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• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  IR35 private sector reforms: Finance Bill vote denies further delays to April 2021 start date

  Another push by MPs to get the start date for the IR35 private sector reforms delayed until a thorough impact assessment into the changes can be performed has failed to win the support of the House of Commons

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Locked-down teens flock to NCSC CyberFirst training scheme

  A record number of 14 to 17-year-olds have signed up to the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst summer school

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Sodinokibi gang begins dark web celebrity data auctions

  Group claims to be auctioning confidential legal data on pop stars Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and basketball player LeBron James

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Why management must set long-term objectives for digital journeys

  There is no quick return on investment and some projects may pose huge business risks, but business executives need to hold their nerve

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  UK’s unsung cyber security heroes sought

  Nominations have opened for the fifth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Zoom making progress on cyber security and privacy, says CEO

  Three months after being hit by a spate of security incidents, Zoom’s CEO, Eric Yuan, has been discussing progress towards a more secure product

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

  Transforming legacy systems, making use of real-time data and exploring emerging technologies are high on the agenda for the logistics giant’s IT team

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Remote workers more aware of security, but still flout the rules

  Almost three-quarters of remote workers reckon they have gained in cyber security awareness during lockdown, but don’t seem to be especially bothered about keeping themselves safe

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

  Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Mysterious EvilQuest macOS ransomware spreads through torrents

  A new strain of ransomware, dubbed EvilQuest, is threatening Apple Mac environments, and seems to behave quite oddly

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  UK government announces Office for Talent

  The Office for Talent is part of a research and development roadmap, which includes an innovation programme to accelerate innovation in government

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  How Propre eases its database management woes

  Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  FakeSpy Android malware targets Royal Mail app users

  The FakeSpy malware was first identified in October 2017 but is now significantly more powerful and dangerous

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  ReversingLabs makes over 100 Yara rules publicly available

  Threat intelligence specialist is making its IP available on GitHub to support malware hunters in their work

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  HMRC and Treasury accused of ‘direct interference’ in independent loan charge review

  Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group report pours scorn on claims that December 2019 review of government’s disguised renumeration policy was conducted independently

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

  Business will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  The Security Interviews: What CISOs can learn from Covid-19

  Mike Lloyd, CTO at Redseal, holds 21 cyber security patents and a PhD in stochastic epidemic modelling from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, so is probably the man to talk to when it comes to cyber security in the world of Covid-19

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Complex security estates hinder incident response

  The more disparate security tools in use in an organisation, the harder it becomes to mount an effective incident response

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  MPs urged to back Finance Bill amendments to loan charge policy

  Loan Charge Action Group urges its members to ask their MPs to support an amendment to the controversial loan charge policy that could see more people fall outside its scope

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Phishing back in vogue as ransomware vector

  Researchers have observed an increase in phishing as a means to deliver ransomware payloads – and organisations don’t appear to be prepared

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Go lean and embrace partnerships to plot a path for recovery

  Starting with the lean principle of a minimum viable product, CIOs should aim to partner with outsourcers and IT suppliers to deliver business value

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Evil Corp’s latest ransomware project spreading fast

  A new ransomware strain dubbed WastedLocker is spreading rapidly and targeting major corporations

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Post-pandemic security market still set for growth, but slower

  Frost & Sullivan report says the global security industry will withstand the economic crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but growth will be slower for a few years

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Out of date security laws leave UK plc at risk during pandemic

  The CyberUp coalition has written to Boris Johnson to urge him to reform the UK’s 30 year-old cyber crime laws

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Airports deploy thermal cameras to control Covid-19, science suggests it’s merely ‘safety theatre’

  UK airports are rolling out thermal surveillance cameras to identify people who may have coronavirus, but science says the technology is ineffective at detecting and preventing the spread of the disease

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  95% of North American CIOs report remote work issues during lockdown

  Employee password lockouts and inability to access on-premise applications were among the top challenges faced by CIOs in keeping remote workers up and running during lockdown

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Cyber crime landscape evolving as lockdown eases

  As some countries begin to gradually ease Covid-19 lockdown measures, cyber criminals’ tactics are changing, but the pandemic remains a tempting lure

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  NHSX seeks evolution of digital transformation capabilities

  New approaches and team structures could be tested as a result of learnings from the work around Covid-19

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud

  Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale”

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  EU judges GDPR an overall success, but changes still needed

  Two years after its implementation, an EU report says that the GDPR is achieving what it set out to do, with a few reservations

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Firm that investigated controversial Post Office IT system to support criminal conviction appeals

  Second Sight is working with law firm in appeals by subpostmasters against criminal convictions in Horizon IT scandal

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Brits will sell their personal data for pennies

  Surprising findings from an Okta report on digital identity suggest Brits would be willing to part with valuable personal data for a surprisingly low amount

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Google opens Jakarta cloud region amid Indonesia’s booming digital economy

  Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lends weight to online launch event, underscoring cloud supplier’s resolve to carve out a bigger slice of the country’s fast-growing public cloud market

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Why IT needs to align with people

  IT has always strived to align with the business, but recent research has found that users are struggling to take on tech innovations

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Neurodiversity on the rise among career hackers

  More diverse hackers enhance the ability of both traditional and cutting-edge cyber security solutions to find and fix vulnerabilities, according to a new report from Bugcrowd

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Twitter contacts business users over data exposure

  Issue relates to how web browsers cached confidential data entered in Twitter’s ads and analytics services, but is unlikely to have resulted in compromise

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Flash-based MacOS malware hides in plain sight

  By masquerading as a legitimate Adobe web application, the new malware strains can trick Mac users into bypassing their on-board defences

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Concern over digital risk falls dramatically during pandemic

  Brits are understandably more worried about the NHS than personal cyber security

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Huawei to invest S$5m in Singapore to boost tech ecosystem

  Huawei is pumping in S$5m this year to develop joint partner offerings in Singapore with a focus on artificial intelligence

• June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20

  Government to publish digital strategy this autumn

  Strategy will set out how to increase tech-led economic growth and productivity after the Covid-19 pandemic, says digital secretary Oliver Dowden

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Eurostar to roll out facial recognition for ‘passport-free’ travel to Europe

  Facial recognition will make passports on the Eurotunnel an option rather than a necessity, but privacy campaigners have questioned whether gathering biometric data on passengers is necessary

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Inside Lenovo’s transition to a solutions provider

  Lenovo’s long-term transformation from a primarily hardware supplier to an IT solutions provider is progressing, but the journey isn’t over yet

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  EU-backed bid to build data preservation cloud for European research community gathers pace

  The Archiver project, which aims to create a hybrid cloud-based data preservation environment for scientific researchers across Europe, has named the ICT suppliers in the running to deliver on its vision

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Cisco patches dangerous Webex vulnerability

  CVE-2020-3347 bug enables cyber criminals to steal meeting records from within Cisco’s Webex service

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  US buildings firm saves big on HDDs with Nasuni cloud NAS

  APi Group dumps first-generation file sharing for Nasuni, which allowed it to save ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ with standard hardware deployments and cutting local storage

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  SAP sharpens vertical focus with Industry Cloud

  SAP partners will be able to design, build, test and validate their industry-specific offerings with a new business process and technology platform

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Check Point uncovers targeted Microsoft Office 365 phishing campaign

  Organised criminal campaign exploited Adobe, Oxford University and Samsung web domains to trick users into giving up their passwords

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Zoom U-turns on end-to-end encryption

  Embattled video-conferencing provider Zoom backtracks on previous refusals to provide end-to-end encryption to free users

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Cosmetics company Avon offline after cyber attack

  Representatives left unable to place orders after company’s back-end systems went offline over a week ago

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  HPE aims to hit right note for 5G with edge orchestrator

  Tech firm says new release gives power back to telcos to offer value-added edge computing services such as AI-powered video analytics, industrial automation and VR retail services