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• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Government tells social media companies they must go further to address disinformation

  House of Lords committee hears about government collaboration with social media firms to combat pandemic-related disinformation and online harms

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Report reveals inadequate cyber security at Schiphol Airport

  A report has revealed problems with critical security systems in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  COO interview: Suresh Viswanathan, TSB

  TSB’s chief operating officer is overseeing the bank’s operations as it strives to build the right kind of IT reputation

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Nation state APT groups prefer old, unpatched vulnerabilities

  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have published details of the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of recent years, and there are some “classics” on the list

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Google-powered algorithm set to modernise insurance brokering

  Algorithm, developed in conjunction with UCL, drives a Lloyd’s of London syndicate electronically

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Can Lady Gaga and Madonna get people to take security seriously?

  What does it take to get people to pay attention to cyber security? A celebrity law firm hack may hold some answers

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  British public largely distrustful of technology companies, says report

  High levels of distrust in the motivations of technology companies and a lack of meaningful influence over their behaviour has left the British public feeling digitally disempowered, says Doteveryone report

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Microsoft fixes 16 critical vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

  The trend towards mammoth Patch Tuesdays continues as Microsoft fixes 111 vulnerabilities

• May 13, 2020 13 May'20

  Coronavirus: APAC organisations find scalability with cloud

  Australia’s NSW Health and Indonesia’s HaloDoc are among a growing crop of Asia-Pacific organisations that are relying on cloud scalability to extend digital services to more users and customers

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Draft Covid-19 contact tracing legislation proposes formal oversight

  Human Rights Committee chair Harriet Harman has outlined a proposed bill to guarantee the security and privacy of data generated by the UK’s Covid-19 contact tracing app

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  MPs take part in first live test of remote voting during Covid-19 debate

  MPs will use phones and computers to vote from their homes in a House of Commons debate today in the biggest change in parliamentary procedure for 150 years

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Coronavirus: Nationwide’s human expertise used to quickly build smart agent amid pandemic

  Nationwide Building Society is the latest financial services company to quickly automate customer services related to Covid-19

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Companies lose out as digital transformation costs skyrocket

  Many projects fail to deliver because of other pressures on IT and the complexities of multicloud technology

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Pay the ransom and double your recovery costs, report warns

  Paying cyber criminals a ransom to recover your data adds over half a million dollars to the cost of organisational recovery, says Sophos

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Police failing to consult public on new technologies

  A freedom of information campaign has revealed that UK police are largely failing to consult the public on their use of new technologies, with the potential to undermine the principle of policing by consent

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Cobots: From Robbie to Armar-6

  In science fiction, robots work alongside people. Ocado Technology recently unveiled Armar-6, a robot that takes this concept a step closer to reality

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Australia’s Kmart gears up for mainframe migration

  Retailer is lifting and shifting some old Cobol code to AWS while rebuilding others into microservices in its mainframe migration move

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Government launches online portal to arrange coronavirus testing kits for care homes

  UK care homes are now able to digitally arrange deliveries of Covid-19 test kits through the launch of an online portal

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Banks failing to protect customers from coronavirus fraud

  Just 13 of the 64 banks accredited for the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme have implemented Dmarc protection

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Four in 10 Australians will share GPS data for alerting

  Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, 40% of Australians are likely to share GPS data with the government to facilitate alerting, new study finds

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Pitney Bowes hit by Maze in second ransomware attack in a year

  Shipping services firm falls victim to Maze ransomware just seven months after a previous major attack

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Scottish government launches tech sector review

  Review, to be led by former Skyscanner COO Mark Logan, will look at how tech sector can help Scotland’s economy recover from Covid-19

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Coronavirus: SMEs in the UAE forced to digitally transform

  The UAE, like the rest of the world, continues to be heavily impacted by the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, and technology is helping to lead the fight

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Micro Focus sees growth in mainframe migration business

  Lifting and shifting Cobol code from mainframes to public cloud has been a growth driver for Micro Focus in the Asia-Pacific region, even as the software supplier continues to diversify its business

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Zoom buys secure messaging service Keybase

  Unified comms platform Zoom says the acquisition of Keybase will finally let it bring end-to-end encryption to the table

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  SilverTerrier cyber crime group targets Covid-19 key workers

  Organisations on the front line in the fight against coronavirus are under attack from Nigeria’s SilverTerrier criminal gang

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  App launched to support social care workers through coronavirus

  The Care Workforce tool will be rolled out to 1.5 million professionals as a hub for practical guidance and support

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Contact-tracing app fails to protect privacy and human rights

  Reassurances over the security and human rights implications of NHSX’s approach to developing its Covid-19 contact-tracing app are insufficient, says the cross-bench Human Rights Committee

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Facebook announces oversight board members

  New board will rule on freedom of expression issues and make policy recommendations to social media giant.

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  IBM Think puts AI to use in IT operations

  Its annual conference may be virtual, but IBM has remained focused on the key themes of hybrid IT, cloud and artificial intelligence

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Next round of Zoom updates targets consumer security

  Casual consumer users of Zoom will get additional protections in an update to be released over the long weekend

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  NCSC Covid-19 scam reporting service sees more than 160,000 reports

  The general public has taken to the NCSC’s scam reporting service like ducks to water, with thousands of suspicious emails reported to it in just two weeks

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  Finland’s postal service targets new revenue streams through digitisation

  Posti plans to use the new SisuID digital authentication method to accelerate business growth and opportunities

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  CIO interview: Andrew Lennon, CIO, Barings, on Covid-19, data science and mergers

  Forget rogue traders, Barings is still going strong, and the investment bank's CIO is leading the way with data science and other enabling technologies

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Criminal justice system is failing cyber crime victims

  Victims of cyber crime face barriers to reporting, receiving support and achieving justice, says a Home Office-backed study

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Armar-6 shows how helper robots can work in Ocado warehouses

  Collaborative robot is the result of the five-year SecondHands project with academia to develop a robot that can support human workers

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Re-purposing data and questionable effectiveness could undermine trust in NHS contact-tracing app

  Experts call for greater clarity over how contact-tracing data will be used, while discussing the limitations of the coronavirus app

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  HMRC tackles almost 300 coronavirus phishing websites

  Of 292 websites removed since lockdown began on 23 March, 237 were proactively identified by HMRC and 55 were flagged by the public

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  End-users failing to protect themselves online

  Remote workers and stuck-at-home consumers are taking silly risks with their security during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Tech firms risk cashflow issues due to pandemic

  Analyst Gartner warns that some tech firms may go bust because of inadequate coronavirus planning, and CIOs will need to reassess IT supplier viability

• May 06, 2020 06 May'20

  Open source community joins Covid-19 fight

  Red Hat and others in the global open source community are doing their part to develop tools and other initiatives to help the world tide over the coronavirus outbreak

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Singapore to test 5G in Industry 4.0 trial

  Trial, spearheaded by IMDA, IBM, Samsung and M1, will test the use of 5G, along with AI and IoT technologies, in manufacturing

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Coronavirus: NCSC issues urgent alert for healthcare sector

  UK National Cyber Security Centre and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say they are seeing large-scale campaigns targeting healthcare bodies and medical research organisations

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Coronavirus: TSB develops smart agent to help staff during pandemic

  TSB took just five days to design and implement a smart digital agent to answer customer questions during the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  GoDaddy owns up to October 2019 data breach

  Web hosting services provider has suffered yet another security incident, confirming that an unauthorised individual accessed hosting accounts

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  EC calls on the UK to ensure UK-Ireland border customs IT systems are ready

  The European Commission has warned that the UK must be ready for IT systems implementation at the Northern Ireland/Ireland border to handle goods

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Coronavirus: Total outsourcing spending collapses in March

  IT spending plunged in March, drastically reducing increases that had been expected in the EMEA region

• May 05, 2020 05 May'20

  Building security and privacy into contact-tracing apps

  Governance and data decentralisation are among measures that organisations can take to allay security and privacy concerns over contact-tracing apps, according to RSA

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  Nordic real estate sector becoming increasingly digital

  The Nordic real estate and construction industry is modernising through digital technology, with an injection of urgency amid global pandemic

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  Xen Orchestra latest victim of Salt cryptojackers

  More victims of cyber criminals exploiting two critical Salt vulnerabilities are coming forward