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Kevin Cunnington, currently director general for business transformation at DWP, is taking over as the new head of the Government Digital Service

Government plans G-Cloud-like resource to help public sector CIOs procure cloud services more easily

Uber forges ahead with own digital mapping project as it cuts its losses in China by merging with local rival Didi Chuxing

HMRC’s chief digital and information officer is returning to the private sector in the midst of the department’s Aspire contract exit

Retail bank says technology will provide secure verification by recognising the unique characteristics of each person’s voice

Head of Government Digital Service is leaving after nine months in the role, to be replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kevin Cunnington

Chip maker continues to boost its internet of things security capabilties by expanding its Israeli engineering team

ThoughtWorks hosts Hack Brexit to find ways to keep the public better informed about the consequences of the Brexit vote

Businesses must ensure mobile security controls are deployed and enforced on every device used to access corporate data and apps, according to MobileIron’s latest mobile security and risk review

US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments

Nationwide service outage has affected users of Sky’s fibre-based broadband services

Operator continues roll-out of network function virtualisation-based services as networking trend sweeps Gulf region

CIO of Norwegian bank tells Computer Weekly how Indian outsourcing partners help her keep costs down and digitise the business

CrowdStrike develops new cyber crime intelligence services by studying the ecosystem and tools that enable criminals to set up and run their cyber attack operations

London SMEs that received help in getting online through the government’s broadband connection voucher scheme in 2015 are generating much more money, according to a report

Ransomware is now an established business model for cyber criminals as malware increasingly uses evasion techniques, second quarter research by PhishMe reveals

Preem is in the middle of a project that will see it replace about 40 business systems with off-the-shelf ERP

Security service MI5 carried out a rearguard attempt to avoid requirements to seek independent approval for accessing the public’s internet, web, email and phone records

Microsoft has added a full biometrics-powered password manager to support website authentication

DDoS attack data collected by Kaspersky Lab shows a greater proportion of attacks are coming from hijacked Linux servers and attacks are tending to last longer

A hacker has claimed to have stolen 200 million user account details from Yahoo

SAP survey reveals 47% of Asean consumers are satisfied with their digital experiences, while 20% are dissatisfied

UK domain name and hosting service hit by distributed denial of service attack, underling the importance of adequate mitigation systems

A government Select Committee met with industry experts to discuss the potential for using blockchain in and outside of the UK government

Protecting customer data is a top priority for organisations in the Middle East as threat levels increase

The US government approves Project Wing drone trials in the US as part of an initiative aimed at boosting UAV safety and use

Synergy Research Group's second-quarter cloud infrastructure services tracker reveals that the gap between the market's biggest and smallest players is getting wider

The government awards a contract to startup firm Credits to supply public services with blockchain platform as a service

Rail operator deploys one of Europe’s largest beacon roll-outs across its stations to accommodate new audit and driver apps

More than half of UK companies have been hit by ransomware in the past year, a study on the impacts of this popular attack method has revealed

IBM’s DeepFlash 150 adds to the emerging trend of all-flash storage aimed at file, object and analytics use cases with option for petabyte-scale storage using IBM Spectrum Scale

This week, networking industry analysts assess the networking hype cycle, Black Hat 2016 and networking in the 1980s.

Brits are spending more time online than ever before, according to Ofcom’s annual Communications Market Report

Region is seeing a rapid take-up of cloud-based business software driven by SMBs and large firms expanding in Southeast Asia

The breach of the Bitfinex bitcoin exchange highlights the need to follow best practices and to improve security around exchanges and wallets, say security experts

The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

A lack of understanding of modern VoIP and unified communications security opens many service providers and businesses to cyber attack, a Context IS researcher warns at Black Hat USA

A report compiled for the ISP-led Fix Britain’s Internet campaign has said that millions of people are experiencing stress and anxiety because of slow and unreliable broadband

Researchers discover an Italian-based Android RAT designed for spying that is targeting mobile devices using their unique identification codes

With the addition of Quip, Salesforce users can perform word processing tasks without leaving the CRM provider's platform -- which may spell bad news for Microsoft.

Artificial intelligence-led cyber security technology has been in the spotlight at two major industry conferences in Las Vegas, signalling a firm trend in cyber defence research

The new GDS boss promises to continue the work of his predecessors and vows that the organisation will retain digital leadership of the public sector

A data breach at Banner Health has highlighted the importance of intrusion detection and prompted calls for greater cyber security investment in the increasingly targeted healthcare industry

The UK's 26 most digitally advanced NHS trusts have been invited to apply for funding to become global digital excellence centres

RBS has abandoned a project to create an IT platform to support the sell-off of more than 300 bank branches

Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

Vendors in the cloud and data protection markets were among the partner-oriented companies making moves at CompTIA ChannelCon 2016.