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• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  Sopra Steria hit by new version of Ryuk ransomware

  IT services company Sopra Steria says it has contained the ransomware virus, but systems will take a few weeks to be fully operational

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  SAP Q3 2020 results: revenue down 4%, cloud silver lining hailed

  SAP’s third quarter 2020 results stated a 4% year-on-year reduction in revenue, with an 11% increase in cloud revenue lightening the gloom

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  APAC CISOs warm up to zero trust

  Security leaders in Asia-Pacific are adopting zero-trust security, but challenges stand in their way of reaping the full potential of the security model

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Highly unusual hacking attack directly threatens therapy patients

  A hacker has directly contacted therapy patients to say their highly personal therapy notes will be put on the internet unless they pay the ransom

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  BT brings out RCS business messaging to UK customers

  Telco announces that platform based on next generation of rich mobile messaging is now through early-stage pilots and is available for businesses to enhance customer experience

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Forrester: CIOs must prepare for Brexit data transfer

  With the end of the Brexit transition period just weeks away, multi-national organisations will need to re-evaluate how intercompany data is transmitted

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Policy Exchange calls on government to publish digital ID strategy

  The lack of reliable digital ID services in the UK is limiting the country’s digital infrastructure potential, according to a report on digital identity, which also recommends the government to clarify the future of Gov.uk Verify

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Nokia chalks up new Finnish 5G win

  Global comms tech provider selected by Finnish joint venture to supply 5G radio network equipment including deployment and managed services

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Dutch government ‘unambitious’ in digital

  The Netherlands has been working at home as much as possible since the outbreak of Covid-19, but its dependence on technology and connectivity does not seem to be reflected by the government’s approach to digitisation

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Cooperation between Norway’s security agencies planned following cyber attack on parliament

  Government seeks to develop enhanced national IT infrastructure with an embedded early warning system and defence shield to protect the IT systems of public and private organisations

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Chatbots will not replace call centre agents

  Chatbots have not lived up to their promises and are better poised to support call centre agents in the blended realm of customer service and employee collaboration, says a regional Avaya executive

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Scotland gets gigabit broadband funding boost

  Agreement will help rural areas get gigabit-capable broadband connections, with first tranche of £6m to connect hundreds of public sector buildings across Angus, Dundee, and Perth & Kinross

• October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20

  Oracle expands UK datacentre footprint with new private and public sector-focused cloud regions

  Software giant Oracle is making good on its pledge to expand its global datacentre presence, with two new regions in the UK

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Digital public services fail UK citizens on multiple fronts

  Commission for Smart Government publishes paper on obstacles facing the UK’s digital government, setting out principles for digital government initiatives to follow

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Tech Talent Charter launches Doing It Anyway role model campaign

  Industry collaborative launches campaign to make female role models more visible and encourage others into tech

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Deutsche Bank in talks over sale of IT unit to TCS

  German bank is said to be in negotiations to sell its retail banking IT operation to Indian IT giant

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Cyber attack on Hackney Council is ‘morally repugnant’, says mayor

  Mayor of Hackney is ‘incredibly angry’ at the cyber criminals behind the attack, which will continue to disrupt key council services for some time

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Taylor Construction successfully trials 5G for high-tech applications

  5G use cases established for Australian-based construction company claiming 20x the performance of 4G with 5G, making next-gen in-field applications possible

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Nesta launches report on collective intelligence

  Report sets out how to combine machine and human intelligence to drive innovation that could solve social challenges

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Datacentre sustainability a work in progress in ASEAN

  Sustainability efforts have not kept pace with the growing demand for datacentre and co-location services in Southeast Asia

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  NHS trust takes another look at its appointment of IT scandal CEO

  Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has asked for external review of its process when appointing controversial executive

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Project Endeavour gets in gear to begin first public autonomous vehicle trials

  Government-backed autonomous vehicle consortium adds new partners and begins field trials in three major UK cities

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Orange Belgium reveals first 5G innovations in Port of Antwerp

  Augmented field operators and connected tugboats are potential use cases as applications based on next-generation network aim to go full steam ahead at Belgian port

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Saudi Arabian authorities work with Chinese IT giants on digital goals

  Saudi Arabia has signed two agreements with Chinese IT suppliers as it strives to deliver its ambitious programme to diversify its economy

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  SonicWall patches 11 firewall vulnerabilities

  SonicWall users are advised to download updates that fix 11 CVEs in the SonicOS operating system, uncovered by Positive Technologies

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Maturing O-RAN set to have 75% market share by 2030

  Analyst confident of prospects for comms technology enabling multi-supplier interoperability for innovations and reducing time to market for deploying new network functionality

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Women in Business Expo: If you can’t find female tech talent, you have hiring and culture issues

  A panel of experts at the Women in Business Expo say problems around hiring and culture can be one of the main reasons firms can’t find female talent

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Protecting remote workers an opportunity to do security better

  Securing the fully remote workforce has been a challenge for IT teams, but it presents an opportunity to commit to a higher standard of cyber security, according to a Cisco report

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  O2 makes further expansion to UK 5G network

  Almost exactly a year after it switched on 5G in the UK, O2 takes next-gen network locations into treble figures and eyes up business use cases

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Nordic countries in denial over IT industry equality

  Arriving in Denmark to find she was the only woman on a computer science master’s course was a shock to Plamena Cherneva

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  CIOs who stick around could end up as COOs

  The career path for chief information officers looks promising as large businesses digitise more of their organisation and IT becomes integral to operations

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Bath and North East Somerset goes live with integrated care record

  Record system allows health and care professionals to share information across Virgin Care, local GPs, Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Bath and North East Somerset Council

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  US Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Google

  Lawsuit alleges Google used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in a number of interconnected digital markets, violating US federal antitrust law

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Nordic CIO Interview: Teemu Salmi, Stora Enso

  Working with startup communities helps to drive digital transformation at one of the world’s largest forest industry companies, Stora Enso

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Iron Mountain scales global connectivity collaboration with Telia Carrier

  Enhanced global network in APAC, EMEA and North America aims to deliver increased high-performance network diversity for datacentre customers

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  IR35: Former Treasury secretary Mel Stride calls for ‘dreaded’ off-payroll rules to be ‘abolished’

  While chairing a Treasury Committee session on how the UK tax landscape must change to cover the costs of the coronavirus pandemic, ex-Treasury secretary Mel Stride backed calls for the IR35 rules to be abolished

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  ANZ Bank moves digital banking services to container platform

  Australia’s largest bank now runs 30% of its internet banking services on Red Hat OpenShift in a move that has energised developers and paved the way for more automation

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  NSA’s top CVE list a timely reminder to patch

  Many of the CVEs detailed on the NSA’s top 25 chart are golden oldies

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  5G drives Ericsson in third quarter

  Increased demand for next-generation architectures in key territories boost third quarter for Swedish comms tech giant, as it inks national infrastructure network deal to deliver 5G speed and network capacity in domestic arena and Estonia

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Charities warned over ‘Robin Hood’ cyber criminals

  Accepting donations from cyber criminal groups could be deemed as profiting from crime, money laundering or handling stolen goods – so don’t do it

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Trump and Biden campaign apps easy targets for cyber criminals

  You don’t need a stellar IQ to exploit the dangerous StrandHogg Android vulnerability, and users of both Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s mobile apps are at risk of falling victim to it

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Qualcomm teams with Verizon and Ericsson to set 5G speed benchmark, boosts 5G offering

  Comms carrier and tech companies continue to drive advancements in 5G technology using aggregation technology on mmWave spectrum while new portfolio of 5G RAN platforms aims to enable a new generation of cellular networks

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Financial services staff want work-from-home policies to continue after Covid

  About half of workers in the finance sector want their employers to retain remote working policies brought in during the pandemic

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  CIO interview: Joe Soule, CTO, Capital One Europe

  Never go back, or so they say – but one IT chief’s return to his former employer brought new opportunities and tech transformation

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Customer loyalty accounts in danger from cyber criminals

  Billions of credential stuffing attacks are harvesting valuable customer data for the dark web economy

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts

  Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  How Malaysia’s Selangor state is tapping cloud

  Malaysian state has built a cloud-based payment services platform for citizens and is looking to tap cloud-based analytics to upgrade its surveillance cameras, among other cloud computing initiatives

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Retailers get access to new security toolkit

  The British Retail Consortium has worked with the NCSC to develop a new cyber security toolkit pitched at retailers

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Hackney Council services to be disrupted ‘for some time’

  Inability to make housing benefit payments is likely to sting some tenants as Hackney cyber attack drags on

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Pace of digital transformation accelerates

  As businesses strive to return to profitability, business leaders are relying on tech innovation to drive economic recovery