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December 10, 2018
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Dec'18
O2 expected to pursue Ericsson for compensation over 24-hour stoppage
Mobile network operator could seek up to £100m in damages from its supplier, which failed to update expired software certificates, causing a day-long outage
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December 10, 2018
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Dec'18
Port of Rotterdam uses floating lab to learn about automation in harbour
A ship will soon be converted to a floating laboratory to test automation technologies at the Netherlands port
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December 10, 2018
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Dec'18
Councils awarded funding for digital innovation projects
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government digital innovation fund awarded to a range of projects, including chatbots, artificial intelligence and town planning transformation
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December 10, 2018
10
Dec'18
UK businesses feel let down by government on cyber security
Government needs to provide more support around cyber security issues in 2019, according to the majority of UK IT leaders polled
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December 07, 2018
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Dec'18
Quarter of all UK shopping now happens on mobile devices
UK’s high-street spend is the lowest across Europe as mobile devices account for a growing portion of online shopping
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December 07, 2018
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Dec'18
Hybrid cloud in Australian government removes supplier lock-in
Australian public sector could take the hybrid approach to cloud computing as government’s digital transformation strategy moves ahead
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December 07, 2018
07
Dec'18
Finnish government announces research and development ecosystem
Finland has launched an innovation ecosystem that will support IoT and AI developers amongst others
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December 07, 2018
07
Dec'18
O2 outage highlights importance of software certificate audits
A major outage on the O2 4G mobile network was caused by an expired certificate and could easily have been avoided, it has emerged
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December 07, 2018
07
Dec'18
Half of business leaders unaware of BPC cyber attacks
Half of management teams polled in 12 countries, including the UK, are unaware of business process compromise (BPC) attacks
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December 07, 2018
07
Dec'18
Court orders Post Office to explain inability to access encrypted file
Post Office unable to open encrypted recording of an interview that forms part of its evidence in High Court case
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December 07, 2018
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Dec'18
Complex Post Office Horizon case set to continue into 2020
Court case where subpostmasters are suing the Post Office set to span at least four trials and extend into 2020
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
BT and KCOM named broadband USO suppliers
Ofcom has named BT, and in East Yorkshire, KCOM, as the designated providers for the incoming broadband universal service obligation
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute
Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019
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December 06, 2018
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Dec'18
Fileless malware surge, warns Malwarebytes report
Data from millions of consumers reveals an uptick in fileless malware and other new-generation malware that calls for a new cyber security approach, report reveals
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
China demands release of arrested Huawei CFO
The Chinese government has called for the release of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Canada at the weekend
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
UK genome sequencing project reaches 100,000 genomes goal
Health secretary hails scheme’s progress as “a major milestone in the route to the healthcare of the future”
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Software failure paralyses O2’s 4G network
O2 is racing to fix a major outage on its 4G network that has left millions of mobile subscribers without access to data services
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Interview: Mickey Steiner, managing director, Innogy Innovation Hub Israel
Mickey Steiner, managing director of the Innogy Innovation Hub accelerator, talks about why the UK is becoming more attractive to internationally focused startups than the US
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Adobe releases Flash patch for zero-day exploit
Emergency security update released for zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild via a Microsoft Office document, according to researchers
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide features list 2019
Here is our 2019 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation
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December 06, 2018
06
Dec'18
Asean firms dive into microservices for competitive edge
While microservices has become a buzzword linked with digital transformation, it is no magic bullet for development woes
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December 05, 2018
05
Dec'18
UK can do more to explore potential of quantum tech
The government has been urged to address use cases, security and skills, and proposed a series of new innovation centres, to enable the UK to fully capture the opportunity presented by quantum technology
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December 05, 2018
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Dec'18
BT moves to strip Huawei kit from EE’s network
Telco will remove Huawei’s networking equipment from the core of EE’s 4G mobile network
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December 05, 2018
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Dec'18
Symantec unveils AI-based protection for critical infrastructure
Cyber security firm has unveiled what it claims to be the industry’s first neural network to protect critical infrastructure from USB-borne malware attacks
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December 05, 2018
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Dec'18
Australia races towards commercial quantum computing
Universities make headway in the challenge of commercialising quantum computing
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December 05, 2018
05
Dec'18
Nominet brings security expertise and tech to market
The .uk domain registry is to bring its DNS expertise and technology developed for the NCSC to market to address cyber security ‘blindspot’
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December 05, 2018
05
Dec'18
IT monitoring tops uses for machine data analytics
Advanced analytics is being deployed to make sense of the masses of machine data in IT operation, but complex environments is making this harder
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December 05, 2018
05
Dec'18
Phishing at centre of cyber attack on Ukraine infrastructure
Phishing is one of the key tools used by cyber attackers against critical national infrastructure (CNI), as highlighted by attacks on telecommunications in Ukraine
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December 05, 2018
05
Dec'18
UK consumers threaten data breach backlash
Most UK and global consumers are willing to walk away from businesses that fail to look after personal data, with retailers most at risk, research shows
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
How Docker plans to help businesses get around Windows Server 2008
Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2008 in 2020. Many applications will fail to upgrade to the latest server OS. But Docker has a plan
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
Abbey Road Studios holds inaugural hackathon event to push musictech innovation
Abbey Road Studios and its musictech incubation programme held their first hackathon event in November to foster innovation at a more grassroots level
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
‘Open-minded’ DVSA cuts cost of MOT testing
Government agency harnesses customised open source platform to ensure data security while cutting costs and plans to extend its MOT testing capability to do the same for drivers’ theory tests
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
Financial institutions’ data at risk despite security spending
Despite increased spending on cyber security, digital transformation and advanced attacks mean financial institutions’ data is still at risk, a report reveals
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
NHS email outage caused by ‘internal software issues’
NHSmail system shutdown, which saw staff locked out of their accounts, blamed on “software issues” in supplier Accenture’s internal infrastructure
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
GovTech Catalyst Fund awards contracts to five SMEs to tackle rural isolation and loneliness
Five small tech companies have been awarded contracts through the GovTech Catalyst Fund to come up with innovative solutions to rural isolation and loneliness
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
As commercial 5G nears, small cells generate interest
Interest in small cells as an element of commercial 5G mobile networks is growing, particularly in countries with supportive regulatory environments. Meanwhile, a UK trial of wholesale small cell infrastructure has kicked off in London
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
Zopa gains banking licence and prepares launch
Peer-to-peer lending pioneer Zopa is turning its attention to retail banking in the UK, with plans to offer savings, credit and money management products
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December 04, 2018
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Dec'18
Barclays staff to transfer to HCL as IT deal is expanded
Bank announces closure of operation in Lithuania, with employees transferring to IT services company HCL
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
OpsRamp skills research highlights cloud hiring challenges of IT managers and CIOs
Research from IT operations platform provider OpsRamp shines a light on the difficulties IT managers face when trying to find staff to help make their digital transformation ambitions a reality
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
100 million Quora.com user details exposed
Question-and-answer site is the latest organisation to admit a breach of users’ personal data, with industry commentators calling out credential theft as a top cause of such breaches
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December 04, 2018
04
Dec'18
Lloyds to use core banking technology from Google-inspired UK fintech
Banking group explores cloud-based core banking technology as part of a major transformation programme
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
Ada Lovelace Institute gets board to drive AI research for social good
The Nuffield Foundation has appointed a board to lead the development of the Ada Lovelace Institute as an artificial intelligence and data research body trained on social good
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
Liberty heads for judicial review over Investigatory Powers Act
The UK's powers to conduct supsicionless bulk surveillance on individuals and organisations face a legal challenge in the high court next year
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
Digital identity market welcomes plan to hand Gov.uk Verify to private sector
Players in the UK digital identity community welcome the clarity over the future of Verify, but question marks remain over prospects for government ID system
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
BT announces new head of security business
BT has appointed a former law enforcement officer and BT investigator as the new head of its security business
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
UK government commits to opening up data in bid to push adoption of AI
Opening up data is vital to government plans to push adoption of artificial intelligence across all sectors of the UK economy
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December 03, 2018
03
Dec'18
Police investigations into cyber crime up 14% in a year
Officers forced to follow up over 2,500 complaints of Instagram, Facebook, email and website hacking, and Bitcoin ransom, despite a rise in violent crime, report reveals
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November 30, 2018
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Nov'18
Government mobilises to persuade tech sector to endorse May-EU deal
Jeremy Wright, the secretary of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, says the prime minister’s deal with the European Union will be good for UK tech, ensuring free flow of data
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November 30, 2018
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Nov'18
CCRC may hold off subpostmaster decision until after Post Office Horizon trial
The Criminal Courts Review Commission is deciding whether to delay its decision on subpostmasters’ claims of wrongful prosecution until after a related court case
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November 30, 2018
30
Nov'18
Cyber crime most significant harm in UK, says top cyber cop
Cyber crime is the most significant harm in the UK, according to the cyber lead at the City of London Police, which is the national lead for online crime