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Both Houses of Parliament are to meet as scheduled after a “sustained and determined cyber attack” at the weekend

Spanish bank to roll out video technology for mortgage services at 63 branches in the UK following a successful trial

The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged

News publishing corporation saves up to 40% on hardware and software costs by switching in-house hardware for a cloud-first policy, using Zadara cloud storage as a backup target

Two-year broadband funding package is part of UK prime minister Theresa May’s deal with the DUP

Two women are at the helm of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development’s technology change programme – the bank’s first-ever digital transformation

Automobile Association apologises for sending out password reset confirmation emails to a small selection of customers in error, which led some to assume the company may have been hacked

Demands for security code reviews by Russia have been on the rise, and not all experts or U.S. companies want to comply with the requests.

Security platforms could make it easier to take products to market and improve firms’ security posture by making innovative products easier to consume, but the biggest winners could be the platform providers

Panzura's enhancements to its cloud NAS include support for NVMe flash and increased capacity limit on VMware deployments. The cloud file system works with object storage.

E-commerce in the Middle East makes up a tiny proportion of the region's GDP, but this will change as Amazon stokes the market

Cloud backup and storage automation are key to supporting expansion at Middle East logistics company, CWT-SML

Internet of things connectivity provider plans to cover 95% of the island’s population by 2018

Holders of Denmark’s national debit card can use their fingerprints to instigate payments

To encourage more minorities into IT, Google’s head of diversity and inclusion in Europe claims the industry needs to redefine the stereotypes around what a job in tech entails

Public sector contractors urged to back campaign to explore legal challenge to revamped IR35 tax avoidance rules

Business and tech experts give their verdict on prospects for the UK as Brexit negotiations finally get under way

Londoners and tourists to get free Wi-Fi and calls from BT as the company replaces phone boxes with digital services units

Company’s practices amount to an abuse of its dominant position in general internet search, stifling competition in comparison shopping, says European Commission

Building digital capabilities and common services are key to the future of the civil service, according to Tracey Waltho, director-general of the Civil Service Group

High-tech manufacturer outsources datacentre management to support its digital transformation

Closer collaboration between departments such as business continuity and information security could help raise staff awareness to counter the cyber threat, according to industry experts

The former GDS chief is leaving the Co-op to work on advising governments around the world on their digital strategy

Cabinet Office parliamentary under secretary will take on ministerial responsibility for GDS while Damian Green will “retain oversight”

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is again playing doubles with IBM at its annual championship, this time with assistance from a virtual Fred Perry

Latest cyber attack appears to be based on the same EternalBlue exploit used by the WannaCry ransomware that hit the NHS in May

With Cisco's Ericsson partnership on hold for now, the Cisco and Apple CEOs hinted at joint work on Wi-Fi and security at Cisco annual customer conference.

A newly disclosed Windows Defender bug, which could allow an attacker to fully take over a target system and create admin accounts, marks yet another major antivirus vulnerability.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Apple CEO Tim Cook explain how technology adoption is changing how organisations view skills and security

The Greater London Authority fears the Metropolitan Police is vulnerable to cyber attacks after figures reveal more than 18,000 devices in the force still run on Windows XP

The country’s emergency response team has called for users to boost their cyber defences as the Petya ransomware rages through IT systems in Asia and Australia

The government in Finland is digitising 94 shelf kilometres of documents to save millions of euros and make the information easier to access

Agency’s IT strategy for 2019/20 will see a concerted move to deprecate legacy systems, deploy applications in the cloud and develop in-house IT

Retaining IT staff might be as much of a challenge as retaining them after Brexit as EU workers get itchy feet

Victims of the latest global ransomware attack are urged not to pay, while some researchers claim to have found a local kill switch or vaccine

The new Cisco DNA Center policy software may become the central enterprise management console for data center and campus networks, integrating Cisco's APIC controller.

A new global ransomware attack has been spreading quickly using the same exploits as WannaCry, but researchers have already found ways to protect users from the damage.

Tegile Systems updates IntelliFlash with two tiers of flash. The 6U Tegile configuration supports 72 SAS SSDs for capacity and NVMe flash drives for performance.

Researchers discovered the rash of Petya-like attacks are nothing more than a ransomware scam, and list files are impossible to restore.

Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud

An approach built on partnerships, sharing and mutual accountability is essential to ensure a cyber-safe NHS, according to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT

Confidence among UK local authorities about being prepared and well equipped to deal with a cyber attack is relatively low, a survey has revealed

The London Assembly Regeneration Committee describes the capital’s digital connectivity as “embarrassing” and calls on the new chief digital officer to solve the problem

A lack of standards-based technical security testing is putting industrial control environments and critical national infrastructure at risk of cyber attack, a report reveals

Las Vegas’s chief innovation officer explains how the city has partnered with Cisco to deliver internet of things technologies that will help improve visitor experiences

The latest ransomware attack has reached Australia’s shores, prompting calls to dump on-premise IT infrastructure for the cloud

Project managers are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of business development, leading to project failures

Ocado Technology opens up about how self-driving vans could revolutionise grocery deliveries in urban areas in the years to come

At the latest annual internet of things event in the Netherlands, the IoT moves from the geek's shed to the industrial plant, with some fantasy thrown in

The internet of things brings more opportunities than challenges for the UK’s police forces, according to a TechUK report that urges the police to embrace digital technologies

The Royal Society and the British Academy have jointly released a report urging the UK government to set up a public body to oversee data use

Cloud industry price wars could enter new phase, as demand for serverless computing services grows, suggests 451 Research

The number of people banking from their mobile phones is increasing as more services are made available through the channel

French CIOs are looking at alternatives to storing data with US-based suppliers

Xi Cloud Services brings hyper-converged vendor Nutanix into the public cloud game as it seeks to tie on-premises data to the cloud with the help of Calm orchestration software.

NatWest is testing out artificial intelligence technology that listens to the conversations between its advisers and customers to help keep them compliant

While the cyber security community is still working to understand the latest ransomware attack that has reportedly hit 60 countries, there are key lessons to be learned

Print and document management is a potential blind spot for the public sector when it comes to compliance with the GDPR, a survey has revealed

IBM and Lightbend join forces to help bring microservices to IBM's WebSphere platform, with new Scala- and Java-based tools for cognitive application development.

Formation Data's recent demise shows the challenges startups face in differentiating products in a crowded software-defined storage market, industry analysts say.

Company confirms attack took down its IT system across multiple sites and business units, but has now been contained

The Australian hosting provider will tap Vodien’s infrastructure to address the needs of mobile-first businesses in Southeast Asia that are going online for the first time

Active Cyber Defence measures will immediately help to improve basic cyber security across UK business and government departments, says NCSC

Investment firm Public launches GovStart programme, aiming to help tech startups transform public services

Online fraud is the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales and demands urgent response, a report by Parliament’s independent public spending watchdog has concluded

Civil rights organisation Liberty has been given the go-ahead to challenge in the High Court controversial surveillance legislation it believes breaches UK citizens’ rights

Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard talks with SearchSecurity about his experiences with the Cyber Threat Alliance and how the group approaches threat intelligence sharing.

NotPetya represented advanced malware compared to its cousin WannaCry, but also showed sophistication that experts worry may be a ransomware trend.

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