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IT services and outsourcing

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Capita pension clients told data may have leaked

  Capita has told trustees of some of the pension funds for which it provides outsourced services that their customer data may have been stolen by the Black Basta ransomware operation

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Cyber Action Plan for Wales launched

  The devolved Welsh government has set out four priorities in an action plan designed to foster cyber resilience, talent and innovation across the country

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  US competition watchdog issues generative AI warning

  Generative AI can be used to manipulate people into making harmful decisions, says US Federal Trade Commission in warning to firms building and using AI-powered tools

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  More Post Office software-related convictions overturned takes total to 86

  A total of 86 former subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes after computer errors showed phantom losses have had convictions overturned

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Microsoft fails to get CMA thumbs-up on Activision deal

  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has decided that Microsoft‘s proposed $68.7bn acquisition of Activision would damage the cloud gaming market

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Zopa’s emotional journey to becoming a bank

  Zopa Bank’s CEO sees no reason why the app-based bank should not be as big as the high street giants

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

  The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Police Scotland receive formal notice about cloud system

  Scotland’s biometrics watchdog has issued Police Scotland with an information notice over its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system, following disclosure of major data protection concerns by Computer Weekly

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  UK government introduces Digital Markets Bill to Parliament

  The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill will seek to level the playing field in digital markets by empowering regulators with new tools and powers to directly enforce competition and consumer protection laws

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Post Office paid IBM millions when it ended proposed contract to replace Horizon

  The Post Office ended a proposed contract with IBM to replace its controversial Horizon system after work had already started

• April 24, 2023 24 Apr'23

  Amazon Web Services selects 14 startups for space accelerator

  The cohort of startups will use AWS and its resources to accelerate the research and development of their technologies and boost their growth

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  UK biometrics watchdog questions police cloud deployments

  The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate ‘immediately and unequivocally’ that their cloud deployments are lawful

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  Prototype cyber tech has revolutionary potential

  The so-called CHERI protection model developed at the University of Cambridge is showing great promise for future cyber security technologies

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  3CX incident may be world’s first double supply chain attack

  It’s supply chain attacks all the way down as Mandiant publishes information suggesting that the 3CX software supply chain compromise was initiated via a prior software supply chain compromise

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Banks don’t want to develop fintech in-house

  Banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs to gain access to their platforms, with few interested in developing such capabilities in-house

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Good Friday Agreement key to growth of Northern Ireland cyber hub

  Now 25 years since the historic Good Friday Agreement ended the Troubles, Northern Ireland has become a flourishing centre of cyber security excellence and has ambitions to grow further

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  UK SMEs are the most tech savvy in Europe

  UK SMEs have taken to contactless payments faster than their counterparts in continental Europe

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Reduced spending on cloud services weighs European IT services market down

  Reduced spending on cloud services in the EMEA region meant a year-on-year drop in total IT and BPO services spend

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security

  Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Tech spending in India to grow by 9.6% in 2023

  Digital initiatives in the public sector along with investments in telecoms and other areas are expected to spur technology spending in India this year

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  HMRC defends removing names of known tax avoidance schemes from public list

  HMRC under fire over 'ridiculous' legislation that means it has to remove names of known tax avoidance scheme operators 12 months after publication

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Charity data stolen in ransomware attack on supplier

  A number of charities in Ireland and the UK have had their data compromised following a ransomware attack on an IT supplier

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

  Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Global spending on IT and BPO down as cloud deals slow

  Spending on IT and BPO services drops as demand for cloud services slows

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Sweden and Finland make advances in quantum computing

  Separate Swedish and Finnish quantum computing projects make promising advances in the technology of the future

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  ICO responds to UK government AI regulation plans

  The ICO has officially responded to the government’s plans for regulating artificial intelligence as outlined in its recent whitepaper, but called for clarity on certain aspects before the proposals are taken further

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Deutsche Bank to close Russian software operations

  German bank has been winding down its Russia-based software development operations and is close to shutting them down

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Scotland links its tech scaler programme with the NHS

  As part of the deal, firms part of the tech scaler programme aimed at helping startups scale up will be given access to NHS regional test beds

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended after technical challenges moving to cloud

  The Post Office has extended a contract with Fujitsu after being unable to resolve technical issues related to migrating its IT to the cloud

• April 10, 2023 10 Apr'23

  How India’s Cropin is tapping the groundswell in agritech

  Cropin, one of the first movers in agriculture technology, has built an industry cloud platform that is now used by the likes of PepsiCo to maximise crop yields

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  IBM's Nataraj Nagaratnam on the cyber challenges facing cloud services

  Governments are introducing increasingly prescriptive data protection policies, but with organisations becoming ever more reliant on multiple cloud service platforms for essential business needs, how can they ensure they meet regulatory requirements?

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Gartner forecasts massive growth in software and IT services

  IT leaders are set to deploy more workloads on infrastructure-as-a-service public clouds as they attempt to keep costs under control

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Clop ransomware booms in March as Fortra zero-day pays off for gang

  Backed by the threat actor tracked variously as Gold Tahoe and TA505, the Clop ransomware operation hit new ‘heights’ of activity last month, according to researchers

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Nordic app-based bank offloads its peer-to-peer lending business

  Danish fintech Lunar has sold its peer-to-peer lending business to Sweden’s SaveLend

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Scottish police tech piloted despite major data protection issues

  Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Developers say Apple and Google are running app store monopolies

  Coalition for App Fairness and its members speak to Computer Weekly about alleged anti-competitive practices of Apple and Google in their respective app stores, and call for urgent regulatory action to level the playing field

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

  The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

  HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  UAE central bank selects partners for phase one of digital currency programme

  The UAE central bank has kicked off the first phase of its project to launch a digital currency

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Three-day Capita outage was result of cyber attack

  Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed a major outage which began on 31 March was the result of a cyber attack affecting its Office 365 apps

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  Generative AI central to Accenture’s tech vision

  Generative AI will play a central role over the next 10 years as the digital and physical world become more and more integrated

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  How Australian organisations can plug the cloud skills gap

  Organisations will need to acquire a broader set of skills and invest in reskilling and employee experience to attract and retain cloud talent

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  OSC&R supply chain security framework goes live on Github

  The OSC&R framework for understanding and evaluating threats to supply chain security has made its debut on Github to allow anybody to contribute to the framework

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  How millions of consumers and businesses are using open banking

  SMEs and consumers are increasingly turning to open banking services to help them manage their businesses and lives

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Reactive approach to cyber procurement risks damaging businesses

  Too many organisations are following a reactive approach to cyber security, which WithSecure believes is stifling security teams ability to demonstrate value and align with business outcomes

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

  The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities