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The opposition Labor party has called for a review of the government’s higher ICT spending and digital transformation programme

While damage caused by the ransomware attack in the region is subdued for now, its emergence has brought the issue of software patching to the fore

Danish bank Spar Nord considers legal dispute with Apple over the supplier’s rejection of mobile app

Flights delayed by outage in the passenger processing system that clears travellers for international travel

Statistics show that computers running Windows 7 accounted for the biggest proportion of machines infected with the WannaCry ransomware, while NHS suppliers are blamed for hampering patching by NHS trusts

The impact of WannaCry on the Middle East was reduced due to the attack falling on a weekend, but it is a stark warning

Twin brothers managed to trick HSBC’s voice recognition security system into giving account access to the wrong person

Railway stations in The Netherlands are monitoring the movement of travellers to manage traffic flow and reduce people jams

Study shows UK parents would prefer their children to have a traditional job such as doctor, teacher or lawyer

Atlassian adds new features to Bitbucket and Bamboo to enhance DevOps security and reliability, as well as to simplify the build process for developers.

The Infinite io network storage controller 'bump on the wire' proxy scans storage to capture metadata in flight and speed movement of inactive files to the cloud.

Frequency fees will be waived to lower regulatory barriers and optimise deployment of 5G networks in Singapore

Hard on the heels of the WannaCry ransomware attacks, a researcher has found a worm that combines four NSA exploits and associated attack tools, including EternalBlue used by WannaCry

SAP’s leadership explains how it has devised Leonardo as a cloud-based product plus services concept for moving organisations beyond mode 1 IT to mode 2, drawing on AI, ML, IoT and blockchain

Some 24% of companies polled in the UK and US expect to miss the GDPR compliance deadline of 25 May 2018

CIO job satisfaction reaches a three-year high as organisations hire more IT staff and invest in innovative digital technology

In a ‘lessons learned’ report, Scottish auditor sets out five principles that should be considered when managing government IT programmes

At Cisco’s IoT World Forum in London, the network supplier releases statistics suggesting that most IoT projects are at risk of, or doomed to, failure

Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

To mark the start of the ChefConf 2017 user summit in Austin, Texas, Chef CTO Adam Jacob shares his thoughts on how early DevOps adopters are now on course to become “high-velocity” technology companies

Veritas expands beyond data protection with HyperScale storage software to give OpenStack users added quality of service, data protection and management capabilities.

C-suite executives logging on to unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots seem to present one of the biggest security risks to enterprise networks

TBConsulting picked Nutanix hyper-convergence to tame virtual desktop problems, then quickly expanded its use for enterprise cloud storage in place of its three-tier architecture.

Companies doing business in EU face challenge to get GDPR compliant as enforcement of the strict new General Data Protection Regulation is just one year away.

Network security systems supplier Juniper is envisioning a network smart enough to adapt to usage patterns and anticipate cyber attacks

The latest challenger bank gets its regulatory approval and puts modern technology at the core of its offering

A breach settlement with 47 US states has taken the cost of the 2013 data breach at retailer Target to more than $220m

Funding will go towards building a national sensor platform, boosting the government’s cyber security capabilities and driving the use of robots

Online banking is helping people manage their finances better and reduce their debt as a result

Identity management, and authentication and authorisation governance are shifting away from being purely IT initiatives, according to RSA

Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups

With one year left, it's time to prioritize GDPR compliance; Gary Southwell, CSPi's general manager, offers advice for protecting personal data under the EU's new privacy regulation.

Security researchers uncovered more info on how WannaCry spread, and a ransomware decryptor emerged to save files for those affected.

Following the worldwide impact of WannaCry, EternalRocks arrived abusing seven NSA cyberweapons but holding back on its malicious intent.

With GDPR compliance set to be mandatory in one year, Microsoft will help get its cloud customers ready for the new data protection regulation.

Global software giant SAP sees an opportunity for its wide portfolio in Saudi Arabia as the Middle Eastern country transforms

Dubai is making it easier for financial technology companies to test out their ideas through a temporary licence

Global organisations do not know where customer data is stored and use unreliable data removal methods to erase content, a study shows

Rackspace confirms new CEO appointment, six months after being acquired by private equity house Apollo Global

Gatwick has installed 2,000 beacons to help passengers find their way around the airport using augmented reality maps

Temporary power company moves from reactive to proactive, and now predictive maintenance

The number of payments made using debit cards will exceed the number made by cash three years earlier than expected, as a result of the success of contactless technology

Banks and startups in the Nordic region are working together to develop new ideas in financial technology

With one year to the compliance deadline, the Information Commissioner’s Office has urged UK firms to seize the business benefits of being GDPR-ready

Consumers have extremely high expectations for rapid mobile development in the coming years, according to a Gemalto report

The Open19 Foundation's mission to create new open industry standards for 19-inch servers continues apace

Blue Chip deploys Scality Ring object storage on commodity hardware with S3 connectivity to enable new cloud, backup and archiving product offerings at “a few pence a gigabyte”

The latest CBRE quarterly report, charting the performance of the European colocation market, shows demand for capacity in London has so far been unaffected by the triggering of Article 50

Hewlett Packard Enterprise previews flash upgrades to 3PAR StoreServe and hybrid MSA systems, plus its first Nimble Storage array for reusing backup and copy data.

The maiden flight undertaken by the China-made C919 commercial airliner marks the start of growing demand for 3D printing in the country

Security researcher who discovered worm that could have bigger impact than WannaCry says the author seems to have given up

Government’s partnership with fintech firm Holvi aims to provide online business banking services to entrepreneurs who take up eResidency

The latest government statistics on the progress of the BDUK broadband roll-out has delivered fresh insight into the value for money being offered by the scheme

Government agencies in Sweden are using a tool by Apptio to help them gain a better understanding of IT costs

People are often seen as the weakest link when it comes to cyber security, but that must change, says the National Cyber Security Centre

Possible voting machine hacking has been a topic of conversation since before the 2016 election and at DEFCON 2017; professional pentesters will find out what damage can be done.

In UC news this week, Genband and Sonus are set to merge; Polycom and Zoom combine forces; and Genesys updates its contact-center platform with artificial intelligence tools.

News roundup: The Target settlement following the 2013 data beach requires the company to adopt a stronger security program. Plus, experts knock the FCC's DDoS claim, and more.

End users are in the crosshairs of business data privacy issues, especially when it comes to information gleaned from artificial intelligence technologies.

A widespread Samba vulnerability has raised the possibility of attacks similar to WannaCry hitting Linux and Unix systems, but mitigation options are available.

GDPR will go into effect in May 2018, yet many U.S. organizations are only now understanding how the regulation may apply to them; other news from the week.