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September 27, 2022
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Sep'22
Businesses see fixed broadband charges rise as average bandwidth increases
Latest roundup of global fixed broadband arena shows residential consumers reaping speed and cost rewards of fibre proliferation, while B2B subscribers see little improvement in bandwidth versus monthly charges
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
Bank warns of spike in online cost-of-living scams
Fraudsters are exploiting the cost-of-living crisis by tricking people into sending money to help friends and relatives pay bills, TSB has warned
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
How Russian intelligence hacked the encrypted emails of former MI6 boss Richard Dearlove
Hack by Russian-linked ColdRiver group exposed former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove’s contacts and email communications with government, military, intelligence and political officials
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
Data analysis and artificial intelligence key industrial strategy missions for Labour
Shadow business secretary announces Labour’s proposed industrial strategy, in which data would take a central role
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
More than 30 startups to join Plexal’s Cyber Runway accelerator
Now in its second year, the Cyber Runway accelerator has been designed to support firms at various stages of growth, as well as help the cyber security sector to improve on its diversity, inclusion and regional representation
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
Tech salaries continue to increase as firms search for talent
Firms are increasingly looking for tech candidates, but are employers set to gain more hiring power over the next year?
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape
Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
FCSA calls for government clampdown on cloned umbrella companies
One year has passed since the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association spoke out about the problem of umbrella company cloning, and it claims the authorities are not moving fast enough to tackle the issue
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption
Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels
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September 26, 2022
26
Sep'22
Microsoft Azure UK region to host data of five million healthcare research scheme volunteers
The Microsoft public cloud platform, Azure, has been selected to host the data belonging to a healthcare research project that is being billed as the largest ever undertaken in the UK
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
Conversation between two police officers formed basis of EncroChat warrant, court hears
The National Crime Agency did not seek a written explanation of a French hacking technique before applying for a surveillance warrant to use French “intercept” in the UK, a court heard
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
Copenhagen Fintech connects its members to the world
Copenhagen-based startup initiative is driving fintech developments across the Nordic region, with Mastercard its latest global partner
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
The challenges of verifying AI for healthcare
Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionise healthcare, but even in areas such as medical imaging, where it is easy to spot AI errors, more research is needed
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
NCA ‘deliberately concealed’ information when it applied for EncroChat warrants, tribunal hears
Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears that the National Crime Agency made ‘serious and fundamental errors’
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
Threat actors abused lack of MFA, OAuth in spam campaign
Microsoft threat researchers have reported on a series of cyber attacks in which enterprises with lax IAM policies had their systems hijacked to conduct spam email campaigns
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
IR35 reforms to be scrapped in public and private sectors from April 2023, government confirms
The government has confirmed that the 2017 and 2021 roll-out of the IR35 reforms to the public and private sectors, respectively, will be repealed in April 2023
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
Post Office scandal inquiry chair intervenes in slow compensation progress
Chair of statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has aired his disappointment over the slow progress in making interim payments to victims
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
Mini-Budget 2022: HMRC tells firms to update payroll software ahead of November NI tax cut
HMRC is urging employers to ensure their payroll software systems are updated now, before the reversal of the previous government’s National Insurance tax hike kicks in
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September 23, 2022
23
Sep'22
How Great Eastern is transforming its IT organisation
Singapore-based insurer Great Eastern made painstaking efforts to rid itself of legacy systems and transformed its IT organisation to become nimbler by building up its cloud and DevOps capabilities
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Tech Nation announces 13 startups for 11th Future Fifty cohort
Thirteen high-growth startups set to join Tech Nation’s 11th annual Future Fifty programme to help them scale further
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Nordic private equity firms pursue cyber security acquisitions
Increasing interest in the security sector from Nordic private equity firms is a reflection of growing threats and increasing enterprise security budgets
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
CCS £2bn big data and analytics framework goes live
The Crown Commercial Service has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Ofcom turns its attention to the hyperscalers
The regulator sees its role expanding into emerging areas of communications technologies and public cloud services
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Inside SolarWinds’ observability playbook
SolarWinds’ CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna talks up the company’s observability playbook and offers a glimpse into its technology roadmap
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware family becoming more dangerous
Researchers from Symantec share fresh insight into the ongoing development of the ransomware-as-a-service family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Privacy Pledge signatories dream of alternative internet
A group of privacy-focused organisations have come together to establish a set of principles for taking the internet back from big tech and surveillance capitalism
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup
Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations
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September 22, 2022
22
Sep'22
American Express recruiting thousands of tech professionals
Amex will add 5,000 IT professionals to its workforce in 2022 as digital products and services become the staple of the finance sector
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
Contractors call for IR35 review and tax cuts in Chancellor’s mini-Budget
The contractor community is patiently awaiting the outcome of this Friday’s mini-Budget, with hopes for some concrete details on the Prime Minister’s proposed IR35 review and news of a corporation tax cut
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
NCSC publishes cyber guidance for retailers
The NCSC has published tailored advice to support online retailers, hospitality providers and utility services in protecting themselves and their customers from cyber crime
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
European Central Bank working on prototypes of digital Euro interfaces
European Central Bank’s digital Euro investigation phase is at the point of developing and testing systems that might interface with consumers
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
15-year-old Python bug present in 350,000 open source projects
A Python tarfile vulnerability first disclosed in 2007 still persists to this day, according to analysis from Trellix
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
Mobile operators work on holographic calling pilot
Thanks to 5G, it may soon be possible add a third dimension to video calls using ‘realistic’ holograms
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
5G fixed wireless access services to see huge growth
Spending on 5G fixed wireless access services is set to explode globally over the next 12 months
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
Dreamforce 2022: Benioff and Taylor uncork real-time Genie to toast ‘new day’
Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor vaunt their Genie customer data platform as real-time harbinger of eventual post-pandemic new normal at Dreamforce 2022
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
ANZ organisations using antiquated backup and recovery systems
Nearly half of ANZ organisations are still using backup and recovery systems from over a decade ago, hampering their ability to protect their data assets and recover from ransomware attacks
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
Datacentre operators urged to tighten up their carbon emissions and water usage reporting
The 12th annual Global Data Center Survey from resiliency think tank Uptime Institute suggests the industry has work to do to improve its reporting on sustainability, as regulation looms large
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
Thousands of customers affected in Revolut data breach
Digital challenger bank has warned its customers to be vigilant after their data was exposed in a cyber attack
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
IHG attackers phished employee to deploy destructive wiper
A couple from Vietnam who claim to be behind a destructive wiper cyber attack on hotel operator IHG told the BBC how they orchestrated their operation
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
Reports Uber and Rockstar incidents work of same attacker
Rockstar Games was hit over the weekend by an attacker who claimed to have accessed its Slack channel to steal data on an upcoming release, and may be the same person who compromised Uber
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
NHS Scotland to transform population health through digital technologies
A collaboration between NHS Scotland, industry partners and academia aims to launch large-scale programmes to improve population health in the country through digital technologies and new patient pathways
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
Dutch student team aims to enable uninterrupted drone cargo delivery
Dutch student team aims to make the world of flying more sustainable by creating a global network of autonomously flying cargo drones that can have their batteries swapped mid-air
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September 20, 2022
20
Sep'22
India ramps up on AI amid talent and scalability challenges
Indian organisations are speeding up deployments of AI across multiple sectors, but legacy systems, siloed data and a shortage of AI-specific talent will stand in the way of greater adoption
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September 19, 2022
19
Sep'22
How Mondelez is driving change with tech
From empowering citizen developers to deploying drones to monitor the health of cocoa trees, Mondelez has been firing on all cylinders to disrupt the old ways of doing things
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
Flex muscles up 5G SA private wireless, Industry 4.0 in advanced manufacturing
Leading comms tech provider teams with multinational electronics company to combine 5G SA private wireless and Industry 4.0 expertise for advanced manufacturing services in Brazil
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
Barnet Council awards Capita contract extension
Barnet Council has awarded Capita a contract extension as part of its transition away from a large contract with the supplier
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
Six new vulnerabilities added to CISA catalogue
CISA adds six new vulnerabilities to its most-wanted list, including one that dates back to 2010
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
How an architecture graduate became a coder
Back-end engineer Yang Lyu couldn’t find a job as an architect after graduation and ended up as a software developer after discovering her flair for coding
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
Uber suffers major cyber attack
Details are trickling out of an apparent ‘near total’ compromise of ride-sharing service Uber by an alleged teenage hacktivist
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
WBA unveils ‘world-first’ combination of Wi-Fi 6E, OpenRoaming
Trial of combined wireless technologies at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu said to showcase the future of higher education, including 8K video and interactive experiences in classrooms