Articles by Graeme Burton
Microsoft to migrate Office 365 Personal and Home users to Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 will add new cloud-based features to Office 365 Personal and Home subscribers
Ten best PC games to while away the coronavirus lockdown
'Working' from home? Furloughed? Why not while away the hours with some of these great games
How Hillarys responded to the coronavirus outbreak
Hillarys’ Head of ICT Julian Bond talks to Computing about how the UK-based manufacturer responded to the coronavirus crisis – culminating this week in the government-ordered lockdown
Half of all UK businesses hit by security breaches in the past 12 months, according to government Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020
More businesses and charities than ever are being hit by cyber attacks, according to the latest survey – but organisation are also becoming more resilient
Surge in attacks from China-linked APT41 targeting unpatched Citrix servers and Cisco routers
APT41 attacks carried out between January and March targeted unsecured Citrix NetScaler servers and Cisco routers
BT: Working from home? We can handle it
BT responds to media claims that the UK’s networks can’t handle the strain of millions of people suddenly working from home
Health secretary Matt Hancock: Coronavirus response work covered by exemptions from GDPR
'GDPR has a clause excepting work in the overwhelming public interest', says Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock
New laws will make it mandatory for developers to hook-up new homes to fibre broadband
New laws will force developers to ensure that all new homes are hooked-up to 1Gbps broadband
Pakistan-linked APT36 accused of using coronavirus to propagate Trojans
Malwarebytes claims Pakistan state-sponsored group is using a fake Indian government advisory to spread remote-access Trojan
Travelex owner Finablr 'on verge of collapse' two months after ransomware outage
Travelex systems went down for a month following a ransomware outage launched on New Year’s Eve
Apple fined €1.1bn by France over anti-competitive practices
France’s competition authority claims Apple struck deals to keep iPad prices high
UK publishes framework for talks on post-Brexit EU-UK data flows
Trade in 'data enabled services' between the UK and EU is valued at more than £120 billion
Coronavirus: Google tells employees across the world to work from home
Google tells staff to work remotely for the next month and promises sick pay for temporary staff
Budget 2020: £5bn for full-fibre broadband and two per cent digital services tax to go ahead
Government to create UK equivalent of ARPA in technology investment push
Government calls in technology companies to help fight coronavirus
Technology leaders will be asked to pledge their “data, assets and expertise” to combat the outbreak of COVID-19
The challenges and changes coming to DevOps: an interview with Devoteam's Graham Zabel
Computing talks to Graham Zabel, Head of DevOps at Devoteam about the big changes coming to software development, including infrastructure-as-code and integrated pipelines
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey strikes private equity investment deal in peace agreement with activist investor Elliott Capital
Silver Lake Partners to invest $1 billion in Twitter, which will be used to fund a share buyback, while Dorsey will stay on as CEO – for now
Redcar and Cleveland Council expelled public and press from council meeting discussing ransomware outbreak
Public and press thrown-out of resources committee meeting last week because ‘sensitive’ information about ransomware attack would be discussed
CityFibre adds 36 towns and cities to its £4bn fibre-to-the-home roll-out
Glasgow, Nottingham and Wolverhampton, as well as smaller towns, such as Solihull, Crawley and Barnsley, to benefit from CityFibre gigabit broadband network
If we build more inclusive cultures, we will attract and retain more women in tech
Harvey Nash Group CEO Bev White believes that tech culture needs to change to become more welcoming for women
Virgin Media spills personal details of 900,000 customers in data breach
Misconfigured marketing customer database access ‘did not include any passwords or financial details’, Virgin Media claims
Let's Encrypt reverses threat to revoke digital certificates affected by bug following renewal frenzy
Let’s Encrypt claims that 1.7 million affected digital certificates have been renewed since Saturday
Boots blocks Advantage Card following cyber attack affecting 150,000 customer accounts
Boots claims it acted after identifying a credential-stuffing cyber attack
Cathay Pacific fined £500,000 by ICO for failing to protect customers' personal data
Cathay Pacific hit with the largest pre-GDPR fine the ICO can levy for exposing details of 9.4 million customers worldwide between 2014 and 2018
Seven people wrongfully apprehended by Met Police during Oxford Circus facial recognition deployment
Big Brother Watch claims 86 per cent of alerts flag innocent members of the public
CIA was behind 11-year cyber campaign against China, claims Qihoo 360
China’s Qihoo-360 names former CIA intelligence officer it claims was behind China cyber attacks, linking him to Vault 7 trove of attack tools
Xerox finally launches formal offer for HP Inc valuing PC maker at $36.5bn
After months of trying to cajole the HP board into agreeing a deal, Xerox's CEO formally tables acquisition offer
BMC buys Compuware from Thoma Bravo in mainframe software market consolidation deal
KKR-owned BMC Software to create mainframe giant with acquisition of Thoma Bravo-owned Compuware
Futurist Ade McCormack to headline Computing's IT Leaders Festival
McCormack, founder of the Digital Readiness Institute, has worked with hundreds of organisations across 40 countries
Microsoft: Coronavirus supply-chain disruption will hit revenues
Factory shutdowns in China have already hit Surface device production and will affect revenues in the current quarter, Microsoft warns
TikTok is 'fundamentally parastic' and little more than 'spyware', says Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Popular social media app TikTok is 'always listening’ and its fingerprinting technology is ‘truly terrifying’, claims Reddit’s Hoffman
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council finally admits that it has suffered ransomware attack
IT systems at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council have been down for three weeks
More than 100,000 hackers now make a career as bounty hunters, claims HackerOne
One-fifth of HackerOne's hackers are full-time bounty hunters - while for others, it's a route into lucrative new IT roles
Sports retailer Decathlon spills 123 million records, including unencrypted employee passwords
Improperly secured AWS ElasticSearch database contained ‘treasure trove’ of employee data, which may include UK staff
Magecart skimmers ran keyloggers on commerce provider's website for two-and-a-half years
Ecommerce platform compromised by eight different skimmers hosted accounts for a number of high-profile organisations
Pulse Secure: 2,500 VPN servers worldwide vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 critical security flaw
UK plays host to 149 unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers vulnerable to flaw favoured by Iranian state-backed hackers
UK blames Russia's GRU for cyber attacks targeting Georgia
UK accuses Russia of being behind a string of cyber attacks on neighbouring states
EU unveils 'human centric' artificial intelligence data strategy
New strategy intended to both fuel the development of AI and data-driven business across the EU, as well as to regulate it
Steve Capper moves from BAM to become Group CIO at SNC-Lavalin
Capper to take charge of data-driven digital transformation at global engineering firm SNC-Lavalin
Almost 6,000 unpatched Citrix NetScaler servers remain vulnerable to critical security flaw
A total of 5,915 Citrix servers remain unpatched against CVE-2019-19781, with 388 located in the UK
Broadband and mobile phone providers must now tell customers when their contract ends
New rules from Ofcom require broadband, mobile phone and pay TV providers to notify residential and business customers when their deals are drawing to a close
Want to make £££ in IT? Go into quality assurance, security, architecture or programme management
Then work your way up to CIO - but avoid the helpdesk, which (as always) offers the worst-paid roles in IT
Google's $2.6bn deal for Looker Data Science approved by CMA
Google's proposed acquisition has been investigated, and approved, by three national competition authorities
Half of IT pros plan to change jobs in 2020 - Harvey Nash
Two-thirds of IT pros are happy in their job, according to Harvey Nash survey, but just want more money
Ocado's Andover fire quadruples annual losses
£111.8 million write-off from the value of the destroyed warehouse offset by £74 million insurance payout
Government plan to regulate online platforms will hit more than 200,000 businesses in the UK
Government support for online regulation will encompass at least five per cent of UK businesses
