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SBRC picks Check Point to support cyber helpline

Revealed: Brits who fuelled ‘vicious’ conspiracy theory by Trump supporters

Hunting and anti-hunting groups locked in tit-for-tat row over data gathering

Biometrics ethics group addresses public-private use of facial recognition

Commerzbank announces big job cuts and branch closures

SAP full-year 2020: Revenue growth weak, cloud growth up 17%

Manufacturing particularly at risk of Solorigate-linked breaches

IBM, Apple and Accenture join MIT cross-industry climate change-tackling consortium

Rethinking IT recruitment

Apprenticeships may be a solution to cyber skills shortage, say insiders

End of Emotet: A blow to cyber crime, but don’t drop your guard

Five key questions about Kubernetes backup answered

JP Morgan Chase hires for UK digital bank launch

Contactless payment limit could rise to £100 as FCA seeks industry views

Nakivo to use AWS Object Lock as anti-ransomware tool

SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service

Pandemic response has improved privacy posture, says Cisco

Yorkshire Building Society migrating application development to improve customer satisfaction

Emotet botnet goes offline as cops seize servers

Grindr complaint results in €9.6m GDPR fine

Emotet botnet goes offline as cops seize servers

Hyperscale datacentre market growth soared in 2020 on back of Amazon and Google buildouts

NHS Scotland uses ServiceNow to power vaccination and contact-tracing

Latest Microsoft results show strength in Teams and Azure

How Nottinghamshire County Council saved loads of money on SAP

Emergency Apple updates patch exploited zero-days

After a push at the start, Mencap’s automation journey is gathering pace

HMRC IT PAC rebuke, neurodiversity in focus – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

The ransomware routine: pages from the Secret IR Insider’s diary

Kao Data signs AI-focused life sciences startup InstaDeep as a customer

Conservatives broke data law to racially profile millions

North Korean state attacks legitimate security researchers

Customers turn to cash as IT issue hits card payments at major supermarkets

Uptime Institute report highlights recruitment issues blighting global datacentre industry

Saudi IT spending to hit $11bn in 2021

ICO extends commissioner Denham’s term of office

Cyber fraud a national security issue, says Rusi report

Gartner: IT budgets shift to mature processes around remote business

IBM and Telefónica double down on tech partnership in enterprise hybrid cloud push

Security Think Tank: Are security teams the unsung heroes of 2020?

Salad as a service: How tech could revolutionise farming

Cracking the message in a bottle

Are banks overburdened with responsibility for money lost to online scams?

Executive interview: Antony Roberts, Audi

Easily accessible digital skills training among government’s updated education plan

Many teachers find online lessons difficult

Security Think Tank: Time to rethink stopgap solutions

HMRC criticised over continued ‘shortcomings’ in loan charge policy response

Government Gateway at 20 – looking back at the UK’s most successful digital identity system

Where is Intel going to place its next strategic bet?

Nine out of 10 UK card payments in 2020 were contactless

ICO resumes adtech investigation

Sepa data leaks as agency resists ransom demands

Google threatens to cut off Australia

MinIO stakes leadership claims in cloud object container storage

Immigration exemption in data protection law faces further legal challenge

Hackney Council tenders for cyber security upgrade

Digital knowledge must be integral part of Dutch police training

Microsoft teams up with UK startup to minimise impact of climate change by aviation industry

Gamarue malware found on government-issued school laptops

How can healthcare organisations fight increased cyber crime in 2021?

Two-thirds of CISOs say they’ll be cyber attack victims this year

Cloud and datacentre giants unite to create climate neutral EU datacentre industry by 2030

Interview: Tony Porter, chief privacy officer, Corsight AI

Incompetent cyber criminals leak data in opsec failure

Music publisher BMG taps into Google Cloud to manage and analyse streaming data processes

CW APAC: Trend Watch – CIO trends

Should I be worried about MFA-bypassing pass-the-cookie attacks?

More subpostmasters’ prosecutions sent to appeal for wrongful conviction

Where is the UK’s digital strategy?

HSBC closing more branches as customers turn to digital channel

PAC demands rejigged IT investment action plan from HMRC by end of March 2021

IT scandal exposes legal rule that made it easy for Post Office to prosecute the innocent

Architect slashes 20% off storage costs with Nasuni NAS gateway

Malwarebytes also hit by SolarWinds attackers

Security Think Tank: It’s time to secure the collaboration revolution

Five key benefits of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud file storage

CIOs blame siloed IT teams and tools for misalignment

Parler v AWS, digital schooling, ambulance data – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Questions raised by New Zealand central bank boss, following cyber attack investigation

Value of GDPR fines shows dramatic increase in 2020

UK fraud agency deploys ArcGIS dashboard for data sharing

BT to make data for Oak National Academy charge-free

The UK’s struggle with digital schooling

Click fraud levels reach new heights in pandemic

Criminals fiddled stolen Covid-19 vaccine data to damage trust

Fixing the cracks in public sector digital infrastructure

Security Think Tank: In 2021, enable, empower and entrust your users

MoD reports 18% rise in data loss incidents

Nottinghamshire uses citizen engagement tools to inform residents

The UK tech sector has been a force for good during the Covid-19 pandemic

AI specialists and software engineers among most popular UK roles, says LinkedIn

Smarter use of AI means business process optimisation, not simply automation

Biased language deters half of female candidates, finds Openreach

NCSC CyberFirst Girls 2021 contest kicks off

150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems

Tech partnership to drive Finland’s quantum computing project

US cyber security agencies get $9bn in Biden plan

Nordic startups make advances in pet tech

European IT providers struggle to capitalise on continent-wide growth in cloud demand

Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports

UK government urged to implement cloud-centric transformation plan

All EU states can take data protection cases against Facebook says EU court

UK government needs a digital reboot

Experian calls for less bureaucratic data regulations

London received quarter of all European tech funding in 2020

Numbers stack up for UK open banking three years on

Unforeseen consequences of new technologies put UK at risk

AWS urges US court to throw out Parler breach of contract lawsuit

Old, on-premise systems targeted in Hackney ransomware attack

VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain

CW Middle East: $60m venture capital fund targets 120 startups

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to step down and take over as Intel chief

Court to rule on Facebook data sharing after Schrems drops legal challenge against Irish regulator

What does Brexit mean for the future of UK digital policy? A view from Europe

Three-quarters of finance firms report more potentially criminal activity in their networks

Cut off from the cloud: How free speech-touting Parler became a tech industry pariah

World’s largest dark web market disrupted in major police operation

Stolen Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine data leaked

Covid-19 immunity passport tests to begin in UK

European IT outsourcing spend up in 2020 after cloud boost

South Central Ambulance Service drives out of Covid data fog with Qlik

Critical zero-day features in first Patch Tuesday of 2021

Mimecast latest security firm to be compromised

Cloud DR from the Big Three: Who’s best at what?

Data Dynamics aims at single view of unstructured data

Parler collapse opens door to phishing attacks

Retail giant Walmart to launch a fintech

IR35 private sector reforms: Research highlights lack of preparedness ahead of April 2021 start date

Former ministers speak out on Mike Lynch extradition

Early stage UK security startups face funding crisis

Security Think Tank: Time for security teams to learn from Covid

Wales invests £4.9m in digital services improvement

Parler sues AWS for anti-trust and breach of contract after Amazon public cloud ban takes it offline

Can AI ever match the power of the brain?

The UK’s struggle with digital schooling

New SolarWinds CEO sets out rescue plan

Jobs in fintech bounce back after brief lockdown lull

Ordnance Survey opens up direct, API access to location data for public sector

AWS, Apple and Google bans prompt pro-Trump Parler app to fall offline

New Zealand central bank IT system breached in cyber attack

Kaspersky claims link between Solorigate and Kazuar backdoors

Security Think Tank: Don’t bet on a new normal just yet

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to next-generation retail technology

Government use of 'general warrants' to authorise computer and phone hacking is unlawful

AstraZeneca combines public cloud with NetApp to aid Covid-19 vaccine development and roll-out

Picking the right IAM tools is based on more than today’s needs

Datacentre energy efficiency: Is the time now for a big switch-off?

Tech sector reacts to Trump social media bans

Competition and Markets Authority battles with cookies and privacy

Major facial-recognition supplier builds system to identify masked faces

AI Council advises government to do artificial intelligence moonshots

Brexit deal grants UK temporary data adequacy

The nation state threat to business

British Gas tackles omnichannel customer correspondence

Which? online banking investigation reveals ‘worrying gaps’ in security

Poor data flows hampered government’s Covid-19 response, says the Science and Technology Committee

Nordic digital innovation offers a proactive approach to mental health

Biden picks cyber veteran to reinvigorate security response

The five tenets of quality ITAM

Hackney Council data leaked by Pysa ransomware gang

Competition and Markets Authority kicks off Nvidia/Arm investigation

Most British people don't trust government with personal data

Robust member administration system indispensable for Dutch Coeliac Society

Robin.io aims its Kubernetes storage at databases and big data

Labour urges government to adopt new plan for at-home education

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remain in prison despite winning extradition battle

Distributed supercomputer DiRAC gets a £20m upgrade

SolarWinds attack almost certainly work of Russian spooks

Why Jack Ma might be too good a tech entrepreneur for China's leaders

NHS trust says appointment processes robust despite criticism of role for Post Office scandal CEO

Five key points about cloud vs in-house disaster recovery

Diversity and inclusion in tech: The pandemic and the pay gap

AI advancement: Mimicking decision-making

Huawei battles for market access in Nordics

Ex-UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones charged with rape, Greater Manchester Police confirms

Banking trade body calls for increased contactless payment limit

The tech sector cannot build back better from the kitchen table

Security Think Tank: Cyber effectiveness, efficiency key in 2021

Caerphilly council delivers free school meals through automation

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to face charges in US, court rules

How the pandemic has affected women in the tech sector

Security Think Tank: The year of the work-from-home hangover

Journalists’ FOI bids stayed as court reconsiders freedom of information rights of people outside UK