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On digital identity, the government gets it wrong again

DCMS gives tablet devices to people with learning disabilities

Cyber extortionist threatened to bomb NHS targets

IR35 private sector reforms: Argos to offshore work of digital team in Milton Keynes to Mumbai

It’s now or never for UK fintech, government told

Dell bets on continued home working to drive PC demand

Nordic startups strive to fuel international e-commerce transformation

Amsterdam to open environmental talks with datacentres

Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store

NCSC Cyber Action Plan emphasises SME security

IR35 private sector reforms: Contractors call for further delays to April 2021 start date

GCHQ sets out rules of the road for AI in cyber

Nearly 80,000 more tech roles filled at end of 2020 compared with end of 2019, says ONS

Atos and HDF Energy to build ‘green hydrogen-powered’ datacentre by 2023

Tech-enabled hybrid working enables HSBC to cut 40% of its global office space

Npower shuts off app after credential stuffing attack

Deloitte: How organisations can prepare for new look office work

MHRA and other agencies to offer new resources for scam victims

CW Nordics: Nordic startups aim to take the lead in pet tech advances

Facebook’s AI doctoral research programme makes inroads into UK

Vaccine passports prove an ethical minefield

Is Clubhouse safe, and should CISOs stop its use?

Internet companies should provide real-time data on disinformation, Lords told

Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive

Businesses forced to ask IT service providers for help during pandemic

Sadiq Khan wants innovators to support London's recovery

Babuk ransomware unsophisticated, but highly dangerous

Microsoft builds industry-specific clouds for financial services and manufacturing firms

Arcserve and StorageCraft merger aims for ‘single pane of glass’

Bombardier is latest victim of Accellion supply chain attack

Appointment of disgraced former Post Office director triggers vote of no confidence in Welsh FA boss

Warning on security risk from virtual events platforms

Subpostmaster group calls for prime minister to pause Horizon ‘whitewash’ inquiry

XDR makes cyber a Stroll in the park for Aston Martin F1

AI powers reputational damage insurance policy

Post Office Horizon and the subpostmasters’ justice fight – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Poor data leads to IT squabbles and work stress

BBVA teams up with Google Cloud for IT security strategy revamp

CyberScotland offers centralised security resource hub

Computers in space – managing a datacentre on the ISS

UK government set to offer fintech visa

Startup founders worried about proposed capital gains tax changes

Microphones, smartphones, laptops among items stolen from BBC

Pandemic has exposed fractures in cyber fraud strategy

How colocation fits alongside a cloud-native architecture

UK to launch 'high-risk, high-reward' research agency, dubbed ARIA

Fixing government digital transformation – lessons from the early days of GDS

European Commission proposes UK data adequacy agreement

NCSC cyber defence scheme blocked thousands of scams in 2019

Gaurav Dhillon: Silicon Valley is poised to grow up to seize a more spiritual future

Interview: From healthcare to healthcare IT provider

Uber drivers should be classified as ‘workers’, UK Supreme Court confirms

Biden will act on cyber security to fix SolarWinds mess

Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider

Why technology leaders must drive post-Covid agenda

Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes

Swedish police fined for unlawful use of facial-recognition app

City of Helsinki adopts MyData principles to improve digital services

HMRC accused of 'utter hypocrisy' over use of IT contractors enrolled in tax avoidance schemes

Assessing UK law enforcement data adequacy

Fingerprints will help payment cards retain relevance

2020 a record year for cyber, thanks to Covid

North Korean Lazarus Group hackers indicted in US

Finnish IT sector demand increases after months of decline

Healthcare digitisation at point financial services was in 1990s

Vaccine passports highlight social impact of systems design

Security pros agree: We need to take a break

HMRC denies misleading House of Lords over IT contractors’ use of tax avoidance schemes

Egregor ransomware arrests confirmed

Swedish central bank extends digital currency project

Emotional intelligence, empathy increasingly valued in CISOs

How software developers can make more dough

Coronavirus: Managing software development during lockdown

Law firm and cyber criminals clash over source of stolen data

Defra to lead creation of cloud-focused IT sustainability standard for use across government

TransferGo to harness Google-inspired tech capability

North Korea accused of Pfizer Covid vaccine cyber attack

Covid-19: Risk model identifies 800,000 vulnerable individuals

C40, C60 R3, go! Pure adds to FlashArray//C QLC flash range

Covid-19 drives growth in low-code development tools

RDP, SSH exposures off the charts thanks to remote working

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to identity and access management

Qatar regulator launches platform to monitor human understanding of financial crime

IR35 private sector reforms: HMRC reminds firms to use ‘reasonable care’ when applying new tax rules

Egregor ransomware associates arrested amid disruption

Security Think Tank: Towards a united state of security

How Covid-19 has hit IT salaries and job prospects

Why Brexit will make software licence transfers and database copyright harder for UK firms

Digital investments will add £232bn to UK economy by 2040

BP joins IBM Quantum Network to support emission goals

Post Office to offer digital ID services to customers

Almost half of firms looking to recruit tech workers

NCSC recognises UK’s top cyber schools

NHS trust expedites data management with Qlik in pandemic

ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

Wellcome Sanger Institute embarks on cost-saving energy efficiency drive at Cambridge datacentre

Government to impose new digital identity system across all Gov.uk services

Power supply shortages in colocation hubs pile pressure on datacentre operators to go green

Security Think Tank: Renewed US stability may ease cyber tensions

University benefited from early virtual desktop investments when pandemic struck

UK border surveillance regime highly privatised, says Privacy International

Security Think Tank: Biden must address insider security threat first

Benioff projects future of work onto Salesforce’s ‘Cloud 3.0’

HPE on the ISS: In space, no one can hear your CPU fans

Hacked Finnish therapy business collapses

Goldman Sachs reopens UK digital savings account

Low-complexity CVEs a growing concern

Future security stars shine in first round of CyberFirst Girls contest

Nordic states launch joint drone development initiative

Is it time to ban ransomware insurance payments?

Nationwide Building Society kicks off search for tech apprentices

CW Benelux: Is reluctance to report cyber crimes in the Netherlands helping the criminals get away?

Security Think Tank: Biden’s team can make a difference on security

Disinformation and the US DNC emails leak controversy – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Dating app users warned to watch out for scammers

Oracle fleshes out hybrid cloud and edge computing strategy with Roving Edge Infrastructure devices

Société Générale adopts work-from-home policy

HelloKitty almost certainly behind CD Projekt ransomware attack

£2bn Zero Carbon Delivery Framework goes live to help public sector datacentres go green

TCS to recruit 1,500 UK tech professionals this year

Tech sector calls for renewed cooperation in global digital tax talks

Windows 10, Server 2019 users must patch serious zero-day

Sim-swapping crooks targeted celebrities, influencers

Century-old insurer uses low code as digital demands increase

Ducati and Lenovo extend long-standing MotoGP technology deal

Security Think Tank: UK well-placed to work with Biden on cyber

Helpdesk meltdown due to absenteeism, low morale and increased workload

Facebook sued for data-sharing practices with third parties

IR35 private sector reforms: Deloitte confirms post-April 2021 ban on PSCs

Data breaches are a ticking timebomb for consumers

‘Batman Begins’ cyber attack is a warning to CNI providers

Data teams struggle to maximise business benefits

Cyberpunk 2077 developer refuses to pay up after ransomware attack

NHS reports fewer phishing emails in 2020

Russia’s Sber launches international AI contest for children

Security Think Tank: Biden has a chance to renew cyber alliances

Audi fine-tunes its digital performance to boost online car sales

UK Cyber Security Council to take charge of skills strategy

IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe

Interview: Robert Opp, chief digital officer, United Nations Development Programme

North-West England ‘perfect’ growth area for tech startups

Get ready for fake work epidemic

Too few UK organisations offering cyber training for remote work

Data of thousands of Dutch citizens leaked from government Covid-19 systems

Sweden to establish national cyber security centre

Almost 70% of IT staff say firms working on tech gender diversity

Trends in collaboration technologies

EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials

Mayor of London launches digital inclusion initiative

Government R&D funding fails to maximise ‘catapult’ potential

Google Chrome update to patch serious zero-day

Financial regulatory body bombarded with malicious emails

Security firm Stormshield loses source code in cyber attack

Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams

Nurture software developer heroes

Five key points about unstructured data storage on-prem and cloud

Revolut rewrites policy to include permanent remote working

Woodland Trust hit by cyber attack in December

Boeing outsources to Dell affecting 600 IT jobs

SolarWinds chases multiple leads in breach investigation

IBM and Microsoft close the gap to mainstream quantum computing

Fraud and cyber crime still vastly under-reported

Covid-19 saw 32% UK&I firms furlough IT staff in 2020

Let’s build on the innovation shown by UK tech during pandemic

CDEI: Local government data use must keep up Covid momentum

Crypto malware targets Kubernetes clusters, say researchers

Has Covid-19 made bank branch closures easier to sell?

UK slow in AI maturity race

Healthcare and life sciences dominate 2021 DataIQ 100 list

Foxtons rejects claims of slow reaction to data leak

Venture capital trusts lobby for relaxed state aid rules

Venture capital trusts lobby for relaxed state aid rules

‘Classic’ Cerber ransomware targets health sector in high volumes

CIO interview: Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital, NHS Scotland

SolarWinds patches two critical CVEs in Orion platform

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as e-commerce giant celebrates first-ever $100bn revenue quarter

Ten startups graduate from virtual reality-focused accelerator

Agent Tesla trojan finds new ways to sneak past defences

Nordic region provides autonomous vehicle test bed

Nordic countries dominate European online banking take-up

Liverpool City Council upgrades to cloud-based contact centre

Business intelligence helps ambulance service’s pandemic response

Financial services giants form EU-focused coalition to boost sector’s public cloud adoption pace

Serco confirms Babuk ransomware attack

Netbackup 9 adds flexibility with hyper-converged backup options

UKRI suspends services after ransomware attack

CISOs invisible to their organisations, says BT report

Robert Gordon University delivers graphics workstations virtually

‘Victory for free speech and openness’ after tribunal confirms no territorial restrictions to FOIA

Three approaches to remote collaboration for home workers