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• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  GDS reviewing Cloud First policy post-Schrems II

  Review seeks to determine the future of government engagement with cloud hosting services as they relate to cross-border data flows

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Bechtel joins CityFibre gigabit broadband roll-out scheme

  Engineering, construction and project management firm supports step-change in mobilisation of build projects worth £1.5bn

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Green Cargo extends Rimini contract to keep legacy SAP backend running

  Mainframe and SAP to provide systems of record, with real-time data for new digitisation initiatives, built on multi-cloud, RPA and low-code platforms

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Unilever partners with Google Cloud to bolster supply chain sustainability

  Consumer goods giant Unilever is drawing on Google's cloud technologies to help it achieve its goal of finding sustainable sources of palm oil, and reduce the risk of its operations leading to deforestation

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Scam mobile apps spreading via rogue TikTok accounts

  Malicious TikTok accounts are promoting a number of adware scam mobile apps

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Patch grows data capabilities with Snowflake

  A Snowflake data warehouse pulls in data from various SaaS systems to provide master data for management reports for horticulture retailer Patch

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Gigamon partners with Nokia to accelerate 5G adoption

  Purpose-built joint 5G solution launched to offer ‘breakthrough’ real-time analytics to enhance customer experience and maximise investment impact

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  CIO interview: Mark Holt, CTO, Trainline

  The coronavirus pandemic has reduced train travel significantly, but for the rail ticketing app it’s been an opportunity to focus on using innovative technologies to help support passengers in new ways

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  UDG Healthcare deploys AT&T, Cisco SD-WAN to gain intelligent edge

  Global healthcare group deploys software-defined wide area network to create additional operational efficiencies

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks published unredacted cables after password was disclosed in book

  WikiLeaks published a cache of unredacted government cables after the publication of a book containing the password led to their publication on other parts of the internet, court told

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  NBN Co pumps in A$700m to shore up business connectivity

  Australia’s national wholesale broadband provider is creating up to 240 business fibre zones across the country to provide businesses with access to its enterprise ethernet service

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Trump implicated in plans to prosecute Assange over war leaks

  US journalist and Trump supporter, Cassandra Fairbanks, said she was given advanced details of US plans to oust Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy and to arrest him for over documents leaked by former soldier Chelsea Manning

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Video to power the future of work culture

  Research from leading video cloud providers show that more than two-thirds of workers want remote work options for the future

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  How Alder Hey NHS Trust uses HoloLens in the operating theatre

  Mixed reality provides a way to present medical data and enable experts and consultants to offer advice during complex procedures

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Iliad Group makes €2.2bn Play acquisition

  In a move covering Poland, France and Italy, parent company of French operator Iliad announces public tender offer for leading Polish mobile provider

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Nutanix boosts storage performance by 50% with BlockStore

  Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix boosts access to NVMe and potentially Optane storage with BlockStore, which avoids the need to access the deepest layers of the OS

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Royal Mint coin production freeze points to digital future for small payments

  Royal Mint freezes production of certain coins as demand dries up amid changing consumer habits

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  CIO interview: Julie Berry of Saffery Champness advances business advisory role for IT

  Julie Berry, IT director at accountancy firm Saffery Champness, describes how her team has enhanced its advisory role to the business, in part through the implementation of a cloud-based document management system

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Big questions to be answered over TikTok and WeChat reprieve

  TikTok and WeChat seem to have received a stay of execution, but big questions and contradictions remain

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks cables showed US interfered in German torture investigation

  Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity, told a court that disclosures by WikiLeaks showed that the US had intervened in a German judicial investigation into his treatment

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  NHS tech bosses outline cost of coronavirus app development

  The government is forecasting spend to exceed £35m in the controversial contact-tracing app, a Public Accounts Committee on digital transformation in the NHS has heard

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Remote workers lack appropriate tools to adapt to the new normal

  Research finds that companies must proactively address the workflow and productivity challenges remote workers continue to face in order to drive greater productivity

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  DBS taps AI and data analytics in intelligent banking move

  Singaporean bank has started using artificial intelligence and analytics to provide customers with hyper-personalised insights and recommendations, to win more market share

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks video ‘electrified’ public to civilian war deaths, court hears

  New Zealand investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager said that WikiLeaks’ publication of a video showing a US helicopter firing on civilians, along with the publication of secret war logs, ‘electrified’ the world to civilian deaths

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine

  The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Ex-NCSC boss Ciaran Martin joins cyber venture capital outfit

  Outgoing NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin is to take up a new role guiding new investments in cyber security

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  UK government reveals more insight into imminent contact-tracing app

  Head of Track and Trace and health minister stung by criticism about contact-tracing app’s development compared with Scotland and Ireland, but reveals further details of app that is on track for 24 September launch

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Outgoing NCSC CEO: Ransomware threat kept us up at night

  Former NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin sheds some light on some of the biggest cyber threats currently facing the UK

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Congressman offered Julian Assange a ‘win-win’ deal that would help President Trump

  Details have emerged of US congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s offer of a pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a ‘win-win deal that would benefit US President Donald Trump

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  US government deplatforms TikTok and WeChat

  The Commerce Department of the US government has banned new downloads of TikTok and WeChat in the US, and announced new prohibitions on doing business with them

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Open Data Institute explores diverse range of data governance structures

  Unlocking the economic and social potential of data will require a diverse range of governance structures to meet the needs of different contexts, use cases and stakeholders

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  German authorities probe ransomware hospital death

  Hackers failed to extort a ransom from University Hospital Düsseldorf, but indirectly caused the death of a patient

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Ericsson acquires Cradlepoint to accelerate enterprise 5G

  Wireless edge WAN solutions supplier will complement Ericsson’s enterprise offerings in deal with an enterprise value of $1.1bn

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Rampant Kitten spent six years hacking Iranian dissidents

  Details emerge of an ongoing campaign by Tehran-backed threat actors targeting dissidents and activists

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  UK Parliamentary committee casts doubt on value of OneWeb satellite project

  UK Parliament’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee hears experts from the world of satellite communications cast doubt on the intrinsic value of the UK government’s ambition to be a sovereign satellite communications provider

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Government IT leaders on how Covid crisis will shape future delivery

  At a TechUK Building the Smarter State event, government IT leaders shared their experience of the coronavirus crisis, and their thinking about how future service delivery will aim to be more joined-up for citizens

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Maze ransomware borrows Ragnar Locker tactics to sneak past defences

  New research from the Sophos threat response team has found the Maze ransomware gang has adopted techniques pioneered by the cyber criminals behind Ragnar Locker

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks partners developed software to redact 400,000 Iraq War Logs

  Psychologist and co-founder of NGO the Iraq Body Count told a court that Julian Assange insisted on stringent redaction of hundreds of thousands of documents which revealed civilian deaths in the Iraq war

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Current IT infrastructures not prepared for incoming strain of fourth industrial revolution

  With the future of business increasingly driven by smart things, applications and digital services that use data for transformational purposes, CenturyLink is undergoing its own transformation

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Saudi Arabia sees cyber security boom as coronavirus bites

  Saudi Arabian CIOs have been forced to increase their security posture as the Covid-19 pandemic transforms working methods

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  What are the habits of highly effective CISOs?

  Data crunched by Gartner analysts reveals the behaviours that differentiate the top-performing chief information security officers from the pack

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Swedish bank cuts branches and jobs, increases IT spend

  Swedish bank is increasing investment IT to improve digital banking as it reduces its branch network

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Seven charged in connection with Chinese state-backed cyber attacks

  Attacks by APT41, or Wicked Panda, targeted hundreds of organisations, including the UK government

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  DWP accelerates digital transformation amid Covid-19 crisis

  The Department for Work and Pensions has released an update of the efforts made in the past six months across key digital services, with progress accelerating due to the pandemic

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Loan charge under review: Government’s tax policy set to be challenged under EU law

  A fresh attempt to judicially review the government’s controversial disguised remuneration policy is being launched, and its backers have already secured 85% of the £180,000 needed to test whether the loan charge breaches EU law

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Assange revelations among most important in US history, says Daniel Ellsberg

  Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked highly classified documents that changed the course of the Vietnam War in the 1970s, says WikiLeaks exposed a serious pattern of US war crimes

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Brits more fazed by human augmentation

  Italians are the most open to human augmentation, but one-third of people in the UK believe it is unacceptable

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Alibaba Cloud unveils ‘cloud computer’, delivery robot

  At its annual Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud debuts a thin-client computer and a logistics robot that can carry 50 packages in one go

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  NCSC steps up ransomware support for schools and universities

  New alert and updated guidance comes after several academic institutions were targeted in ransomware attacks

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Independent wholesale broadband market could connect 11 million more premises by 2025

  Research from Independent Networks Cooperative Association reveals surge in demand from members to provide wholesale broadband services across the UK