NSA surveillance

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Atos launches security apprentice academy

  IT services company Atos has launched a Cyber Security Academy to give apprentices cyber defence skills

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Banks play down cyber attack levels

  Banks are under-reporting cyber fraud because they don’t want to scare customers, a parliamentary committee has been told

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2

  Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Police forces use private cloud to access Holmes database

  Police forces across the UK will access the Holmes major investigation system via a private cloud service

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  UK government joins forces with insurers on cyber security

  Government collaborates with the insurance industry to improve how UK businesses manage cyber security risk

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Information Commissioner’s Office issues SQLi warning

  The Information Commissioner’s Office has urged UK organisations to protect their websites against SQL injection attacks

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  GCHQ head calls for overhauled tools to fight extremists online

  Newly appointed GCHQ head Robert Hannigan has called for reviewed legal tools to counter internet-enabled extremists

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  West Yorks Police deploys 4,000 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phablets

  West Yorkshire Police force partners with Samsung to provide 4,000 Galaxy Note 3 devices to frontline staff

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  PCI security council publishes security awareness guide

  The PCI security council has published a guide to help organisations better educate employees on information security

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  UK-led cyber crime taskforce proving its worth, says top EU cyber cop

  One month into a six-month pilot, a UK-led international cyber crime taskforce looks set to become permanent

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty

  Cloud providers IBM and Google build datacentres in the EU as enterprises insist on keeping their data in Europe

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Final specification for Fido password-killing protocol imminent

  The specification for a password-killing authentication protocol is imminent, says a founding member of the Fido Alliance

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  UK government cracks down on nuisance calls and texts

  Government consults over making it easier for the ICO to prosecute rogue firms that make nuisance calls and texts

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  European online transactions under cyber attack, says payment council

  European merchants need to pay more attention to securing electronic transactions, warns payment council

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  PCI security council welcomes Obama executive order on EMV

  The PCI security council has welcomed US president Obama’s executive order to speed the adoption of EMV-standard cards

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard turned to the cloud for backup and disaster recovery for its IT systems in Europe

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee highlights security challenges of a next-generation government

  McAfee has released a report investigating the security issues the 'government of tomorrow' might face

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee Next Generation firewall addresses siloed security risks

  McAfee claims its Next Generation Firewall product will help CIOs mitigate the risks associated with siloed security products

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Russian cyber criminals exploit Microsoft bug

  Russian hackers have used a vulnerability in Microsoft software to spy on targets including NATO and Western European governments

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  UK ranks third in right to be forgotten requests to Google

  The UK has made the third-highest number of requests for links to be removed from Google's search results

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Azure CTO Mark Russinovich's top ten public cloud security risks

  Microsoft Azure cloud CTO Mark Russinovich identified ten key security risks of public cloud services

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs

  Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  O2, EE and Vodafone trial Boku mobile retail billing service

  UK mobile carriers sign up to carrier billing service to enable consumers to make physical purchases with a mobile phone

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  European firms far from ready for new data rules, study shows

  As European authorities aim to ratify revised data protection rules by 2015, many firms have a lot to do to comply

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Service model driving cyber crime, says Europol report

  The cyber crime support industry is becoming increasingly commercialised, says a report by the European Cybercrime Centre

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

  Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Government mandates Cyber Essentials for public-sector supply chain

  Compliance with the Cyber Essentials Scheme will be mandatory for IT suppliers to government from 1 October 2014

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  US regulator Benjamin Lawsky warns finance cyber attack as catastrophic as 9/11

  A financial services regulator said a cyber attack on the US finance system could be the computer equivalent of the 9/11 attacks in 2001

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Why app developers should reconsider data harvesting

  An ICO study recently reported that app developers are asking for too much personal information

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Banks get cyber attack early warning system

  The British Bankers' Association has commissioned a system that will give banks early warning of cyber threats

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Labour activists call for £10bn plan to make UK a leading digital economy

  Digital activists in the Labour party want it to commit to a £10bn, five-year plan to make the UK the world’s leading digital economy

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Researchers set up privacy and security partnership for open-source security tools

  Security researchers, Dropbox and Google have joined forces to make open-source security tools easier to use

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Guy's and St Thomas' licensing centre aims to standardise NHS software asset management

  A licensing framework set up by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust is attempting to establish a SAM centre of excellence for working with suppliers like Microsoft and Adobe

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Security worries in US will not deter Huawei from its global ambitions

  Chinese telco Huawei claims it will develop rapidly as a global IT supplier, despite concerns over its ability to expand in the US

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  WikiLeaks reveals Australian police are using surveillance software

  Australia's New South Wales police are using spyware that has been linked to repressive states, according to leaked documents

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Intel's Kim Stevenson on creating insight and value

  When Computer Weekly met Intel CIO Kim Stevenson last year, she extolled the benefits of business intelligence – now it is taking BI to a new level

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Yahoo wins bid to shine more light on US surveillance

  Yahoo has won the release of 1,500 pages of documents from a key 2008 case in a secretive US surveillance court

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Wider public sector needs better understanding of cyber security

  Local government, the NHS and the wider public sector needs to have a better understanding of the threat of cyber security

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Stewart Room to join PwC’s cyber practice

  Stewart Room, former data privacy and security partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse, to join PwC's cyber security practice

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Local authorities can improve data protection, says ICO audit

  There is room for improvement in how local authorities protect personal data, says an audit report by the ICO

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  California mandates kill switch for smartphones

  California has become the second US state to pass a bill that requires all smartphones sold in the state have a “kill switch”

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  ICO fines Ministry of Justice £180,000

  The ICO has fined the Ministry of Justice £180,000 for “serious failings” in personal data protection at prisons in England and Wales

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Finance and retail applications most vulnerable to breaches

  Finance and retail applications are most susceptible to hacking attacks because of data input by customers, according to research

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Data hygiene needs to be tackled at board level – now

  Data proves information governance is a priority for senior management, but the latest research shows executives need to be more proactive

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  GCHQ produces BYOD guidelines for organisations

  GCHQ's IT security arm provides guidance to organisations who want to allow employees to use personal devices at work

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Facebook hit with deadline on EU privacy challenge

  An Austrian court has given Facebook Ireland four weeks to respond to a class action that claims the network is breaking European privacy laws

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  HP Autonomy: Sushovan Hussain responds with HP cover-up

  Sushovan Hussain, the former CFO of Autonomy, has responded to HP "fraud" claims, alleging mismanagement of the 2011 bungled acquisition

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  National Crime Agency calls for public to update security software

  The National Crime Agency (NCA) is launching a campaign to make people aware of the dangers of being online without security software

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Only one in 100 cloud providers meet latest EU data protection requirements

  Majority of cloud providers are not yet prepared to meet the requirements of the new EU data protection regulation

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Android banking apps susceptible to hacking

  A vulnerability in Android applications built on the Apache Cordova platform has sparked new fears over mobile banking

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Redfern deploys Splunk to comply with Information Assurance

  Travel management company Redfern has deployed Splunk for proactive monitoring

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Can BlackBerry remain in the mobile enterprise?

  BlackBerry is ramping up its drive to remain relevant following recent moves by IBM and Microsoft to target the mobile enterprise

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  O2 launches 4G tariffs for public and third-sector bodies

  O2 says new ‘No. 10’ service for public and third-sector organisations cements its commitment to customer value

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Russian hackers steal over a billion usernames and passwords

  A group of Russian cyber criminals have attacked 500 million email addresses and gained 1.2 billion usernames and passwords

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Malware incidents make up 25% of CERT-UK's work in first 100 days

  Over half the incidents reported to CERT-UK in the first three months of its operation were not related to critical national infrastructure

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Microsoft sues Samsung over Android royalty payments

  While its CEO is pushing the heterogeneity agenda, Microsoft is on the attack, taking legal action against rival phone maker Samsung

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Microsoft must disclose data held in Dublin datacentre, rules US federal judge

  US federal court rules that Microsoft must comply with warrant and hand over customer email data stored in its Dublin cloud datacentre

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Paddy Power hit by data breach in 2010

  Gambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Google should not decide on right to be forgotten, says Lords’ committee

  Google and other search engines should not decide what links to remove from search results, says a House of Lords EU sub-committee

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  BlackBerry to buy anti-phone tapping specialist Secusmart

  BlackBerry to buy German voice and data encryption supplier Secusmart for an undisclosed sum

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Hacker and UFO hunter Gary McKinnon launches SEO business

  Hacker Gary McKinnon has set up a search engine optimisation business after winning a 10-year battle against extradition to the US

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  UK police launch anti-piracy ad-replacing campaign

  UK police have launched an ad-replacement campaign against websites accessing pirated content

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Cloudwatt deploys SDN to orchestrate public cloud service

  Cloud firm Cloudwatt integrates Juniper OpenContrail SDN, NFV solution to support its public cloud environment

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  State security a challenge for global firms, says KPMG

  Global firms are being forced to pioneer privacy standards in the face of state data access requests, says KPMG

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Search firms meet EU regulators over right to be forgotten

  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have met EU data protection authorities to discuss the implications of the right to be forgotten ruling

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  ICO slaps online travel firm with £150,000 penalty

  The ICO has issued a monetary penalty of £150,000 to an online travel firm for failing to protect customer data

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Law should be strengthened to protect data from mass surveillance, tribunal hears

  Privacy of UK citizens' metadata may fall short of European standards

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG

  Finding the right balance between privacy and business insight could help UK firms take the lead in innovative online services, says KPMG

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  UK anti-piracy campaign set to kick off in 2015

  A UK anti-piracy campaign aimed at educating people about copyright and legal ways to download digital content will begin in 2015