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• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  CCRC watching Post Office Horizon trial closely

  The Criminal Courts Review Commission considering judgment in subpostmasters versus Post Office litigation trial

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Post Office ‘lacked humanity’ in the treatment of subpostmasters, says peer

  Peer slams Post Office after High Court judgment reveals its oppressive style of managing the people who run its branches

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  How D+1 keeps payroll woes at bay

  The Singapore-based F&B business behind the Yolé frozen yogurt chain has consolidated its payroll data into a single database powered by Unit4’s HR management system

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Government launches investigation into AI bias

  Advisory body will look at how systems that support decision-making may have inherent algorithmic biases that need to be taken into account

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Salisbury to get ‘universal’ full-fibre broadband

  Every residential and business property in Salisbury will be able to access full-fibre broadband in 12 months, claims Openreach

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Norsk Hydro confirms ransomware attack

  A Norwegian aluminium producer has confirmed a ransomware attack is affecting several areas of its business, forcing it to switch to manual operations

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  More than half of EU firms report cyber attack losses

  More than half of European firms admit business disruption and data loss due to cyber attacks in the past 24 months, with UK firms among the most targeted, a survey shows

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Cohesity plans to put backup data to good use

  Cohesity’s DataPlatform now makes use of previously dormant backup data with analytics to provide business value and to tackle threats such as ransomware

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  NatWest launches female-focused crowdfunding programme

  Consumer bank NatWest is backing female entrepreneurs through a crowdfunding programme

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• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Ctera teams with HPE to put cloud gateways in Simplivity HCI

  X Series appliances marry HPE’s hyper-converged hardware with Ctera’s hybrid cloud file server gateway to provide edge compute with storage tiered to the cloud

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Firms urged to protect against spear phishing

  Spear phishing attacks are sophisticated, targeted, costly and increasing in popularity among cyber attackers, a report warns

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  NatWest launches business virtual account platform

  Features supported by a new system enable corporate customers to manage and segregate money, and are part of a wider digital transformation plan to enhance customer experience

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Norwegian aluminium producer hit by ‘extensive’ cyber attack

  A Norwegian aluminium producer has disclosed that it has come under cyber attack affecting several areas of its business as the firm faces claims of environmental damage

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Post Office director cross-examination confirms lack of investigation into branch IT problems

  A high court judge heard that the Post Office did not investigate a computer system error that could cause losses, despite being offered evidence

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  ArcServe 9000 backup appliance offers one-stop disaster recovery

  In its latest 9000Dr appliances ArcServe beefs up processing, RAM and disk to run virtual machines and saves SMEs spending on dedicated disaster recovery hardware

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  New Accenture-Microsoft group to sharpen industry focus

  Accenture-Microsoft business group will deliver industry-specific offerings and consulting services to enterprises that lean towards Microsoft technologies

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Build in trust, experts advise cyber innovators

  Trust will be increasingly important in the digital era, and is therefore a key component of new products and services, experts have told cyber security innovators

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Component prices skew server market

  Global server revenues jump as increased cost of components is passed on

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Department of Health considers overhaul of screening IT

  Modernisation intended to address high-profile failures in national screening services will be informed by an investigation on the topic to be published next month

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  MySpace data loss: Botched server migration prompts user concerns over fate of lost songs

  Social networking forerunner MySpace confirms server migration caused the loss of content uploaded to its site before 2015

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  EU law enforcement agencies prepare for major cyber attacks

  Law enforcement agencies across the European Union are preparing for major cross-border cyber attacks, says Europol

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  UKCloud secures £25m investment to support multi-cloud public sector push

  G-Cloud-listed IT services firm UKCloud has received a sizeable financial boost to support its efforts to cater to the differentiated demands of public sector technology buyers

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  CyLon announces latest cyber security accelerator cohort

  Swiss and Israeli cyber security startups join teams from the UK for CyLon’s ninth London accelerator cohort

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Veeam’s business soars in APAC, acquisitions on the cards

  The backup, recovery and data management hotshot expects to grow its APAC business by about 40% this year, with an eye on acquisitions in adjacent market segments

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  UK sees increase in contactless card use

  Surge in use of “tap and go” payment feature is attributed to adoption by transport operators and more retailers, according to a trade body

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Digital divide threatens healthcare innovation

  Consumers and physicians are open to technology innovation, but progress is slow due to tech adoption at a varying pace and focus on different priorities, says report

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Subpostmasters achieve ‘stunning victory’ against Post Office in Horizon case

  Judge rules that Post Office showed “oppressive behaviour” in response to claimants accused of accounting errors they blamed on Horizon IT system

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Businesses failing to grasp DevSecOps

  UK and US businesses are being exposed to security risks by a failure to integrate security into DevOps programmes, research shows

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Oracle Q3 2018-19 results: profits nudge up, revenue dips

  Oracle’s third quarter 2018-19 results show improved profitability on weaker revenue, and cloud-based autonomous database service with 1,000 customers

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  StepChange uses Pegasystems to power digital efficiency drive

  Charity StepChange, which helps people manage debt problems, has developed a modern IT system to help double the number of people it can support

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Brexit complicating already complex data protection

  GDPR impact is yet to be felt and data protection is set to become increasingly complex, with Brexit adding even more complexity that could be overwhelming, warns head of international privacy association

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Why the web needs patching

  Regulators want to curb the web giants, while World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee believes problems with the web's misuse can be fixed

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Venture capitalists driving Nordic tech enterprise growth

  The vibrant tech sector in the Nordic region is attracting increasing attention from venture capitalists

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  National Cyber Security Programme at risk of missing targets

  The National Audit Office has sharply criticised the Cabinet Office over failings in how it set up the National Cyber Security Programme that mean it may struggle to meet its goals

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  DCMS announces new funding for prison coding skills

  The expanded scheme by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is part of a a £1.2m package to help under-represented groups get jobs

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  IT Priorities 2019: ANZ organisations focus on fundamentals

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand will spend more on modernising legacy applications and breaking down data silos this year

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Scrutiny of Facebook continues to mount as new criminal investigation comes to light

  A criminal investigation into Facebook's data-sharing deals intensifies the growing scrutiny of the social media behemoth's business practices

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Avoid infosec mistakes of the past, urges Robert Hannigan

  Technology innovators need to avoid security mistakes of the past by building in integrity so that products and services can be used with trust and confidence, says former GCHQ director

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

  The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  NHS Shared Business Services seeks suppliers for £500m cloud procurement framework

  NHS Shared Business Services is seeking suppliers for a four-year procurement framework designed to streamline how public sector organisations source cloud services

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Spring Statement 2019 allocates £200m to technology

  Chancellor Philip Hammond's latest statement announces funding to support progress in areas including supercomputer development, photonics and bioinformatics, promises tighter digital regulation and attempts to ensure flow of skilled professionals ...

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  IT Priorities 2019: ASEAN organisations lay digital foundations

  Organisations in Southeast Asia are planning to shore up their IT infrastructure to speed up application development and become more customer focused

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Datacentre industry needs to raise its profile to address skills gaps, says panel

  The veil of secrecy the datacentre industry operates under is doing it no favours when it comes to attracting talent, according to Data Centre World panel

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  ICO pledges to support innovation

  UK data privacy watchdog is increasingly gearing up to support innovation to ensure developers of tech and digital services do not lose society’s trust

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Furman Review urges greater competition for tech giants

  The six-month review into the UK digital economy includes recommendations of a new code of conduct for large companies, along with greater data openness and mobility

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

  OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Bank of England’s large IT spend partly due to use of manual processes and legacy systems

  The Bank of England admits there is room for improvement when it comes to IT efficiency

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Shetlands get broadband upgrade to support local NHS services

  Shetland Islands Council is to receive £1.91m of funding to expand full-fibre broadband expansion to NHS sites on remote islands through the government’s Local Full-Fibre Networks initiative

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Bespoke digital training programmes help German travel operator with global transformation

  The TUI Group is using digital education programmes by Hyper Island to unify its geographically disparate leadership and drive change

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Revolutionising patient booking in the Gulf

  Startup in the Gulf region is applying digital technology to solve the inefficiencies in medical appointment booking processes

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Almost half UK firms hit by phishing attacks

  Almost half of UK organisations have been compromised in the past two years using phishing attacks, despite high levels of cyber awareness and training, research shows

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Cyber attackers favouring stealthier attacks, says Darktrace

  Cyber attackers are moving away from ransomware to stealthier tactics, including banking Trojans and cryptojacking, an analysis of attack data reveals

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  IBM’s APAC CEO talks up next chapter of cloud adoption

  In the next phase of cloud adoption, enterprises will need to manage multiple cloud environments, as well as data to scale up their use of artificial intelligence technology

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  RPA spend to increase after Brexit

  Organisations will spend 20-30% more as a result of admin overheads expected after the UK leaves the EU, but companies are unprepared and skills are in short supply, analysts say

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  King's College London IT chief says resisting digital disruption a ‘waste of time’

  Speaking at the Cloud Expo Europe 2019 conference in London, King's College London chief architect, Ian Johns, opened up about how his past experiences of digital disruption informed his view that it's best to embrace it than fight back

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Defra criticised over no-deal IT systems plan

  The introduction of slower, burdensome systems brought about by the challenges of preparing for Brexit must not become the ‘new normal’, MPs warn

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Many firms unaware of data exfiltration threat

  Many firms are unaware that they are being targeted by cyber espionage and that data is being exfiltrated from their networks by overseas adversaries, a security firm warns

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Nationwide uses natural language processing to discover what annoys customers

  SAS has run a proof of concept at building society Nationwide, using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to determine how to improve customer correspondence

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Openreach exploring options for copper network shutdown

  Openreach has begun to assess how and when it might be able to shut down its copper broadband network

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Despite failings, exec appetite for secure collaboration growing

  Top business decision makers are more reckless than ever with company data, but the appetite for secure collaboration tools is growing, survey reveals

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Assisted living system moves from Microsoft Azure to IBM Cloud

  IBM Cloud provides Watson artificial intelligence and internet of things technologies to support carers looking after elderly and disabled people

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Post Office considered Horizon IT system ‘high risk’, court told

  The Post Office considered Horizon a high operational risk in an internal review, a trial focused on alleged fallibilities in the system used in thousands of Post Office branches has heard

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  The web turns 30: from proposal to pervasion

  The web is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but can it remain true to its founder’s vision?

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Australia should embrace automation but be aware of downsides

  Experts at a McKinsey event in Sydney called for Australian enterprises to automate while acknowledging the need to reskill workers whose jobs could be displaced

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Singapore invests S$200m to upgrade supercomputing capabilities

  The investment will shore up Singapore’s supercomputing prowess to facilitate research collaboration, as well as address national and business challenges

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Department for Transport kicks off cloud transformation

  A major system has been moved to Google Cloud Platform as part of a wider modernisation exercise

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Aptare buy to add turbo-charged analytics to Veritas

  Veritas announces acquisition of Aptare, in a move that will boost the backup giant’s analytics offer with inclusion of Aptare IT analytics in NetBackup and Backup Exec

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  HMRC CDIO Jacky Wright on why building diverse tech teams is socially responsible

  During a wide-ranging Q&A session at this year's everywoman in tech forum, HMRC CDIO Jacky Wright set out why diversity matters when building government services, while worrying about workplace stereotypes is a waste of time

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  NatWest launches biometric card pilot

  NatWest Bank is set to trial biometrics-based cards with 200 customers to verify contactless payment transactions over £30

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Citrix breach once again highlights password weaknesses

  A reported breach of Citrix, which has potentially exposed data at hundreds of thousands of customer organisations, has once again highlighted the need for an alternative to passwords and the importance of supply chain security

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Amazon makes plans to increase diversity in its UK business

  After research in partnership with Wise, Amazon has launched a number of initiatives to increase diversity in its UK business

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  United Utilities’ RPA crack team makes early gains

  Water company United Utilities is looking for opportunities to automate processes through a central team and collaboration with business users

• March 09, 2019 09 Mar'19

  Malaysia takes broad base approach to 5G security

  The country’s telco regulator is taking a industry-wide look at security implications of 5G, preferring not to target any particular supplier

• March 09, 2019 09 Mar'19

  ICO data raises doubts over UK firms’ ability to manage breaches

  Most ICO data breach reports late and incomplete prior to full GDPR implementation, FoI request data reveals, raising doubts about breach prevention, detection and response capabilities

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  House of Lords committee calls for creation of a digital authority to oversee regulation

  The proposed regulatory framework would coordinate regulators, assess rules and make recommendations to respond to developments in digital services

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Government announces changes to immigration rules

  The government has announced changes to immigration rules, which will provide two new visas designed to allow skilled talent into the UK

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Legal row over Apple's abandoned bid to build an Irish datacentre rumbles on

  The Supreme Court has opted to reserve its judgement until a later date about whether or not Irish planning chiefs were right to award Apple planning permission for its now defunct plan to build a datacentre in Athenry

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Everywoman forum 2019: Closing the divide between science and art

  At this 2019 everywoman in tech forum, experts discussed the connection between the artistic and the technical, as well as the importance of role models in encouraging others into the sector

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  New internal AI tool helps IT services company Mphasis build software at pace

  A new artificial intelligence tool developed internally by Mphasis helps its software engineers to build and prototype solutions at pace by applying AI across multiple stages of the development process

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Growing awareness of mobile security risk

  There is a growing awareness of mobile security risk among members of the information security community, but most admit accessing corporate data from personal devices or public Wi-Fi

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Equifax defends against scathing Senate report

  Equifax chief says firm did take cyber security seriously in a response to a scathing Senate report on the credit rating agency’s 2017 data breach, which experts say highlights failings around open source software

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  How supercomputing is transforming experimental science

  NERSC lead data scientist Debbie Bard talks about how large-scale data analytics using super computers is making new types of science possible

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Vodafone defends its use of Huawei as 5G trials go live

  As Vodafone begins trials of a live 5G service in Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool, the operator’s CTO and general counsel have defended their use of Huawei equipment in Vodafone’s network and challenged its detractors to produce evidence of spying

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Half of government IT jobs in 2023 do not exist today

  Widespread digital transformation in the public sector means government CIO responsibilities will change rapidly in the next four years and many of those future roles do not yet exist, says Gartner

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  How aid workers are using encrypted communications to stay safe in conflict zones

  Often operating in volatile conflict zones, aid workers are frequently turning to encrypted communication services to protect each other

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  FDM everywoman in Technology Awards: 2019 winners announced

  Women’s network everywoman has announced the winners of this year’s everywoman in Tech Awards, sponsored by FDM

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  ICO head still in top three of DataIQ data leader list

  The UK’s information commissioner remains in the top three data leaders after claiming top spot in 2018 in the DataIQ 100 list of most influential data leaders, but GDPR is not the only focus in the industry

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Brexit: UK tech spend flattens as France and Germany pull away

  CIOs in the UK look set to fall behind their French and German counterparts, as Brexit hits tech spending

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Machine identities for sale on dark web, business warned

  Academics and security professionals are warning businesses that certificates used to establish trust and privacy on the internet are being weaponised and sold to cyber criminals bundled with other services

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Ministry of Justice concludes prison biometrics pilots

  Use of iris scanning and facial recognition software is part of a wider crackdown on drug trafficking in UK jails

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  US government ban unconstitutional, says Huawei

  Huawei’s lawsuit accuses Washington of violating the US Constitution by banning it from government contracts

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Tech under spotlight at High Court in second subpostmasters versus Post Office trial

  The second trial in a court battle between the Post Office and the people who run branches analyses alleged bugs in the computer system they use

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Zuckerberg commits to Facebook becoming privacy-focused

  After a storm of controversy and criticism over the way Facebook fails to protect users’ privacy, the company’s chief says he plans to transform it into a privacy-focused platform

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  UK military robotics get multimillion-pound boost

  A budget of £66m from the Ministry of Defence's Transformation Fund has been allocated to a project that will see mini-drones and autonomous vehicles deployed to the battlefield

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Cyber espionage group behind SingHealth attack

  A cyber espionage group dubbed Whitefly has been identified as the perpetrators behind Singapore’s largest data breach to date

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  5G one of several security challenges to CNI

  5G technology is among the key security challenges facing critical national infrastructure and all other business organisations, according to the Information Security Forum

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Keep pace with device management with DaaS

  Adoption of device-as-a-service offerings is expected to improve as more enterprises migrate to Windows 10 over the next two years

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Government must prioritise replacement of legacy IT, MPs told

  Science and Technology Committee inquiry into digital government told that Treasury needs to offer funding in next spending review to eliminate ageing technology in Whitehall

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  IR35 reforms: HMRC urges private sector to start prepping now for April 2020 roll-out

  HM Revenue & Customs is canvassing views about how best to press ahead with the introduction of the IR35 reforms to the private sector, and is urging those likely to be affected by the move to start getting ready

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  US doubles down on Huawei fears as Chinese prepare to sue

  US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has reinforced his attacks on Huawei as the firm apparently prepares to sue the US government over its federal-level ban