Shoddy password practices leave the door open for hackers to take away customer details
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2017
Digital Manchester Gets A Boost With £2.3million UKFast Data Centre Investment
UKFast hopes to put a dent in London's data centre dominance with new, highly secure facility
BT Protect Is Network Level Blacklist For Nuisance Calls
BT Protect could stop 30m nuisance calls a week if everyone opts in
Government Urged To Push Back Tax Digitisation Plans
A Treasury Committee report finds the current timetable is unworkable
Patient Data At Risk As Cyber Attack Hits Barts Health NHS Trust
Barts Health, which operates five London hospitals, said ransomware was not behind the disruption
Microsoft Buys Deep Learning Startup Maluuba And Signs Up AI Expert
Maluuba will join Microsoft's AI and Research organisation, giving it the resources and scalability to advance its research
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft To Stop Publishing Security Bulletins
Patch Tuesday is changing: From February, Microsoft will communicate security updates via a dynamic online portal rather than a static bulletin
Airport Gate Screens ‘Exposes Personal Data’ Of Passengers
A public gate display at a European airport exposed passenger names and booking codes, according to Symantec researcher found
Battery Fault ‘Caused’ Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explosions
Samsung has identified the cause of one of the biggest safety scandals in technology history
IT life: Nick Lazaridis, HP Inc.
Nick Lazaridis, HP Inc's President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa talks about his career in IT and the biggest challenges he's facing at the moment
Hacker Group ‘ShadowBrokers’ Release NSA Exploits After Auction Fails
"ShadowBrokers" releases 61 files said to contain exploit tools used by the NSA, which could fuel a race between attackers and defenders
Technology: The Obama Years
Tech Quiz Of the Week: Obama And Technology
QUIZ: What do you know about outgoing President Barack Obama and his relationship with tech?
Nissan To Test Self Driving Cars In London Next Month
Sign of the times. Modified Nissan Leaf to be driven on crowded public streets in London next month
Cross Channel: Citrix Summit 2017, New HPE Channel Chief
All the latest in the world of the channel from our sister site ChannelBiz
MongoDB Ransomware Extortionists Now Target ElasticSearch Servers
Shifting battleground. Damaging ransomware campaign against MongoDB opens new front against ElasticSearch
WhatsApp Denies It Has Compromised Encryption With ‘Backdoor’
UPDATED: Researcher says WhatsApp can reissue encryption keys for offline devices, compromising privacy. WhatsApp says there is no backdoor and design decision saves millions of messages
Rudy Giuliani Is To Head Donald Trump’s Cybersecurity Taskforce
Former major of New York Giuliani accepts position as leader of Donald Trump's new cybersecurity team
Jersey FTTP Broadband Rollout Now At 70 Percent
Jersey claims to have most FTTP connections as a percentage of total broadband links in the world
Microsoft StaffHub Goes Live To Manage Shift & Deskless Workers In Office 365
StaffHub is an app based shift manager designed to replace manual methods
Opera Neon Concept Browser Is ‘The Future Of The Web’
Opera has given the world a glimpse of its first ever concept browser, codenamed Opera Neon, which it hopes will "properly challenge" the browser industry
Attackers ‘Steal’ 900GB Of Data From Phone Hacker Cellebrite
The stolen information in Cellebrite hack included customer information and technical product data
IBM Unveils All-Flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads
IBM shows off solid-state storage for high-end applications requiring high availability, continuous uptime and high performance
Google Officially Ditches Project Titan Drone Broadband
Engineers scattered to other divisions as Titan doesn't make enough progress to continue
Jisc Partners iPass For Secure Wi-Fi For Education Staff
'Wi-Fi beyond the campus' after education provider partners with iPass for secure Wi-Fi on the go
Plusnet Mobile Fixes 4G Connection Problem
We'll do you proud...but perhaps not for some mobile users after problems with 4G connectivity
Lloyds Tries To Find Cause Of Online Banking Outage
Lloyds Bank issues extend to a second day but cause has still yet to be identified
BT Secures Data Centre Platform With TrendMicro ‘Deep Security’
BT makes latest move to secure cloud of clouds
AWS re:Start Cloud Training Programme Aims To Close UK Skills Gap
In partnership with The Prince's Trust, the programme will be available to any level of technical expertise
Flagship HTC U Ultra Smartphone Has Second Screen For Notifications
HTC makes serious Android smartphone play with HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play