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Privacy experts express serious concern at NHSX COVID-19 contact tracing app
A letter signed by over a hundred privacy experts and academics following a meeting of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee as they debate the app, has been published with almost 200 signatories
Cyber espionage campaign exploiting Google Play Store to distribute malware uncovered
The campaign has been linked to Vietnam-state-backed threat group APT32
Zoom selects Oracle Cloud to support its growth
Recent growth has put immense pressure on Zoom to increase its service capacity
Huge spike in interest in COBOL programming jobs revealed by trends data
COBOL was introduced nearly 60 years ago in the era of punch cards but still runs many banking and government systems
Choosing a database in the multi-cloud era
Cloud, mobile, social media, big data, IoT and organisations operating in real-time on a global scale have driven sweeping changes to the database arena
Virgin Media customers report internet outages
The outages started just after 17:00 on Monday
NHS rejects Apple-Google API in favour of centralised contact tracing system
Unlike Germany, Switzerland and Estonia, the UK has opted for a server-managed system for tracking Covid-19 infections
UK spy agencies need to adopt AI technology to fight emerging threats, government report suggests
AI technology can help British security community to strengthen efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes
FCC considers revoking operations of four Chinese state-controlled telecom firms in the US
The companies will need to prove in 30 days that they are not subject to Chinese government's influence
Facebook accuses Israeli firm NSO Group of spying on WhatsApp users via US servers
NSO Group had used a server run a Los Angeles-based hosting provider, according to Facebook
Charity IT Leaders appoints its first CEO
The membership body for IT professionals in the charity sector is aiming to build and develop its proposition
Internet governance body RIPE opposes Chinese proposal to change core internet protocols
The proposal appears to favour authoritarian regimes
NSA, ASD publish advisory for detecting and mitigating web shell malware
Malicious web shells can evade detection from most security tools, so they are difficult to detect
Zoom announces version 5.0 with improved security and control features
New version with 256-bit AES encryption (for real this time) to be rolled out next week
Google's Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform matches data centre demand with renewable supply
Approach mirrors the growing use of time-of-use energy tariffs and demand response platforms
Threat group APT32 targets Chinese state agencies in efforts to steal Covid-19-related information
Spear-phishing attacks started just after the WHO issued its first warning about novel coronavirus
Hackers target Robert Dyas to steal customers' payment card details
The firm says it became aware of the breach on 30th March 2020
Health Traffic Lights contact tracing app wins Hack From Home challenge
Priviacy centric app uses a simple green-amber-red signal to show risk of coronavirus infection
New survey reveals huge gender gap in British IT sector
Experts believe this gap is due to lower participation of girls in STEM subjects
Sainsbury's picks Blue Yonder's AI-powered platform to transform its supply chain
The move will enable Sainsbury's to add the power of AI across multiple supply chain functions
More investment streams in for Confluent
Additional $250 million sees the Silicon Valley start-up's value rise to $4.5 billion
Researchers train AI to spot difference between bots and human users on Twitter based on their activity patterns
Real users tend to respond more frequently to tweets from other users compared to bots
New Relic AI looks to boost the ops incident signal and reduce the background noise
AIOps offering presents event and incident information in a more understandable fashion for on-call engineers
HMRC sees massive demand for UK's Cornonavirus Job Retention Scheme
The system is designed to process up to 450,000 applications an hour
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