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• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Increase in number of girls taking GCSE computing exams in 2022

  After two years of declines in the number of girls taking the GCSE computing exam, figures out today show a rebound to 2019 levels of participation in the subject

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack

  Researchers at Group-IB have published research on a major phishing campaign that ensnared victims at the likes of Cloudflare and Twilio

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help

  Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform

  Kaspersky researchers have shared new intelligence on two emergent cyber criminal groups that have adapted their ransomwares to target different operating systems at the same time

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Dell’s deep learning model to support coral reef conservation

  Dell Technologies has developed a deep learning model to speed up labelling and analysis of images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in move to support coral reef conservation

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Millions of Plex users may be at risk in password breach

  Up to half of Plex’s 30 million users may have had their personal data stolen by an unknown threat actor

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Security pros fret about stress and promotion over cyber attacks

  CIISec’s annual report on the state of the security profession reveals some home truths for security leaders

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Bristow takes off with Speedcast multi-year connectivity agreement

  Communications and IT services provider to deliver technology upgrades and SD-WAN solution to a leading global aviation services provider, connecting more than 40 onshore energy and search and rescue sites

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  LockBit 3.0 cements dominance of ransomware ecosystem

  Ransomware attacks were up 47% in July compared with the previous month, according to the latest threat data from NCC Group, with the LockBit family largely to blame

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Juniper unveils AI-driven switch and enhanced AIOps capabilities

  Network provider announces series of enterprise-grade wired access switches to connect to modern microservices cloud and artificial intelligence platform

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Nokia, Furukawa accelerate Optical LAN in Latin America

  Leading global communications technology provider strikes up partnership with network cabling specialist to bring benefits of optical local area network connectivity to Latin American enterprise market

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Most CISOs think they’ve been attacked by a nation state

  Most organisations have made changes to their cyber strategies and policies following Russia’s invasion, and almost two-thirds suspect they have been directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyber attack

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Subway puts Zen on broadband menu

  Leading UK food chain confirms long-standing ISP as an accredited partner to supply its stores across the country with a bespoke connectivity offering that facilitates a delivery line of service that was not previously possible

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alleged Twitter security failings spell trouble ahead

  Twitter’s former security head, Peiter Zatko, has alleged a number of serious cyber failures at the social media platform, raising the spectre of investigations and sanctions

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites

  Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2022: Entrants to the Hall of Fame

  Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements in the technology sector

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip development platform

  The Wujian 600 chip development platform will help developers build systems-on-chip to support edge applications such as home robots, medical imaging and video conferencing

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Altice gets regulatory green light for added stake in BT

  Despite previous worries by UK government of potential threat to levelling-up agenda on broadband, corporate regulatory probe finds no issue with increase in stakeholding by long-rumoured potential buyer of UK incumbent telco

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Giganet taps Neos Networks to drive UK gigabit broadband expansion

  UK fibre connectivity supplier provides what it says is crucial back-haul capability to allow growing established internet service provider to offer regional and national high-speed fibre connectivity

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  DevSecOps: Software developers lack sufficient security focus

  GitLab survey shows developers want to produce high-quality code, but ‘shifting’ security left is hard to achieve

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms

  Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Continued major customer rise fuels strong second quarter for Zoom

  Post-Covid boom may have subsided, but conferencing and comms company keeps on track with increased total revenues in second fiscal quarter, when its product diversification strategy focused on delivering better intelligence

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  NCSC shares cyber guidance for large infrastructure builds

  Balfour Beatty and McAlpine are among the large construction firms to have input into latest NCSC guidance for ensuring the security of major infrastructure projects

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Farming tech projects get £16.5m in government funding

  Projects receiving funding through latest round of farming innovation programme include tech to improve fruit farming and the use of artificial intelligence to improve pigs’ welfare

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  IT leaders set to step up cloud investments over next two years, Colt research suggests

  Colt’s third annual cloud adoption research report shows how the off-premise investment priorities of IT leaders are shaping up for the years ahead

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI

  Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Contracting market weighs in on Liz Truss pledge to review IR35 rules if she becomes prime minister

  As Liz Truss continues her Conservative Party leadership campaign, she tells the national press of her plans to review the IR35 rules should she succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Ogi ramps up full-fibre broadband roll-out across south Wales

  Leading Welsh broadband provider reveals the latest areas designated for full-fibre connectivity as part of its broadband digital infrastructure programme, bringing the total to 38 Welsh towns and villages

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  CityFibre looks to power next phase of growth with brand update

  Corporate brand refresh is designed to help cement firm’s increasing prominence in UK full-fibre arena, addressing what it says is consumer confusion across the broadband market

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Kaspersky threat data added to Microsoft Sentinel service

  Microsoft and Kaspersky have agreed a collaboration to integrate Kaspersky’s threat data feeds into Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM/SOAR service

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  How a female coder rose through the ranks in tech

  Padmaja Kota started her career as a software engineer before picking up product development and rising through the ranks to become an engineering leader at a cloud-based software company

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Lloyd’s to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks

  Lloyd’s of London has instructed its members to exclude nation state cyber attacks from insurance policies beginning in 2023, saying they pose unacceptable levels of risk

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Cradlepoint unveils networking architecture addressing 5G, SD-WAN, zero-trust intersection

  Cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network services provider launches software-based offering to manage remote connections and provide flow-level visibility

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Google employees demand end to collection of abortion data

  In the wake of the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion rights, Google employees are calling on the company to stop collecting abortion-related data, so that it can never be shared with police

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Freedom Fibre onboards business customers as CityFibre announces Newark net

  More momentum in UK fibre market as altnet makes business play and third-largest network company announces expansion in Midlands

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Cozy Bear targets MS 365 environments with new tactics

  Cozy Bear, or APT29, is trying out new tricks as it seeks access to its targets’ Microsoft 365 environments

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Apple patches two zero-days in macOs, iOS

  Mac users should urgently apply new patches addressing vulnerabilities in its desktop and mobile operating systems

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  5G set to generate $7tn worth of economic value in 2030

  Study from mobile and video technology developer finds adoption of 5G is outpacing all previous generations of cellular technology in terms of subscription rate, leading to vast value by 2030

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Intellian inks satellite communications partnership agreement with Speedcast

  Satellite connectivity industry gains even higher orbit as provider of satellite communications technology systems announces collaboration with one of the world’s largest satellite communications service providers

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Inside Singapore’s national digital identity journey

  Singapore’s national digital identity system has evolved from providing single sign-on to e-government services to pandemic-related and digital document capabilities in recent years

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Fourth year rise in students sitting A-level computing

  This year marks the fourth year there has been an increase in the number of students choosing to take A-level computing, but grade attainments have dropped year-on-year

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  LexisNexis sued by immigration advocates over data practices

  Four immigration advocacy groups launch lawsuit in Illinois alleging data broker’s collection, aggregation and sale of people’s personal data, including non-public information, to corporations and government bodies

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Leeds signs Allied Telesis to improve network customer experience

  Premier League football team and enterprise IoT and software-defined network solutions provider claim 15 years’ no-fail networking and improved experiences for infrastructure users

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Growing MFA use spurs ‘pass-the-cookie’ attacks

  The exploitation of stolen session cookies by cyber criminals is once again back on the agenda, thanks to the growing popularity of multifactor authentication tools

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Amazon Ring vulnerability could have been used to spy on users

  A now-patched vulnerability in the Amazon Ring mobile app could have been exploited to expose users’ video recordings, but was complex to exploit, according to the researchers who stumbled upon it

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  It takes a breach to force boards to take notice of cyber, says UK government

  Too often, it takes a major incident for business leadership to pay attention to cyber issues, according to a government-commissioned study of victims

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  A-level computing results: Progress made in gender diversity

  The UK is facing a vacancies crisis and there is no short-term fix, but this year’s A-level results point to an increasingly gender-diverse future workforce

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Contactless accounted for one-third of all payments made in the UK in 2021, research shows

  Latest data from finance industry body reveals how the payments market is bouncing back after the pandemic

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Jabra, Lenovo expand collaboration to claim first full Microsoft Teams rooms system

  Purpose-built, modular room kit provides enhanced business productivity and collaboration capabilities for companies looking to upgrade their meeting room technology for the hybrid working world

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Ukraine war drives DDoS attack volumes ever higher

  There has been a boom in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first six months of 2022, according to a report, with Russia’s war on Ukraine helping to drive activity