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• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  New normal sees SASE, SD-WAN surge as MPLS is phased out

  Research confirms that MPLS is ‘out’ and SD-WAN and SASE systems are the clear winners in enterprise networking as more and more European organisations are eliminating all on-prem datacentres, with cloud adoption steaming ahead

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Majority of UK employees prefer hybrid work

  Survey reveals the importance of hybrid working and shows a degree of WFH fatigue following Omicron, with firms assessing when it will be possible to return to in-person work

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  MoJ faces ICO enforcement over subject access requests backlog

  Ministry of Justice receives enforcement notice from information commissioner over ‘substantial’ backlog of subject access requests described as being of ‘significant concern’

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Scam losses in Australia hit record high

  Australians lost a record A$323.7m to scams last year, with investment and romance scams accounting for the bulk of their losses

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Ransomware attacks dropped 37% in December, claims NCC

  Latest monthly data reveals a significant decline in ransomware attacks at the end of 2021, but a new, emergent gang is making waves

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Government ‘has nothing against’ paying 555 subpostmasters fair compensation

  Government officials are open to finding a way to properly compensate victims of the Horizon scandal without setting a dangerous legal precedent

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Updated cyber security regulations proposed for managed services sector

  The Network and Information Systems regulations are to be updated to include MSPs and outsourcers, following a spate of supply chain attacks

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Data of 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross attack

  The International Committee of the Red Cross is probing a cyber attack that has already seen the personal data of hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people compromised

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Police Digital Service offers £50m contract for Tetra products and services

  Delivery vehicle for the UK’s National Policing Digital Strategy announces major procurement contract for comms services and technologies

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows advances in malicious implants

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows evident technical improvements over others, making it a more dangerous threat to organisations. It is being used by Chinese state-backed actors

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Advantages of traditional banks are weakening amid digital challenge, says FCA

  Weakening of the advantages enjoyed by traditional banks over the years is “driven by digital innovation and changing consumer behaviour”, says regulator

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Zopa Bank hits £1bn deposits in just 18 months

  Bank has seen rapid growth since its launch and has set ambitious targets for the next 12 months

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Delayed pay: Umbrella company cyber attacks disrupt salary payments to thousands of contractors

  Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  UK parliamentary committee casts doubt on government’s gigabit connectivity targets

  UK parliamentary committee pours scorn on Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s confidence in meeting targets for gigabit connectivity

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  NCSC for Startups programme seeks ransomware-busters

  Innovative ideas for ransomware-busting technology are being sought by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and startup incubator Plexal

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  UK SMEs to receive tech skills and software boost

  A new government scheme aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and sales online has opened for applications

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Singapore to tighten digital banking security

  Banks in Singapore will have to put in place more stringent measures to combat the rise in online phishing scams targeted at bank customers in the city-state

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Government funds charity campaign to warn big tech over the risks of encryption to children

  Barnardo’s and other charities begin a government-backed PR campaign to warn of the dangers end-to-end encryption poses to child safety, which has been criticised as being ‘one-sided’

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  LTE still has legs with permanent roaming IoT connections to reach 825 million by 2026

  Study from Kaleido Intelligence reveals significant demand for monitoring and telemetry-based internet of things applications to drive 27% CAGR in permanent roaming IoT connections

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Around 65% of tech recruiters say there’s bias in the hiring process

  Those responsible for recruiting developers worldwide have admitted that bias during the hiring process is an issue

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Verizon, AWS take mobile edge to 30% more US metro area locations

  Communications and cloud giants extend reach of mobile edge computing footprint in the US and announce deployment for drone and energy management applications

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance

  Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Danish digitisation partnership delivers plan to government

  Public-private collaboration submits plan setting out “how Denmark can take advantage of the opportunities presented by digitisation moving forward into the future”

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Investigators find Beijing 2022 app riddled with security flaws

  Security flaws in Olympic app may put personal health data at risk of compromise in a man-in-the-middle attack

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Vodafone switches on first UK 5G Open RAN site

  Vodafone teams with Samsung Networks Europe to switch on the UK’s first Open RAN site to carry live 5G traffic, marking a milestone in the commercial deployment of Open RAN network architectures in Europe, with more than 2,500 additional sites to ...

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Content removal will not stop misinformation, says Royal Society

  Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Twelve million jobs to be lost to automation in Europe by 2040

  Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Chasm exists between ‘true’ and portfolio SASE approaches

  Survey of enterprise IT leaders finds little difference between respondents without SASE and those who adopted SASE product portfolios regarding issues such as trade-offs between performance and security

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Aldi launches grab-and-go test store in London

  Discount supermarket brand Aldi has launched a checkout-free concept store in London to test contact-free shopping

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Arizona State University taps Verizon for 5G Innovation Hub

  Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute services enable researchers to develop and test real-world solutions to enhance immersive education, remote learning, virtual reality and data analytics

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  IT teams blind to Kubernetes observability

  The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Trellix looks to democratise access to XDR in APAC

  The company formed from the merger of FireEye Enterprise and McAfee will team up with managed service providers, among other efforts, to democratise access to extended detection and response capabilities in the region

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Trellix XDR platform forged out of McAfee, FireEye union

  The private equity owners of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye are merging the companies into a new entity to ‘define the future’ of cyber security through XDR technology

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  ‘Robust’ market opportunities ‘still abound’ in SD-WAN

  Research reveals demand for cloud agility and cross-enterprise visibility, and that the integration of enterprise-grade 5G will continue to drive opportunities in software-defined wide area networks

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Exium, Teneo team to deliver digital experience, 5G-capable SASE platform

  Work-from-anywhere IT services company and cyber security provider enter into partnership to assist lean enterprise IT teams in their transition to a secure access service edge

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Nordic fintech to use Google-inspired core banking from Thought Machine

  Nordic fintech Lunar is modernising its banking platform as it sets out to expand free of the limitations of its current systems

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Jisc selects Neos Networks for gigabit fibre network serving north-west England

  Business connectivity provider strikes partnership to connect major universities and research centres in Liverpool and Manchester to gigabit-capable fibre network offering up to 100Gbps connections and 10-fold increases

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Amazon puts UK Visa ban on hold

  Online retail giant Amazon continues to allow UK Visa credit card payments as negotiations over fees with the card provider continue

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Police take down VPN linked to multiple ransomware hits

  German police led a multinational effort to seize and take down the LabVPN service, which was allegedly used by cyber criminals to facilitate ransomware attacks

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Government widens subpostmaster miscarriage of justice compensation

  Government changes its position in billion-pound Horizon scandal compensation

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Cobalt Strike still C2 infrastructure of choice

  Its utility and ease of use, coupled with explosive growth in ransomware actions, makes Cobalt Strike Team Servers the C2 infrastructure of choice for malicious actors

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Test police algorithms in court rather than legislate, Lords told

  Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  CityFibre extends full-fibre in Aberdeen

  Granite City sees rock-solid gigabit connectivity in £19m expansion of full-fibre network to homes and businesses in the Aberdeen area

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  International Space Station gets connected on SpaceDataHighway

  SpaceDataHighway deploys space laser communications to increase the operational flexibility of ISS, allowing more astronauts, scientists and researchers to benefit from a direct link with Europe

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  ‘Russian-backed’ hackers defaced Ukrainian websites as cover for dangerous malware attack

  Kiev claims that a hacking group in Belarus – a close ally of Russia – was responsible for hacking Ukrainian government websites amid threats of military action

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Automation and interoperability key to UK’s digital energy plans

  Energy Digitalisation Taskforce recommends that policy-makers and regulators drive open standards across the energy sector

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Connexin switches on full-fibre broadband network in Hull

  So-called ‘disruptive’ communications company specialising in building and operating smart city infrastructure connects first customer to full-fibre network in East Yorkshire

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Top three questions about the Log4j vulnerability

  Singapore’s Ensign Infosecurity answers the top three questions about the impact of the Log4j vulnerability

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage

  Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Nato offers tech support after 'massive cyber attack' hits Ukraine

  Speculation mounts that Russia is behind a cyber attack which defaced Ukrainian government websites amid growing international tension