TechTarget News - Week of Feb 26, 2017
Mon Feb 27, 2017
NHS ‘mislays’ 500,000 confidential patient documents
Health service accused of a ‘cover-up’ after it came to light that more than half a million documents holding patient data were never delivered to their intended recipients
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Cyber criminals net £8bn from financial services in 2016
Organised cyber fraud gangs are turning their attention to online lenders and emerging financial services, potentially netting £8bn in 2016, a report reveals
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Greenpeace calls for sustainable smartphone manufacturing
Electronic waste and the carbon emissions from manufacturing are among the areas smartphone makers must address, says environmental organisation
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government
Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office
Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff
Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM
Mon Feb 27, 2017
IBM flash storage key to turnaround, says GM Walsh
Ed Walsh takes over as general manager of IBM storage to reignite sales. He says customers 'challenged by disruption' turn to flash storage to modernize IT.
Mon Feb 27, 2017
Chrome backs out of TLS 1.3 support after proxy issues
After Google rolled out the latest version of Chrome, Blue Coat proxy software issues prompt rollback of TLS 1.3 support in latest version of Chrome browser.
Tue Feb 28, 2017
Edge and IE vulnerability disclosed by Project Zero
Google Project Zero's 90-day disclosure policy bites Microsoft again, as a zero-day Edge and IE vulnerability is made public before a patch is available.
Wed Mar 1, 2017
Alibaba runs academy to find future e-commerce leaders
Online marketplace firm Alibaba launches a global academy designed to find and train young people to join the e-commerce landscape
Wed Mar 1, 2017
New Epic EHR systems to carry lower prices, aimed at smaller hospitals
New, more minimalist versions of the Epic EHR system will feature lower prices, though also less functionality. And these will be aimed at smaller hospitals, according to Epic.
Thu Mar 2, 2017
MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists
Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia
Thu Mar 2, 2017
Yahoo breaches underline executive role in cyber security
Yahoo's data breaches cost its top lawyer his job, CEO Marissa Mayer millions in bonuses, and $350m off its sale price, highlighting the importance of executive involvement
Thu Mar 2, 2017
Gov.uk Notify ready for use across government digital services
The notification platform is now ready to be used by all central government services needing electronic progress updates for users
Thu Mar 2, 2017
MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool
The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities
Thu Mar 2, 2017
Tintri storage strategy shoots straight at public cloud
Tintri's storage is evolving to help customers utilize cloud-based services. Tintri added synchronous replication to its VM-aware VMstore arrays and plans to integrate AWS support.
Thu Mar 2, 2017
Employees knew about Yahoo security breach years ago, per new SEC filing
A new SEC filing details who knew about the major Yahoo security breach in 2014, but experts are confused by the repercussions of the announcement.
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Businesses blame rivals for DDoS attacks
Industrial sabotage is considered to be the most likely reason behind a distributed denial of service attack, a study has revealed
Fri Mar 3, 2017
AWS claims human error to blame for US cloud storage outage
Cloud services giant says an input error by an engineer is what led to large numbers of users being unable to use its cloud storage services for several hours on Tuesday 28 February
Fri Mar 3, 2017
UK sailing team picks BT to help beat Oracle at America’s Cup
BT is to supply a 4G wireless and fixed network to support the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team, led by Olympian Ben Ainslie, in its bid to win the 35th America’s Cup
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Cyber attack on Barts NHS trust exploited zero-day vulnerability
A cyber attack that forced parts of Barts NHS trust offline in January 2017 has been blamed on previously unknown malware that was able to bypass the antivirus systems, highlighting a common weakness in cyber defences
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Versa Networks' SD-WAN platform now supports IPv6
In SDN news, Versa Networks announces SD-WAN that supports IPv6, and ONUG releases the speaker lineup for its upcoming spring conference, hosted in San Francisco on April 25-26.
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Cloud-first strategy speeds spinoff of American Express' travel unit
Given just months to spin off a $20 billion operation into a new, independent company, American Express Global Business Travel turns to the Dell Boomi cloud integration platform.
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Cloudflare security team calms fears over Cloudbleed bug
Cloudflare security researchers continue investigations as CEO calms fears over potential exposure of sensitive personal data by the Cloudbleed bug, though doubts remain.
Fri Mar 3, 2017
Slack hack threatened to expose user account data and messages
News roundup: A researcher discovers a Slack hack through stolen tokens. Plus, another WordPress flaw puts 1 million users at risk; Necurs botnet does DDoS now; and more.