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Apple says it will help law enforcement with investigations, but will increase the security of its products after the FBI broke into an iPhone

Thailand's government is investing heavily in communications infrastructure to make the country’s broadband fit for the digital age

US hospital group Medstar Health appears to be the latest target of ransomware as it suspends IT system to halt malware infection

IT leaders in the Asean region need to push IoT security up their priority list, as an Intel survey finds them lagging

Dell dumps its services business as it gets ready to take over EMC

The Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews is connecting harbour seals to the internet of things to try to learn why their populations are declining

Sweden has been on a fast track to become the world’s first cashless society, but now its central bank is stamping on the brakes

Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph

A newly discovered family of ransomware, dubbed PowerWare, uses Microsoft PowerShell to target organisations through macro-enabled documents

Developers Countryside and L&Q deploy full fibre broadband services on their Beaulieu residential development in Chelmsford, Essex

New strain of ransomware said to be distributed by compromising servers and using them to move through networks to encrypt and hold multiple data sets to ransom

Engineers at the University of Bristol and the University of Lund show how a multiple antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in mobile spectrum efficiency

Information security should be business-driven and investments assessed for their effectiveness and business value, according to Corvid CTO

The overall volume of complaints about broadband services dropped during the last three months of 2015, says Ofcom

Utility company Centrica is looking at how to grow the business by harvesting data lakes

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans on going to market next month for a number of smaller IT services contracts for a phased exit of its Aspire outsourcing deal

ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars

Cross-hypervisor, storage-agnostic Zerto Virtual Replication version 4.5 allows customers to recover files to any point in time, such as prior to deletion, virus or corruption

The government says Ofcom should take whatever action is needed to correct the problems the regulator identified in its communications market reviews

The age of biometric surveillance is just beginning. Will it make us safer? Also in Searchlight: Intel mastermind remembered; DHS opens cyberthreats information sharing program.

Baystate Health and Sugar Creek Packing give Cisco and VMware SDN software separate chores in data center networks.

In a major report, mobile operator O2 suggests that access to better digital infrastructure could boost the UK economy by £1.5bn outside of London and the South East

The majority of distributed denial of service attacks on universities are made by students or employees, says the head of infrastructure services at the University of London

A YouGov poll for the Foundation for Information Society Policy finds widespread disillusionment among Londoners when it comes to broadband provision in the capital

Isolated legacy security systems are a big cyber security risk – but the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could change that, says Palo Alto Networks

Build is not just for Windows developers – Microsoft is keen to attract iOS, Android and Linux coders too

Russian airline Aeroflot has turned to IBM analytics technologies, including BigInsights and SPSS, to improve customer targeting

The PC market remains weak, but premium products are selling in both the consumer and professional markets

Chip manufacturer Intel sets out plans to help the enterprise deploy tens of thousands of cloud environments

Chip manufacturer Intel unveils products and customer use cases in support of its software-defined infrastructure push

Almost half of employers think UK firms would be more productive if there was a higher level of digital skills

IT services firm CGI creates 500 jobs in south Wales following a £3.2m investment from the Welsh government

Organisations urged to backup data because paying ransom does not guarantee files encrypted by ransomware will be released, warns an awareness-raising alert issued by the US and Canada

There is a backlog of firms waiting for FCA approval to become authorised peer-to-peer lending platforms

Barclays Bank's investment banking arm will close its technology centre in McKinney, Texas, and move about 200 jobs

Arista has introduced the 7500R series -- a suite of third-generation spine hardware that has a maximum capacity of 115 Tbps.

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