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FakeSpy Android malware targets Royal Mail app users

ReversingLabs makes over 100 Yara rules publicly available

Microsoft joins up LinkedIn and GitHub to support pandemic job seekers

Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

Security Think Tank: ‘Shift left’ to secure containers

HMRC and Treasury accused of ‘direct interference’ in independent loan charge review

Government expands Future Fund eligibility criteria

BNP Paribas uses biometrics to increase contactless payment limit

Genomics England taps up AWS and Lifebit to create cloud-based Covid-19 research environment

The Security Interviews: What CISOs can learn from Covid-19

Complex security estates hinder incident response

Unlocking value in the railway network’s data

MPs urged to back Finance Bill amendments to loan charge policy

Lawyers learn of fresh US allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from press reports

Phishing back in vogue as ransomware vector

Go lean and embrace partnerships to plot a path for recovery

Qumulo Shift opens up scale-out NAS to AWS S3 in the cloud

Fund provides routes into digital for under-represented groups in Manchester and Lancashire

Evil Corp’s latest ransomware project spreading fast

MPs to examine fairness of private prosecutions in light of Post Office IT scandal

Post-pandemic security market still set for growth, but slower

GCHQ launches Manchester accelerator programme to help companies leverage tech for citizen wellbeing

Lords urge government to take immediate action on online harms

Airports deploy thermal cameras to control Covid-19, science suggests it’s merely ‘safety theatre’

Out of date security laws leave UK plc at risk during pandemic

UKCloud signs MoU with CCS to provide public sector with discounted cloud pricing

IHS Markit commits to three-year data and infrastructure migration to AWS cloud

CBI: Government must take steps to drive SME business innovation

Standard Chartered embarks on virtual internship programme

Will the Covid-19 crisis accelerate a shift in tech talent out of London?

Coronavirus: Cyber crime landscape evolving as lockdown eases

NHSX seeks evolution of digital transformation capabilities

CBI: UK needs an immigration and training rethink

Pub ‘check-in’ apps provoke fresh privacy concerns

Former Post Office CEO and Fujitsu play the blame game in Horizon IT scandal

Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud

CBI: Digital Economy needs joined-up regulations and gigabit

Diversity in coding bootcamps

Peer-to-peer lender Zopa gets full banking licence

Digitally mapping for solidarity and cooperation

Kia Motors partners with Google Cloud to bring motorists AI-based paperless car manuals

NCSC catches a million phishes in its nets

Amazon’s carbon emissions surge during 2019

Security Think Tank: Securing containers needn’t be taxing

EU judges GDPR an overall success, but changes still needed

Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong

Firm that investigated controversial Post Office IT system to support criminal conviction appeals

Brits will sell their personal data for pennies

IT services giant gives staff time out to volunteer for police clients

David vs Goliath: How the smaller cloud firms have weathered the Covid-19 storm

APT groups’ mobile momentum finally faces resistance

Making the most of coding bootcamps

Advertisers revolt over Facebook’s inaction on hate speech

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to modernising public sector IT

Why IT needs to align with people

Gartner: Are the real cloud wars about to begin?

Twitter contacts business users over data exposure

Neurodiversity on the rise among career hackers

The lasting digital legacy of Covid-19 – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage

Flash-based MacOS malware hides in plain sight

Itam Forum aims to raise the bar on tech management

Concern over digital risk falls dramatically during pandemic

How the Chelsea Flower Show blossomed as an online-only event

Immigrants’ rights campaigners take Home Office to court over visa algorithm

Care Quality Commission to discuss concerns over Paula Vennells’ NHS role

Cloud flash storage: SSD options from AWS, Azure and GCP

Microsoft wants developers to be Quantum-inspired

Online shopping fraud hits £16m during lockdown

Post Office Horizon scandal victims keep pressure on government’s doorstep

Eurostar to roll out facial recognition for ‘passport-free’ travel to Europe

BT searches for Young Pioneer as part of AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves – the UK tech startup scene still needs support post-Covid

Australian prime minister confirms country is suffering repeated nation-state cyber attacks

Why cross-business collaboration needs data bridges

Technology firms come under scrutiny for ties to law enforcement

AI bias and privacy issues require more than clever tech

Facebook allows US users to disable political ads

US pulls out of talks with Europe for global digital tax

Coronavirus: Enterprise cloud adoption accelerates in face of Covid-19, says research

CW APAC: Trend Watch – data protection

Data protection watchdog calls for controls on police mobile phone stop-and-searches

EU-backed bid to build data preservation cloud for European research community gathers pace

Cisco patches dangerous Webex vulnerability

Nordic business is leading open banking charge in Europe

Check Point uncovers targeted Microsoft Office 365 phishing campaign

Gartner: Build a plan to bring remote workers back to the office

Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief

Zoom U-turns on end-to-end encryption

Coronavirus: Parliamentary group asks how lockdown has affected digital skills

Cosmetics company Avon offline after cyber attack

Coronavirus: Microsoft offers behind-the-scenes look at datacentre-level Covid-19 response

AWS CEO Andy Jassy urges cloud laggards to stop trying to ‘fight gravity’

Amnesty identifies most privacy-invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps

Coronavirus: Cyber security spend to slow in 2020

Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

The Covid-19 crisis: Reinventing digital transformation

Coronavirus: 50% of security pros had no pandemic contingency plan

Select committee chair demands sharper teeth for review of Post Office IT scandal

IBM targets legacy modernisation with hybrid multicloud

NHS Digital seeks suppliers for Covid-19 testing service

UK-US data deal puts Brexit data adequacy pact at risk

Government publishes geospatial data strategy to capitalise on location data

Activists call on Zoom to implement encryption for all

Norway’s contact-tracing app suspended over privacy concerns

Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

What’s in store for enterprise IT post-Covid-19? – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

QLC + 3D Xpoint = Vast Data’s universal storage

Europe’s controversial digital vision for the next decade

UK quantum technology projects get a £70m boost

Banking trojans roar back to prominence in May

Why UK needs independent oversight body for contact-tracing app

Gartner: CIOs should start preparing for coronavirus recovery cost cutting

NatWest develops behavioural biometrics as additional authentication

Accessories store Claire’s hit by Magecart credit card fraudsters

Blow to government review of Post Office scandal as key forensic accountants refuse to support it

Dealing in Data

Hospital uses thermal surveillance cameras to protect patients against second wave of Covid-19

Brits get used to life without cash

NHS email service users ensnared in phishing attack

Santander to recruit 3,000 more IT staff

Fake contact-tracing apps delivering banking trojans

UK to boost data science efforts in citizen services

How the RHS overcame Covid-19 to create the first online-only Chelsea Flower Show in just 8 weeks

Cloud storage on-site hardware: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

100,000 cheap wireless cameras vulnerable to hacking

Twitter kills thousands of misinformation accounts

Too many data sources and too little consistency

Subpostmasters will not cooperate with government review into IT scandal

How Informa Markets cohered customer data as it absorbed UBM merger

Tech firms respond to Nordic government calls

Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year

Government lays out future trade plan for UK tech

Global colocation demand holds firm in Q1 in face of Covid-19

Coronavirus: Bungled British response leads to rise in security risks

Data insights will define post-coronavirus city planning

CW Europe: 5G rush in Russia

CISOs buying into unified security proposition

The importance of data accuracy in the fight against Covid-19

Anger as government launches ‘pathetic’ and ‘pointless’ review of Horizon scandal

Security Think Tank: Container security starts with good DevOps practice

Government to fund nine advanced security projects

Alibaba Cloud follows up datacentre investment pledge with global tech talent recruitment drive

Dowden: AI and data science conversion path open and diverse

IBM divests from facial-recognition market

UK tech professionals feel impact of lockdown easing

Berlin breaks the national mould to become a global hub

CogX 2020: Matt Hancock on tech during Covid-19

IBM Cloud users demand further clarity over cause of global outage

CogX 2020: Rethinking technological innovation

Decade-old vulnerability among 129 Patch Tuesday fixes

Security Think Tank: Container security is evolving, so must CISOs

Unsecured Elasticsearch server breached in eight hours flat

Virtual GP practice accidentally exposes patient video calls

Google partners with WWF Sweden to dig even deeper into fashion industry's sustainability habits

Coronavirus: How to go back to the office safely and securely

Nasty surprises lurking in furloughed employees’ inboxes

Coronavirus: Danske Bank to make permanent changes to working practices

CaixaBank introduces facial recognition ATMs

6G, European internet, censorship: EU Parliament sets out vision for digital services

Cloud storage 101: NAS file storage on AWS, Azure and GCP

Honda investigates suspected Snake ransomware attack

Cyber security needs more women role models, says report

Covid-19 global co-ordination is off the mark, Tony Blair tells CogX

AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise

Churchill gets Ctera hybrid cloud NAS and dodges 3PAR disk spend

Bankers say artificial intelligence will separate winners and losers

CIO Interview: Simon Moorhead of the Rail Delivery Group discusses integration

Major technology companies ‘negligent’ on forced labour practices

Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

Government publishes artificial intelligence procurement guidance

Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks

Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre

Nordic CIO interview: Janne Puustinen, Valmet

Accurate data in, better insights out

NHS Covid-19 datastore contracts published under pressure from privacy groups

Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

Police chiefs working with Public Health England on contact-tracing security

Coronavirus: Digital bank Monzo cuts 120 staff

CaxiaBank gets ready to modernise IT using IBM Cloud Pak

London Tech Week to go ahead through Zoom

Ministry of Defence forms new cyber security regiment

Debbie Forster, most influential woman in UK tech 2019 - winner’s speech

Dutch organisations invest heavily in compliance – but in vain

Why this is the right time for IT

Government evades being pinned to a date for online harms legislation

Small businesses failing on remote worker protection

Government investigation into Horizon scandal bares teeth

OVHcloud brings healthcare-focused private cloud offering to UK market

Black Lives Matter activists targeted by cyber attacks

The Security Interviews: How the BSI protects the IoT from itself

Coronavirus: Cyber criminals target laid-off workers

Security Think Tank: Four steps to container security best practice

Sodinokibi data auctions highlight changing criminal tactics

Lidl Finland speeds up with new local server racks

Security procurement framework goes live for NHS and public sector

How Teams and Office 365 connect NHS staff during the lockdown

Infosec 2020: Covid-19 an opportunity to change security thinking

CCRC sends 47 subpostmaster miscarriages of justice for appeal, asks for prosecution powers review

Aston Martin swaps out legacy antivirus for AI-driven service

Collaboration technology is breeding burnout – keep it real

Interxion cuts energy cooling costs by 20% in West London datacentre through EkkoSense deployment

Google Cloud eyes public sector push after signing MoU with UK government procurement chiefs

Government departments could cut payment costs through API deal

A view from the SOC: Maintaining security capabilities during the pandemic

OneFS for Cloud is a heavyweight entrant in cloud file storage

VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover

Digital transformation held back by lack of skilled people

NIS security regulations proving effective, but more work to do

Subpostmasters to force scrutiny of government’s role in Post Office IT scandal

What will be the IT security priorities of the post-coronavirus world?

Employees must be consulted on technologies monitoring the return to work

How Saudi Arabia is using cloud to navigate the Covid-19 downturn

Egypt offers free tech scholarship to 100,000 citizens

Privacy campaigners call for radical changes to contact-tracing app

HSBC platform uses AI to analyse trading data thousands of times faster

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange misses court hearing due to respiratory problems

Former Sage boss becomes chairman of Tech Nation

Coronavirus: Government under renewed pressure to ramp up support for limited company directors

The impact of spycraft on how we secure our data

Councils don't have a consistent view of cyber security, says report

How managed threat hunting helps bust malicious insiders

Keeping the lights on: Managing datacentre engineers through Covid-19

The datacentre chill-factor: Finding the right conditions