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April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak

Researchers at VPN firm Surfshark have been analysing data on 533 million people leaked from Facebook
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
IT leaders get the green light to spend on digitisation

According to Gartner, the pandemic has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda, and long-term IT integration is key to success
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
Loan Charge Group MPs demand IR35 shake-up to stop contractors becoming ‘zero-rights employees’

Inquiry by Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group calls on government to tweak IR35 legislation during passage of next Finance Bill
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
CIO interview: Nitin Chaturvedi, chief digital and technology officer, KFC Global

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the digital element of KFC’s business becoming increasingly important, says the fast food retailer’s chief digital and technology officer
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
NCSC: Using your pet’s name as a password is very stupid

If your email password is still Rex, Rover or Mr Fluffles, it’s probably best to change it, the NCSC has said
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
Fujitsu, Trend Micro team to secure private 5G

Security and IT leaders Fujitsu and Trend Micro announce streamlined security product for IoT devices and networks to help accelerate manufacturing digital transformation
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
Tech industry sees surge in remote working job postings

Pandemic drives an increase in demand for “work anywhere” jobs and hybrid skills, research says
April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21
Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug

A long-disclosed vulnerability in Fortinet’s Fortigate VPN servers is being exploited to distribute Cring ransomware

April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Nokia announces next evolution of 5G microwave transport portfolio

Just as it announced a project with Intel to develop processors with improved speeds and throughput, the comms tech provider has turned its attention to transport solutions
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Discuss.io unveils mobile screen share app to gain insight on real-time experiences

Integrated into smart video platform, new mobile app expands the virtual and mobile capabilities of qualitative interviews for UX, insights and e-commerce professionals
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Microsoft accused of stifling secondhand software market

In 2012, UsedSoft won a case for second user software, which has enabled the market to grow across Europe. But it is now under threat
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
IR35 reforms: MPs call on government to clean up UK’s ‘wild west’ contracting labour supply chain

A 200-strong group of MPs is calling for urgent action from the government to protect contractors from the dubious practices of non-compliant umbrella companies and badly behaved employment agencies just days after private sector IR35 reforms came ...
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Post Office Horizon contract extension is part of project to bring Fujitsu work in-house

The Post Office is to move work done by Fujitsu in-house when its outsourcing contract ends, and is already recruiting IT experts

April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Nation-state cyber attacks double in three years

Cyber attacks backed by nation states are becoming more frequent and varied, moving the world closer to a point of ‘advanced cyber-conflict’, according to a University of Surrey research project
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
HMRC signs reworked, three-year public cloud deal with AWS worth £94m

HMRC has ripped up and replaced its deal with AWS several months after signing it to tap into cost-savings on Amazon cloud services via the One Government Value Agreement
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Brighton rocks as EE targets tourist locations for growing 5G net

EE is switching on next-generation network capability in 35 new UK towns and cities, with outdoor 5G coverage to some popular tourist spots
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Future working models at big banks begin to fall into place

Banks traditionally lead the way in technology adoption, but what can businesses take from their post-Covid-19 remote-working strategies?
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
CIO interview: Gary Delooze, CIO, Nationwide

Building society’s CIO talks about building a technology strategy, working with the rest of the business and the Covid-19 pandemic
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users

One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
IBM Cloud for Financial Services goes on general release

IBM Cloud’s push to provide sector-specific public cloud services to financial services firms enters a new phase
April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21
Inside Microsoft’s industry cloud strategy

Microsoft dives deeper into its industry cloud strategy and what it means for enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Deliveroo riders strike over pay and work conditions

Riders across the country are demanding fair pay, safety protections and basic workers’ rights pay on Deliveroo’s first day of trading as a public company
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak

Facebook gives its side of the story as data on millions of its users leaks, but is yet to apologise for security lapses that put half a billion people at risk of compromise
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
More than two-thirds of staff want flexible working to stay

Microsoft research finds 71% of UK workers want flexible work options to remain after the Covid crisis has passed and one-third are likely to move to a new location in the next year because they can work remotely
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
A billion extra contactless payments in year since limit increase

Visa said there was an extra one billion contactless payments made by its customers last year
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Businesses need to heed employee bounce in hybrid workplace

Workplace tech firm releases study showing how firms are grappling with the depth and breadth of the return-to-office process and unveils new platform to help enable an effective hybrid workplace
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Digital Markets Unit starts work on codes of conduct for tech giants

Digital markets regulator officially launched to ensure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Post Office gives controversial Fujitsu contract another year

The Post Office's controversial contract with Fujitsu has been extended another year to help the organisation manage its exit
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Over a quarter of C-suites say their hybrid work model won’t be ready until 2022

Survey reveals few companies have got in place, or even established, norms and policies to address the new world of hybrid working
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
5G Future Forum calls for members

Hoping to provide “a beacon of opportunities previously untapped”, 5G Future Forum is seeking new members to bolster ecosystem of expanded 5G partnerships and establish global edge market that drives innovation, collaboration and competition
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Irish employees’ ‘right to disconnect’ enshrined in code of practice

A code of practice giving employees the ‘right to disconnect’ from work and not engage in electronic communications outside of their normal hours has come into effect in Ireland
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint

Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
Unpatched SAP applications are target-rich ground for hackers

Report from SAP and cyber threat research company Onapsis warns that hackers are attacking mission-critical SAP business applications that contain unpatched vulnerabilities
April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21
VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
Demands for changes to ‘barmy’ rules on digital evidence have government’s ear

The government is listening to calls for changes in how digital evidence is considered in court, as Post Office IT scandal spells out current rule's inadequacy
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR

Regulators may be unable to do much about leaked data on 533 million Facebook users, as it seems to have been stolen before GDPR came into force
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
Firms balance new tech deployment, security and skills as IT moves past pandemic

Sunburst cyber attack rubs salt into the wounds of firms struggling to cope with the new demands on networks in the post-Covid working environment, says survey
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
CDDO will assess delivery of government digital projects

Government Digital Service boss Tom Read and the government’s Central Digital and Data Office executive director Joanna Davinson reveal next steps for digital, data and technology in government
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
Verizon and AWS team on private MEC to bring enterprises an edge

Partnership forged to allow enterprises to deploy a dedicated, private edge compute platform fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon 5G private networks to improve productivity, safety and operational efficiencies
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
US court issues Google API with Java ruling

US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
IR35 reforms: Private sector start date prompts mixed picture of predictions for contracting market

The IR35 tax avoidance reforms take hold in the private sector, prompting a mixed picture of predictions from stakeholders about what the future holds for contractors in the UK
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
GDS seeks director for identity assurance programme

The new leader will be focused on efforts to deliver a single digital identity system for online public services
April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21
Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications
April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21
How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments
April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21
Clearer service information could add 1.6 million full-fibre homes by 2025

Report finds that the speed at which Britain could benefit from the economic and social impact of billions of pounds of full-fibre infrastructure investment could be improved by clear labelling and information on broadband services
April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21
EncroChat hearings delayed as lawyers seek disclosure on police hacking

Court hearings precipitated by police cracking the EncroChat secure mobile phone network have been delayed after defence lawyers request further disclosures on police decryption capabilities
April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21
2020 network upstream growth rate nearly 4x pre-pandemic levels

OpenVault study shows the impact of business hours increases and individual subscriber behaviour on upstream capacity is putting unprecedented strain on network operators
April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21
IR35 reforms: Loan charge and employers’ NI issues prompt calls for legislative revamp

As the government prepares to extend the IR35 reforms to the private sector, contracting stakeholders say it is high time the ‘flawed’ legislation was scrapped entirely
April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21
Project Monterey returns to haunt IBM and Red Hat

A tech initiative from the late 1990s has become IBM’s nemesis, as the owner of UnixWare and OpenServer file a copyright complaint