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• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Deutsche Telekom deploys converged packet core to boost enterprise 5G

  Leading German operator deploys cloud-native standalone core, marking key milestone in the evolution of 5G architecture with scale and flexibility required to deliver innovative 5G standalone services to enterprise customers

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Microsoft patches 64 vulnerabilities on September Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft drops fixes for five critical vulnerabilities and one zero-day in its latest monthly update

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Amdocs claims industry’s first 5G-native charging system

  5G- and cloud-native charging product will provide ‘endless’ monetisation opportunities for advanced standalone 5G and beyond, backed by proven multicloud deployment experience, says Amdocs

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  US to see huge increase in embedded finance transactions

  Retailers and other non-financial businesses are increasingly offering their customers financial services, such as credit and payment options

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  NCSC warns public of potential Queen-related phishing attacks

  The National Cyber Security Centre is urging users to be on guard against phishing attacks during the period of national mourning for the Queen

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  DDoS attacks on UK financial sector surged during Ukraine war

  A quarter of cyber security incidents reported to the Financial Conduct Authority in the first six months of 2022 involved DDoS, with a likely link to events in Ukraine

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

  VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  New networking era imminent as global internet bandwidth rises 28% in 2022

  TeleGeography’s Global Internet Geography research service shows continuing return to ‘normal’ following the pandemic-generated bump of 2020, as demand looks to quickly transcend terabyte measure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cloud compromise a doddle for threat actors as victims attest

  Two separate studies into the state of public cloud security reveal insight into the ease with which threat actors can compromise vast numbers of targets, and some of the challenges security teams are facing in the cloud

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Users warned over Azure Active Directory authentication flaw

  Secureworks researchers found what they say is a serious vulnerability in an Azure Active Directory authentication method, but Microsoft says it should not pose a serious risk to users

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cisco confirms leaked data was stolen in Yanluowang ransomware hit

  Cisco has confirmed that data leaked last week by the Yanluowang ransomware gang was that stolen during a May 2022 cyber attack

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Nokia boosts business software to enhance time to value

  Leading communications technology provider strengthens software portfolio to focus on security, automation and monetisation, while introducing digital ecosystem programme to accelerate innovation through collaboration with partners and customers

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  JP Morgan acquires fintech for payments modernisation

  JP Morgan acquires cloud-native payments technology as it modernises its IT infrastructure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Investment in UK fintech sees fall amid global turmoil

  Investment in fintech drops, but because figures are distorted by last year’s records, it’s not as bad as it looks, says KPMG

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  OVHcloud opens new datacentre in Strasbourg at site of March 2021 fire

  A year and a half after a fire at its datacentre campus in Strasbourg destroyed one of its facilities and damaged another, OVHcloud has opened a new server farm at the site

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Blancco works with charity to provide IT for African schools

  Blancco is providing data sanitisation and erasure software to The Turing Trust so that old IT equipment can be securely reused by school children in Sub-Saharan Africa, instead of adding to world’s growing e-waste problem

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Multi-persona impersonation adds new dimension to phishing

  Iranian APT used multiple personas on a single email thread to convince targets of the legitimacy of its phishing lures

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Verizon VRAN velocity gains as fibre pushed to almost half of cell sites

  Communications giant takes advantage of extensive fibre broadband network to support mobile infrastructure, which is seeing significant push into virtualised radio access network technology in cell sites

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Gigaclear selects EXFO fibre monitoring to assist rapid network expansion

  Developer of test, monitoring and analytics services engaged by UK ISP for remote fibre testing and monitoring offering to improve efficiency of deployment and fault identification

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Mandiant floats off into Google Cloud

  As planned, the acquisition of Mandiant will see the threat intel and incident response giant become a part of Google’s Cloud business

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Spaceflight takes Astrocast IoT constellation to orbit

  Global nanosatellite IoT network inks commercial arrangement with NewSpace India to launch four spacecraft aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle mission

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Contractors lack confidence in prime minister to follow through with promised IR35 review

  Contractor poll suggests lack of faith among freelancers about new prime minister Liz Truss honouring her pledge to review the IR35 rules

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Supporting roles make up 40% of Tech Nation visa endorsees

  A large number of the people endorsed to work in the UK with a Tech Nation Global Talent visa work in non-technical roles as part of the tech ecosystem

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Nokia, Telia Finland claim world-first commercial 5G SA FWA network with network slicing

  Finnish operator and compatriot comms technology giant announce the launch of world’s first commercial 5G standalone network with network slicing for fixed wireless access services

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Mistakenly transferred $504m to be returned to Citigroup

  Judge rules that creditors should return $504m that was accidentally transferred to them by Citigroup

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Tintri pushes for cloud and container storage with Tintri.io

  Tintri aims to leverage core technology in its products to meet the needs of containers and microservices with cloud versions of its on-premise appliances

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  NHS Business Services Authority goes to tender for £1.7bn HR system

  Organisation is looking for an integrated workforce solution for the NHS, which includes NHS electronic staff record services

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  How graph technology is making a dent in the database market

  Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  SAP users ramp up ESG efforts

  The UK & Ireland SAP User Group is developing a special interest group to help their members hit their ESG goals more effectively

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Lloyd’s of London is digitally transforming through the front door

  Centuries-old financial services organisation is transforming its complex IT infrastructure through digital data

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Full-fibre gathers pace as Lightning strikes across South East while CityFibre looks north

  East Sussex-based altnet spreads its wings across coastal regions of southern England with fibre offer into two neighbouring counties, as leading independent provider lands in Hartlepool

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Third of IT decision-makers rely on gut feel when choosing network operator

  Study from customer experience technology provider shows lack of transparency is cited as the most consistent quality failure of network providers

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Interview: Keeping an IT business going during the Russian invasion

  After heading home and discovering that his country had been invaded, Konstantin Klyagin was forced to make life-changing family and business decisions

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Singtel and Intel team up on 5G

  Singtel and Intel have started an incubation programme to spearhead the development of enterprise 5G applications in areas including content delivery and video analytics

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Sweden is ideal breeding ground for a direct-to-consumer unicorn

  Sweden’s socially driven technology prowess could soon yield an e-commerce unicorn digitising direct to customers

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  NCSC CyberUK event heads to Belfast in 2023

  National Cyber Security Centre’s annual CyberUK roadshow is crossing the Irish Sea to Belfast in April 2023

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  CGI gets ESA order to develop predictive routing tool for satellite constellations

  Tool will support increased need to equip satellite networks with software-defined networking to deliver simplified management, better end-to-end network automation support and streamlined delivery of network services

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  Chinese APT using PlugX malware on espionage targets

  China’s Bronze President APT is once again targeting government officials of interest to its paymasters, this time using forged diplomatic correspondence, according to the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  Dutch cyber security organisations to join forces

  Cyber security organisations in the Netherlands are going to merge into a single central expertise centre and information hub, which all organisations in the country will soon be able to tap into

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  The changing role of CIO in Sweden

  New technologies and evolving business models are changing the missions of IT leaders around the world – and in most cases, the result is slightly different from one country to another

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  NEC, Mavenir drive mMIMO through Open RAN on Orange France 5G SA

  IT and comms giant teams with cloud-native telecoms software provider to drive open and advanced radio access network functionality with deployment of massive MIMO on leading telco’s experimental 5G SA network in France

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  EE upgrades 5G network across 14 new UK locations

  BT-owned MNO extends mid-band next-generation network capability across 14 UK towns and cities to support the latest 5G smartphones and pay monthly mobile plans

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  India’s wake-up call on health data privacy

  Health app developers and industry watchers in India are keeping an eye on data privacy following the reversal of the Roe vs Wade ruling in the US

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Albania cuts diplomatic ties with Iran after cyber attack

  In a global geopolitical first, the Albanian government has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its ambassador after it was targeted by an APT backed by Tehran

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Minor League Baseball hits in-stadium connectivity to new level

  Cloud networking provider partners with Minor League Baseball to provide in-stadium tech and help its teams and players to become smarter and faster in improving their games and optimising the overall in-stadium experience

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Six UK-based startups among those chosen to participate in AWS Defence Accelerator

  Six out of the 10 startups that have secured places in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) inaugural defence market-focused accelerator programme are based in the UK

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Qualcomm adds bite to Snapdragon platform

  Just days after kicking off IFA show outlining plans to embed its Wi-Fi, 5G and satellite connectivity technology to drive connected experiences in a world that Qualcomm sees as one where everything is intelligent and everyone connected, chip giant ...

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Tech Nation Libra programme selects 35 scaleups for second cohort

  The Libra 2.0 programme is designed to help underrepresented founders in the UK who are growing and seeking specific support for scaling up their business