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Security researchers have raised concerns that attackers are gearing up for a massive Locky-related ransomware campaign

Danish outsourcing and services firm signs new deal with IBM to use Watson’s internet of things capabilities to better manage its clients’ properties

A second US hacker faces five years in jail after a guilty plea for hacking into celebrity accounts and stealing private images that were leaked online in 2014

Backhaul supplier and ultrafast ISP form strategic partnership to boost broadband speeds in rural areas

Scottish Police Authority, Accenture and Police Scotland have mutually agreed to abandon the £40m contract for new operational policing system after project ran into problems

Malaysia and Singapore seek to connect UK tech startups to their smart city plans

Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

Australian tech startup community loses a strong political voice as innovation minister loses seat in general election

A majority of businesses do not comprehend the methods and motivations of cyber attackers or fully understand the scale of the threat, a BT-KPMG report reveals

Big Brother Watch calls for new policies to ensure police forces keep personal data safe after FOI requests show an average of 10 data breaches a week

IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

Professors at Reading University see virtual reality as an increasingly important research and teaching tool in science and arts subjects

Legislation introduced to parliament will place the right to broadband into law alongside measures to improve data sharing and online protection

NHS England’s national director for operations and information Matthew Swindells calls for the NHS to foster an “ecosystem for innovation”, but doesn’t believe in kitemarking all health apps

City state is considering developing a payments system similar to the UK’s Paym, which allows people to send money using just a mobile number

The government sets out to transform how data is shared across public sector bodies as part of a commitment to improve public services

IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

Security researchers uncover a cyber crime operating model that provides financial self-sufficiency, which they fear will enable larger and more sophisticated campaigns in the future

JP Morgan chief development officer Stephen Flaherty heads a team of developers in Glasgow, one of the bank's strategic hubs

IDC claims prospect of overseas datacentre builds and growing enterprise demand for off-premise services should ensure sales of IT infrastructure increase through 2016

Darktrace hopes to be a leader in the move to automated cyber security to free up security professionals to focus on business risk and innovation

The government decides to shut down its troubled Care.data programme as Fiona Caldicott launches new opt-out model for the sharing of patient data

Europe nabs six out of the top 10 spots in Cushman & Wakefield's list of low-risk locations to build or buy up datacentre capacity

Openreach enlists five broadband services providers to take part in a trial of processes for sharing access to its duct and pole infrastructure

Interest in recruiting CIOs to corporate boards is rising, say recruiters, but board presence is still rare and the CIO talent pool for these appointments relatively shallow.

Dropbox's new collaboration tools are aimed at increasing the file-sharing company's footprint in the enterprise. Better now than never, industry experts say. Also in Searchlight: Ethereum fund on life support; China builds the fastest supercomputer.

For CIOs, the U.K.-EU split opens up a continent of unknowns. Also in Searchlight: Cisco locks on to security startup CloudLock; IBM woos blockchain coders; $4 smartphones hit India.

National data guardian Fiona Caldicott’s report on data security in the NHS recommends 10 new data security standards that will apply to all organisations holding health and care information

Australian real estate marketing company moves systems into the cloud to help it compete during a property boom

The National Crime Agency is calling for a stronger collaboration between business and law enforcement to fight cyber crime in the light of a report produced with private sector partners

Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments

Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services

Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats

Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

Cloud services giant claims outcome of EU referendum vote has no bearing on its willingness to invest in the UK or Europe

As part of the Cast launch event, government, corporate and social tech representatives discussed some of the challenges facing social tech and how we can grow tech for good initiatives

Wendy's fast-food chain has confirmed hackers used third party credentials to plant malware to steal credit card details and reveals that three times as many stores were affected than initially thought

Network supplier Arqiva is to build a fixed network in Newmarket to showcase a trial smartmeter project

Vodafone’s Community Indoor Sure Signal scheme builds on its Rural Open Sure Signal programme to provide indoor mobile coverage in community hubs

McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team embarks on three-year technology partnership with NTT Communications

New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

Phil Smith announces he is stepping down from the day-to-day running of Cisco’s UK and Ireland business to take up the role of chairman

The US data-transfer agreement wins the backing of the European Union, paving the way for it to come into force

Facebook and Irish business groups say a legal challenge to Standard Contractual Clauses, used to permit data transfers between Europe and the UK, could cut 1% from Europe's GDP if it succeeds

During the AWS Summit in London, Amazon held an invite-only session to showcase its UK research and development

Skills minister Nick Boles has announced an overhaul of the delivery of technical education in the UK, including introducing new courses and a focus on creating skilled workers

Most information security professionals support the National Crime Agency's call for help from businesses in pursuing cyber criminals

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority gives several IT projects a low rating of red or amber/red, including HMRC’s Aspire exit and the Home Office’s Oracle ERP project