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March 01, 2022
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Mar'22
Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery
Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions
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March 01, 2022
01
Mar'22
Nationwide suffers payday payments outage
Nationwide customers were left unable to pay bills on payday as the building society suffered a software outage
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March 01, 2022
01
Mar'22
Kao Data expands Harlow datacentre campus by opening second 10MW facility
Kao Data has begun the build-out of its second datacentre on the site of its Harlow campus several months after securing £130m in additional funding to support its expansion
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March 01, 2022
01
Mar'22
Cloud suppliers eye APAC space industry
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are working with local governments and supplying cloud technologies to support the region’s growing space industry
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
UK Treasury publishes consultation on online sales tax
Online sales tax debate focuses on assessing options to “rebalance” taxation of the retail sector
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
EU big tech laws put in context by Russian invasion of Ukraine
Pressure is mounting on EU institutions to cut back regulations they are preparing to impose on US big tech firms while forming laws to create a single digital market
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Ukraine cyber attacks seen spiking, but no destructive cyber war yet
While cyber attacks linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine are taking place, they are having little impact beyond the region
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Online Safety Bill updated to deal with anonymous abuse
Social media companies will be forced to deal with anonymous abuse online by the introduction of new measures in the Online Safety Bill
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Cradlepoint offers pathway for simplified LTE, 5G wireless WAN deployments
Cloud LTE and 5G wireless network edge services provider unveils business-grade wireless WANs, with management capabilities that are claimed to exceed entry-level cellular offerings
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Sajid Javid outlines NHS tech targets
Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid announces priorities around digital transformation in the health service
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’
Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
AT&T teams with Microsoft to gain private 5G edge
US operator collaborates with cloud giant to integrate 5G network with Azure private mobile edge computing and builds on existing edge work between the two companies
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Government set to backtrack on untenable position on subpostmaster compensation
The government looks set to backtrack on its previous stance and outline a means of providing fair compensation to a group of Post Office Horizon scandal victims so far left out of compensation schemes
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February 28, 2022
28
Feb'22
Cloudflare: Our network is our product
Cloudflare’s chief product officer explains why its network is its product and how it protects organisations against cyber threats
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February 27, 2022
27
Feb'22
MWC 2022: Huawei hones hybrid offer with fibre to the room
Aiming to address the new world of work, tech giant Huawei has launched a fibre-to-the-room gigabit all-optical room offering
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
Mass phishing attacks against Ukrainian citizens reported
The Ukrainian cyber authorities are alerting people located in the country to be alert to phishing attacks
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
Irish data watchdog calls for ‘objective metrics’ for big tech regulation
Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, says EU regulators must agree on metrics to measure the effectiveness of data protection regulation
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
H&M scheme looks to tackle issues affecting D&I in STEM
Retailer H&M launches its first ever STEM programme in the UK in a move to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation – and to tap into future tech talent
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
Mavenir expands Open RAN ecosystem
Network software provider ups its ante in the field of open radio access networks, with a new suite of O-RAN-compliant radios for deployments ranging from macro, mmWave and mMIMO
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
Darktrace buys attack surface management firm Cybersprint
Emergent AI cyber specialist Darktrace is to pay £39.7m for Netherlands-based Cybersprint
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
University of Amsterdam teams up with MIT to use analytics for a better world
Dutch and US universities join forces with tech company to help non-government organisations and the United Nations to harness data analytics to achieve sustainable development goals
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
NAO report praises NHS for data and digital leadership in Covid-19 vaccine roll-out
The £5.6bn programme has delivered value for money to date – and ‘creative’ use of data despite complexities was among the factors that led to successful delivery, says report
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February 25, 2022
25
Feb'22
Mid-band 5G forecast to deliver $610bn GDP growth by 2030
Study shows 5G mid-band spectrum will play a key role in meeting demand for enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access, but to satisfy demand for 5G services by 2030, government action is crucial
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Workers demand universal high-performance broadband to succeed with hybrid work
Cisco Broadband Index finds just more than two-fifths of UK workers now rely on their home internet to work from home or run their own business, but almost three-quarters think broadband services need to dramatically improve to enable them to work ...
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Nokia launches Intelligent RAN Operations to manage 5G with machine learning
Solution goes beyond automation with machine learning to help mobile operators keep costs down with superior 5G network management, and reduces base station energy consumption by up to 15%, says Nokia
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Researchers link Dridex botnet to emergent Entropy ransomware
A little-known new ransomware called Entropy contains significant code similarities to the general purpose Dridex botnet, suggesting some kind of link between the two
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
KnowBe4 cyber drama tackles Colonial Pipeline in fourth season
KnowBe4’s ongoing cyber security training drama, The Inside Man, reaches its fourth season with a plot drawing inspiration from one of the most impactful cyber attacks of 2021
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
New wave of cyber attacks on Ukraine preceded Russian invasion
A wave of DDoS attacks, and a second data wiper attack, were seen hitting Ukraine in the hours leading up to the Russian invasion
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Security organisations form Nonprofit Cyber coalition
Founding members of the Nonprofit Cyber coalition pledge to enhance joint action on cyber security around the world
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
New cyber guidelines to safeguard construction sector
NCSC launches sector-specific security guidance for organisations in the construction industry, with input from the Chartered Institute of Building
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Russia behind dangerous Cyclops Blink malware
Joint NCSC CISA advisory attributes a dangerous malware, dubbed Cyclops Blink, to Russia’s Sandworm APT, likely a GRU unit, with WatchGuard users at particular risk
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February 24, 2022
24
Feb'22
Benu teams with AWS for SASE-based cloud-native networks
Network edge service provider teams with global cloud giant on first use of public cloud for wireline broadband and security services with secure access service edge infrastructure
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Paid-for advertising still not covered in Online Safety Bill
Consumer group Which? calls again for government to include measures against scam paid-for advertising in the Online Safety Bill
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
European Commission opens path to a Data Act to stoke digital economy
The European Commission has published a proposal for a Data Act that it hopes will stoke a digital economy, in part by unlocking IoT and other ‘industrial data’
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
5G device sales forecast to hit 46.5 million by 2026
With the rise of always-on 5G portable devices, an explosion of edge AI adoption, the proliferation of smart manufacturing platforms and the emergence of the metaverse, industry is set for a sharp rise in mmWave smartphone sales
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Cohere Technologies raises $46m Series D round as it evolves spectrum software
Open RAN spectrum multiplier software provider announces funding round led by new strategic investments and existing investors
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Salesforce pays out over £2m in bug bounties
Salesforce says it received more than 4,000 vulnerability reports in 2021 alone as it delivers a rare public update on its bug bounty programme
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
DCMS launches free cyber skills platform for kids
Government introduces free online cyber skills training for schoolchildren to encourage them into cyber security roles in the future and help address the skills gap
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks
Traditional methods of mitigating ransomware are less efficacious thanks to the rise in double and triple extortion techniques
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Microsoft extends Defender umbrella to Google Cloud Platform
Redmond says extending Defender for Cloud native capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform will help simplify security for organisations pursuing multicloud strategies by eliminating the gaps where the bad guys can get in
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Police forces ‘must’ do data protection due diligence checks before using PDS-backed AWS cloud
Police forces across England and Wales are being reminded not to overlook their data protection-related compliance responsibilities when making use of the Police Digital Service’s Amazon-powered cloud platform
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
No imminent cyber threat to UK from Russia
Intelligence officials say they have no evidence or indication that Russian cyber attackers are preparing offensive assaults on infrastructure or organisations in Britain
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
IT leaders primed to drive innovation and hybrid work
As organisations move beyond the pandemic, survey shows IT leaders are being given greater levels of responsibility
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Attempted burglary exposes risk of NatWest customer data in former worker’s home
Former Royal Bank of Scotland employee offers bank a compromise in her dispute over the return of confidential customer information
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Dutch girls in STEM held back by persistent gender bias
Gender stereotyping is leading to low numbers of women working in science, technology, engineering and maths sectors
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
IBM opens cyber security hub in India
Big Blue’s new cyber security hub, comprising a cyber range, software development facilities and a security operations centre, will serve enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Tech acquisition to be major priority for UK police
Policing minister cites technology as major focus for future of UK police, in comments made ahead of the publication of the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Helsinki shares its plans to bridge post-Covid learning gap with the rest of the world
Finnish capital is calling on global education systems to embrace technology as a facilitator of research, ideas and knowledge-sharing, not just as a new way to deliver classes
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February 23, 2022
23
Feb'22
Mobile device trade-ins and upgrades return more than $3bn in 2021
Quarterly research shows that as 5G devices proliferate around the US, device trade-in programmes return more than a billion dollars to US consumers in the fourth quarter of 2021 alone
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February 22, 2022
22
Feb'22
Gartner: Public sector must target disjointed IT strategy
The pandemic showed how quickly public sector IT can deliver technology to support essential services – now it is time to fix scalability