The LockBit ransomware gang has made good on its threat to leak data exfiltrated from Royal Mail’s systems, but the postal service is not entertaining the possibility of giving in| ComputerWeekly.com
Research reveals disconnects between employer expectations and employee preferences around return-to-office policies in the new world of hybrid working, but also finds acceptance and uptake of cutting-edge collaboration tools.| ComputerWeekly.com
Why Microsoft's rhetoric on protecting European users from US government actions does not quite ring true| ComputerWeekly.com
Tech giant Microsoft is refusing to divulge key information to Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws.| ComputerWeekly.com
Microsoft's UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365| ComputerWeekly.com
Government CTO Liam Maxwell speaks out about the role Whitehall's played in convincing Microsoft and others to open UK datacentres| ComputerWeekly.com
Police Scotland’s new strategy outlines how the force will approach and invest in its digital transformation over the next five years, but notes its ability to achieve its ambitions is subject to the availability of funding.| ComputerWeekly.com
Police forces across England and Wales are being reminded not to overlook their data protection-related compliance responsibilities when making use of the Police Digital Service’s (PDS) Amazon-powered cloud platform.| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK government’s G-Cloud procurement framework emerged in Spring 2012 to provide public sector buyers with a faster, easier and more transparent means of acquiring IT services, with a focus on helping SMEs win more government business. How has it fared in achieving its aims? Computer Weekly takes a look.| ComputerWeekly.com
More than a year has passed since public sector-focused sovereign cloud provider UKCloud went into liquidation, and its former chairman outlines his concerns about the long-term economic impact of the domestic cloud market floundering in the face of the US hyperscalers| ComputerWeekly.com
UK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it.| ComputerWeekly.com
Criminal bar association calls for information about the reliability of communications data used in criminal trials to be disclosed. Police forces are checking over 18 months of mobile phone data records following warnings of errors in data supplied to police and intelligence services by the mobile phone company O2.| ComputerWeekly.com
Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police.| ComputerWeekly.com
The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK data regulator told the Scottish biometrics watchdog that, despite major data protection concerns raised, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information sharing agreement with the US government, before claiming to Computer Weekly the processing is legal if unspecified ‘protections’ are in place| ComputerWeekly.com
Scotland’s biometrics watchdog has issued Police Scotland with an information notice over its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system, following disclosure of major data protection concerns by Computer Weekly.| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate “immediately and unequivocally” that their cloud deployments are lawful, especially given the sheer volume of sensitive biometric information being moved onto cloud infrastructure owned by US companies| ComputerWeekly.com
Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite clear and ongoing data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk, including witnesses and victims of crime.| ComputerWeekly.com
The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts.| ComputerWeekly.com
There’s a conflict between cloud storage and the need to comply with local laws and regulations. We look at cloud data location, data residency, data sovereignty and data adequacy.| ComputerWeekly.com
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in connection with a data breach at accounting software firm Sage| ComputerWeekly.com
If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, with AI developments, tthe pace is three times quicker, says Satya Nadella| ComputerWeekly.com
Scam text messages are reaching pandemic proportions, thanks in part to the pandemic.| ComputerWeekly.com
COVID 19: Accelerating the need for business transformation in the print industry Quocirca recently conducted a snapshot online survey between 31st March and 7th April 2020 to understand the impact ...| www.computerweekly.com
In-house or outsourced? What makes a good security training programme, and what questions should buyers ask when procuring training-as-a-service?| ComputerWeekly.com
Home Office quietly announces a major extension to the ESN project, pumping over £200m of additional taxpayer money into its contract with EE.| ComputerWeekly.com
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The Scottish Ambulance Service is testing satellite broadband to help paramedics gather vital information on their patients’ conditions whilst in transit.| ComputerWeekly.com
As expected, mobile operator EE has been formally selected to provide a resilient national 4G network for the UK’s ambulance, fire and police services| ComputerWeekly.com
The States of Jersey Police force plans to phase out inefficient paper-based activities with mobile applications, while other forces around the UK report improvements to their overall processes.| ComputerWeekly.com
The Metropolitan Police has enlisted the help of G-Cloud supplier New Signature to support its cloud-first ambitions, as it pushes ahead with plans to migrate applications and its on-premise server capacity to Azure.| ComputerWeekly.com
The Home Office has awarded £42.7m of funding to a range of digital policing projects, as well as approved £70m for four ongoing national programmes across England and Wales.| ComputerWeekly.com
Embracing technology remains one of the biggest challenges facing UK police forces, according to policing minister Nick Hurd.| ComputerWeekly.com
In an appearance before the Public Accounts Committee, Home Office permanent secretary Philip Rutnam defended the progress of the ESN project review.| ComputerWeekly.com
In his first major interview since walking away from the Emergency Services Network procurement, Airwave COO John Lewis reveals why his company could take no further part in the process in good faith, and discusses the future of emergency services communications| ComputerWeekly.com
Die Fibonacci-Folge beginnt mit einer Null und zweimal einer Eins. Die folgenden Zahlen sind jeweils die Summe der beiden vorhergehenden Zahlen.| ComputerWeekly.de
Danish publisher moves national daily newspaper fully online as it cuts costs and reacts to changing customer habits.| ComputerWeekly.com
The UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel.| ComputerWeekly.com
An IT incident that disrupted visitor access to the British Museum last week was the work of a disgruntled contractor who had been let go.| ComputerWeekly.com
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Study of telecom and IT engineers exploring artificial intelligence’s impact on the network sees almost universal belief in need to upgrade fibre-optic networks to support more AI traffic.| ComputerWeekly.com
A former senior developer who worked for Fujitsu on the Post Office IT system that led to subpostmasters being falsely accused of fraud, has claimed bosses knew of fundamental flaws before going live.| ComputerWeekly.com
Researchers from Princeton University find that despite advances in technology, SIM swap fraud continues to be difficult to detect and prevent, as fraudsters adapt attack techniques| ComputerWeekly.com
Cyber security experts warn that government proposals to amend the Investigatory Powers Act will limit tech companies’ ability to respond to security threats and could hamper the use of end-to-end encryption.| ComputerWeekly.com
Microsoft’s hold on central government IT is under scrutiny, following a freedom of information disclosure to a Scottish policing body that saw the software giant advise that it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of data hosted in its cloud-based Microsoft 365 productivity suite.| ComputerWeekly.com
Documents released under freedom of information rules show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee their sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary.| ComputerWeekly.com
Competition watchdog considers whether to launch market investigation into role played by Motorola’s mobile radio network used by all emergency services in UK.| ComputerWeekly.com
Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground.| ComputerWeekly.com
The delayed Emergency Services Network is slipping further behind schedule and is getting more expensive all the time – and the Home Office’s management of the project is to blame, says the National Audit Office.| ComputerWeekly.com
New disclosures from those responsible for the troubled Emergency Services Network project have revealed that, contrary to previous denials, the Home Office came close to pulling the plug earlier this year.| ComputerWeekly.com
The government will adopt a phased approach to the roll-out of the new emergency services 4G communications network.| ComputerWeekly.com
Ongoing delays to the Emergency Services Network roll-out are costing the UK taxpayer £330m a year, according to the National Audit Office.| ComputerWeekly.com
Insider risk management budgets have more than doubled in the past 12 months and look set to grow further still in 2025, according to a report.| ComputerWeekly.com
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data.| ComputerWeekly.com
A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK.| ComputerWeekly.com
Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud Tech companies brace for more attacks on encryption The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service. Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any ...| ComputerWeekly.com
An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (reported by CW here, here and here) that Apple break the security protecting its Advanced Data Protection cloud security system to let British spies into anyone’s secure files. In a letter to the recently appointed US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, Senator Ron Wyden of ...| ComputerWeekly.com
Private therapy practice Vastaamo faces questions over its security and business practices in the months leading up to one of the biggest data breaches in Finland’s history.| ComputerWeekly.com
Latest chapter in UK Emergency Services Network saga sees award of user services for comms equipment and supplies, ancillary works, software packages and software development services.| ComputerWeekly.com
On the back of a stinging report, Motorola begins exit strategy from UK Emergency Services Network, which is revealed to have acted as a $147m fixed asset impairment.| ComputerWeekly.com
Specialist in design, build, support and management of UK’s critical digital infrastructure announces refresh to provide end-to-end replacement of legacy networks.| ComputerWeekly.com
Three months after considering whether to launch a probe, UK competition watchdog opens market investigation of role played by tech firm in mobile radio network used by emergency services.| ComputerWeekly.com
Ingo Flomer, VP of business development and technology at Cobham Wireless, recaps the current state of play with the Emergency Services Network (ESN), and looks ahead to deployment| www.computerweekly.com
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Cyber security company says investigations have revealed security breach occurred because of a flaw in a network monitoring software.| ComputerWeekly.com
Hacking tools used to conduct red team penetration testing were stolen in the state-backed attack on security firm FireEye.| ComputerWeekly.com
City of London Police, UK Department of Justice and Fire and Rescue New South Wales take on suite of services designed to offer seamless collaboration between frontline teams, vehicles and control rooms.| ComputerWeekly.com
Next phase in controversial mobile network for UK emergency services sees request for Mobile Services Supplier to provide radio access network infrastructure and related services in contract valued over £900m.| ComputerWeekly.com
Read the latest stories about identity and access management (IAM) products and the ways to ensure your users are who they say they are.| www.computerweekly.com
A so-called kill-switch for the dangerous SolarWinds Sunburst attack should allay some user fears, but is not a full fix for the issue| ComputerWeekly.com
Review announced to help bolster the resilience of the emergency call handling system following a technical fault in 2023 sparking introduction of further safeguards to ensure continued public trust in 999 service.| ComputerWeekly.com
New report puts forward key recommendations that the banking sector, government and other industries could take to tackle authorised push payment fraud.| ComputerWeekly.com
Companies founded in the past 20 years appear more willing to accept higher levels of fraudulent activity during the customer onboarding process, according to a report.| ComputerWeekly.com
Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide covers essential information about the scandal.| ComputerWeekly.com