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An analysis of the most Googled technology terms during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the scale of the cyber security challenge presented by the crisis

Purple notice issued to alert police forces around the world of ransomware attacks against hospitals and other healthcare institutions

Tech startup DoctorOnCall has built a virtual health advisory platform for people to consult doctors amid the coronavirus outbreak, catalysing Malaysia’s telemedicine blueprint, which was conceived over two decades ago

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced the funding to back proposals to be reviewed by Innovate UK

Proposed opening of the 6GHz band to Wi-Fi 6 technology in US set to provide more capacity than all other current Wi-Fi bands put together

Changes to the government’s coronavirus business loan scheme will do little to alleviate the financial pressure on startups and pre-revenue companies, despite previous warnings from tech industry bodies about the dangers they face

Distributor steps up support it can provide resellers during these difficult times

UK businesses receiving business process outsourcing and IT services from India will face disruption, but IT services from large IT suppliers less so

The exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities increasingly demonstrates access to cash, rather than skills

Criminal damage to phone masts and abuse of telecoms engineers condemned as the product of “crackpot” online conspiracy theories

The U.S. received a record 275,000 H-1B work visas for the 2021 fiscal year. But these visa petitions were prepared in better economic times, before the economy began shutting down.

Merseyside rated as the sweetest of sweet spots for business wireless connectivity

Both British Airways and Marriott International have had their General Data Protection Regulation fines deferred until later in 2020

The job appointments keep coming, despite the lockdown, with some movement across the industry in the past week

New Lenovo ThinkAgile MX and Lenovo storage arrays target Microsoft cloud customers. Azure Stack HCI configuration mirrors qualified designs for VMware, Nutanix.

Tech startups based in the Nordic region face difficult decisions as the Covid-19 pandemic leads to falling sales and investment

Zoom has implemented two key security and privacy measures in order to counter 'Zoombombing.' One enables passwords in meetings by default, while the second creates waiting rooms.

Remote contact center tech easily supports agents working from home, experts say. It's the culture of each team that determines success in the current national health crisis.

Campaign launched by BCS aims to recognise the importance of IT staff in keeping UK workers connected during the coronavirus crisis

Number of people online during working day more than doubles since end of January and growth in demand for business apps reaches record levels, fuelled by conferencing applications

Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic?

Temporary arrangements will be in place to allow MPs to work remotely, with a project involving the BBC set to implement a more robust solution

Through an industry collaboration with IBM, university is enabling students to tackle real-world problems using virtual reality, artificial intelligence and internet of things technologies

Despite expected restricted growth this year of platforms that integrate different transport services – including buses, taxis, rail and metro – into a single app, a dramatic return for MaaS is expected in the six years to 2027

Videoconferencing application targeted to deliver cryptomining malware to unsuspecting victims

Leaders of the channel giant decide to go without pay for the next three months to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with furloughed staff

Telecoms player is taking steps to arm partners with more support and minimise risks for those still working in the field

DevOps specialist Sonatype claims to have found a direct correlation between satisfied developers and application security hygiene

Security player continues to develop the support it can provide to the growing managed security services provider community

Internet-of-things manufacturers see a huge new market opening up from the millions of new enterprise customers working from home

District Judge Vanessa Baraitser says extradition proceedings will go ahead against Julian Assange, after his lawyers argued that the coronavirus lockdown means they cannot prepare their defence

Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data governance and secure data access in the COVID-19 era.

While many firms have seized on the government’s decision to delay the roll-out of the IR35 reforms to rethink their approach, others are sticking by their decision to ban limited company IT contractors from their workforce

Cloud-based open RAN automation platform claimed to bring required flexibility and speed to accelerate 5G networks development

MCPTX solution powered by leading cloud platform said to enable first responders to accurately assess vital moments using voice, data and video calls

The Covid-19 Cyber Threat Coalition finds the majority of security pros have been targeted by cyber criminals exploiting the coronavirus pandemic, and adds to warnings of increased activity targeting the health sector

Computer Weekly looks at the next stages in the process to clear the names of subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for the crimes of theft and false accounting

Cyber criminals are selling fake goods and running scams on online marketplaces during the Covid-19 pandemic. Don’t be taken in

Data61’s open source seL4 microkernel project will be supported by a new foundation created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation

New research by Cisco Talos shows popular fingerprint scanning technology can be defeated by lifting actual fingerprints and reproducing them through 3D printers.

Irish firm DataSolutions looks to increase growth in the UK and build on the foothold it has already established in Surrey

Vodafone Foundation and scientists at Imperial College London are using a smartphone app to aid coronavirus research

DZD, the German Federal Diabetes Research Centre, is using a Neo4j graph database to link up Covid-19 scientific research and scientists

Operator taps virtual infrastructure firm to add last piece of pan-European digital infrastructure architecture and gain agility and flexibility

The UK’s NCSC and the US’s CISA see little change in overall volumes of cyber crime in spite of the coronavirus crisis – for the time being

Box Inc. quarantines malware-infected files with features that allow content to be viewed, with admin and security team alerts to address threats before they spread.

Business intelligence is proving to be a critical tool for enterprises as they attempt to survive during the sudden economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sector firms will deliver health messaging to UK citizens though popular games under a partnership with the government

The coronavirus has thrown tech conferences and vendors' product launch schedules into question. Some suggest live tech shows will be heavily scaled down even after the pandemic.

Security player is keen to make sure it has the resellers signed up to support its recent acquisitions

Kremlin-linked threat actors are undermining the government of Estonia and its relationship with the European Union through a concerted disinformation campaign, with wider ramifications

The recently announced Fluidmesh-Cisco deal would fill a gap in Cisco's industrial IoT portfolio. It would provide onboard Wi-Fi for high-speed public transportation systems.

The coronavirus pandemic appears to be increasing demands for feature parity between live events and meetings in Microsoft Teams.

Many unlucky online shoppers have fallen prey to 'porch pirates' who steal packages from outside their homes. It's a problem that could be exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rückholprogramm, an SAP Cloud Platform app, was built in just a few days to fulfill a request from the German Federal Foreign Office.

New Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers plans to steer the community into the next phase of cooperation with Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and more.

The line between personal and professional lives continues to blur, and last week's Microsoft 365 news exemplified that point.

More validation for secure access service edge solutions as SD-WAN provider scoops cash injection

Recently appointed EMEA vice-president of sales shares his view of how Forcepoint channel will get through the coronavirus and grow in the future

Media design & technology graduates from university’s Working Academy are helping the NHS in Bradford manage patients and clinicians

Online retail giant Amazon has been hit by a wave of strikes as workers protest against ‘unsafe working conditions’ and ‘corporate inaction’ during the pandemic

Under the terms of an agreement between OmniSci and HP revealed on Thursday, OmniSci's BI platform will come as a preloaded component on HP's Z8 line of workstations.

OpenText containerizes its applications for cloud deployment; adds raft of content services and features for customer experience support, security, and app development.

Use of videoconferencing tool has been banned at Google and in parts of the German and US governments

With an eye toward maintaining business continuity, HPE is making VDI product moves. Experts said the news comes at a critical time for companies.

Analyst recalibrates expectations for collaboration and conferencing tools, forecasting transformational upsurge in use that could change the world of work, with home broadband being a business lifeblood

Social media firm will distribute the equipment in hospitals, care homes and other healthcare settings

Revised IDC market forecast predicts a rise in cloud and infrastructure as a service, as organizations reallocate budgets from physical servers and storage hardware.

HashiCorp Vault 1.4 sweetens the deal for users of the paid Enterprise version, which had been subject to questions about differentiation from the free version in the past.

Technology to rapidly correlate and connect disparate data sets in a knowledge graph is being used by German researchers and others in the fight against the coronavirus.

With Alibaba cloud support in its latest features update, Commvault builds towards a platform for easy workload migration across on-premises clouds and multiple public clouds.

Cameyo's NoVPN provides secure employee access to internally hosted apps without taxing corporate VPNs that are already strained by the remote work explosion.

The food industry is hungry for employees. It has a shopping list of occupations it needs filled to keep essential food producers and grocers stocked with workers.

New BlackBerry research shows how five APT groups operating on behalf of the Chinese government infiltrated enterprise Linux environments undetected for nearly a decade.

New lawsuits allege Zoom misled users and investors by falsely claiming to use a more secure method of video encryption than it does. The suits also raise numerous other security and privacy concerns.

Check Point researchers have observed a surge in suspicious Zoom domains as cyber criminals target popular remote working and collaboration tools

Atlassian has created a promotion around its Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD platform to help developers gain access to tools that will help them turn out error-free code.

VMware's new NSX-T 3.0 brings important tools to customers modernizing data centers for the cloud era.

GoodData is in the process of redesigning its entire business intelligence platform to make it more accessible to self-service and citizen data scientist users.

The San Francisco 49ers play on a big stage, but they face the same work-from-home challenges as many businesses. They use the remote work tool Citrix ShareFile to help overcome them.

SonicWall MSSP partners can access new pricing options, priority support and additional market development fund opportunities, the security vendor said; more IT channel news from the week.