Emergency Services Network will not be ready in time, says PAC

A Public Accounts Committee examination of the Emergency Services Network concludes that the controversial project may need more testing and assurance than its delivery date allows for

US man jailed for hacking into celebrity accounts

Edward Majerczyk is jailed for 9 months and ordered to pay $5,700 compensation for hacking iCloud and Gmail accounts and stealing celebrity nude photos

Accenture adds voice and VR to data analytics for RBS Six Nations

Accenture, in the sixth year of its tech partnership with the RBS Six Nations rugby championship, adds voice interface and more virtual reality to data analytics effort

Microsoft’s cloud privacy battle may go to US Supreme Court

The US Department of Justice is considering going to the Supreme Court after an appeals court refused to revisit its July 2016 landmark ruling blocking government access to Microsoft servers in Ireland

Virtual Instruments to add cloud storage monitoring by end of 2017

Storage performance and monitoring provider Virtual Instruments leverages Xangati functionality to add cloud storage monitoring to existing SAN and NAS capabilities in Virtual Wisdom

Human-centric technologies will dominate next three years

Accenture says businesses will develop technology and services to match human behaviour in the next few years

Security spending leaving data vulnerable, study finds

Cyber breaches are increasing despite increased security spending, a study shows, highlighting that security investment decisions are not aligned with actual cyber threats

Facebook ups security with Fido U2F two-factor authentication

Social media giant is enabling users to increase the security of their logins with Fido U2F USB security keys

MoD accelerator launches Enduring Challenge tech contest

Enduring Challenge seeks to bring innovative technology to the front line for the UK’s armed forces and security services

Mixed feelings on Australian enterprise app market

The enterprise mobile app development market is attracting big money despite a lack of corporate appetite

Growing UK's tech skills base will make or break prime minister's industrial strategy, panel claims

Speakers at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology's industrial strategy debate demand greater clarity on how the government intends to tackle the UK tech and science sector's skills, diversity and regional inequalities

Saudi Arabian bank enables customers to print their own debit cards

Fingerprint scan at self-service units will authorise Al Rajhi Bank customers to print debit cards, statements and other documentation

Lloyds Bank hit by massive DDoS attack

It has emerged that UK banks have been targeted by a DDoS campaign that affected services intermittently only at the Lloyds Banking Group

No silver bullet for business IoT security

Good application design, adapting existing IT security and adopting some new ideas can protect firms from IoT threats

Schroders staff to complete daily tasks on mobile devices

The asset management company wants to make it easier for its staff to complete everyday tasks by linking mobile devices to enterprise systems

Lululemon turns to digital transformation to support consumer community

Athletic apparel retailer’s executive vice-president of digital explains how the brand has used digital transformation to support its core value of a community ecosystem

Government reaffirms broadband funding in industrial strategy plan

The government reaffirms previous commitments to further funding of rural broadband roll-out and 5G mobile networking in its post-Brexit industrial strategy plan

Government industrial strategy proposes £170m investment in tech institutes to boost Stem skills

The Prime Minister has claimed technology training and skills will be one of the key areas the government will focus on in its bid to boost the economy post-Brexit

Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

Singapore bank offers online chat banking

POSB launches automated customer service platform that understands spoken language

Bromium mobilises endpoints to fight cyber attacks

Bromium evolves its micro-virtualisation security technology to gather threat intelligence from endpoints and automate checks and responses across an enterprise

CIO interview: Bas Anneveld, Gumtree

When your parent is the internet phenomenon eBay, how do you make a difference?

GDS signals intent to move public sector off PSN

Government Digital Service’s Technology Leaders Network determines that the internet is an adequate solution to support the vast majority of public sector work

Stockholm offers sustainable datacentre safe haven to hyperscale cloud firms

Sweden's capital city looks to capitalise on recent country-wide tax breaks for datacentre operators, to encourage cloud and colocation firms to set up shop in its new environmentally-friendly business parks

TechUK outlines its Brexit negotiation priorities

IT industry body TechUK outlines what it believes are the Brexit negotiation priorities for the UK IT sector

SAP 2016 results: cloud revenue almost €3bn, 5,400 S/4 customers

SAP declares full-year 2016 revenue of €22bn, of which nearly €3bn was cloud – almost 14%

Executive interview: Kirk Bresniker, chief architect, HPE

HPE has developed a concept computing architecture which it says will power future generations of applications. We find out how it will change IT

Post Office offers banking for all UK accounts as bank branch closures continue

Customers of all UK banks can receive branch services through the Post Office after a deal agreed last year takes effect

Aldo uses Salesforce to drive ‘customer delight’

Luxury retailer is using Salesforce to drive engagement, a seamless experience and customer loyalty

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in $2bn VR theft claim case

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to argue Facebook-owned Oculus made VR technology a reality without help of IP ZeniMax Media claims it stole

Artificial intelligence critical to business growth

There are many hurdles to overcome before the full benefits of AI can be realised by organisations

How information security professionals can help business understand cyber risk

Information security is continually moving up business and board agendas, but information security professionals find it challenging to help business leaders to understand fully the cyber risks across increasingly digital businesses.

UK business at risk due to severe security skills shortage

Job site Indeed urges the UK’s tech sector to pull together to attract more people into cyber security roles, as a study shows the UK skills gap is among the worst in the world

HSBC appoints technology advisers to keep pace with IT changes

Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

Private and public cloud fuelled Emea infrastructure sales in Q3, shows IDC data

Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data

Security Think Tank: Look to security best practices to secure DNS

What are the main security risks associated with DNS and how are these best mitigated?

Oracle commits to expanding UK datacentre footprint in 2017

Database software giant’s renewed commitment to the UK market is part of a wider push to ramp up its cloud presence worldwide

Blockchain can cut investment bank infrastructure costs by 30%

Investment banks can make huge cuts to their IT infrastructure costs through blockchain, according to analysis

Telcos need real-time analytics strategies to capitalise on big data

In order to capitalise on the value from big data and operate as intelligent businesses, telcos must develop real-time analytics strategies, advises Accenture

Security research links Russia to US election cyber attacks

Security researchers say the hacking of the US Democratic National Convention's email system is linked to a wider Russian cyber campaign

Surrey County Council catches £3.8m gain share windfall for broadband

Local authority to receive £3.8m to extend a BDUK broadband roll-out through the gain share clauses written into its BT contract

At CES, network firms bring gigabit connectivity to carmakers

With more and more carmakers fitting out their newest models with advanced software platforms and new capabilities, attention at CES has also turned to the network connectivity needed to make connected vehicles work

IaaS challenger OVH to open first UK datacentre by May 2017

French hosting provider sets out plans to ramp up its UK presence with a series of datacentre builds over the coming year

Half of the younger generation still prefer a traditional checkout

The use of technology in retailers is increasing, but despite growing omni-channel adoption, many young people still prefer a traditional checkout

Telco turns Jersey into connected internet of things testbed

Telecoms operator JT will build a long-range wide area network to support IoT deployments across Channel island

Inside the UK’s first cyber security entrepreneur boot camp

This is the first in a series of articles charting the progress of participants from HutZero, a new cyber security entrepreneur acceleration programme run by Cyber London (CyLon) and the Centre for Security Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University Belfast

Ransomware expected to dominate in 2017

Ransomware and IoT-enabled attacks are expected to continue, while 2017 will see the rise of data integrity attacks, targeting of cloud infrastructure and the use of AI by attackers, experts predict

3D-Nand boosts capacity to push all-flash datacentre

3D-Nand piles flash cells on top of each other to tackle some of the scalability problems of flash storage, and is all set to help achieve the all-flash datacentre

Synergy Research Group hails 2016 as landmark year for cloud services growth

Market watcher's latest cloud market tracker suggests services market is growing three times faster than off-premise hardware and software market

Three-quarters of UK IT workers plan a job move in 2017

An increasing number of tech workers in the UK are considering a new job in 2017, with three-quarters planning on a move

Cloud-based infrastructure is a top ANZ priority in 2017

Projects involving cloud storage and back-up will feature strongly for CIOs based in Australia and New Zealand this year

UKCloud cuts cloud storage pricing for public sector customers and sticks boot into US rivals

Public sector-focused cloud provider claims latest round of price cuts means its services are cheaper to use than some of its US counterparts

Secure IoT before it kills us

Experts say more must be done to mitigate the potentially catastrophic threats presented by connected devices

Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

UK and European firms to continue to invest in data protection ahead of GDPR

Data protection is to remain a key focus for IT security investment for European firms in 2017, but the emphasis is on cloud and mobile security as companies move to these technology platforms

Security Think Tank: Cyber risk not just an IT issue

How can information security professionals help businesses to understand the cyber risks across increasingly digital businesses?

End user devices require careful orchestration

Options for access to IT have soared since the desktop PC’s heyday, and organisations must conduct a balancing act

The need for speed: Inside the cloud innovation engine at AWS

With analysts citing Amazon’s speedy product release cycles as a major source of competitive difference for the cloud firm, AWS CEO Andy Jassy opens up about how it keeps its innovation engine ticking over

What happens to data protection when we leave the EU?

The UK was a keen participant in the formulation of new data protection laws for the European Union, but its electorate has since voted to leave the EU. How is that likely to affect data protection in the UK once Brexit is accomplished?

Europol hosts simulated cyber attack on retail sector

Europol and MasterCard hold a retail cyber attack simulation exercise to raise awareness of the issue and how to respond to attacks, as well as promote information sharing in the sector

The ICO drafts in expertise of former diplomat

Former British diplomat Rob Luke takes up the role of the ICO’s second deputy commissioner in January 2017

Businesses forget disability and accessibility when buying IT

Both customer and supply side IT organisations need to consider the needs of disabled people when embarking on new procurements, according to a recent study

Academics link payment card vulnerability to Tesco Bank cyber heist

UK academics uncover a vulnerability in online payment systems, which they say could have been used in the Tesco Bank cyber heist