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Enterprises and individuals need to install security updates for all devices with vulnerable Qualcomm chip drivers if they want to ensure attackers can‘t take control of them, warns Check Point

The Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (Cast) has been awarded £1.12m by the Big Lottery Fund to help charities build digital solutions

Urban fibre broadband supplier CityFibre is nearing the end of a 12-month, 150km network dig in Edinburgh, its largest project to date

TechUK has said it is working with government to ensure the datacentre community will continue to benefit from the free flow of data between the UK and EU after Brexit

Symantec security researchers have uncovered a spying campaign by a previously unknown group using modular malware as stealthware

A range of digital policing projects across England and Wales have been awarded funding from the police transformation fund

US airline Delta has temporarily grounded flights worldwide after a power failure took key IT systems offline in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia

The Australian census has triggered a privacy debate after it emerged that the citizen data it collects will be held for years

Banks in Singapore risk losing customers if they fail to keep pace with the digital preferences of the affluent middle class in the country

Half of vehicle vulnerabilities could allow cyber attackers to take control of a vehicle and 71% are easy to exploit, according to a three-year study by IOActive

The younger generation are using physical stores to test out items before making a purchase, according to research by Vodat

Oracle Micros breach shows supply chain and point of sale systems continue to be popular avenues of attack for cyber criminals

The Met Office's Weather Observation Website (WOW) used to run on Google's cloud, but has switched to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform

Vodafone becomes the first UK internet service provider to remove line rental charges for new and upgrading fibre-based broadband customers

Although security spending is moving to detection and response, Gartner expects preventive security to continue strong growth

Startup E8 aims at high-end use cases with arrays built from commodity NVMe PCIe flash drives and performance figures that rival EMC’s high-end DSSD D5 rackscale flash

The Competitions and Markets Authority opens up the banking apps market following an investigation into how to create greater competition in banking

Oulu University Hospital in Finland is using replica electronic patient records to support technology testing

LTE-Advanced network launched by operator Alfa, using technology from Nokia

Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data

The case comes as the UK government prepares to introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill, which will give sweeping powers for suspicion-less surveillance of telephone, web and email communications

Microsoft researchers talk up cloud security breakthrough that allows encrypted data to be processed without prior decryption

Chip maker Intel is to acquire artificial intelligence firm Nervana Systems in a bid to take AI to the next level based on its Xeon and Phi processors

The South East Coast Ambulance Service has implemented the Evolve electronic patient record (EPR) system from Kainos to let staff look up and enter patient data while attending emergencies

The social media site now provides a new dashboard to enable users to specify what adverts they don't want to see

The public sector, industry, civil society and the public at large all have a role to play in effective data protection regulation, says new UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham

Rackspace offloads ‘non-core’ Cloud Sites business as speculation about its future as a public company continues

A wireless carrier group has accused the Wi-Fi Alliance of kowtowing to cable operators as it nears completion of a test for LTE-U on Wi-Fi.

The Home Office is to give prisons in the UK new powers to cut off illicit use of mobile phones by inmates

Market watcher predicts use of public cloud will soar over the next five years, with IaaS and PaaS leading the way

Google Fiber plans to expand tests of wireless broadband to accelerate the roll-out of low-cost superfast internet across the US

Adoption of IoT systems in enterprises is being held back by worries over skills, says a joint report by Capita and Cisco

Shoppers are using their mobile devices to search for product and services information they normally would have sought in store, according to research by Hitwise

Brexit is set to shake-up the IT industry, given many tech firms run European head offices in the UK

Despite rapid cloud services adoption, security and compliance concerns revolving around inappropriate use or access of sensitive cloud data continue to loom large, a survey has revealed

Nimble made its debut in all-flash in February 2016, but now adds an entry-level array, the AF1000, plus upgrades to its hybrid flash array products that up performance and capacity

Newcastle and Gateshead councils have extended their public Wi-Fi network for a further 10 years with assistance from BT and the government

As Google faces a fine of around $3bn for anti-competitive practices in Europe, Russian authorities have ordered the internet giant to pay $6.8m for abusing its dominant position with Android device makers

Financial malware attacks increased 16% in the second quarter of the year, driven by collaboration between the developers of two banking Trojans in the top the financial malware threats, says Kaspersky Lab

The government has released guidelines for the upcoming apprenticeship levy, including how businesses can access funds to train apprentices

Municipalities are being urged toward Next-Generation 911 as phone companies complete fiber optic cable transition, and Google Fiber's Webpass acquisition will make wireless broadband connections possible.

David He, newly appointed president at Huawei Enterprise U.S., is ready to turn over 100% of sales to partners. He is optimistic despite cloud of Chinese cyber spying.