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EncroChat: Top lawyer warned CPS of risk that phone hacking warrants could be unlawful

MPs accuse government of unduly interfering in information commissioner appointment

End of support for Build 1909 leaves some Windows open to attack

Government gets updated powers to intervene on tech-related M&A deals on national security grounds

Amazon posts profit and revenue growth as Q1 results highlight impact of Covid-19 on its business

The case for vaccine passports: the real world versus the digital world

Public sector organisations ‘in the dark’ about where their data is, suggests UKCloud survey

G7 countries to cooperate on digital regulation

Impact of low chip supply spreads

Walt Disney Company confirms AWS as preferred cloud partner for Disney+ streaming service

Northern Ireland pilots security training plan for 16-25s

How to tackle intellectual property crime

GCHQ: Dyslexic thinkers key to solving UK cyber security challenges

UK demand for digital automation skills soars

JEDI cloud contract: US court refuses to dismiss Amazon’s ‘political interference’ allegations

Microsoft outlines five-year plan for accessibility tech

Covid-19 security challenges leave bank customers at risk

Norway’s agritech innovators are ready to expand to pastures new

Recruiters can’t afford to hold out for cyber ‘unicorns’

Office 365 compromise likely led to Merseyrail ransomware attack

IR35 private sector reforms: What firms need to do now the start date has passed

Microsoft results get a pandemic jab

NHS app to serve as vaccine passport for foreign holidays

Backup failure: Four key areas where backups go wrong

Flexible CIOs gain friends in finance

UK supermarkets to trial age estimation tech for alcohol purchases

Total cost of ransomware attack heading towards $2m

Why we need to reset the debate on end-to-end encryption to protect children

Scality launches Artesca container-native object storage

Leaky Azure storage account puts software developer IP at risk

Startup targets PC gamers to build decentralised supercomputer

Apple OS updates patch multiple security holes

Python @ 30: Praising the versatility of Python

Uber drivers’ resistance and the gig economy – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

North London school wins NCSC girls’ cyber challenge

The Security Interviews: Making sense of outbound email security

Papa John’s embarks on ‘multi-phase’ move to Google Cloud

Justice at last in Post Office IT scandal

Another 38 subpostmasters submit appeals against convictions

French legal challenge over EncroChat cryptophone hack could hit UK prosecutions

Post Office scandal CEO steps down from roles after massive miscarriage of justice is laid bare

How AI and automation drive better customer service

HMRC downplays significance of CEO email ‘questioning’ legal basis of loan charge policy

‘Spy cops’ victims share ongoing data protection concerns

Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre

Post Office scandal victims have criminal convictions overturned in Court of Appeal

GCHQ: Cyber investment a guarantor of UK’s global status

Researchers shed more light on APT29 activity during SolarWinds attack

Department for Education publishes digital strategy

SAP Q1 2021: Revenue nudges up 2% year-on-year, S/4 adoption up 2.5% on prior quarter

Met Office prepares for 1.5 million processor, 60 petaflop supercomputer

Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population

Automation, zero-trust, API-based security priorities for EMEA CISOs

ToxicEye malware exploits Telegram messaging service

Grafana Labs switches open source licensing to stem strip-mining tactics

Customer experience market made leap forward during pandemic

Security Think Tank: Security culture must underpin vaccine passports

Anti-food waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans

NCSC offers teachers free cyber security training

Government should do more to protect well-being in the digital world, says report

UK government renews cloud discount pricing MoU with Microsoft

EU lays out plans to regulate AI development

SonicWall Email Security zero-days need urgent patch

Post-Covid digital transformation requires ERP innovation

Time is running out to probe networks for Emotet

Ocado advances autonomous vehicle strategy with Oxbotica deal

Winemaker racks Pure all-NVMe all-flash for rapid SAP response

Health app myGP adds Covid-19 vaccine passport function

UK’s proposed IoT cyber security law gathers momentum

Chinese APT exploits critical CVE in Pulse Secure VPN

Security Think Tank: ‘Legitimate interest’ crucial for vaccine passports

Drax partners with Solace to manage biomass supply chain

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to containerisation in the enterprise

Codecov supply chain attack has echoes of SolarWinds

Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour

Banco Santander moving more than 200 servers to cloud per day

Shop and go – will Amazon’s cashless ‘just walk out’ store work?

Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages

BBC appoints new digital and technology leaders

Closing the cloud skills gap could bring more women back to the global labour force, claims AWS

Google and Siemens combine forces to address AI at the industrial edge

Digital secretary steps in on Nvidia/Arm deal

UK fintech investment hits new heights as government announces increased support

YouGov incentivises sharing of personally identifiable information

Online storage startup GoodCloud seeks to shake up file sync and share market for charities

Tech professionals most likely to see mental health decline due to pandemic

UK technology job creation nears two-year peak

A bottom-up and top-down look at intelligent automation

Government puts Facebook under pressure to stop end-to-end encryption over child abuse risks

SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes

The Secret IR Insider’s Diary – from Sunburst to DarkSide

Finnish government strengthens country’s IT network security

Post Office’s full and final settlement with Horizon scandal victims in plain English

Dutch accuse UK of ‘damaging confidence’ by disclosing details of EncroChat police collaboration

Uber ordered to reinstate six drivers fired by automated process

VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going ‘all-in’ on one public cloud provider ‘are dead’

Google launches multimillion-dollar cloud tech push to boost Covid-19 vaccine distribution

Biden sanctions Russia over SolarWinds cyber attacks

Dell spins off VMware to fuel post-pandemic PC growth opportunities

Only government standing in the way of fair compensation for subpostmasters

University of Hertfordshire is latest academic cyber attack victim

Microsoft is most impersonated brand in phishing attempts

Ireland’s DPC launches probe into Facebook leak

How Windows patching leaves security exposed

CW Middle East: Qatari regulator launches platform to help combat money laundering

Security Think Tank: Vaccine passports cannot be taken lightly

Tesco reports online sales surge, advances digital platform

FBI accesses ProxyLogon target servers to disrupt cyber criminals

Remote workers largely supportive of a UK right to disconnect

EU set to tilt AI balance in favour of citizen rights

Cloud archiving: A perfect use case, but beware costs and egress issues

NSA unearths more MS Exchange vulnerabilities

AET gets Ctera to smooth hybrid cloud access to big files

Europe provides growth for TCS despite year floored by pandemic

Security Think Tank: Vaccine passports must be secure by design

MP told to ditch official email over hacking fears

Covid-19 left people feeling vulnerable to cyber crime

End of the road for Post Office IT system that destroyed lives

EncroChat lawyers raise questions over use of PII secrecy orders on UK decryption capabilities

Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs

The evolution of RPA

Microsoft enters the Dragon’s den with Nuance acquisition

Nvidia targets datacentre memory bottleneck

How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2

AWS debuts next phase of $20m push to provide cloud tools to Covid-19 research teams

Ctera KubeFiler to bring Kubernetes storage to its cloud gateways

Another 27 Danish banks get access to open banking APIs

Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts

Why some jobseekers have turned to cyber crime during the pandemic

Five ways to boost systems utilisation in the datacentre

What has a year of home working meant for the DPO?

How robotic process automation is getting smarter as it evolves

IT leaders get the green light to spend on digitisation

University students adapt to remote learning but question value for money

Global demand for IT and business services highest ever for first quarter

Loan Charge Group MPs demand IR35 shake-up to stop contractors becoming ‘zero-rights employees’

Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak

NCSC: Using your pet’s name as a password is very stupid

Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug

Tech industry sees surge in remote working job postings

CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

Microsoft accused of stifling secondhand software market

IR35 reforms: MPs call on government to clean up UK’s ‘wild west’ contracting labour supply chain

Post Office Horizon contract extension is part of project to bring Fujitsu work in-house

Nation-state cyber attacks double in three years

HMRC signs reworked, three-year public cloud deal with AWS worth £94m

Future working models at big banks begin to fall into place

Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak

Digital Markets Unit starts work on codes of conduct for tech giants

Post Office gives controversial Fujitsu contract another year

Irish employees’ ‘right to disconnect’ enshrined in code of practice

Unpatched SAP applications are target-rich ground for hackers

Demands for changes to ‘barmy’ rules on digital evidence have government’s ear

Where now for storage? Hitachi, IBM and Pure Storage

Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR

Where now for storage? Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE

US court issues Google API with Java ruling

IR35 reforms: Private sector start date prompts mixed picture of predictions for contracting market

GDS seeks director for identity assurance programme

EncroChat hearings delayed as lawyers seek disclosure on police hacking

IR35 reforms: Loan charge and employers’ NI issues prompt calls for legislative revamp

Project Monterey returns to haunt IBM and Red Hat

Starting a career in the digital economy