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• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Cyber security takes its place alongside UK’s armed services

  Head of armed services says cyber security will take its place alongside the army, navy and air force as a key pillar of the UK’s defence strategy

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  German government and connectivity tech firms lead project to boost optical capacity

  Government-industry consortium will explore technologies to expand the capacity of optical metro and core networks

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Great Cannon DDoS operation fires on Hong Kong protesters

  AT&T’s security unit has evidence that China is pressing its Great Cannon DDoS tool into service once again, specifically to target pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Two Russians indicted over Dridex and Zeus malware

  The US Department of Justice has indicted two Russian citizens over their alleged role in the distribution of the virulent Bugat, or Dridex, and Zeus banking trojans

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  London mayor Sadiq Khan opens Salesforce’s Ohana floor

  Opening coincides with Salesforce announcing $1.25m funding for education charity Ark and a Pathfinder training programme

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Motorola enhances mobile policing workflows with next-gen Pronto

  Body-worn video and vehicle licensing data integration software designed to accelerate decision-making and evidence management for front-line officers

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  UK financial services regulators tell banks to own their IT disasters

  Financial services regulators propose tighter rules for firms to reduce the adverse effects of operational problems, such as IT outages

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem

  Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Mettis Aerospace completes world’s first phase-one Wi-Fi 6 4.0 trials

  Next-gen Wi-Fi is successfully put through its paces streaming critical engineering information in “hostile” engineering environment

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Cyber Girls First volunteers encourage girls to think high-tech

  More than 80 schoolgirls spent a day learning about computer hackers and rocket science – Cyber Girls First hopes they will become the next generation of technologists

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Mental health websites are leaking user data

  At Black Hat Europe in London, researchers reveal the extent to which confidential data is being leaked to third parties by online mental health websites

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Wells to become UK’s next gigabit city

  Medieval Somerset city hopes to encourage business growth and attract new employers by going gigabit

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Aviatrix VPN vulnerability left user endpoints wide open

  Immersive Labs has disclosed a serious vulnerability in VPN supplier Aviatrix’s enterprise client that could have granted hackers elevated user privileges across enterprise targets

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Huawei mounts legal challenge to US subsidy programme ban

  Chinese tech giant fights back against FCC ban on carriers in the rural US from using the Universal Service Fund to buy its equipment and designation as threat to US national security

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy blames 'significant political interference' for Amazon losing $10bn JEDI deal

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy claims White House meddling led to it losing out to Microsoft on the US Department of Defense JEDI contract, despite its cloud platform being demonstrably superior

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Poor tech provision causes dissatisfaction in SMEs

  Smaller businesses are struggling to provide a good enough employee experience when it comes to tech, according to a study

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Hackers primed to exploit 5G to Wi-Fi handover flaws

  Warning that attackers will find new vulnerabilities to access voice and data on 5G mobile phones as carriers hand off calls and data to Wi-Fi networks to save bandwidth

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  European first for Vodafone as global telcos tune into AWS Wavelength

  In an endorsement of the cloud giant’s push towards the edge, leading global telcos pile in on AWS Wavelength, eyeing up large low-latency gains in key 5G use cases

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges

  Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch a Cloud Innovation Centre to solve cyber security challenges

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Traditional telco approach risks hampering 5G development in manufacturing

  Adoption of enterprise business models could see operators’ 5G break-even reduced from 14 to 10 years, with especially large gains in manufacturing, says ABI Research

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Percentage of women in tech remains low at 16%, with little growth in 10 years

  The WISE campaign is calling on the STEM sector to increase the number of women in core roles to 30%, after finding the ratio of men to women in IT has been static for a decade

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  5G to reshape global telecoms sector in 2020

  Study says next-gen technologies and the pressures of digital transformation are likely to continue to reshape what it means to be a telecoms operator next year

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Scots urge councils to embrace smart city technologies

  Survey of Scottish citizens indicates a number of benefits that local communities can gain from IoT and other connected technologies

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Red teams and blue teams must evolve in the 2020s

  The red team versus blue team dichotomy is somewhat arbitrary and risks pigeonholing skilled security professionals into certain roles, says Facebook’s Amanda Rousseau

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Connectivity is levelling the playing field for small businesses in UK creative sector

  Research shows key segment of UK creative industry small businesses produce their best ideas and work on the go, increasingly relying on connectivity to drive productivity

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts debuts in Australia

  Amazon Web Services rolls out Outposts in Australia, enabling enterprises to run a consistent version of the AWS platform at locations that require low latency

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

  AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  General Election 2019: Which manifesto is best for the UK’s tech sector?

  Computer Weekly breaks down each political party’s technology policies ahead of the upcoming General Election to see how they compare

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  How AWS is growing its ASEAN footprint

  Building ‘strong autonomous country teams’ has been a key focus for AWS in Southeast Asia where demand for cloud computing services is on the rise

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  CERN increases network capacity for cutting edge of research

  Aiming to boldly go even further where physics hasn’t gone before, CERN increases capacity of its technical network to support breakthrough research in fundamental physics

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Survey finds most firms don’t respond to GDPR requests in time

  Most organisations do not respond to requests for GDPR data in the one month allowed, while many return incorrect data. The education sector does best, but the public sector lags behind

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Biometrics to enable $2.5tn of mobile payments by 2024

  Juniper Research study predicts that biometric technology will be present on 90% of smartphones in five years’ time

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  HPE takes aim at hybrid IT management as a service

  Starting with its GreenLake family, HPE is building out a hybrid platform from the edge to the cloud

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  UK government urged to ramp up digital skills

  Programme for International Student Assessment results show UK is lagging behind Asian powerhouses, according to Open Knowledge Foundation

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Tenable buys Indegy to integrate IT and OT security

  Acquisition of industrial security specialist Indegy will create a unified, risk-based platform spanning both IT and OT security for Tenable

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Insurtechs help traditional players differentiate

  Traditional insurers are harnessing the agile development techniques of the tech startup community through partnerships with insurtechs

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Chinese web users take more risks than Brits or Americans

  A research paper published by the University of Birmingham seems to show that differences in cultural values have an impact both on risky behaviour online and legal regulation

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS VP of engineering on the cloud giant's first major quantum computing push

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used the first day of its annual Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to set out its plans to democratise quantum computing, while also firming up the enterprise use cases for the technology

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Klarna uses AWS cloud as it moves from startup to global fintech force

  Swedish fintech cements its relationship with Amazon Web Services to speed up product development and support its global expansion

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  ‘Poor’ comms and collaboration tools cost UK plc over £7,500 per employee per year

  Survey reveals workplace productivity is deeply impacted by an organisation’s communications and collaboration practices and technology

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Private sector warned off delaying IR35 reform prep as Conservative Party promises review

  The Conservative Party has followed in the footsteps of the Liberal Democrats, The Labour Party and the Scottish National Party by committing to a review of the IR35 reforms

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  DCC UK second-gen smart meter network passes three million mark

  Provider says more than 500 million encrypted messages to and from smart meters have been carried by its secure network in 2019

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  UK boards lose digital confidence

  Fewer organisations feel they have the expertise they require, according to a Harvey Nash survey

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Top Android apps at risk from StrandHogg vulnerability

  Researchers at Promon say all of the 500 most-downloaded Android apps are at risk from a newly discovered vulnerability

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  China Mobile stakes 5G first for Hong Kong

  CMHK successfully accomplishes 5G Standalone network test and completes first voice over NR call in Hong Kong

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Goldman Sachs reins in cloud-based retail challenger in UK

  Bank does not want rapidly expanding Marcus to breach deposits threshold at which UK banks have to ring-fence their retail operations

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  UKISUG 2019: Qualtrics unknown to 43% of SAP customers

  On the opening day of its annual conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing scant awareness of Qualtrics, and continuing slow adoption of S/4 Hana

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Orange Poland picks Juniper Networks for major core network upgrade

  Orange Poland has embarked on a project to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network core by automating its WAN and enhancing the management of label-switched paths