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2020 Stories

• March 25, 2020 25Mar2020 News

  Viavi upgrades platform tools to manage remote network performance

  Redesigned Observer platform achieves 60Gbps packet capture rate and has beefed up security to deal with increased challenges Continue Reading

• March 25, 2020 25Mar2020 News

  Amdocs launches HoMeOS and becomes Veego strategic partner and investor

  Leading provider of communications and media software launches home broadband management and makes strategic investment in Israeli AI startup Continue Reading

• March 25, 2020 25Mar2020 News

  Australia inks digital economy pact with Singapore

  Australia’s digital economy agreement with Singapore will pave the way for data transfers and other digital trade opportunities Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Huge queues for Universal Credit online applications due to coronavirus surge

  Online queues in the tens of thousands are hindering emergency applications for Universal Credit, with the Gov.uk Verify identity verification system becoming a particular bottleneck Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  IR35 private sector reforms: Coronavirus prompts calls for fairer deal for self-employed IT workers

  ContractorCalculator CEO Dave Chaplin says the deferral of the IR35 reforms should be upgraded to a cancellation, as the response of employers to coronavirus highlights glaring inequalities between treatment of inside IR35 contractors and employees Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Norwegian banking app gives access to other banks’ accounts

  Banking customers can access and make payments from their other bank accounts using the DNB Mobile Bank app Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Workplace misconduct platform reports rise in coronavirus-related racial discrimination

  More people are experiencing racial discrimination at work since the spread of Covid-19 Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Contactless spending limit increased to fight pandemic

  Banking and financial services trade body UK Finance to increase spending limit for contactless payments to £45 from the start of April Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Fake antivirus site promises coronavirus protection, delivers trojan

  Researchers at Malwarebytes have warned of an increasing volume of scam sites exploiting the Covid-19 coronavirus Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Russia presses ahead with developing 5G, but allocation of frequencies needs to be resolved first

  Russian mobile operators are pooling their resources to help them overcome the technical challenges of creating 5G networks Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

  With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  ETSI unveils augmented reality framework

  Industry specification group on augmented reality develops new specification to enable multi-supplier ecosystem for industry and consumers Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Fintechs create Covid Credit to help self-employed prove income loss

  Financial technology professionals have created a tool that will support self-employed people claiming financial relief from the government during the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 In Depth

  Coronavirus: Grocers scrambling to update online and delivery propositions

  The supermarkets have effectively become the fourth emergency service as the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis takes hold, aided by significant online and delivery changes Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 Opinion

  Coronavirus and privacy – finding the middle ground

  Data collection has a role to play in fighting the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, but governments need to be accountable for how it is used Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 Podcast

  Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 52

  In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna talk about the Covid-19 coronavirus and what it means for retail, how data can be analysed to combat it, and its implications for datacentre ... Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Tekya auto-clicker malware exploits kids’ Android apps

  Google has removed multiple apps for children that were found to contain Tekya auto-clicker malware Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 In Depth

  Edge computing environments: what you need to know

  An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Legacy AV defenceless against onslaught of evasive malware

  More than two-thirds of malware detected by WatchGuard in the last three months of 2019 was able to evade signature-based antivirus products, rendering them effectively useless in most instances Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: SK Telecom gives free assistance to police agency with location data analysis

  Korean telco’s big data analysis will be deployed to mitigate Covid-19 spread in the Gyeongbuk region Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 In Depth

  What’s the problem with NAS backup?

  NAS backup has always been problematic, but what exactly are the issues with NDMP, and what are backup suppliers doing to make a decades-old storage staple easier to protect? Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 Blog Post

  IT modernisation series – Cloudhouse: Legacy Windows platforms & the future of functionality

  Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ... Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Mobilising data science

  Policy-makers are calling on the global data science community to develop data models that can can help them better understand the Covid-19 transmission rate Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Nokia, LG Uplus build fully automated 5G IP transport network in Korea

  Finnish comms firm wins another Asian contract with Korean operator to improve speed of 5G service deployment Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Global VPN deployments rocket since 11 March

  Business virtual private network uptake has taken off over the past 10 days as global workforces become vastly more distributed Continue Reading

• March 24, 2020 24Mar2020 E-Zine

  Making home working work – a guide for IT leaders

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, with staff working from home during the coronavirus crisis, we look at three key technology areas to consider. We find out about a novel approach to teaching security awareness to users. And we examine the role of IT ... Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 In Depth

  The AWS bucket list: Keep your cloud secure

  Misconfigured cloud installations risk billions of records being exposed, damaging organisations’ finances and reputations. Paying attention to securing AWS storage buckets is a simple matter Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: uncertainty for online retailers as some slump and others surge

  Online retailers face uncertainty as the Covid-19 coronavirus forces change in consumer shopping habits Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Post Office postpones subpostmaster compensation scheme amid Covid-19 crisis

  Scheme to compensate subpostmasters who suffered because of computer errors in the Post Office’s Horizon system is delayed Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates

  Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 Blog Post

  Coronavirus: Trust the data

  The recent spell of sunny weather, after weeks of torrential rain, brought the masses out. A lovely Spring weekend. If only so. As television and online images revealed, “It was like a bank ... Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Internet capable of taking the strain but service prioritisation key

  With networks offering assurances they can cope with the millions of added users working from home, experts suggest that strict management of applications and services will be pivotal Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Kaspersky, Bitdefender make products free to NHS

  Kaspersky and Bitdefender have both made various products and services available free to healthcare customers as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic intensifies Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Spain to use artificial intelligence to automate testing

  Authorities in Spain have invested in robots to automate the testing of citizens for the Covid-19 coronavirus Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Thousands of Netflix, Disney+ streaming accounts being stolen

  Proofpoint has urged users of streaming services to be alert to cyber criminals hijacking their accounts Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 Opinion

  Why zero trust may not be all it’s cracked up to be

  While they are discussed ad nauseam in the security industry, zero-trust architectures may not be all they’re cracked up to be, according to analyst Sam Bocetta Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 In Depth

  Benefits of branching out into SD-WAN

  There is much more to SD-WAN than just cheaper branch office connectivity, so IT buyers have a lot to consider Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: CCRC uses Microsoft Teams to consider subpostmaster appeals

  Criminal Cases Review Commission to use Microsoft Teams to ensure review of subpostmaster prosecutions is held on time Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: NHSX calls on tech sector to support Covid-19 effort

  Technology sector asked to develop new ways to help the NHS manage virus outbreak and support people who are most at risk Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Chunghwa Telecom selects Nokia, Ericsson for rapid 5G build-out

  Taiwanese operator taps Nordic comms giants for essential equipment in improving efficiency and user experience Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Interview: Jamil Farshchi, CISO, Equifax

  Equifax CISO Jamil Farshchi discusses public cloud and why it’s not something IT security professionals should be afraid of Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Singapore’s JTC taps GIS platform in Punggol Digital District

  The planners behind Singapore’s Punggol Digital District are using a geographic information system to make better planning decisions and improve day-to-day operations Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: UK mobile operators discuss sharing crowd movement data with government

  Reports emerge of unprecedented cooperation between UK telcos and government to provide people-modelling data to prevent spread of coronavirus Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 Blog Post

  Azul Systems brews up fresh blend for open source Java

  Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced the general availability of its Zulu release of OpenJDK 14 builds. The builds are compliant with the Java SE 14 standard.   The company ... Continue Reading

• March 23, 2020 23Mar2020 News

  Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

  Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia Continue Reading

• March 22, 2020 22Mar2020 Blog Post

  When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown

  The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning Continue Reading

• March 22, 2020 22Mar2020 News

  Cyber gangsters hit UK medical firm poised for work on coronavirus with Maze ransomware attack

  The Maze ransomware group has published personal and medical details of thousands of former patients of a London-based medical research company after a failed attempt to disable the firm's computer systems Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  UK Coronavirus Bill relaxes restrictions on mass surveillance powers

  Emergency legislation would massively expand state surveillance and police detainment powers Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Dstl launches report on the future of cities

  Dstl research aims to support decision-making of the UK military by analysing topics such as the influence of technology in urban warfare Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: BT reassures UK of network’s resilience

  Just a week after issuing assurances that its network was capable of dealing with the added load from vastly increased numbers of people working from home, BT issues further details on infrastructure resiliency Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: Sans Institute issues cyber security advice for parents

  With schools now shut across the UK, parents will bear more responsibility for keeping children safe online and educating them about online harms Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet

  Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 E-Handbook

  Covid-19: Three technology areas that CIOs must address

  CIOs will need to consider the IT measures that will be needed to support their organisations as the government ramps up its response to the coronavirus Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 E-Handbook

  Covid-19: Three steps to remote working effectiveness

  Staff are going to have to work from home, if they can, for the foreseeable future. We look at steps to ensure they remain fit and productive Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 Guide

  Essential Guide: Technology readiness for the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis

  The global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic requires an important response from enterprise IT departments - in this guide, we examine the key considerations for IT leaders Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 E-Handbook

  Covid-19: An Infographic - 3 Immediate Actions for CIOs

  Many organisations already engage customers overdigital platforms, such as branded sites and apps, onlinemarketplaces and social media. But offline face-to-face engagementstill plays a big role. Workplace collaboration, video conferencingand ... Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  MP warns minister not to parrot civil servants’ lines on Post Office IT scandal

  MP Kevan Jones has warned a government minister not to repeat the mistakes of predecessors in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 In Depth

  Computational storage: What is it and what are its key use cases?

  Computational storage brings the CPU to the storage and so boosts system performance by tackling processing tasks, such as near the edge or in AI/machine learning workloads Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  EU telecoms operators granted permission for ‘fair’ management of online traffic

  EC and BEREC allow telcos unprecedented network traffic control to mitigate the effects of network congestion due to the massive increase in home working caused by the coronavirus Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

  Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  How an Estonian digital nation emerged from the embers of Soviet rule

  Estonia’s minister for foreign trade and IT tells Computer Weekly how the country went from having no governmental infrastructure in the early 1990s to acquiring the label “digital nation” Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 News

  Netflix downscales content resolution to ease strain on EU networks

  European Commission asks premier subscription video-on-demand service provider Netflix to lower quality of films to take strain from loaded EU networks Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 Blog Post

  IT modernisation series – LzLabs: Making mainframe apps 'cloud-native'

  Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ... Continue Reading

• March 20, 2020 20Mar2020 Blog Post

  APAC tech suppliers tout wares amid Covid-19 outbreak

  In the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, technology vendors all over the world have been touting their wares to help individuals, businesses and medical workers tide over this ... Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  IT Priorities 2020: ANZ firms to spend more on cyber security

  Over half of respondents in Australia and New Zealand plan to invest more in cyber security, especially in key areas such as data loss prevention Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  WBA assumes control of OpenRoaming standard

  Association set up to enable collaboration between service providers, technology companies and organisations in wireless industry to manage Cisco-produced technology for seamless Wi-Fi onboarding Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Employee computing emissions measured by only one-third of enterprises, Citrix research suggests

  Many large companies in the UK are not measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from employee computing, with just a quarter of managers viewing IT sustainability as a top priority for their organisation Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Volume of computer misuse incidents falling, says ONS

  Downward trend comes despite an overall increase in fraud, according to new statistics Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 Opinion

  Gigabit broadband for new homes is essential to UK’s telecoms ambitions

  Digital minister outlines plans to develop UK’s telecoms infrastructure to make it fit for the future Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 In Depth

  Coronavirus: How to implement safe and secure remote working

  Find out what CIOs and CISOs need to know to enable their end-users to work remotely and stay secure during the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, and learn how users can help themselves Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 In Depth

  Coronavirus: Can the networks take the strain?

  It was predicted that the mass roll-out of computer networks would mean at some point that there was no difference between work and home as a working location. These assumptions are about to be tested to the full Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus: NHS to roll out Microsoft Teams to hospitals

  Secure, cloud-based Microsoft collaboration tool Teams will be made available across the NHS, even those hospitals not on NHSMail Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Loan charge under review: Cross-party group of MPs slams government inquiry into tax policy

  The government’s independent inquiry into the loan charge disguised remuneration policy has been criticised in a report by a cross-party group of MPs for being ‘fundamentally flawed’ Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Covid-19: NHS tackles coronavirus crisis with the help of tech

  As the pandemic grows and creates enormous pressure on the health service, NHS organisations across the country are using technology to help cope Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 In Depth

  How Oxeva delivered budget analytics with Pure Storage flash NAS

  Web hosting provider Oxeva thought the consultants were mistaken and that what suited the web giants for analytics/big data wasn’t necessarily what was needed for enterprise customers Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 Opinion

  A beginner’s guide to quantum computer programming

  Quantum computing takes a radically different approach to programming. IBM’s education head discusses how to get started Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 Blog Post

  IT modernisation series – MuleSoft: Plugging loosely into an API-driven future

  Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ... Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 News

  Covid-19: Three steps to remote working effectiveness

  Staff are going to have to work from home, if they can, for the foreseeable future. We look at steps to ensure they remain fit and productive Continue Reading

• March 19, 2020 19Mar2020 Blog Post

  IT modernisation series – Rubrik: versioning as part of the modern API lifecycle

  Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ... Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Ocado pulls website amid coronavirus shopping frenzy

  Ocado has closed its website and will not take any new orders for several days thanks to sheer volume of traffic Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  UK facial recognition project to identify hidden faces

  A research project being conducted by UK universities in collaboration with the Home Office and Metropolitan Police could produce facial recognition systems that allows users of the technology to identify people with their faces covered Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Surrey goes live with child health system

  CSH Surrey goes live with its new platform, with the information on 440,000 children's health now consolidated onto a single platform Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Post Office executives used ‘grotesque predatory capitalism’ throughout Horizon IT scandal

  Labour MP Karl Turner tells Computer Weekly that the Post Office Horizon scandal is the most grotesque version of predatory capitalism he has ever seen Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 Blog Post

  Moog from home

  Social distancing is a bit of a busman’s holiday for Downtime, but just to be safe, we’ve alienated everyone we know. We haven’t really known what to do with ourselves since being advised to stay ... Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Coronavirus now possibly largest-ever cyber security threat

  The cumulative volume of coronavirus-related email lures and other threats is the largest collection of attack types exploiting a single theme for years, possibly ever Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Nokia spreads Wing IoT with 5G and edge capabilities

  Finnish communications tech provider Nokia enhances its Worldwide IoT Network Grid managed service to support operators in offering 5G internet of things services with minimal capital investment Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Execs must advocate tech initiatives effectively

  Senior management has a big role to play in making a success of digital and data transformation programmes Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

  Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Prudential turns to AI to secure computer networks against cyber attacks

  Prudential, the UK’s largest listed insurer, is turning to artificial intelligence to protect its computer networks in the US, Asia and Africa from malware hackers and internal threats Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 Podcast

  Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 51

  In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discuss the Budget, the role of graph database technology in anti-money laundering compliance, and the Everywoman Tech Awards Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Push for digitisation in Malaysia amid coronavirus crisis

  Event cancellations and travel bans are spurring more companies to embrace digital tools to support remote and flexible working arrangements Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Amid panic, how to find a sound level of security

  In our globalised world, high-profile events such as Covid-19 have huge business impacts, some of which may be felt by CISOs. What responsibilities do security professionals have in such circumstances? Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Estonia offers digital tools to countries struggling with coronavirus school closures

  Government and tech companies in Baltic state unite to offer advanced digital learning tools to other countries Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Employment and investment in UK tech sector booms

  UK digital tech sector continues rapid growth in 2019, attracting record investment for another year Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  4G arrives for eastern half of Jubilee Line

  Full 4G mobile connectivity arrives on half of one of London’s busiest Underground transport links, paving the way for extended communications throughout the network Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  Swedish municipalities test AI to drive efficiencies and cost savings

  Research in Sweden measures the benefits of using artificial intelligence in local government operations Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 News

  IR35 private sector reforms: Coronavirus prompts Treasury to delay start date to April 2021

  HM Treasury confirms roll-out of IR35 reforms to the private sector will be halted for a year to ease the pressure on businesses in the face of the coronavirus outbreak Continue Reading

• March 18, 2020 18Mar2020 Blog Post

  OutSystems offers community response for COVID-19

  Low-code software company OutSystems has announced a community-based app development programme to help combat the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and its effects digitally. The company is offering ... Continue Reading