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• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Strategic Review of Policing: Police tech needs better ethical scrutiny

  The Strategic Review of Policing confirms the central role that tech will be playing going forward, but warns of the need for greater ethical scrutiny to ensure public trust

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  China’s APT41 exploited Log4j within hours

  APT41 compromised multiple government organisations via the Log4Shell exploit within hours of its initial disclosure, Mandiant claims

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  iPhone SE set to fuel global 5G device expansion

  New mid-range 5G device in flagship range projected to spur adoption of next-generation network services in developed and emerging markets alike

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Microsoft serves up three zero-days on March Patch Tuesday

  Three zero-days pop up in Microsoft’s March update, along with a number of other noteworthy concerns for defenders

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Uptime Institute debuts online tool to showcase datacentre industry career opportunities

  Uptime Institute has unveiled a new tool, geared towards showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the datacentre industry

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Glide connects Proximity Edge 8 datacentre to Birmingham dark fibre ring

  Second-city initiative with infrastructure and utilities business designed to bring increased diversity and additional low-latency connectivity options to edge colocation customers

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Gartner: How to retain and motivate IT staff

  With the return to office-based working, large numbers of IT employees are quitting. Flexible working and understanding their motivation are key to staff retention

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  EE deploys small cell technology to boost UK mobile quality

  BT-owned UK mobile network teams with Nokia to deploy small cell technology and improve 4G coverage in busiest areas of UK

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Google buys Mandiant for £4bn

  Acquisition will see cyber defence and threat intelligence specialist folded into Google Cloud’s security suite

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Orange Spain announces merger plans with MásMóvíl

  Leading telco aims to enhance its Spanish reach in joint venture, but fears emerge of anti-trust uncertainty in bid to consolidate Spanish telecoms market, leading to potential 18-month delay in completion

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Amazon resists independent audit of warehouse working conditions

  Two shareholder proposals pushing for an independent audit of working conditions at Amazon are being challenged by the ecommerce giant, which claims it is a matter for management rather than shareholders

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Horizon inquiry hearing sheds light on subpostmaster federation’s role in hushing up IT problems

  A National Federation for Subpostmasters official had huge unexplained loss written off by Post Office despite many in the same position being convicted for crimes they didn't commit

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Limelight gains large CDN scale with Edgecast acquisition

  Leading CDN provider gains extra scale with strategic purchase, claiming to have created global leader in edge-enabled software services with diversified revenue across products, clients, geographies and channels

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Accelerating full-fibre gigabit growth sees UK altnet association start 2022 on strong note

  Independent Networks Cooperative Association enjoys continued membership boom as altnets maintain momentum in UK after several years of record investment

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Challenges for IT providers as Ukraine crisis worsens

  Many IT providers have ceased sales to Russia, but cloud services can operate and be delivered anywhere, helping – indirectly – to fund the invasion

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Government publishes update on plan to tackle legacy IT

  A Cabinet Office report outlines progress around areas such as new structures and leadership to address the issue of legacy IT

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  UK government forges closer links with Japan, proposes laws to accelerate mobile

  Agreement with Japan aims for closer cooperation to solve global telecoms supply chain issues, including support for R&D collaboration on future tech such as Open RAN and 6G

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Deutsche Bank tests IT operation resilience amid potential loss of Russian centre

  German bank is confident the possible loss of operations in Russia will not affect the day-to-day running of its business

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Micron 7450 aims its 176 TLC layers at QLC flash use cases

  New 176-layer tech brings densely packed flash cells in drives that come in 2.5”, M.2 and EDSFF form factors, aimed at datacentre workloads from archive to database storage

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  NHS AI framework offers decision support for stroke diagnosis

  Procurement framework aims to help hospitals gain access to pioneering AI-powered image analysis for stroke detection

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Ukraine joins Nato cyber knowledge hub

  Ukraine is to become a contributing participant in Nato’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  Ukrainian engineers fight to keep internet online

  IT professionals in Ukraine are working tirelessly and at great risk to keep the country connected to the internet during the Russian invasion

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move

  The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Scrapping NHS Digital a backward step for patient data rights

  Former NHS Digital chair Kingsley Manning has spoken out over proposals to fold NHS Digital into NHS England, saying that more oversight is needed to safeguard patient data in light of recent events

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Diversity and inclusion in STEM – data, culture and social benefit

  In a recent government Science and Technology Committee meeting, a number of experts shared their opinions on the current barriers to increasing diversity in STEM, as well as ways the sector can move past them

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SAP and Oracle express solidarity with Ukraine against Russia

  SAP and Oracle suspend operations in the Russian Federation after expressing solidarity with Ukraine in the face of the war against it being conducted by Russia

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Boardroom does not see ransomware as a priority

  Less than a quarter of company directors think ransomware is a top priority for their security teams, according to Egress

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Post Office warned of software flaw in 2006, but failed to alert subpostmaster network

  The Post Office and Fujitsu failed to alert subpostmasters to a software error that caused them to be wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Nato Cyber Security unit tests post-quantum VPN

  Nato’s Cyber Security Centre has successfully tested secure communication flows in a post-quantum world using a UK-designed VPN

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Direct action is a risky business for Ukraine's volunteer hackers

  Hackers have been responding to Ukraine’s call to create an IT army, but there are many reasons why taking direct action in a kinetic conflict is a bad idea

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Use of encrypted Telegram platform soars in Ukraine, Russia

  Encrypted messaging service Telegram is proving a valuable asset to both sides in Russia’s war on Ukraine

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SingHealth researchers to get new supercomputer

  Healthcare researchers at SingHealth can look forward to a new supercomputer to support their work

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Gothenburg University makes breakthrough in energy efficient computers

  Swedish and Japanese universities make advancement in the development of computers that can work as energy efficiently as a brain

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  MWC 2022: AT&T looks to the cloud to gain edge in 5G

  Leading US network provider reaches out to communications industry ecosystem to strengthen next-generation infrastructure offer, encompassing edge and private networking, cloud and 5G massive MIMO technology

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Orange to phase out 2G and 3G by the end of the decade

  Orange becomes latest mobile network operator to use spectrum for 4G, 5G and other future services, making transition in what it says will be a seamless and balanced two-step approach, with one technology to be switched off by 2025 and the other by ...

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Middle East IT spending to recover to at least pre-pandemic levels

  Middle East IT leaders expect budgets to increase this year, with spending to match or exceed pre-Covid levels

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Eight schools recognised for quality security education

  Eight new schools and colleges around the UK have been recognised by the NCSC’s CyberFirst Schools initiative

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Raspberry Pi at 10: Cheaper than chips

  We speak to the founder of Raspberry Pi about the power of a low-cost device and its appeal as an educational tool and for space-age projects

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Cyber companies step up support for Ukraine

  Security companies Bitdefender and Vectra AI are both to offer products and services in support of Ukraine

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  How FinOps can rein in cloud costs

  More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  SunSeed malware hits those involved in Ukraine refugee relief

  European governments involved in managing the logistics of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine have been targeted by a suspected state-backed actor

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Ban predictive policing systems in EU AI Act, says civil society

  A coalition of civil society groups has called on European lawmakers to use the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act as an opportunity to ban predictive policing systems

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Toyota production to resume after supply chain attack

  Toyota production has been set back by over 10,000 vehicles following a cyber attack on a critical components supplier in Japan

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  BBC blasted with millions of malicious emails

  Responding to an FoI request, the BBC has revealed it receives more than 300,000 malicious email attacks every day

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  DCMS opens consultation on telecoms cyber standards

  Proposed rules will set out the specific measures telecoms providers need to take to fulfil their legal duties under the Telecommunications Security Act

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  ESET details new IsaacWiper malware used on Ukraine

  Having been among the first to report on the HermeticWiper malware used against Ukraine last week, ESET has now identified another destructive malware called IsaacWiper

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  MWC 2022: Huawei unveils innovation for 5Gigaverse, IntelligentRAN architecture

  Chinese tech provider reveals a range of 5G transmission equipment, promising innovation in Massive MIMO and frequency division duplex ultra-wideband multi-antennas, offering improvements in network performance and energy efficiency

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Workplace surveillance ‘spiralling out of control’, says TUC

  Trade union body pushes for workers to be consulted on the implementation of new technologies at work, warning that invasive surveillance practices are getting out of hand

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  MWC 2022: Telefónica boosts cloud cover with AWS, Microsoft

  Hot on the heels of the operator inking a cloud sourcing deal with arch rival AWS, leading Spain-based telco Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to expand their global collaboration