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New legislation will require social media platforms to delete information about children and adults when asked

After admitting to being addicted to market share, server supplier Lenovo is changing tack by focusing on customer experience and new areas such as software-defined infrastructure

A new generation of internet-connected cars will have to be better protected from cyber attackers, under tough new UK government guidance

Department for International Trade advertises job for digital designer to support future trade arrangements

Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3.

Analysis of 100,000 corporate devices shows more than a quarter of traffic going to phishing domains was from gaming apps

Managing how people within an enterprise deal with data is a vital element of shoring up security around the internet of things, says Vodafone

The cyber security industry has generally welcomed planned UK data protection legislation, but some say it is hypocritical in the light of the Investigatory Powers Act

Market watcher's latest cloud report outlines how the consolidation of the cloud software and infrastructure market can mean good and bad news for enterprises

Startup Attala Systems plans a joint demonstration with Intel at Flash Memory Summit next week. The FPGAs serve as NVMe storage targets and handle processing and network commands.

The UK is considering the same hefty fines for critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers with poor cyber security as those failing to protect the personal data of UK citizens

The battle among telcos and other low-power wide area network operators for a slice of the IoT pie in Singapore has just begun

Average broadband speed in the UK lags behind 19 European countries, as well as most of North America and Asian economies such as Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore

Children should be encouraged to spend more time online learning cyber skills to inspire future generations of computer scientists, cyber defenders and engineers, says former GCHQ head

Youth charity is turning to digital means to engage with young people outside its usual reach

Telco KCOM fined after 999 calls made by Hull residents went unanswered due to flooding at a BT exchange miles away

World-class IT departments are able to run systems more efficiently and deliver projects on time that have measurable business value

Huawei and CSP Imagine Communications plan to build a countrywide wireless broadband network across Ireland

UK government plans to implement the EU’s Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive have been welcomed for assuring its commitment to cyber defence post-Brexit

SSD manufacturers showing off new 3D NAND products at this year's Flash Memory Summit include Intel, Micron and Toshiba; Intel adds new SSD form factor and Optane options.

The Briton who played a key role in halting the global WannaCry ransomware attacks is due in court in the US to face charges in connection with the Kronos banking Trojan

The US court appearance of British WannaCry hero on charges of writing and distributing malware has been postponed

Nordic countries are leaders when it comes to digitisation – but they must continue to innovate to retain their position

Many company websites still contain critical vulnerabilities that cyber criminals can use to carry out a variety of cyber attacks, a security audit shows

Robot will dispense medicine to patients as part of Dubai healthcare IT initiative

Huddle is thought to be revising its private equity payouts to shareholders, after past and present employees describe current offer as a ‘slap in the face’

Theft of data from US television network has become personal with the release of details of actors in Game of Thrones and could signal a trend of cyber attacks on entertainment firms

A large proportion of IT workers in the UK want another general election this year in the hope it will stave off a hard brexit

E8 adds parallel file-system support for IBM Spectrum Scale and Oracle RAC deployments. Applications read and write to a shared flash volume on E8-D24 and new E8 X-24 arrays.

Microsoft's August 2017 Patch Tuesday brought the first Windows 10 Linux subsystem patches, just as a new version of the Linux subsystem is released for Windows Server.

Hiring processes that could take more than four months in some cases are leading top tech professionals in Singapore’s tight labour market to look elsewhere

The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned against misinformation about the EU’s new data protection rules and how they will be applied

Government’s controversial online identity system has missed important milestones that formed the basis of its original 2015 business case

Statistics produced by consumer rights advocacy group Which? seem to show that people who buy faster broadband services are being badly underserved

Computer experts fear chilling effect on security research over US arrest of Marcus Hutchins who halted the spread of the WannaCry ransomware

The Netherlands has the highest supermarket density in the world, yet a technology company has been able to gain market share from the established order

Information Commissioner’s Office fines TalkTalk for putting up to 21,000 customers’ details at risk of exposure prior to September 2014

Cinema group Vue Entertainment rolls out Kaseya's VSA tool to manage remote IT at its venues and provide proactive maintenance

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a package of measures designed to boost digital connectivity around London

Security firm Kaspersky Lab is to drop a complaint that Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to promote its security software in light of changes to the latest Windows 10

TSB Bank believes the Competition and Markets Authority needs to do more to promote account switching system to consumers

Chemonics upgraded its technological process from telex-era capabilities to cloud-based software for its worldwide projects.

China has tested a prototype communication system that uses the principles of quantum mechanics to make it impossible for hackers to access

McKesson Corp. departs the mainstream EHR business with the sale of its remaining EHR technology aspects to Allscripts, essentially leaving only four major hospital EHR vendors.

Brightcloud replaces complexities of LUN management on HDS SAN and replaces it with Tintri hybrid cloud storage that saves nearly £80,000 on rack space and resource costs

In another instance of banks adopting automation to lower costs and drive productivity, HSBC uses IBM analytics technology to cut down on its paper trail

Manchester will trial an AI traffic light system, which provides quick data analysis, to improve traffic flow

Manufacturers are a key and growing target for cyber criminals, a threat intelligence report reveals

Spanish bank BBVA has the best mobile banking app in the world, according to Forrester Research

A Russian cyber espionage group is targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks to carry out malware infections and potentially steal credentials, researchers warn

Dell SecureWorks researchers detected suspicious activity on social media accounts of Mia Ash. When they dug deeper, they discovered a new, complex social engineering attack.

Malicious email campaigns saw a spike in volume and increased variety in the second quarter of 2017, a cyber security report reveals

News roundup: The FBI Next Generation Identification biometrics database is exempt from the Privacy Act. Plus, Salesforce fired two top staffers after DEFCON, and more.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is partnering with SDN vendor Big Switch. The HPE partnership is expected to take advantage of Big Switch's limited success in the enterprise market.

Bloggers explore the growing role of cybersecurity machine learning, the capabilities of Microsoft's containers and how well SIEM works for threat detection.

Microsoft antivirus policy changes for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update in order to avoid further action in an antitrust case brought by Kaspersky.