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October 19, 2018
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Interview: Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, on his NHS ‘tech vision’
Matt Hancock brings rare digital experience to running the NHS and social care systems, but can he overcome the legacy of past health service technology failures?
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October 19, 2018
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McAfee combining threat intel with AI
Simulations show that threat intelligence and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination, according to McAfee’s technology head
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October 19, 2018
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Oct'18
Kaspersky advances plans to encourage women into cyber
Cyber security provider Kaspersky Lab has partnered with several other organisations to try to encourage more women into cyber
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October 19, 2018
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Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway
The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses
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October 19, 2018
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Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors
Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company
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October 19, 2018
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Learn lessons from attacks, says McAfee investigations chief
Organisations should use every cyber attack as an opportunity to learn, identify weaknesses and improve security posture, according to McAfee’s head of cyber investigations
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October 18, 2018
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Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs
Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK
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October 18, 2018
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SAP Q3 2018: Cloud revenue up 39%
SAP’s Q3 2018 results show cloud revenue now at 22% of total and indicate momentum. S/4 Hana customers number 9,500
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Drivers have dangerous misconceptions about self-driving cars
People seem to be confused about the difference between autonomous and assisted driving technology, with worrying implications for road safety, says Thatcham Research
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Sponsored News
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How AI Will Blanket Your World
Sponsored by Intel - Whether we are aware of it or not, artificial intelligence is already all around us. We use AI when we speak to our digital assistants. AI is in email services that automatically complete our sentences or schedule appointments for us. We encounter it when bots field our queries on websites or smartphones unlock upon recognizing our faces. See More
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Supply Chain Transparency Matters Now More Than Ever
Sponsored by Intel - In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies discovered to their dismay how little visibility they had into their supply chains. Years of focusing on inventory reduction and just-in-time delivery had caused them to lose touch with the imperatives of understanding who was supplying them and what standards were being applied to the parts and components they received. See More
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7 Ways for IT to Deliver Outstanding PC Experiences in a Remote Work World
Sponsored by Intel - Managing the personal computing experience was relatively easy when everyone was in the office: IT owned the hardware, maintained the software and ensured that appropriate defences were in place. But with people now dispersed to home offices around the world, in many cases, it’s up to them to take the responsibility for ensuring their PCs are safe and performing at their best. See More
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Software Protection Isn’t Enough for the Malicious New Breed of Low-Level Endpoint Attacks
Sponsored by Intel - This year’s pandemic has cast a harsh light on the difficulty of securing endpoints, particularly those that aren’t connected to the corporate network. Working without the insulation of the corporate firewall limits IT from auditing and controlling devices at the granular level needed, in many cases leaving it to users to secure their own desktops. See More
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Dubai Health Authority unveils virtual health app for GP consultations
Health authority adopts new technology as part of the Dubai Future Accelerators initiative
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October 18, 2018
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Industry and government must collaborate to drive the digital economy, says techUK CEO
Industry and government must work together to grow use of technology across the UK economy, according to techUK CEO Julian David
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
McAfee researchers uncover ‘significant’ espionage campaign
Researchers discover campaign targeting South Korea, the US and Canada with links to eight-year-old source code from a threat group that has been dormant for five years
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Internet of things challenges in storage and data
The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Middle East gears up for 5G
The race for 5G is well and truly under way, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia are well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to deliver the benefits of this new telecoms protocol
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace
The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Home Office ‘seriously’ considered ESN shutdown
New disclosures from those responsible for the troubled Emergency Services Network project have revealed that, contrary to previous denials, the Home Office came close to pulling the plug earlier this year
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
No new funding for Hancock’s NHS tech vision
Getting the technology plan right is more about standards than money, says health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, as he explains why NHS organisations won’t be given additional funding to deliver on his vision
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
NHS standards framework aims to set the bar for quality and efficiency
NHS Digital’s standards framework sets out renewed commitment to implement and use open standards across the NHS
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October
Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
How Heathrow transformed using analytics for the people
A Microsoft Azure platform and PowerBI have provided the people who work at Heathrow Airport with a way to use analytics directly to help them improve their performance
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young
Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
'Sealed cloud' promises better data security
TÜV SÜD’s Singapore Sealed Cloud does not grant administrators access to data, reducing the possibility of hackers breaking into databases using compromised administrator credentials
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October 17, 2018
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Oct'18
Hancock sets out NHS tech vision
Government will mandate national open standards for the NHS and tech suppliers, build a health and caretech ecosystem and give local NHS organisations more flexibility in how and what tech they buy
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October 17, 2018
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Oct'18
Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options
Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers
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October 17, 2018
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Oct'18
Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops
Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN
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October 17, 2018
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Oct'18
Microsoft signs pledge to assist people with dyslexia
Tech giant Microsoft has signed the Made by Diversity pledge to help more people with dyslexia use technology as part of their education
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October 17, 2018
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Oct'18
UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions
With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era
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October 17, 2018
17
Oct'18
Nordic CTO interview: Anders Johanson, Husqvarna
Husqvarna is on a journey to transform itself into a product and services company by using the latest digital technology and Anders Johnson is a driving force behind it
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October 16, 2018
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APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs
Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham
Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Monster partners with Stemettes to encourage girls into Stem
Recruitment firm links up with social enterprise to give young people experience in applying and interviewing for technology roles
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive
Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Commuter trains may need over 3Gbps of mobile data capacity by 2025
Ofcom has set out its vision of what will need to be done to meet the government’s goals around data connectivity on the UK’s rail network
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
There is more to fintech than meets the eye
Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation
Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads
Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies, aged 65
Computer programmer who helped propel Microsoft to become one of the world’s largest businesses will be remembered for his generosity
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics
Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale
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October 16, 2018
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More than half of women think their gender helps them pursue tech careers
A majority of women think being female helps them enter the tech sector, but career progression can be a different story, study shows
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Zero-trust security model gaining traction
The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states
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October 16, 2018
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Oct'18
Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger
Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Home Office completes initial test of online system for registering EU citizens
Online application process for registering EU citizens in the UK after Brexit has concluded initial trials, and will now be expanded to a wider group
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal
Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?
Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Tech companies should not be under legal duty to remove terrorist material, says watchdog
The internet should not be a safe place for terrorists, but making it compulsory for technology companies to trawl for radical content risks interfering with the rights of innocent people, says Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Good data governance is good business
Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns
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October 15, 2018
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Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Cost of WannaCry attack to NHS set at £92m
Department for Health and Social Care estimates the immediate cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack on the NHS was £92m, and says it will have spent about £275m on improvements to its cyber security infrastructure by the end of 2021
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Big expectations, huge presence: Gitex 2018 opens
Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality are all in the spotlight at Gitex Technology Week 2018 in Dubai
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Atos and Google open London-based digital innovation centre to boost enterprise adoption of AI
Atos and Google follow up the news of their global joint push to increase enterprise use of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies by opening London-based innovation centre
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
IoT firms sign up to UK security code of practice
Internet of things technology firms have begun signing up to a UK code of practice to strengthen the security of internet-connected devices. The code is expected to form the basis of an international standard
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October 15, 2018
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Oct'18
Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law
Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation
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October 12, 2018
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Moonpig to open technology hub and create 50 new roles
Greeting card company chooses Manchester for its first tech hub because of the city’s thriving tech scene and “exceptional” pool of talent
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October 12, 2018
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FS-ISAC awards cyber security scholarships in Europe
Five women have been awarded cyber security scholarships at FS-ISAC’s 2018 EMEA Summit
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October 12, 2018
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Oct'18
WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names
Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio
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October 12, 2018
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Research and innovation unit for healthtech opens at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Drive research unit is dedicated to bringing the latest technological developments into healthcare
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October 12, 2018
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ASOS launches voice shopping on Google Assistant
Online fashion brand introduces voice shopping service to help customers navigate its thousands of products more easily
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October 12, 2018
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Oct'18
Some 10% of user-reported emails malicious
On average, 1 in 10 user-reported emails is identified as malicious, and more than half can be tied to credential phishing, a Cofense report reveals
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October 12, 2018
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Oct'18
Watchdog calls for clarity on Schedule 7 terrorism powers
The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation has called for greater clarity over police Schedule 7 powers to seize mobile phones and computers and question people without grounds for suspicion at ports and airports
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October 12, 2018
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Oct'18
AI is no silver bullet for cyber security
A security expert has called for businesses to manage the risks of adopting new technologies and improve their cyber hygiene, rather than see artificial intelligence as a panacea for their security woes
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
Crypto-mining malware poses as Flash updates
Cryptocurrency mining malware is posing as Flash updates that appear to be legitimate, Palo Alto Networks security researchers warn
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
RATs and Mimikatz among top publicly available hacking tools
Remote access Trojans (RATs), web shells and Mimikatz among the top publicly available tools that are used in cyber attacks around the world, a five-nation cyber intelligence report reveals
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
The troublesome saga of Gov.uk Verify
As the government plans to hand over its flagship identity assurance programme to the private sector, Computer Weekly looks at the history of the troubled project and how Gov.uk Verify ended up on the chopping board
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
Highways England demonstrates connected cars in Kent
Connected cars are being demonstrated on roads in Kent as part of a project to improve safety and improve traffic flows
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October 11, 2018
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Nato to be fully operational in cyber space by 2023
Nato is aiming to achieve full operational readiness in cyber space within five years
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs
Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
MEPs urge Facebook to roll out election fraud prevention measures
Facebook is coming under pressure from European lawmakers to do more to prevent its user data from being misappropriated during elections
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity
Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform
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October 11, 2018
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Oct'18
Optus to acquire Hivint in cyber security deal
The deal is expected to bolster the telco’s security pedigree in a market that is grappling with more data breaches and cyber incidents
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Google-supported programme in Netherlands helps primary schools with computational thinking
A programme to help primary school teachers in the Netherlands understand IT is gaining momentum
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Detail of Dutch reaction to Russian cyber attack made public deliberately
Four Russian intelligence officials were expelled from the Netherlands after an attempted hack on the global chemical weapons watchdog. The Dutch government has been open about the detail
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
IT departments struggle to balance innovation with everyday IT operations
IT departments are struggling to adapt to an expanding role that includes both adopting innovation initiatives while keeping core systems running effectively, according to the 2018 Insight Intelligent Technology Index
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Volkswagen truck group’s journey to a subscription-based business model
VW’s truck business adopted a startup mentality to open a subscription-based business aimed at owners of truck fleets
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
SAP Customer Experience Live 2018: SAP steps up C/4 Hana efforts
SAP has used its Customer Experience Live conference in Barcelona to flesh out its C/4 Hana offer
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer
Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Ofcom says government should lead on internet regulation
Representatives from the telecoms regulator tell House of Lords that the government should build a framework for internet regulation that other bodies can follow and enforce
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Businesses must get ready for a multi-cloud strategy
The debate about what is the right enterprise IT architecture has moved beyond private, public and hybrid clouds to the need to run multiple clouds
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Bug bounties not a silver bullet, Katie Moussouris warns
Targeted bug bounties have a role to play in cyber security, but they are not a "silver bullet", and run the risk of wiping out talent pipelines if poorly implemented, warns bug bounty pioneer
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
NCSC head says attribution of GRU attacks important
The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has described the attribution of a wave of cyber attacks to Russia’s military intelligence service as “historically important” at a conference in Poland
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Wood Wharf set to become the capital's largest home for scaleups
Canary Wharf Group has unveiled plans to turn two million square feet of its five million square feet Wood Wharf development into office space for fast-growth scaleup businesses
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Singapore extends reach of digital ID system with cloud
GovTech is using AWS to host a developer platform that enables government agencies and businesses to develop services that build on the upcoming National Digital Identity system
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October 10, 2018
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Oct'18
Huawei Connect 2018: Huawei tackles barriers to effective AI
At its annual customer and technology event, Huawei chairman Eric Xu set out 10 key challenges facing AI, and revealed how the networking supplier’s strategy will help to address these
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Government to end investment in Gov.uk Verify digital identity system
Cabinet Office announces 18-month transition to hand troubled identity assurance programme over to private sector
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Project xCloud: Microsoft draws on Azure for device-agnostic gaming push
Microsoft has revealed details of how its global Azure datacentre footprint will play a pivotal role in helping realise its ambitions to provide a low-latency, device-agnostic user experience to the worldwide gaming community
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October 09, 2018
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Access to full-fibre broadband continues to expand under Vodafone-CityFibre partnership
Customers in three more towns and cities will soon be able to access ultrafast fibre-to-the-premises broadband service
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October 09, 2018
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Blockchain adoption hotting up in Australia
The emerging technology is being tested in several industries in a country aspiring to be a global leader in blockchain development
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Tech takes centre stage in CBI’s pre-Budget wish list
Industry calls on government to set the tone for a tech-friendly business environment after the UK leaves the EU
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Cooperation vital in cyber security, says former Estonian minister
States acting alone cannot be efficient in cyber security and need to cooperate with others to build trust, says a former foreign minister of Estonia
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Consumer Google+ dumped in favour of enterprise focus
Google+ will no longer be offered to consumers, following a security audit. Instead, the company plans to flesh out an enterprise social media strategy
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Huawei Connect 2018: China on the hunt for AI talent
At Huawei Connect 2018 in Shanghai, Huawei shared insights into how the developing artificial intelligence industry is changing the face of IT talent development in Asia-Pacific
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October 09, 2018
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Oct'18
Windows 10 update pulled after file losses
Microsoft has been forced to stop the October 2018 release of Windows 10 because users have complained it deletes files
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October 09, 2018
09
Oct'18
Grab signs up for Azure, nabs investment from Microsoft
Ride-hailing, delivery and mobile payments firm will use slew of Azure services to improve operations and customer experience
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October 08, 2018
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Oct'18
High Court blocks Google iPhone privacy lawsuit
The UK High Court has thrown out a group action lawsuit against Google for tracking iPhone browsing data, but campaign group Google You Owe Us, which brought the litigation, will appeal the decision
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October 08, 2018
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Oct'18
NCSC head calls for technocratic partnership to fix cyber risks
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is appealing for collaboration with the technology industry to remedy key vulnerabilities in current IT
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October 08, 2018
08
Oct'18
Airbus secures European institutions against cyber threat
Airbus CyberSecurity has partnered with Atos to help protect 17 European government institutes from cyber attacks
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October 08, 2018
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Oct'18
ICO hits Heathrow Airport with £120,000 data breach fine over lost USB stick
Information Commissioner’s Office fines airport after a member of the public came across a USB stick containing sensitive personal information about airport staff
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October 08, 2018
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Oct'18
Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost
Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds
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October 08, 2018
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Oct'18
NHS trust uses automation and virtual workers to speed up referrals
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation trust is using intelligent automation and virtual workers to monitor and process referrals from GPs in five of its specialist clinical units