Theft, breaches and ICO warnings: Top 10 IT news stories of the week

Charlee Gothard
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CIOs should be watching their backs after a particularly cybercrime-riddled seven days in IT

It's been a week dominated by doom and gloom in the security sector, but at least we got some good news about Microsoft's latest hybrid tablet outing...

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