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• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Cyber training firm KnowBe4 bought by private equity firm

  Acquisition of KnowBe4 supposedly reflects the success the company has seen since its spring 2021 IPO

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Unsung Heroes Awards celebrate diversity in cyber community

  The seventh annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards recognise those trying to improve diversity and mental health in cyber for the first time

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Perpetrators of subpostmaster suffering in Horizon scandal must face public inquiry

  Victims demand that the perpetrators of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal face the public inquiry

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Gartner: Remote work, zero trust, cloud still driving cyber spend

  Security leaders are eager to spend on categories including remote and hybrid cyber offerings, zero-trust network access, and cloud

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Tech critical to the UK’s prosperity, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

  Technology could provide the answer to the energy crisis, according to the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, as he hails tech as a way to guarantee prosperity for the country

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Finance regulator cracks down on use of messaging apps

  The Financial Conduct Authority is taking a closer look at how staff at banks are using WhatsApp in work

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  NCSC urges organisations to secure supply chains

  NCSC’s latest guidance package centres supply chain security, helping medium to large organisations assess and mitigate cyber risks from suppliers

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Santander and Google offer tech to help businesses smooth move to cloud

  Dual Run service from Google will be built on top of Santander technology known as Gravity

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Microsoft fixes lone zero-day on October Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft patched a solitary zero-day vulnerability in its latest monthly drop, but fixes for two others disclosed in the past few weeks are nowhere to be seen

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Meta presents vision for business metaverse

  How can hybrid teams collaborate seamlessly? Meta believes virtual reality tied to business applications is the way forward

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  ICO selectively discloses reprimands for data protection breaches

  Data protection experts question ICO’s selective approach to publishing formal reprimands for contravening the law, after FoI request reveals the Cabinet Office was among the organisations reprimanded

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Contractor left Toyota source code exposed for five years

  Source code related to Toyota’s T-Connect service was left exposed on GitHub for over five years by a contractor

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry restarts with call for a pause amid disclosure controversy

  The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has begun phase two with a request for an adjournment amid allegations that the Post Office is failing to meet its obligation to disclose all relevant documents

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Public sector spend on IT climbed to £12.6bn in 2021

  Public sector bodies IT spend went up 10% last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers with 89% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  With Java 19, Oracle boosts developer productivity with an eye on the future

  Major features in Java 19 will make it easier for Java developers to build applications that interface with non-Java code, among other capabilities in the 10th edition of the platform’s six-month release cadence

• October 10, 2022 10 Oct'22

  Dutch infrastructure sector seeks closer collaboration with government

  Although the Netherlands government is increasingly realising how vital the country’s digital infrastructure is, it lacks sufficient policy-making and vision, say industry associations

• October 10, 2022 10 Oct'22

  Ukraine and EU explore deeper cyber collaboration

  A Ukrainian delegation has met with officials from the EU’s ENISA cyber agency to explore deeper cooperation on cyber security issues

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  SMEs in Europe ready to invest in real-time payment capabilities

  Small and medium-sized enterprises are losing business because of the time it takes to receive payments, with many considering API-based services to address the problem

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  NHS looks to improve digital mental health support

  NHS England plans for programme to use digital technologies and data to improve mental health treatment and help patients access services

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Tech Nation and PwC launch joint climate tech accelerator

  The Net Zero X programme by Tech Nation and PwC will help climate tech companies to overcome common growth challenges and scale faster

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  JPMorgan’s UK digital bank app outage locks customers out

  App-based Chase Bank suffered tech outage that left customers unable to access its services

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  India telcos chart revenue growth with cloud and OTT services

  Telcos in India are eyeing new revenue streams from cloud and content services, but whether they can successfully monetise the offerings remains to be seen

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Italian Supreme Court calls for prosecutors to disclose information on Sky ECC hacking operation

  Italy’s Supreme Court says Italian prosecutors and police should disclose information on how they obtained intercepted messages from the Sky ECC cryptophone network

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Forrester: US set to dominate AI enterprise software market

  Artificial intelligence is the fastest growth area in software. This is driving adoption, which will make AI mainstream technology in business software

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Public sector aims to close digital skills gap with private sector

  Digital leaders from the public sector have stressed the need to build up the digital skills and capabilities of civil servants to successfully deliver the government’s digital transformation ambitions, but not at the expense of supplier ecosystems

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  IR35 reforms to be scrapped: What IT contractors need to know

  News of the government’s plans to scrap the IR35 reforms took the contracting world by surprise, but IT contractors are being warned off making hasty changes to the way they work just yet

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Next phase of open banking already gathering pace

  Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  HMCTS continues roll-out of Common Platform despite calls to halt deployment

  Controversial roll-out of digital case management system continues amid planned strike action by Public and Commercial Services Union because of issues with the system

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Vodafone confirms Three UK merger talks

  UK’s mid-sized operators begin negotiations on consolidation to gain the scale to accelerate roll-out of 5G in the UK, expand broadband connectivity to rural communities and small businesses, and offer stronger competition

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital right to work checks officially go live

  Under the new government guidance, employers can choose between 16 certified identity service providers to digitally check their employees legal right to work in the UK

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken

  In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  CIO interview: James Fleming, Francis Crick Institute

  Francis Crick Institute CIO discusses how Europe’s largest biomedical research institute has co-developed a framework for data sharing

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  A new take on an old relationship: Nordic startups lure UK investors to their front doors

  When startup worlds collide: investment and entrepreneurship partnerships form across the Nordics and UK

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses

  Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices

  The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  CDO interview: Danny Gonzalez, chief digital and innovation officer, London North Eastern Railway

  The rail franchise is driving a wide-ranging digital transformation, encompassing back-office improvements and enhancing passenger experience

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption

  The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Five startups to join NCSC for Startups initiative

  The NCSC has invited five startups to join its NCSC for Startups programme to help the government with pressing cyber challenges facing the UK

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?

  New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally

  Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Whistleblower Peter Duffy calls for oversight of NHS records to prevent evidence tampering

  A whistleblower has called for greater oversight in the handling of ‘safety-critical digital information’ across the NHS, in light of a number of cases that raise questions about data governance and record-keeping within the health service

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Russia ready for complete switch to domestic IT infrastructure

  In a bid to counter sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government is implementing a policy of import substitution in the country’s domestic IT sector

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Online Safety Bill needs complete overhaul, say rights groups

  Civil society groups write to new digital minister to challenge various aspects of the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which they say threatens rights to privacy and freedom of expression

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access

  Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Fraudsters adapt phishing scams to exploit cost-of-living crisis

  Around 80,000 Brits a month are falling victim to phishing attacks as fraudsters switch up tactics to take advantage of cost-of-living crisis and behavioural changes prompted by pandemic

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Guy’s Cancer collaborates with healthtech provider to digitise patient care

  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has begun working with digital healthcare platform provider Carology to build capacity, drive efficiencies and improve patient experience