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Are UK councils prioritising data collection over security?

Fri, 23rd Feb 2018
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A slamming report found 1 in 4 UK councils experienced a security breach in the last 5 years and more than half didn't even report the incident.
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Check Point releases January's 'most wanted' malware

Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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23% of organisations around the world were affected by Check Point's 'most wanted' malware in January, a 'lucrative' revenue stream for criminals.
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Expert says smart cities will require significant data centre infrastructure

Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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London was recently named as one of the smart city leaders, but there is still a long way to go as it requires huge amounts of computing power.
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Building for exascale - lessons learnt from the data centre

Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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DDN Storage's James Coomer says from a storage architecture point of view we are well beyond supporting petascale (current generation) systems.
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INTERVIEW: What Google's decision to distrust Symantec certificates means

Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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Last year Chrome announced a formal plan to remove trust from Symantec-issued certificates - Venafi's Walter Goulet discusses the implications.
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EU companies least prepared for GDPR with just 26% fully compliant

Tue, 20th Feb 2018
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Despite the low level of compliance, Forrester Research says these numbers are in fact 'encouraging' for a number of reasons.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Datacloud UK 2018 & Finance and Investment Forum

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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The events brought together enterprise customers and investors with the leading data centre & cloud players and experts in the industry.
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​Huge increase in email-borne attacks requires new thinking

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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More than 205 billion emails are sent and received every day with that number increasing every year - something hackers are keenly aware of.
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New malicious search engine trawls AWS servers for sensitive data

Sat, 17th Feb 2018
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​As if it wasn't easy enough already, the lives for hackers has just been made a lot easier with a tool that lays bare AWS S3 servers.
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Gartner provides 7 steps for dealing with Spectre and Meltdown

Fri, 16th Feb 2018
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​No doubt you've heard of Spectre and Meltdown before, given security researchers are calling them 'catastrophic' - here's Gartner's advice.
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New advisory platform finds 41m PDFs part of a cyberattack in last 3 months

Fri, 16th Feb 2018
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Barracuda announced the availability of its new platform that provides advanced threat trends in real time - along with some shocking findings.
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REVEALED: The top data centre hotspots for business in UK

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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Bidwells has released a report that delves into the UK data centre market, the hot locations and whether data centres should go rural or city.
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67% of organisations say they're understaffed to handle cybersecurity

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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RiskIQ's survey paints a grim picture that forecasts a 'perfect storm' where the problem of staff shortages collides with escalating cybercrime.
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Interview: Vertiv VP says data centre energy usage to triple in next decade

Thu, 15th Feb 2018
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Emiliano Cevenini says data centres need to invest in solutions to help them optimise their energy usage or risk falling by the wayside.
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Winter Olympics hacked: Was it just disruptive or something more sinister?

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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The Winter Olympics recently fell victim to a cyberattack which seemed to be just a disruption, but this expert says there could be more behind it.
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Frankfurt to overtake London with largest data centre cluster in EU

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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Frankfurt is preparing for substantial extra growth over the next year, with more than 11 data centre expansions announced by major providers.
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Cryptocurrency exchange says it lost $195m to hackers – but is it a scam?

Tue, 13th Feb 2018
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BitGrail wasn't known to many until last week when it announced it had been hacked, but many experts believe all is not as it seems.
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The seven critical skills all IT teams should possess

Mon, 12th Feb 2018
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Skillsoft's EMEA MD explains how embedding key skills within in-house IT teams can help keep an organisation's data safe and its employees productive.
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Apple says DON'T fear about leaked source code – experts say DO

Sat, 10th Feb 2018
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After a critical source code for the iPhone was leaked online recently, Apple reassured there was nothing to fear but experts think otherwise.
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Survey finds businesses stung with $16m hidden cybersecurity costs every year

Fri, 9th Feb 2018
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New research from Bromium has found the hidden costs of 'detect-to-protect' security are immense with businesses being blindsided every year.