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• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  IoT adds preservation support for Tutankhamun’s tomb in Valley of the Kings

  Geological research project deploys internet of things technology to ensure ancient Egyptian heritage site maintains structural stability

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Microsoft fixes 26 critical vulnerabilities in another heavy Patch Tuesday

  March’s Patch Tuesday is another big one for Microsoft, addressing 115 vulnerabilities, 26 of them critical

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  ANZ firms ill-prepared to deal with tech issues

  More than two in five businesses in Australia and New Zealand are hearing from customers about major technology issues, affecting productivity and staff morale, new study finds

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  NHS partners with Google to improve health information online

  Latest measures will ensure direct access to NHS advice for more than 250 most-searched health conditions

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  UK government survives rebellion on ‘high-risk’ comms tech supplier strategy

  Government fends off rebel MPs proposing an amendment that would lead to an outright ban on Huawei technology regarded as posing a direct threat to the UK’s national security

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Digitisation drives IT modernisation growth

  IT decision-makers realise that old applications restrict agility. As organisations digitise processes, application modernisation is key

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Qualcomm claims ‘significant’ progress on cellular vehicle-to-everything tech

  Chip giant hits throttle on communication solutions designed to enhance road safety and facilitate smart transportation systems, including support of automated driving

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  HPE offers operators as-a-service 5G core software stack

  GreenLake cloud-native technologies from HPE and Aruba designed to help telcos build and deploy 5G networks and better integrate with Wi-Fi 6 networks

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Schoolgirl security experts prepare to do battle

  The finals of the CyberFirst Girls contest will take place on 16 March as the culmination of the NCSC’s annual competition to unearth future security talent

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• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Hacking community targeted by cyber criminals in new trojan campaign

  Cybereason’s Nocturnus threat research team has uncovered a cyber criminal campaign that weaponises popular hacking tools

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  MPs told to hold to account those responsible for Post Office Horizon IT scandal

  Subpostmasters who had their lives destroyed by a faulty IT system and mistreatment by the Post Office have asked MPs to hold to account the people responsible for the injustices

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  VAT software supplier exposed data of millions

  Eight million sales records belonging to UK and EU consumers left exposed due to misconfigured server

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Police IT system failure creates significant backlogs

  Independent review of IT system failure that left Greater Manchester Police working with pen and paper finds combination of technical shortcomings, operational procedures and staff training responsible for massive backlogs

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory taps Verizon to explore 5G potential

  Comms giant links up with science and technology research body to explore opportunities for 5G to impact national security, energy efficiency and advance science in the US

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  More questions raised about Gov.uk Verify as digital identity chief quits

  Lisa Barrett, director of digital identity at GDS and head of the troubled Verify programme, is leaving government as funding questions remain ahead of Budget

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Lloyds Banking Group signs five-year Google Cloud deal

  The retail bank has a multi-cloud strategy as part of its multi-billion digital transformation initiative

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Telia Carrier expands SD-WAN solution portfolio

  Stockholm-based network provider claims global service, based on Viptela and Cisco technology, is world’s best-connected SD-WAN offer

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  GDS works on joining up government services

  The GDS is assembling a business case as information about the impact of disjointed government offerings is gathered

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Ericsson enables seamless eSIM activation for Samsung devices

  Comms tech giant claims enhanced digital experience for consumers by managing mobile subscriptions on eSIM-enabled devices without QR codes

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: IP network investments top priority for Middle East IT leaders

  IT leaders in the Middle East expect to see increased spending on IP networks as digital transformation continues across the region

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  DCMS seeks outside experts to review government data sharing ahead of spending review

  The DCMS is seeking consultants to undertake a short-term but strategic project to figure out how to improve data sharing across government ahead of the comprehensive spending review, rolled over from 2019 to 2020

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough

  Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Inside Oracle’s cloud strategy

  Oracle may be late to the cloud infrastructure and platform game, but it believes it has what it takes to carve out a bigger slice of the Asia-Pacific’s cloud market

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  Bill Gates backs Crest fintech security scheme for Africa and Asia

  UK-based cyber security accreditation and certification non-profit Crest has been awarded a $1.4m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand cyber security capacity for fintechs in Africa and Asia

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  Birmingham and Liverpool take top spots in metro UK mobile speed tests

  Midlands and Merseyside metro areas come top for best places in the UK that power daily connected experiences

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  DCMS to oversee coronavirus disinformation unit

  A cross-departmental counter-disinformation unit will seek to protect and secure UK citizens from disinformation, scams and cyber security threats related to the Covid-19 outbreak

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  UK Shared Rural Network gets official go-ahead

  UK government and leading mobile operators confirm £1bn scheme to roll out 4G coverage to 95% of UK landmass by end of 2025

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  TechUK lays out proposals for Spring Budget

  Trade body TechUK sets out its view on how to accelerate UK growth through technology in its submission to the March 2020 Budget

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  Google Cloud targets telcos with Global Mobile Edge Cloud

  Google Cloud announces programme to help telcos address pressures to digitally transform in the face of the rise of 5G, network-centric business models and ‘dramatically’ raised consumer expectations

• March 08, 2020 08 Mar'20

  Google to open new cloud regions in India and Australia

  New cloud regions in Delhi and Melbourne underscore Google’s resolve to carve out a bigger slice of Asia-Pacific’s cloud computing market

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  MPs set sights on Huawei in 5G security probe

  Weeks after UK government allowed access to radio access part of mobile networks, MPs announce inquiry into the use and security of equipment supplied by foreign companies for 5G networks

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Winners announced for the 2020 FDM everywoman in Technology awards

  Women’s network everywoman has announced the winners of the 2020 everywoman in Technology Awards, sponsored by FDM

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  5G moves from hype to reality and will add $2.2tn to global economy by 2034

  Trade association for global mobile industry predicts huge growth and huge revenues from rapidly expanding 5G universe

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  MI5 slammed by watchdog for failing to delete intercepted phone and internet data

  The Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPCO) has criticised MI5 for failing to report serious errors in the way it handles intercepted phone and internet data

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  CityFibre adds 36 more towns and cities to UK full-fibre network

  There’s no stopping infrastructure provider CityFibre in 2020, as it adds yet more locations to its Gigabit City fibre broadband programme in the UK

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  London Assembly calls for ban on anonymous social media accounts

  The call to ban anonymous social media accounts follows the suicide of TV presenter Caroline Flack, but a number of Assembly Members are opposing the decision on human rights grounds

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Those who did not play by the rules in Post Office Horizon scandal “should face prosecution”

  Telford MP has become a vocal member of the campaign for justice for the subpostmasters who had their lives devastated as a result of being blamed for losses caused by errors in the Post Office’s core retail and accounting system

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Oliver Dowden: UK can be “unashamedly pro-tech nation”

  The secretary of state spoke about the country's opportunity to “unleash all the innovation and enterprise that emerging technologies can provide”

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  CIO interview: Sarah Wilkinson, NHS Digital

  NHS Digital has been racing to ensure the systems and protocols are in place to prepare the health service for the coronavirus. We speak to its CEO about the preparations

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Virgin Media confirms 'misconfigured database' left personal data of 900,000 people exposed

  Telco provider Virgin Media confirms 'data incident' that left personal details of 900,000 people exposed, but denies its systems were hacked or that it suffered a data breach

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Boots and Tesco loyalty card schemes plagued by security issues

  High-street retailers deal with fraudulent attempts to access the accounts of thousands of customers

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Huawei: MPs air concerns over security risks in code and managed contracts

  The risk Huawei poses to the UK's 5G network roll out was raised during a recent Westminster Hall debate

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Biometrics ethics group takes evidence on public-private use of facial recognition

  Collaboration between police forces and private entities on facial recognition technology comes under scrutiny by the Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Cathay Pacific hit with £500,000 data protection fine from ICO over 2018 breach

  Airline receives maximum financial penalty under Data Protection Act for data breach that led to nine million customers having their personal data accessed by hackers

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  IR35 private sector reforms: Firms risk legal action by pushing employers’ NI onto contractors

  Largest-ever study into the impact the IR35 private sector reforms are having on contractors suggests firms are leaving themselves open to litigation by misinterpreting the new rules

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  IR35 tribunal sees Nationwide project manager lose £70,000 tax bill appeal to HMRC

  IR35 tribunal judge concludes working relationship between two parties is one of employment, with project manager Robert Lee described as ‘part and parcel’ of Nationwide’s organisation

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme

  The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  MPs call on PM to commit to full public inquiry into Post Office Horizon IT scandal

  Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to investigate the Horizon IT system and will question Post Office executives over subpostmasters wrongly accused of fraud

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  5G security is a concern for most companies

  A study has found that decision-makers fear that 5G technology will make organisations more vulnerable to cyber attacks and will raise security-related costs

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam

  Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Interview: Building a robot to navigate the high seas

  In 1620, the Mayflower set sail to the New World. We speak to the tech lead of an autonomous ship that has been built to make the same voyage

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  F-Secure reports a steep rise in hacking attempts

  An increase in distributed denial of service attacks pushes up the volume of identified rogue internet traffic to almost three billion

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Horangi and Tokio Marine team up on cyber security services

  Singapore-based Horangi will provide penetration testing, among other cyber security services, to Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore’s cyber risk insurance clients

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Industry group launched to develop standards for fibre deployment in sewer network

  Water utilities companies are working with SSE Enterprise Telecoms to deploy fibre in the sewers, as well as transform the sewage system into a “smart wastewater network”

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  NCSC issues smart camera security guidance to protect consumers from unauthorised snoops

  Government’s latest push to safeguard users of in-home connected devices sees National Cyber Security Centre issue guidance to help consumers tighten up security of smart cameras and baby monitors

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  MPs double down on criticism of HMRC's loan charge enforcement action report

  The war of words between the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and HMRC has deepened, as the cross-party group of MPs pens three-page letter outlining its issues with how tax agency is reporting on its enforcement activities

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Lack of leadership stifles collaboration initiatives

  IT and business leaders say they want to encourage collaborative working, but there is little support from senior management

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Singapore among world’s top sources of online threats

  Singapore remained a hotspot for originating cyber attacks in 2019, with 11 million attacks launched from servers in the city-state

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  HMRC CEO denies it is ‘deliberately misleading’ public over loan scheme promoter arrests

  HMRC CEO Jim Harra has “strongly rejected” claims made on social media by the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group of cross-party MPs that it is “deliberately misleading” the public about its recent loan scheme-related enforcement activities

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  NHSX appoints chief information officer

  Sonia Patel is the latest senior appointment at the digital unit of the National Health Service

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  Nordic lessons on digital transformation

  Swedish financial services firm reports a successful IT outsourcing project with India-based IT services company

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  The Security Interviews: Inside the world of bug bounties

  You may not make a million as a bug bounty hunter, but you might help remove some of the stigma that persists around cyber security, says HackerOne’s Shlomie Liberow

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  Volvo Group motors beyond annual performance review with Cornerstone

  Volvo Group has broken with its traditional annual performance review process in order to stoke entrepreneurialism, says Bahar Rasouli, director of global people performance

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  Boris Johnson’s commitment to inquiry into Post Office scandal in doubt

  Boris Johnson’s apparent commitment to a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is not so certain

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  How Asia’s tech firms are helping to stem the Covid-19 outbreak

  Data analytics and robots are being deployed in China and other Asian countries that have been hardest hit by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak

• March 01, 2020 01 Mar'20

  Data breaches in Australia showing no signs of abating

  Compromised login credentials and human error were the most common causes of data breaches reported under Australia’s notifiable data breach regime from July to December 2019

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, chief product and technology officer, Addison Lee

  At taxi and transport company Addison Lee, technology is focused around customer experience before worrying about datacentres, servers and what elements make up the IT infrastructure

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  NCSC makes ransomware attack guidance more accessible

  Following a swathe of high-profile ransomware attacks, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has made changes to its guidance, emphasising the importance of offline backups

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Student Loans Company to enlist IT suppliers for £200m transformation plan

  Suppliers are being sought to support intended improvements to Student Loans Company's customer interface and technology estate

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Government claims it was misled by Post Office over IT scandal

  Minister says Post Office IT experts misled the government when it asked questions about subpostmasters’ concerns over Horizon IT system

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

  Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they?

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Long, dark winters contribute to Finland’s advantage in video game development

  Finland and Southern California are worlds apart at first glance, but both are leaders in video game development. We find out why.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Coronavirus: Microsoft exits developer event and revises outlook

  Microsoft has decided to run a digital-only event after announcing it would not be at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  WikiLeaks founder Assange is well enough to participate in extradition proceedings, says judge

  A judge dismissed claims that Julian Assange’s vulnerable psychological state would prevent him from taking part in his extradition hearing to face espionage and computer misuse charges in the US

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Gove warns EU that UK sovereignty is non-negotiable on eve of trade deal talks

  The UK and the EU have published their divergent mandates for trade talks due to start on Monday 2 March 2020, and digital may emerge as a long-term terrain of dispute

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IBM seeks developers to tackle climate change with open source technology innovations

  IBM and its ecosystem partners are calling on developers worldwide to help develop innovative technologies to help combat climate change

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  NHSX launches Tech Plan vision

  The strategy will see a phased approach to the delivery of digitisation in the healthcare sector, with delivery kicking off this summer

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Clearview hack fuels debate over facial recognition

  Customers of Clearview AI, a controversial startup that scrapes and sells billions of photos of people from social media to police forces, have found themselves at the centre of a major data breach

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Ericsson Spectrum Sharing now commercially available globally

  Swisscom, Telstra, Ooredoo and Play are among global service providers confirmed to use Ericsson Spectrum Sharing to launch 5G on a nationwide scale

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Oxbotica on board with Cisco to drive autonomous vehicle data challenge

  Connected car technology firm hits pedal with Cisco to solve data challenges of future autonomous vehicles

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IR35 private sector reforms: Treasury review concludes no delay needed to April 2020 start date

  Contracting groups describe HM Treasury’s highly anticipated review into the implementation of the IR35 reforms as “recklessly inadequate” as it concludes roll-out should proceed as planned

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IR35 reforms: IT contractors warned off joining non-compliant umbrellas to avoid loan charge risk

  Contracting stakeholders are calling on the government to do more to regulate umbrella companies ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into play, to prevent more contractors falling into the scope of the loan charge

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  5G now available in 378 cities globally

  State of 5G deployments report reveals that as of January 2020, commercial 5G networks have been deployed in 378 cities across 34 countries

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Redcar & Cleveland Council confirms ransomware attack

  Local authority’s systems are still offline nearly three weeks after being attacked

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Hidden cost of cloud puts brakes on migration projects

  Lack of skills and complexities in rebuilding software for the cloud are among the main factors inhibiting cloud success

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Nokia claims end-to-end 4G and 5G New Radio slicing first

  Finnish comms tech provider beefs up comms network essential equipment offer with 4G, 5G end-to-end slicing

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Finland launches free AI skills course for EU citizens as presidency parting gift

  Finland is making a course in basic artificial intelligence available to citizens of all European Union countries

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices

  Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

  Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

  Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Fake CDNs obscuring credit card fraudsters

  Fake content delivery networks and ngrok servers are being pressed into service to obscure credit card skimming activities

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Cloud Snooper firewall bypass may be work of nation state

  Cloud Snooper deploys a combination of specialised techniques to sneak past enterprise firewalls, warns Sophos

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  More than half of UK businesses lack confidence to implement 5G

  EY study finds 5G investment set to soar among British businesses, but the majority are not confident in their organisations’ ability to deploy 5G

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  NHSX publishes first progress report since launch

  Digital unit for the National Health Service outlines achievements in areas such as the NHS App and artificial intelligence and gives clues about future milestones

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be legally extradited for ‘political offences’, say lawyers

  Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argue that he has been charged with political offences and cannot be legally extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Samsung teams with comms tech leaders to set 5G speed benchmark

  Samsung, Verizon, Motorola Mobility and Qualcomm deploy carrier aggregation and the latest 5G cell technology to achieve multi-gigabit speeds on a commercial smartphone connected to live 5G network

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Security fears persist but businesses overwhelmingly see positive impact of 5G

  Research reveals that future looks bright for enterprises embracing 5G technology, though with cost of implementation and security issues recognised along with huge potential

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  FCA data breach could happen to anybody, but easy to avoid

  Minor data breach at the Financial Conduct Authority was the result of simple human error, and highlights the need for organisations to consider a wide range of potential threats

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Thousands of UK entrepreneurs register businesses in Estonia since Brexit referendum

  UK entrepreneurs are registering businesses in Estonia to make sure they can continue to trade freely in the EU