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Half of mobile phones sold in the UK at risk of security issues

REvil affiliates offer hefty ransom discounts, data reveals

LinkedIn denies exposure of 700 million user records is a data breach

UK data exchanges with EU can continue after adequacy decision - but for how long?

Cops seize criminal VPN used by ransomware gangs

Interxion creates London-wide colocation datacentre hub through £1.1m fibre cable roll-out

Post-pandemic recovery drives NHS digitisation

Lakehouse concept aims to merge data lake and data warehouse

Ethical hacking: What, why, and overcoming concerns

Bank branches will be a thing of the past in five years, say bankers

UK Cyber Security Council launches inaugural initiatives

New Nobelium attacks a reminder to attend to cyber basics

EU recognises UK data protection adequacy but warns against divergence

Banking tech fraud: How to trace and recover your money

Is the UK government planning to rewrite GDPR?

Swisscom embarks on public cloud migration with AWS to power 5G innovation

Insurers unprepared for challenges of underwriting ransomware

Zopa Bank to make profit in its first year

Gartner: IaaS growth boosted during pandemic

German merger to fuel savings fintech expansion

UK’s FCA bans crypto exchange Binance as crackdown spreads

Green Mountain agrees to let land-based trout farm make use of its datacentre's waste heated water

IR35 reforms: HMRC questioned about CEST as tax status of 210,000 contractors left 'undetermined'

HMRC-branded phishing scams surge despite protections

How CIOs can help their organisations accelerate digital transformation

UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation

Why data and the pandemic are ripping up paper processes

Universal Credit: What went wrong, and what we learned

Windows 11: It’s more than a repositioned start button

Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site

NCSC CEO: UK-Ireland collaboration crucial to stop cyber threats

Anglesey schools offline after cyber attack

CMA to probe Amazon and Google over fake reviews

Deliveroo riders do not have right to unionise, UK court rules

Brighton tourists charged thousands of pounds for fairground ride after Worldpay glitch

AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers

Alan Turing

Jon ‘Maddog’ Hall

Important LGBTQ+ figures who shaped tech’s history

Sally Ride

Edith Windsor

Sophie Wilson

France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud

Visa to acquire Swedish open banking fintech for €1.8bn

Google hands third-party cookies a stay of execution

NCSC recognises cyber degree apprenticeships for the first time

Salesforce declares AWS partnership to enable intelligent applications

Online Safety Bill unfit for purpose, says new campaign group

Revealed: Crypto platform’s role in Cl0p ransomware raid

Extreme Networks taps up Microsoft Azure to provide UK customers with locally hosted cloud service

Stalkerware apps becoming normalised among young people

It’s time to hit fast forward for digital jobs

Gousto uses Sisense Fusion to broaden analytics across business

(ISC)² makes ransomware education course free through 31 July

Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans

Lloyds Bank to close 44 more branches

Controversial cyber tycoon John McAfee dead at 75

EncroChat investigators had access to decryption ‘master key’, claim lawyers

Vodafone confirms European datacentres will be powered by 100% green energy by July 2021

Make ransomware payments illegal, say 79% of cyber pros

Salomon selects on-demand GreenLake to support flexible business

City of York picks Barracuda Networks for data protection

How containerisation helps VW develop car software

Thousands of UK IT SMEs in financial distress with 185,000 jobs at risk

SonicWall sees 226.3 million ransomware attack attempts this year

European Union to set up new cyber response unit

IBM serves more AI power at Wimbledon 2021

Real-time analytics begins to find business vocation

Bahrain university uses Alexa on campus

Time to patch increases significantly during pandemic

UK councils reported over 700 data breaches to ICO in 2020

Openness can protect Dutch companies against ransomware

Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations

EU regulators call for ban on biometrics in public spaces

SonicWall sees 226.3 million ransomware attack attempts in May

Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm

Post-pandemic IT: Are virtual datacentre tours here to stay?

CDEI: UK public wants clear algorithmic transparency policies

NHSX policy document focuses on patients and data sharing

Cloudflare announces new integrations with Microsoft, others

European ‘chat control’ plans in the name of ‘child safety’ threaten end-to-end encryption

Nautilus Data Technologies CEO on building waterborne datacentres in the name of sustainability

NSPCC, IWF help under-18s scrub their nude photos from the web

Investigating process and performance improvement in private cloud

Boris Johnson unveils plans for National Science and Technology Council

A new three-year plan for digital government

UK SMEs lack capacity to fend off cyber attacks

UK public largely supportive of Amazon workers unionising

Opera house shuns cloud for Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure

Parliamentary devices left in taxis, buses, trains and pubs

Exor International showcases Industry 4.0 smart factory

NHSX set to unveil post-Covid data strategy

Post Office pays 400 subpostmasters compensation for losses caused by computer errors

Philanthropists join forces to create $1bn distributed green energy platform to fight climate change

Best practices for secure printing

NHS app reaches six million, thanks to Covid vaccine feature

Digital banks could dominate once baby boomers pass on their wealth

Vast Data will offer containerised storage software, but not yet

ICO issues guidance on facial recognition in public spaces

Brent Council plots £3.8m datacentre revamp to protect IT infrastructure from cyber attacks

Lorca Ignite programme targets breakout cyber talent

Carnival Cruises hit by fourth cyber incident in a year

Druva helps Thirteen Group get round Azure data retention limits

UK taskforce calls for cutting GDPR protections

Technology takes centre stage in UK government reform

Lenovo and Intel unveil second phase of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s HPC buildout

GDS to improve Gov.uk with user monitoring

Cyber crooks target Amazon Prime users ahead of retail bonanza

Increasing numbers of Dutch women opt for career in ICT

Accenture acquisition will expand services that help customers be more like Tesla

Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace

Equinix vows to curb greenhouse gas emissions of its global operations

Biden tackles Putin on ransomware at Geneva summit

Tech sector hiring reaches highest level in five years

Tech sector trade union campaigns to protect workers’ privacy

Tech features high on McKinsey’s disruption list

Tech Nation launches D&I toolkit for tech founders

Contactless payments accounted for a quarter of all UK payments in 2020

Cl0p ransomware gang clapped in irons, assets seized

IBM Financial Services for Cloud initiative wins support of more than 100 collaborators

Nominate now: Most influential women in UK technology 2021

Matt Hancock at CogX: ‘Huge opportunities’ ahead to exploit health data

Storage performance metrics: Five key areas to look at

Competition and Markets Authority turns attention to Google and Apple

Travelport makes AWS preferred cloud supplier to oversee its public cloud migration

Organisations cannot rely on cyber insurance to cover losses

Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push

NHS Test and Trace picks Risk Ledger to secure supply chain

Privacy pro salaries rise throughout pandemic, but at a cost

Why a data-driven world should consider an oath of ethics

Oliver Dowden hails Tech Zero Taskforce at CogX

UK IT outsourcing set to continue after service levels improve during pandemic

Amazon Web Services launches space tech accelerator

Japanese bank boss to leave after IT failures

Trainline hires former Google Play software director as chief technology officer

Discovering great ideas – innovation at the Discovery Channel

Ransomware most insidious cyber threat facing UK

The Security Interviews: How to build a government model to ‘hack for good’

Video commerce and livestreaming make waves in retail

G7 commits to action on ransomware, digital privacy

Europe’s proposed AI regulation falls short on protecting rights

Equinix secures additional funding for global hyperscale datacentre builds

Benelux CIO interview: Benoît Dewaele, Vandemoortele

FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

IR35 tribunal sees Nationwide IT contractor lose second appeal against £70,000 HMRC tax bill

Shaping a Digital Strategy to support UK productivity and jobs

Government offers T-level funding to boost pandemic recovery

CMA secures commitments from Google on future of cookies

Security Think Tank: To secure printers think process, technology and people

UK promises tougher line on cyber crime

CIO interview: John Hunter of Council of Europe takes cloud route to document management

Can technology help save the world’s oceans?

Virgin Atlantic expands 17-year relationship with TCS as it begins Covid-19 crisis recovery

How the pandemic changed backup

Security Think Tank: Time to accept printers will leak data

Accenture supports tech bootcamp for people facing barriers to employment

Risk data shows UK energy sector most vulnerable to cyber attack

BEIS confirms rogue umbrellas will be covered by single enforcement body’s clampdown powers

CW Europe: Amsterdam reins back datacentre developments over environmental concern

FBI arrests distributors accused of selling An0m encrypted phones to crime groups

Unit 42 warns of emergent Prometheus ransomware

Google plots a course to address AI in manufacturing

RSA spins out fraud and risk unit as Outseer

Covid-accelerated recruitment digitisation to gain sophistication with hybrid models

BBVA to cut 3,000 jobs in Spain as digital technology transforms industry

Why agility is the key to secure software

Covid-19: AWS research points to pandemic-induced ‘shortcomings’ in enterprise IT strategies

Private cloud deployments: Beating the blind spots and bottlenecks

Microsoft fixes seven zero-days on its Patch Tuesday rounds

Klarna takes on UK credit card providers with feature that breaks up online payments

Colonial Pipeline ransom seizure is a win, but don’t relax yet

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to office productivity for home workers

How Discovery Inc spots great ideas

Cohesity brings DataProtect backup-as-a-service to Europe via AWS

NHS Digital delays data collection plans until September

We Open Tech community supports non-binary and trans security pros

National data guardian calls for dialogue on NHS Digital GP plans

QTS acquired in $10bn datacentre deal

Did government allow Post Office to sack forensic accountants to cover up Horizon scandal?

The jobseekers turning to cyber crime in the pandemic

Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use

CIO interview: Tom Read, chief executive, Government Digital Service

Police raids around world after investigators crack An0m cryptophone app in major hacking operation

Security Think Tank: What must a secure print strategy take into account?

Bank of England calls for feedback on digital currencies

EU privacy chief investigates use of US cloud services

Mixed blessings in smartphone market as sales rise but replacement cycles lengthen

Siloscape malware a risk to Windows containers, Kubernetes

NCSC updates schools ransomware guidance amid surge

IBM pushes back against US government data requests

Campaigners plan legal action over NHS data sharing

NHS Digital’s GP data-scraping plan must be publicised and delayed

Updated standard contractual clauses will provide ‘legal certainty’ for transfer of data

BT claims £2m in savings with Qlik data analytics

The drive towards computational storage

Indian IT giants cut carbon emissions by 85% as pandemic stops travel

HSBC offers all businesses scam awareness app

UK immigration exemption in Data Protection Act found unlawful

Whirlpool deepens Google Cloud partnership with SAP off-premise migration plan

Secrecy around EncroChat cryptophone hack breaches French constitution, court hears

IR35 reforms: Qdos research suggests room for improvement

Amazon launches apprenticeship fund for small businesses

Security Think Tank: Printers can’t be an ‘add-on’ in your cyber strategy

BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’

Government action on ransomware epidemic gathers pace

IBM and Hartree partner on AI and quantum research

Reports raise alarm over Huawei access to Dutch networks

Security Think Tank: Steps to a coherent print security strategy

Penny-pinchers undermine value of open source

Norway’s auditor general lifts lid on energy industry’s cyber security risks

Swedish university is behind quantum computing breakthrough

Atos offers enterprises digital route to net-zero emissions

Tories fined over email data protection breaches

FireEye sold to private equity, Mandiant regains independence

Pandemic a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to reshape security

Sapphire 2021: Klein vaunts rebooted Ariba business network as sustainability driver

Scottish businesses missing out on Cyber Essentials benefits

Can we rely on AI?

What the Telecommunications (Security) Bill means for UK industry

Buying a VPN? Here’s what you need to know

Security Think Tank: Printer risks go deep into IT history

SA-based MSP shuns HCI for Nebulon cloud-defined storage

HPE latest quarterly filing hints at ProLiant shift

Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19

Long-term thinking is vital to secure UK’s critical infrastructure

European-led consortium investigates quantum cryptography

Gartner: How to turn old datacentres into critical IT assets

Exagrid pays $2.6m to Conti ransomware attackers

Sustained demand for PCs continues, at least for another 12 months

Ex-IT manager stole over £800,000 from NHS trust

Post Office scandal public inquiry finally begins after chances to address problems were ignored

The technology that enabled Covid-19 genome sequencing success