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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme
The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers
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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
MPs call on PM to commit to full public inquiry into Post Office Horizon IT scandal
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to investigate the Horizon IT system and will question Post Office executives over subpostmasters wrongly accused of fraud
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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
5G security is a concern for most companies
A study has found that decision-makers fear that 5G technology will make organisations more vulnerable to cyber attacks and will raise security-related costs
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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam
Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications
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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
Interview: Building a robot to navigate the high seas
In 1620, the Mayflower set sail to the New World. We speak to the tech lead of an autonomous ship that has been built to make the same voyage
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March 04, 2020
04
Mar'20
F-Secure reports a steep rise in hacking attempts
An increase in distributed denial of service attacks pushes up the volume of identified rogue internet traffic to almost three billion
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
Horangi and Tokio Marine team up on cyber security services
Singapore-based Horangi will provide penetration testing, among other cyber security services, to Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore’s cyber risk insurance clients
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
Industry group launched to develop standards for fibre deployment in sewer network
Water utilities companies are working with SSE Enterprise Telecoms to deploy fibre in the sewers, as well as transform the sewage system into a “smart wastewater network”
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
NCSC issues smart camera security guidance to protect consumers from unauthorised snoops
Government’s latest push to safeguard users of in-home connected devices sees National Cyber Security Centre issue guidance to help consumers tighten up security of smart cameras and baby monitors
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
MPs double down on criticism of HMRC's loan charge enforcement action report
The war of words between the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and HMRC has deepened, as the cross-party group of MPs pens three-page letter outlining its issues with how tax agency is reporting on its enforcement activities
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
Lack of leadership stifles collaboration initiatives
IT and business leaders say they want to encourage collaborative working, but there is little support from senior management
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March 03, 2020
03
Mar'20
Singapore among world’s top sources of online threats
Singapore remained a hotspot for originating cyber attacks in 2019, with 11 million attacks launched from servers in the city-state
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
HMRC CEO denies it is ‘deliberately misleading’ public over loan scheme promoter arrests
HMRC CEO Jim Harra has “strongly rejected” claims made on social media by the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group of cross-party MPs that it is “deliberately misleading” the public about its recent loan scheme-related enforcement activities
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
NHSX appoints chief information officer
Sonia Patel is the latest senior appointment at the digital unit of the National Health Service
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
Nordic lessons on digital transformation
Swedish financial services firm reports a successful IT outsourcing project with India-based IT services company
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
The Security Interviews: Inside the world of bug bounties
You may not make a million as a bug bounty hunter, but you might help remove some of the stigma that persists around cyber security, says HackerOne’s Shlomie Liberow
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
Volvo Group motors beyond annual performance review with Cornerstone
Volvo Group has broken with its traditional annual performance review process in order to stoke entrepreneurialism, says Bahar Rasouli, director of global people performance
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
Boris Johnson’s commitment to inquiry into Post Office scandal in doubt
Boris Johnson’s apparent commitment to a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is not so certain
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March 02, 2020
02
Mar'20
How Asia’s tech firms are helping to stem the Covid-19 outbreak
Data analytics and robots are being deployed in China and other Asian countries that have been hardest hit by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak
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March 01, 2020
01
Mar'20
Data breaches in Australia showing no signs of abating
Compromised login credentials and human error were the most common causes of data breaches reported under Australia’s notifiable data breach regime from July to December 2019
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, chief product and technology officer, Addison Lee
At taxi and transport company Addison Lee, technology is focused around customer experience before worrying about datacentres, servers and what elements make up the IT infrastructure
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
NCSC makes ransomware attack guidance more accessible
Following a swathe of high-profile ransomware attacks, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has made changes to its guidance, emphasising the importance of offline backups
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
Student Loans Company to enlist IT suppliers for £200m transformation plan
Suppliers are being sought to support intended improvements to Student Loans Company's customer interface and technology estate
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
Government claims it was misled by Post Office over IT scandal
Minister says Post Office IT experts misled the government when it asked questions about subpostmasters’ concerns over Horizon IT system
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers
Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they?
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
Long, dark winters contribute to Finland’s advantage in video game development
Finland and Southern California are worlds apart at first glance, but both are leaders in video game development. We find out why.
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February 28, 2020
28
Feb'20
Coronavirus: Microsoft exits developer event and revises outlook
Microsoft has decided to run a digital-only event after announcing it would not be at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
WikiLeaks founder Assange is well enough to participate in extradition proceedings, says judge
A judge dismissed claims that Julian Assange’s vulnerable psychological state would prevent him from taking part in his extradition hearing to face espionage and computer misuse charges in the US
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Gove warns EU that UK sovereignty is non-negotiable on eve of trade deal talks
The UK and the EU have published their divergent mandates for trade talks due to start on Monday 2 March 2020, and digital may emerge as a long-term terrain of dispute
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
IBM seeks developers to tackle climate change with open source technology innovations
IBM and its ecosystem partners are calling on developers worldwide to help develop innovative technologies to help combat climate change
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
NHSX launches Tech Plan vision
The strategy will see a phased approach to the delivery of digitisation in the healthcare sector, with delivery kicking off this summer
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Clearview hack fuels debate over facial recognition
Customers of Clearview AI, a controversial startup that scrapes and sells billions of photos of people from social media to police forces, have found themselves at the centre of a major data breach
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Ericsson Spectrum Sharing now commercially available globally
Swisscom, Telstra, Ooredoo and Play are among global service providers confirmed to use Ericsson Spectrum Sharing to launch 5G on a nationwide scale
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Oxbotica on board with Cisco to drive autonomous vehicle data challenge
Connected car technology firm hits pedal with Cisco to solve data challenges of future autonomous vehicles
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
IR35 private sector reforms: Treasury review concludes no delay needed to April 2020 start date
Contracting groups describe HM Treasury’s highly anticipated review into the implementation of the IR35 reforms as “recklessly inadequate” as it concludes roll-out should proceed as planned
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
IR35 reforms: IT contractors warned off joining non-compliant umbrellas to avoid loan charge risk
Contracting stakeholders are calling on the government to do more to regulate umbrella companies ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into play, to prevent more contractors falling into the scope of the loan charge
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
5G now available in 378 cities globally
State of 5G deployments report reveals that as of January 2020, commercial 5G networks have been deployed in 378 cities across 34 countries
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Redcar & Cleveland Council confirms ransomware attack
Local authority’s systems are still offline nearly three weeks after being attacked
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Hidden cost of cloud puts brakes on migration projects
Lack of skills and complexities in rebuilding software for the cloud are among the main factors inhibiting cloud success
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Nokia claims end-to-end 4G and 5G New Radio slicing first
Finnish comms tech provider beefs up comms network essential equipment offer with 4G, 5G end-to-end slicing
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Finland launches free AI skills course for EU citizens as presidency parting gift
Finland is making a course in basic artificial intelligence available to citizens of all European Union countries
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices
Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs
Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too
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February 27, 2020
27
Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation
Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
Fake CDNs obscuring credit card fraudsters
Fake content delivery networks and ngrok servers are being pressed into service to obscure credit card skimming activities
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
Cloud Snooper firewall bypass may be work of nation state
Cloud Snooper deploys a combination of specialised techniques to sneak past enterprise firewalls, warns Sophos
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence to implement 5G
EY study finds 5G investment set to soar among British businesses, but the majority are not confident in their organisations’ ability to deploy 5G
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
NHSX publishes first progress report since launch
Digital unit for the National Health Service outlines achievements in areas such as the NHS App and artificial intelligence and gives clues about future milestones
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be legally extradited for ‘political offences’, say lawyers
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argue that he has been charged with political offences and cannot be legally extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
Samsung teams with comms tech leaders to set 5G speed benchmark
Samsung, Verizon, Motorola Mobility and Qualcomm deploy carrier aggregation and the latest 5G cell technology to achieve multi-gigabit speeds on a commercial smartphone connected to live 5G network