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• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Italy’s Hacking Team gets hacked

  Unknown hackers have posted a torrent file-sharing link to more than 400GB of Hacking Team data, including source code, internal documents and emails that could reveal the identity of customers

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Wi-Fi enhances guest experience and profitability for Belgian theme park

  Bobbejaanland, one of the largest theme parks in Belgium, is using a Fortinet Wi-Fi network to offer visitors access on the go, and improve its management capabilities

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Facebook wins first round in European privacy battle

  Facebook has welcomed a Vienna court’s rejection of a 25,000-strong class action lawsuit against the social networking firm for allegedly breaching European privacy laws

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  UK universities revise computer course guidelines to boost ranks of cyber warriors

  UK universities revise course guidelines to transform computing degree courses and ensure that undergraduates learn cyber security skills

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Dutch court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster

  Facebook has a legal obligation to provide information about a user who posted a revenge porn video on the site, a Dutch court has ruled

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  IT professionals give Windows 10 Start button the thumbs up

  A survey of European and North American IT professionals has found that the return of the Start button is the most enticing feature in Microsoft's latest operating system

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

  An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  FBI investigates US baseball team over rival's hacking allegations

  FBI investigations, into claims a US baseball team stole data from a rival, highlights cyber crime perpetrated by competitors – not just anonymous criminals

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  DD4B cyber extortion gang ramps up operations

  Cyber criminals using DDoS attacks to extort funds from victims are carrying out more attacks despite a $26,000 bounty

• June 12, 2015 12 Jun'15

  Government preparing to let private sector companies use its Verify identity scheme

  The Cabinet Office is talking to banks, insurers and retailers to establish Gov.uk Verify identity assurance as a national scheme

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Kaspersky Lab praised for handling of Duqu 2.0 cyber attack

  Kaspersky Lab determined the best approach to cyber attack was to not only admit that it had been hacked, but also to provide extensive information on the malware

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  International police operation arrests cyber fraud gang

  Police in six countries have arrested 49 people suspected of committing financial fraud involving email account intrusions

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  VMware puts network virtualisation to work in McAfee environments

  VMware announces an integrated system to automate distribution and enforcement of McAfee’s network security platform using its NSX network virtualisation system

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  The drivers and inhibitors of cyber security evolution

  A study shows a shift in IT security spending to detection and response – but why are most organisations falling way behind the more enlightened front runners?

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Most of more than 733,000 police communications data requests approved

  Big Brother Watch is calling for a curb on the scale of police access to communications data and greater transparency in the use of this data

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Data classification key to IP protection, says Titus

  Data classification can help organisations get more value out of encryption and data loss prevention systems

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

  Find out who made the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Google announces security features for Android

  Google announces better app permission controls and other Android security changes at its Google I/O developer conference

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

  Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes

• May 27, 2015 27 May'15

  Social engineering attacks more complex than ever, says expert

  Expert warns attackers are starting to use increasingly sophisticated ways to get people in organisations to help them circumvent security controls

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  NATS failure down to bug from the 90s and redundant code

  A bug present in Nats since 1990s has been identified as the root cause of the five-hour outage of UK air traffic control on 12 December 2014

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  Researchers raise privacy concerns about Bluetooth Low Energy devices

  Researchers have raised privacy concerns about a growing number of devices using Bluetooth Low Energy technology

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  CIO interview: Austerity drives joined-up council IT with Force.com

  Peterborough has become a big user of software-as-a-service for council services. We speak to its IT head

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  BT Openreach turns to Crimestoppers to catch cable thieves

  Openreach extends its partnership with crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers to tackle cable theft

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals

  Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  St Louis Federal Reserve Bank not target of DNS hack, say experts

  The hacking of a domain name server (DNS) for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis is more likely to be aimed at customers than the bank itself, say security experts

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Wi-Fi Global Congress: Hotspot 2.0 standard addresses wireless security holes

  At Wi-Fi Global Congress, Ruckus Wireless announces it will be first to market with the second release of Hotspot 2.0

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Whitehall technology chiefs vetoed new Windows XP support deal

  Government technology chiefs vetoed a new deal with Microsoft to continue Windows XP support to force laggards to move off the OS

• May 14, 2015 14 May'15

  Digital age a turning point for policing, says commissioner Leppard

  Policing in the digital age will face a turning point in the next two years, according to City of London Police commissioner Adrian Leppard

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  PSNGB rebrands to drive information sharing across PSN

  PSNGB, the trade association set up to promote the Public Services Network, rebrands itself as Innopsis and says its work is far from over

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  The IoT industry needs to do more to secure data, says Beecham Research

  There are key areas where the industry supporting the internet of things (IoT) needs to provide better security, according to Beecham Research

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  Businesses should prepare for black swans, says resiliency consultant

  While black swan events are random and unexpected, businesses can still prepare for them, according to a resiliency consultant

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  Future IAM will need to be broader, says Martin Kuppinger

  Identity and access management systems need to look at all forms of identity, not just employees or users, says KuppingerCole analyst

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  IoT benefits and privacy not mutually exclusive, says industry expert

  It is possible to mitigate the privacy and security risks of the internet of things (IoT) without losing its benefits, according to an industry expert

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Ryanair remains tight-lipped over £3.3m hacker theft

  Ryanair provided no details of how hackers took £3.3m from one of its bank accounts, as industry pundits call for greater collaboration

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Time to embrace a new level of IAM, says Martin Kuppinger

  A new level of identity and access management is at hand, yet many businesses still rely on usernames and passwords

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Vodafone sends network in a backpack to Nepal earthquake zone

  Vodafone’s charitable arm, the Vodafone Foundation, deploys instant mini networks to help restore communications in quake-hit Nepal

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  EU data protection regulation will drive privacy by design, says KuppingerCole

  The EU data protection regulation will drive privacy by design in companies with European clients, says KuppingerCole analyst Karsten Kinast

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Mobile malware overhyped, says security company Damballa

  Mobile internet users are 1.3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than infected by mobile malware, research by security firm Damballa finds

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Destructive cyber attacks making security a business concern, says Microsoft

  Destructive cyber attacks are driving a fundamental shift in the information security market, according to Microsoft

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  HSBC website mistake guides customers to porn

  HSBC’s Hong Kong website accidentally featured an out-of-date link that directed people to a porn site

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Collaboration key to cyber security, says US homeland security chief

  Collaboration between governments and with the private sector key to improving global cyber security

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Cyber security boot camp launched to boost skills

  Sans Cyber Academy unveils eight-week security boot camp after businesses demand more cyber security specialists

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Liberal Democrats promise to double innovation spend and 99.9% broadband roll-out

  The Liberal Democrats’ general election manifesto promises to double innovation spending and roll out high-speed broadband to 99.9% of homes

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Banks hide cyber crime losses, says City of London Police

  Banks obscure the amount of money lost to cyber fraudsters – preferring to write off cyber theft as operating losses – says the City of London Police