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• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Japan researchers develop new data encryption method

  Researchers from Tokyo University of Science have combined the best of homomorphic encryption and secret sharing in a new method to handle encrypted data

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users blamed on ‘networking fault’

  Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Virgin Media O2 taps Juniper to upgrade core IP backbone for 800G readiness

  Need for increased data capacity and flexible scalability highlighted by 32% traffic growth on its mobile network,16% growth in broadband data downloads and a peak traffic load of 22TB over the past year

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Chinese IoT suppliers expose UK businesses to espionage and data theft

  Chinese companies supplying network components, known as IoT modules, post a greater long-term threat to UK security than the now banned 5G supplier Huawei, according to a study by a Chinese expert and former diplomat

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  UK insurers need to up their game on cyber gaps, says PRA

  Gaps and limitations in how insurers respond to cyber risk need to be addressed, according to the Bank of England regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Nationwide Building Society CIO to join Co-operative Bank

  Gary Delooze to join Co-operative Bank as CIO after six years heading up Nationwide Building Society’s IT department

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  SSRF attacks hit 100,000 businesses globally since November

  There has been a dramatic increase in attacks exploiting the ProxyNotShell/OWASSRF exploit chains to target Microsoft Exchange servers

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Fake online contest makes Yahoo! most phished brand of Q4 2022

  Yahoo! was the most frequently phished brand during the last three months of 2022, according to a report

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  SMEs keen on embedded finance, but more choice needed to increase take-up

  Suppliers to small and medium-sized enterprises need to offer more choice when embedding financial products in their services if take-up is to increase

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Andrew Roughan, CEO, Plexal

  Plexal CEO Andrew Roughan talks about how tech startups collaborate with the government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Samsung completes KDDI 5G SA network slicing field trial, inks Nokia patent licence

  Korean tech giant makes further strides in 5G in first demonstration of network slicing using RIC on a live 5G SA network with leading Japanese operator, and signs patent agreement with Finnish comms tech provider to combine 5G technology expertise

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Vodacom lands 2Africa subsea cable in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

  What is described as ‘transformative’ subsea cable lands at the Vodacom facility in Gqeberha at South Africa’s Eastern Cape to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country and ...

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  CIO interview: Ed Higgs, group director of IT shared services, Rentokil Initial

  The pest control provider has consolidated 77 datacentres globally to just three – but with a corporate culture of acquisitions, there’s still a lot more to do

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

  Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors

  Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Royal Society calls on public sector to pilot privacy tech

  The Royal Society says public sector bodies should lead the way in piloting privacy-enhancing technologies to unlock the value of data without compromising privacy and data rights, but lack of standards and incentives mean adoption is slow

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  UK government reveals further ESN contract details

  Latest chapter in UK Emergency Services Network saga sees termination of Motorola contract for comms equipment and supplies, software packages and software development services

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  NCSC warning over cyber risk to charity sector

  Cash-strapped charities without the resource to tackle their resilience deficit are increasingly at risk from malicious actors, says the NCSC

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  More than 1,000 tech roles chopped at Capital One

  US bank makes tech job cuts as its digital transformation moves into a new phase

• January 22, 2023 22 Jan'23

  Royal Mail making limited progress on ransomware recovery

  Royal Mail asks customers to hold back from sending post overseas as some services get back on track, while a report warns that disruptive attacks on critical infrastructure are set to become more common

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Barclays Eagle Labs awarded Digital Growth Grant over Tech Nation

  Barclays Eagle Labs incubator to take over Tech Nation’s role in administering UK government digital growth grant amid backlash from startup ecosystem

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns

  Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  How the cost of living crisis is impacting IT

  The worsening economic climate is leading to job cuts across the IT sector, with Microsoft only the latest to announce thousands of layoffs - but CIOs will still struggle to find the talent they urgently need

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

  Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

  Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Year-on-year growth down to more customers, says Ocado

  As the customer landscape shifts, Ocado reports year-on-year revenue growth in the last quarter of 2022, bolstered by a successful Christmas

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  WhatsApp’s £4.8m fine raises questions for organisations using behavioural advertising

  The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has fined WhatsApp, owned by Meta, in a case that will raise questions for organisations that rely on contracts rather than consent to comply with GDPR when offering behavioural advertising

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Deloitte: Four major comms trends to navigate in year ahead

  Consultancy’s predictions for the coming 12 months highlight challenges from macroeconomic headwinds, complex capital funding, sustainability and the transformation towards more tech-centric models

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Zayo expands 400G fibre to connect Paris and Marseilles

  Leading global communications platform boosts European fibre infrastructure with a new fibre route to link up two major French cities, supporting traffic growth and making it easier and more secure for enterprises to send traffic to the rest of ...

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  International post resumes thanks to Royal Mail ‘workarounds’

  Royal Mail has resumed limited international services after putting in place operational workarounds to bypass the impact of a ransomware attack

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  KFC, Pizza Hut parent shuts UK restaurants after cyber attack

  A ransomware attack on Yum! Brands, the parent organisation of restaurants including KFC and Pizza Hut, was forced to shut approximately 300 outlets in the UK following a ransomware attack by an unspecified group

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Fraudsters and cyber criminals stole more than £4bn in the UK through 2022

  The amount of money stolen by fraudsters and cybercriminals in the UK saw a huge increase in 2022

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  UK government reveals Cornwall as next port of call for Project Gigabit

  Latest contract in UK government’s Project Gigabit programme given to Wildanet to deliver ultra-fast broadband in south-west and mid-Cornwall connecting nearly 20,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Mailchimp suffers third breach in 12 months

  Email marketing service Mailchimp has suffered its third data breach in a year, but has been praised for being open about its latest attack

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  UK seeks to ban sharing ‘positive’ Channel crossing videos online

  Under UK government amendments to the Online Safety Bill, video footage that shows people crossing the Channel in a ‘positive light’ could be added to a list of illegal content that all tech platforms must proactively prevent from reaching users, ...

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Newham Council rejects use of live facial-recognition tech by police

  Live facial-recognition technology should not be used by police in Newham until biometric and anti-discrimination safeguards are in place, according to a motion passed unanimously by the council, but the Met Police and the Home Office have indicated...

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Outdated IT infrastructure poses growing risk to UK Security Vetting

  Delays to UKSV’s important work in safeguarding the country’s national security are in part down to a legacy IT estate in dire need of modernisation, says the NAO

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Swedish government launches accelerated digitisation plan

  The Swedish government has launched a four-year plan which will help to digitally transform the country’s public sector

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Sateliot collaborates with Sensefinity for at-sea satellite 5G IoT

  Leading IoT provider for asset tracking teams with owner of low-Earth orbit nanosatellites constellation under 5G protocol to support at-sea connectivity

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  APAC consumers expect human-like service from chatbots

  Consumer expectations of chatbots in Asia-Pacific have risen in tandem with improved performance of AI applications over the past year, a study has found

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Ukraine CERT leaders touch down in London for talks

  The UK’s NCSC has been hosting Ukrainian cyber security leaders for a round of bilateral talks on improving resilience

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Yorkshire Water taps Connexin for smart water delivery framework

  Leading north of England water provider reveals partners for its advanced customer metering programme to reduce leakage, improve services and help customers save money on their bills

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  David Anderson KC to review UK surveillance laws

  Home Office commissions independent review of the Investigatory Powers Act, known as the snoopers’ charter. It will include a review of bulk datasets and government access to internet connection records held by phone and internet companies

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Oracle and CBI: companies cautious, selective in 2023 IT, business investment

  Oracle and the CBI are seeing much the same picture of cautious technology investment of UK businesses in 2023, in the context of long Covid and the energy price inflation crisis

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  IT chiefs raise concerns over cost-of-living crisis

  Organisations are looking to cut costs while still innovating with IT, and CIOs and CTOs are worried how staff will cope

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Uptime Institute predicts slower pace of public cloud migrations in 2023

  Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Institute claims cost pressures and unmet expectations around cloud benefits may lead some enterprises to pause or slow down their migration plans this year

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Nokia, Telefónica successfully test 25G PON technology in Spain

  Noting ever-increasing consumer bandwidth demands and the need to support applications such as the metaverse, operator announces demo of new FTTH technology to offer new business services on same network as home connectivity

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Ukraine cyber teams responded to more than 2,000 attacks in 2022

  The Ukrainian authorities responded to more than 2,000 major cyber incidents during 2022, and are blocking thousands more potential attacks every day

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Advisory board goal for Post Office scandal victims to be returned to rightful financial position

  The board set up to monitor the compensation scheme for Post Office scandal victims agrees goal of returning them to the financial position they would be in had the scandal never happened