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Covid-19 lockdowns drive global Q2 surge in cloud infrastructure spending

ICO launches guidance on AI and data protection

IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

Parents accuse Amazon of inaction in combatting child abuse material online

Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

Amazon reports Q2 profit and revenue surge as Covid-19-induced uptick in online sales continues

US lawmakers grill big tech chiefs over market power

Twitter confirms it was hit by targeted spearphishing attack

EU sanctions China and Russia over cyber attacks

Costs incurred by 'major' datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows

HMCTS video hearings service scrutinised in LSE report

Coronavirus: Weighing up the responses of the public cloud giants to Covid-19

Former UC Global staff confirm Embassy surveillance operation against Julian Assange

Barclays CEO says Canary Wharf office set to stay despite home working success

Diversity in cyber improving but inclusion needs work, says NCSC

How Broxbourne is evolving digital transformation beyond Covid-19

Tech sector calls on government to 'urgently' resolve delays in digital identity policy

Finland government funds work on potential quantum leap

Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

BASF partnership develops AI-powered smart mining

List of Blackbaud breach victims tops 120

Serious BootHole vulnerability puts millions of systems at risk

How analogue film will be the future of digital history

Amazon to create 1,000 skilled tech roles in Ireland

Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

Bank of Ireland fined for six-year-old IT breach

IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government

Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

Campaigners urge government to resist big tech lobbying pressure

Five on-premise and cloud options for network-attached storage

Cosmetics firm Avon faces new cyber security incident

Coronavirus: How Trainline can tell if trains are safe to travel on

Taking back control of government data mustn’t leave the public in the dark

De Montfort, KCL, Newcastle universities join list of Blackbaud victims

Garmin may have paid hackers ransom, reports suggest

Storage skills in the age of the cloud and convergence

Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

Orange and Google Cloud to create data platform to bolster edge computing offerings to enterprises

Digital bank customer data breached through third party

Digital addiction, digital skills – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

NCSC names national security expert Lindy Cameron as new CEO

Scotland’s security resilience centre concept goes national

UK government aims fintech industry at Africa

NCSC inducts six security startups to Cyber Accelerator

Latent demand for fertility tech identified by market study

Councils get funding to build on Covid-19 digital progress

Meet the CIO connecting IT in the most inhospitable environments

MI6 apologises after attempt to interfere with intelligence court

NGD’s mega-colocation campus in Wales acquired by Vantage Data Centers

CIO interview: Hany Choueiri, chief data officer, Aldermore Bank

SAP Q2 2020 results: SAP partially divests Qualtrics as positive results posted against Covid crisis

UK fintech investment down by more than 30%

Volkswagen Group to open up AWS-powered Industrial Cloud to third-party tech firms

IT expertise in banking boardrooms reduces risk, finds Europe’s central bank

Intelligent ways to tackle cyber attack

Court adjourns hearing into Assange extradition as US delays serving new indictment

CTO interview: TransferGo’s Edgardo Savoy discusses skills and product innovation

Storage pros and cons: Block vs file vs object storage

Tech’s diversity gap: Slow growth for minority groups

Garmin outage prompts ransomware attack speculation

Venture firm Public launches fourth GovTech accelerator

Investment in neurodiverse talent a win-win for security

Loan charge: HMRC's plans to clampdown on loan-scheme promoters slammed by IT contractors

A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

How Schrems II will impact data sharing between the UK and the US

Covid-19 to prompt surge in public cloud spend on DaaS, says Gartner

Twitter announces crackdown on QAnon accounts

Making Tax Digital will boost business resilience in case of future Covid crises

Brexit and slow pandemic response will impact UK IT spend, says Forrester

Commvault refreshes HyperScale backup appliances with Hedvig

Business resilience key to startups ahead of post-Covid recession

Post-Privacy Shield, what chance for a Brexit data adequacy deal?

Microsoft results show impact of tech-driven business resilience

UK government aims for tech-enabled border

NCSC reveals scale of cyber attacks on UK sports industry

DCMS loses government data policy to the Cabinet Office

Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions

Slack takes legal route against ‘weak, copycat’ Teams

Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

Aramex ships in Rackspace to accelerate datacentre downsizing and move to AWS cloud

New opportunities for Nordic startups post-Covid-19 as virtual offices become the norm

No let-up in cyber attacks as lockdown eases

US charges Chinese nationals with Covid-19 research hacking

Opening up new AI applications

BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

Barnardo’s hails G Suite to offer continuity of care to vulnerable children during Covid-19

Why now could be the right time to launch a digital bank

Challenging times and transformational opportunities for the outsourcing industry

Coronavirus: Government drags its feet on online misinformation

Huawei’s expulsion from the UK’s 5G networks explained – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

BMW Group signs six-year HPC contract with eco-friendly Swedish colocation firm

Russia Report reveals long-running cyber warfare campaign against UK

IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

Santander consumer arm to automate quarter of processes after Nordic project

Avon calling: what happens when lockdown eliminates your business model?

Covid-19 outbreak ramps up data focus at LOTI

ICO hails transformative year as average fine trebles

Businesses underestimate negative impact of bot traffic

Test and Trace programme unlawful, admits government

Automating IT security

Enterprises need to rethink how end-of-life equipment is dealt with

Three areas of remote working to consider

BBVA explores quantum computing for banking

Twitter hack fallout: Investigators on trail of cyber criminals

Nordic CIO interview: Brede Nielsen, Avinor

Unesco launches global consultation on AI ethics

Lockdown sparks interest in digital skills for 58% of adults

Tackling digital skills gap post-pandemic is key to UK economic recovery

CW APAC: Trend Watch – security

CW ANZ: Expert advice on security

Loan charge: Government dashes hopes of revised down settlements for contractors

Public sector not considering the elderly in development of digital services

NHS to use forecasting tool to manage post-crisis Covid-19 spread

Russian state hackers attacking Covid-19 researchers

IR35 private sector reforms: Government response to Finance Bill Sub-Committee inquiry slammed

Schrems v Facebook: European court strikes down EU-US Privacy Shield agreement

Gov.uk Verify sees surge during Covid-19 outbreak but remains unachievable

Bazar malware may be new tool in Trickbot arsenal

Banks face fairness challenges as they commit to AI technology

What do Accenture’s UK jobs cuts mean to the IT services industry?

Room for improvement in Dutch digital skills

Cryptocurrency scammers attack Twitter in insider breach

Open Data Institute releases funding for ethical data sharing projects

Ocado hired 300 tech workers over past six months

Government proposes IoT security enforcement body

Defra releases sustainable IT strategy

Overseas IT directors could need salary of £56,100 to work in the UK

Warning over security holes in fake Cisco kit

Huge declines in traditional outsourcing as Covid-19 puts a stop on deals

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 123 bugs in July 2020 update

HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

Video providers slammed by credential stuffing attacks

11 obscure questions, Facebook, Max Schrems and the European Court of Justice

University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS

Check Point unearths critical SigRed bug in Windows DNS

Royal Holloway: Secure connected and autonomous vehicles - the long road ahead

European Court to decide legality of EU-US data sharing in dispute between Schrems and Facebook

HPE extends edge to home network

Standard Chartered latest bank to explore quantum computing

Makers announces winners of the 2020 Women in Software Power List

CISOs undervalued, overworked, burning out, warns CIISec

Appetite for enterprise datacentre expansions dampens in face of Covid-19, research shows

Subpostmasters hit funding target to prevent government from burying IT scandal

Security Think Tank: AI in cyber needs complex cost/benefit analysis

‘Name-and-shame’ ransomware attacks increasing in prevalence

Is digital art coming of age during lockdown?

Security Think Tank: Ignore AI overheads at your peril

AWS HPC tech selected to help Ineos Team UK secure first British victory in the America’s Cup

Gartner: Remote working shifts CIO priorities

NCSC launches pen testing service for remote workers

Zoom zero-day a reminder to stop using Windows 7

Is our drinking data-driven?

Drive to improve flash reliability

Majority of NHS trusts used analytics to track patient infection status during Covid-19 pandemic

Executive interview: Toyota’s Melody Ayeli on the significant role of ITAM

Universal Credit still struggles with digital issues, says NAO

Facebook iOS SDK flaw linked to onset of Spotify app outage blighting Apple device users

Royal Holloway: Driverless vehicle security for military applications

How business software can stay clear of digital addiction

NHS North West London boosts analytics use during Covid-19 outbreak

HSBC customers targeted in new smishing scam

NHS trust uses case management software to deliver time savings

Majority of security pros fed up with alert fatigue

Locked-down Nationwide staff make 2.5 million video calls in June

Renault signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to accelerate data-led digital transformation

Executive interview: Ford’s Graham Hoare on manufacturing ventilators

Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres

Dutch banking’s transaction monitoring utility gets green light

Clearview AI faces ICO investigation over facial recognition

The pandemic has made UK government rethink its relationship with data

Most finance firms are multicloud, but many are unprepared for public cloud cyber attacks

More Joker malware apps chucked off Google Play Store

Matt Hancock encourages private sector involvement in post-pandemic NHS technology

CW Middle East: Facing up to coronavirus

Pubs and restaurants failing on cyber fraud protection

Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array

Political awareness needed to ethically handle migration data, panel claims

Google commits to protecting open source projects

CCPA enforcement has begun: Here’s what to expect

Use of spyware apps linked to domestic abuse soars in lockdown

Cosmic Lynx cyber crime group takes BEC to new heights

Royal Holloway: Man proposes, fraud disposes

Over 15 billion credentials for sale on dark web

Decision points in storage for artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data

Security Think Tank: The past and future of security automation

Security funding soars despite Covid-19 slump, but problems lie ahead

Auditing for algorithmic discrimination

Hyperscale datacentre build-outs hold firm in face of Covid-19

Cyber4Summer scheme to divert young people from cyber crime

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to datacentre cooling

Banks need to think like Google and not just follow it

Royal Holloway: A novel approach to clustering malware behaviour to improve malware detection

Deutsche Bank commits to multi-year Google Cloud deal to accelerate move off-premise

Security Think Tank: Balancing human oversight with AI autonomy

Women in tech, loan charge woes and automation – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

MSP Xchanging attacked in ransomware incident

Is data interoperability the key to unlocking IoT value?

Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries

Royal Holloway: Lessons on catastrophe - differences and similarities between cyber and other risks

The privacy challenges of easing lockdown

Voting open for the Most Influential Woman in UK Technology 2020

Lorca scale-ups bring diverse security to the fore

Need to secure industrial IoT more acute than ever

Avinor creates contactless airport check-in for Norway

North Korea behind spate of Magecart attacks

What women can do for data and what data can do for women

TLA launches resource hub for digital skills

Security Think Tank: SIEM and AI – a match made in heaven?

CIO interview: David Allison, global head of IT, First Quantum Minerals

Royal Holloway: An enhanced approach for USB security management

Green tech needed for post-Covid economic recovery

Chinese law may require companies to disclose cyber-security preparations outside China

Is digital art coming of age under Covid?

Bergen’s tech hub seeking to scale after positive start

DWP publishes digital delivery results and cost of IT blunders

Coronavirus: How Covid-19 has elevated the status of the datacentre industry

Why a shared channel experience will meet user needs at DWP Digital

Security Think Tank: Artificial intelligence will be no silver bullet for security

CIO interview: Nick Burton, chief information and digital officer, Avon International

Loan charge MPs denied House of Commons vote on Finance Bill policy amendments

Cops take out encrypted comms to disrupt organised crime

Between a cloud and a hard place: companies change applications tack

IR35 private sector reforms: Finance Bill vote denies further delays to April 2021 start date

Locked-down teens flock to NCSC CyberFirst training scheme

Police secrecy over ‘IMSI-catcher’ mass surveillance of mobile phones

Why management must set long-term objectives for digital journeys

Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2020 longlist

Sodinokibi gang begins dark web celebrity data auctions

Accenture to cut 900 UK staff

Security Think Tank: AI cyber attacks will be a step-change for criminals

UK’s unsung cyber security heroes sought

Zoom making progress on cyber security and privacy, says CEO

Getting a project out in the open

CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

Remote workers more aware of security, but still flout the rules

Société Générale acquires fintech challenger bank

Equity in Stem education more important than ever, says Parliamentary group

Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

Mysterious EvilQuest macOS ransomware spreads through torrents

Black Lives Matter, but do bots know that?

UK government announces Office for Talent

CIO Interview: Amex Global Business Travel CTO on incident response

FCA estimates about 2.6 million Brits have bought cryptocurrency

Security Think Tank: Get your house in order before deploying AI

Time to rethink business continuity and cyber security

Lenovo, top of the world Chinese supercomputer supplier, sweeps all markets