News

News Archive

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Online Safety Bill ‘not fit for purpose’, say tech experts

  IT specialists lack confidence that legislation compelling tech firms to tackle online harms will work as intended, with only a small minority believing ‘harmful but legal’ content can be effectively and proportionately policed by internet platforms

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  How critical infrastructure operators can secure OT data

  Cohesity’s CISO discusses the challenges of securing data in operational technology systems and what can be done to mitigate security threats

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Researcher finds 10 vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls

  At Black Hat USA, Rapid7 researchers report on 10 security issues in popular Cisco firewall products, many of which do not yet have patches

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Cisco averts cyber disaster after successful phishing attack

  A potentially serious cyber attack on Cisco’s systems that began after a threat actor successfully exploited an employee’s carelessly secured credentials was thwarted without major damage

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  FCC rejects Starlink, LTD Broadband bids for satellite connectivity subsidies

  US regulator deals blow for bid by consortium headed by Elon Musk-led satellite company to gain financial stimulus under Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Seacom teams up with BT to deliver enterprise communications services across Africa

  Deal with leading UK telco intended for customers of Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system to benefit from what is claimed to be world-class portfolio of network services

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce

  The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  NHS may take a month to recover from supply chain attack

  Ransomware attack victim Advanced warns its NHS customers they could be waiting until early September to fully recover their operations

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Samsung, Kajeet collaborate to deliver smart private 5G network

  Wireless connectivity provider teams with mobile technologies and CE giant to bring together private 5G platform and 5G RAN innovations

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Sellafield Ltd inks network services contract with BT

  UK incumbent telco strikes deal with leading UK nuclear facility to take on network service responsibility across all of its sites with potential for future projects involving technologies such as IoT and 5G

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Online retail sales see year-on-year drop of 2.3% in July 2022

  Despite another year-on-year drop in online retail sales in July, the fall is smaller than those seen in previous months of 2022 as online sales decline slows

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Nokia on track to modernise Western Australia rail communications

  Leading comms tech provider to upgrade Public Transport Authority of Western Australia’s railway communications system with private wireless and mission-critical IP/MPLS covering 250km of railway track and tunnels in project including designing, ...

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Increase in UK startups scaling to exit, but half still struggle

  Despite more startups scaling to the point of exit than ever before, half are still stuck in low growth stages – particularly those working with emerging technologies

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  GitHub targets vulnerable open source components

  There are thousands of vulnerabilities in open source code – GitHub aims to help developers see if their projects are impacted

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Microsoft fixes two-year-old MSDT vulnerability in August update

  August’s Patch Tuesday drop fixes more than 120 CVEs, including another MSDT RCE zero-day that is being actively exploited.

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

  New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Positioning rapidly finds its place in 5G ecosystem

  Research find that while 5G positioning is developing quickly and could be featured in billions of consumer and enterprise devices by 2030, the journey to commercial success is not without hurdles

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Cellular low-power WAN connectivity to grow over twofold in next five years

  Even though the lack of widespread roaming agreements thus far has hampered the growth of the mobile standard outside of China, and roaming and monetisation continue as core service provider challenges, the LPWAN landscape is changing, with an ...

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Waterstones’ supply chain disrupted in Blue Yonder implementation

  Bookseller Waterstones is recovering from the effects of a Blue Yonder implementation that has seen authors and readers up in arms

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  ‘Coopetition’ a growing trend among ransomware gangs

  Sophos shares data from its new X-Ops unit at Black Hat in Las Vegas, revealing a growing number of ransomware victims being attacked by multiple gangs at the same time

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  UK to surveil convicted migrants with facial recognition

  A Home Office scheme to biometrically scan the faces of convicted migrants who have already carried out punishments has come under fire from privacy and human rights groups for being discriminatory

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  Tata teams with Genesys to boost enterprise engagement with enhanced InstaCC Platform

  Global digital ecosystem enabler partners with cloud-based customer experience orchestration to further transform customer engagement across platforms ranging from social to mobile

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  Cyber insurance getting harder to obtain

  Organisations looking to shore up their security postures face more and more barriers to obtaining cyber insurance

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  HS2 sets aside £9.5m to cover cost of IR35 non-compliance

  HS2 has become the latest public sector entity to have fallen foul of the IR35 rules, with its accounts confirming that it is anticipating a tax bill of £9.5m for failing to assess the status of contractors provided to it by a third party

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  Brsk announces new full-fibre roll-out region as CityFibre focuses on Warwickshire

  Pace quickens on UK gigabit broadband market as growing altnet provider and nation’s third-largest network take more full-fibre to non-urban English shires

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  Nokia on track with NCRTC voice/data offering and Orange Egypt network modernisation

  Nokia tests mission-critical voice and data on 4.9G/LTE private wireless network for India’s regional rapid transit system, while being selected by leading Egyptian telco to upgrade network for increased reliability, security and operational ...

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Around 750 new software developer jobs advertised every day

  Tech job adverts in the UK are still on the rise, with recruiters saying finding the talent they need for roles could be the biggest challenge of 2022

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  NHS recovering key services after attack on supplier

  Incident at software provider Advanced took out multiple NHS services before the weekend, including the 111 advice service

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  Internet giants in favour as Ireland tightens rules on datacentres

  Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  BT claims breakthrough for enterprise mobile with 5G standalone

  Leading UK telco reveals carrier aggregation technology trials with Nokia mark first time four carrier components on a 5G standalone network have been used achieved outside of a lab in Europe

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  NAO guide for senior government leaders flags barriers to better data use

  A National Audit Office guide for government chiefs on improving data use points to difficulties in achieving data sharing benefits and laments variability in cross-government data quality

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  CIO interview: Stephen Booth, CIO, Coventry University

  After more than 20 years at the university, the CIO is still taking on new responsibilities – including his team becoming a commercial entity and acquiring its own software

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Reliance on PSN may have exacerbated cyber attack impact

  As it seeks a new supplier to reinvigorate the migration away from the Public Services Network, the Cabinet Office says relying on the legacy network may be putting public sector bodies at heightened risk in cyber attacks

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Datacentre sector hits back at claims that West London electricity grid capacity crunch is its fault

  Reports citing the rapid rise of West London as a major datacentre hub as the cause of a potential ban on new housing developments in the area have not gone down well with industry watchers

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Zzoomm, Jurassic Fibre aim to advance full-fibre gigabit broadband across non-urban UK

  Pan-UK full-fibre gigabit broadband provider inks tech partnership to deploy broadband connections offering download speeds up to 10 Gbps while South West-based internet service provider announces start of ultrafast broadband network build in ...

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Inside Bukalapak’s cloud strategy

  Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Specialist providers fill the missing bits in public cloud

  While it may seem logical to deploy workloads in a hyperscaler’s cloud, is it the best option? Gartner looks at alternatives

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  UK has biggest card fraud problem in Europe

  Social Market Foundation calls on the UK to get a grip on its huge problem with bank card fraud in Europe

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Work-from-home slows in US but remains important part of hybrid workplace

  Deloitte survey shows the ways in which people are using connected devices and technology to improve and enhance their lives, in particular dealing with the balance of hybrid work

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Bayern Munich sides with Adobe to enhance global fan experience

  Bayern Munich is using Adobe’s Experience Cloud and allied software to better connect with its fans in Germany and worldwide

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  5G slicing industry to rocket over next six years to be worth US$24bn by 2028

  Research firm pinpoints standardisation and uniform practices as key to unlocking the full potential of 5G slicing

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  SBRC to administer NCSC training across Scotland

  The Scottish Business Resilience Centre has been awarded a £500,000 contract to extend cyber resilience training across more than 250 at-risk organisations

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Financial services regulator opens digital delivery centre in Leeds

  The Financial Conduct Authority is increasing the number of tech experts in its workforce through a new digital delivery centre in Leeds

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Spyware activity particularly impactful in July

  After a quiet June, vulnerability exploitation ramped up in July, with intrusions linked to spyware seeing unusually high volumes of activity, according to a report

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service mining for gold in cloud HR and finance

  The Financial Ombudsman Service is reaping the benefits of the cloud-based human resources and finance system it implemented last year

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Shipyard workers don smart glasses in 5G testbed

  Shipyard workers at Singapore’s Keppel Offshore and Marine can view work instructions on their smart glasses, pull out real-time data about their equipment and receive remote guidance in a range of operational tasks

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  UK smart meter data traffic set to grow five-fold in coming years

  After 8.5 million devices were added to the DCC network in 2021-22, UK’s smart metering network will see massive growth in data traffic over the coming years, with the 7.6 billion messages carried in 2021 likely to double this year

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  New EU due diligence law needs amending to stop tech sector abuse

  European corporate due diligence directive seeking to transform how companies approach their human rights and environmental risk is welcome, but without further changes, it will fail to effectively curb tech firms’ harmful practices, claims ...

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  GSMA warns of potential 5G benefits loss through lack of 6GHz wireless band allocation

  Trade body for the global mobile industry publishes industry ecosystem review and rails further against plans to offer the full 6GHz band to unlicensed use, warning a significant portion of the expected benefits of mid-band 5G could be lost if no ...

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Shift to remote work sees major rise in cyber crime

  Survey finds almost four in five cyber security teams agree that recent changes to working practices have adversely affected their organisation’s cyber security, with one-fifth banning the use of public Wi-Fi by policy