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• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Fake antivirus site promises coronavirus protection, delivers trojan

  Researchers at Malwarebytes have warned of an increasing volume of scam sites exploiting the Covid-19 coronavirus

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Russia presses ahead with developing 5G, but allocation of frequencies needs to be resolved first

  Russian mobile operators are pooling their resources to help them overcome the technical challenges of creating 5G networks

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

  With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  ETSI unveils augmented reality framework

  Industry specification group on augmented reality develops new specification to enable multi-supplier ecosystem for industry and consumers

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Fintechs create Covid Credit to help self-employed prove income loss

  Financial technology professionals have created a tool that will support self-employed people claiming financial relief from the government during the Covid-19 pandemic

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Tekya auto-clicker malware exploits kids’ Android apps

  Google has removed multiple apps for children that were found to contain Tekya auto-clicker malware

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Legacy AV defenceless against onslaught of evasive malware

  More than two-thirds of malware detected by WatchGuard in the last three months of 2019 was able to evade signature-based antivirus products, rendering them effectively useless in most instances

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: SK Telecom gives free assistance to police agency with location data analysis

  Korean telco’s big data analysis will be deployed to mitigate Covid-19 spread in the Gyeongbuk region

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Mobilising data science

  Policy-makers are calling on the global data science community to develop data models that can can help them better understand the Covid-19 transmission rate

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Nokia, LG Uplus build fully automated 5G IP transport network in Korea

  Finnish comms firm wins another Asian contract with Korean operator to improve speed of 5G service deployment

• March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Global VPN deployments rocket since 11 March

  Business virtual private network uptake has taken off over the past 10 days as global workforces become vastly more distributed

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: uncertainty for online retailers as some slump and others surge

  Online retailers face uncertainty as the Covid-19 coronavirus forces change in consumer shopping habits

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Post Office postpones subpostmaster compensation scheme amid Covid-19 crisis

  Scheme to compensate subpostmasters who suffered because of computer errors in the Post Office’s Horizon system is delayed

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Sellafield workers ordered to stay home as ‘controlled shutdown’ of site accelerates

  Staff email warns that “decisions” made now in response to coronavirus pandemic could have far-reaching consequences for ongoing efforts to decommission former nuclear power plant

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Internet capable of taking the strain but service prioritisation key

  With networks offering assurances they can cope with the millions of added users working from home, experts suggest that strict management of applications and services will be pivotal

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Kaspersky, Bitdefender make products free to NHS

  Kaspersky and Bitdefender have both made various products and services available free to healthcare customers as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic intensifies

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Spain to use artificial intelligence to automate testing

  Authorities in Spain have invested in robots to automate the testing of citizens for the Covid-19 coronavirus

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Thousands of Netflix, Disney+ streaming accounts being stolen

  Proofpoint has urged users of streaming services to be alert to cyber criminals hijacking their accounts

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: CCRC uses Microsoft Teams to consider subpostmaster appeals

  Criminal Cases Review Commission to use Microsoft Teams to ensure review of subpostmaster prosecutions is held on time

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: NHSX calls on tech sector to support Covid-19 effort

  Technology sector asked to develop new ways to help the NHS manage virus outbreak and support people who are most at risk

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Chunghwa Telecom selects Nokia, Ericsson for rapid 5G build-out

  Taiwanese operator taps Nordic comms giants for essential equipment in improving efficiency and user experience

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Interview: Jamil Farshchi, CISO, Equifax

  Equifax CISO Jamil Farshchi discusses public cloud and why it’s not something IT security professionals should be afraid of

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore’s JTC taps GIS platform in Punggol Digital District

  The planners behind Singapore’s Punggol Digital District are using a geographic information system to make better planning decisions and improve day-to-day operations

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: UK mobile operators discuss sharing crowd movement data with government

  Reports emerge of unprecedented cooperation between UK telcos and government to provide people-modelling data to prevent spread of coronavirus

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

  Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia

• March 22, 2020 22 Mar'20

  Cyber gangsters hit UK medical firm poised for work on coronavirus with Maze ransomware attack

  The Maze ransomware group has published personal and medical details of thousands of former patients of a London-based medical research company after a failed attempt to disable the firm's computer systems

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  UK Coronavirus Bill relaxes restrictions on mass surveillance powers

  Emergency legislation would massively expand state surveillance and police detainment powers

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Dstl launches report on the future of cities

  Dstl research aims to support decision-making of the UK military by analysing topics such as the influence of technology in urban warfare

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: BT reassures UK of network’s resilience

  Just a week after issuing assurances that its network was capable of dealing with the added load from vastly increased numbers of people working from home, BT issues further details on infrastructure resiliency

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: Sans Institute issues cyber security advice for parents

  With schools now shut across the UK, parents will bear more responsibility for keeping children safe online and educating them about online harms

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet

  Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  MP warns minister not to parrot civil servants’ lines on Post Office IT scandal

  MP Kevan Jones has warned a government minister not to repeat the mistakes of predecessors in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  EU telecoms operators granted permission for ‘fair’ management of online traffic

  EC and BEREC allow telcos unprecedented network traffic control to mitigate the effects of network congestion due to the massive increase in home working caused by the coronavirus

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

  Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  How an Estonian digital nation emerged from the embers of Soviet rule

  Estonia’s minister for foreign trade and IT tells Computer Weekly how the country went from having no governmental infrastructure in the early 1990s to acquiring the label “digital nation”

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Netflix downscales content resolution to ease strain on EU networks

  European Commission asks premier subscription video-on-demand service provider Netflix to lower quality of films to take strain from loaded EU networks

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ANZ firms to spend more on cyber security

  Over half of respondents in Australia and New Zealand plan to invest more in cyber security, especially in key areas such as data loss prevention

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  WBA assumes control of OpenRoaming standard

  Association set up to enable collaboration between service providers, technology companies and organisations in wireless industry to manage Cisco-produced technology for seamless Wi-Fi onboarding

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Employee computing emissions measured by only one-third of enterprises, Citrix research suggests

  Many large companies in the UK are not measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from employee computing, with just a quarter of managers viewing IT sustainability as a top priority for their organisation

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Volume of computer misuse incidents falling, says ONS

  Downward trend comes despite an overall increase in fraud, according to new statistics

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: NHS to roll out Microsoft Teams to hospitals

  Secure, cloud-based Microsoft collaboration tool Teams will be made available across the NHS, even those hospitals not on NHSMail

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Loan charge under review: Cross-party group of MPs slams government inquiry into tax policy

  The government’s independent inquiry into the loan charge disguised remuneration policy has been criticised in a report by a cross-party group of MPs for being ‘fundamentally flawed’

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Covid-19: NHS tackles coronavirus crisis with the help of tech

  As the pandemic grows and creates enormous pressure on the health service, NHS organisations across the country are using technology to help cope

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Covid-19: Three steps to remote working effectiveness

  Staff are going to have to work from home, if they can, for the foreseeable future. We look at steps to ensure they remain fit and productive

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Ocado pulls website amid coronavirus shopping frenzy

  Ocado has closed its website and will not take any new orders for several days thanks to sheer volume of traffic

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  UK facial recognition project to identify hidden faces

  A research project being conducted by UK universities in collaboration with the Home Office and Metropolitan Police could produce facial recognition systems that allows users of the technology to identify people with their faces covered

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Surrey goes live with child health system

  CSH Surrey goes live with its new platform, with the information on 440,000 children's health now consolidated onto a single platform

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Post Office executives used ‘grotesque predatory capitalism’ throughout Horizon IT scandal

  Labour MP Karl Turner tells Computer Weekly that the Post Office Horizon scandal is the most grotesque version of predatory capitalism he has ever seen