Month: October 2016

By helping to create a thriving, diverse and open information security community, (ISC)2 hopes to ensure a steep rise for the profession

Semiconductor company Qualcomm is to acquire NXP Semiconductors in a $47bn deal - among the largest-ever acquisitions, not just in the IT industry - as it shapes up to take on Intel, Nvidia and others...

Government Digital Service chief technology officer Andy Beale is the fifth senior executive to leave since appointment of new chief Kevin Cunnington

The University of Oxford has appointed Tim Berners-Lee as a professor at its computer science department

Google parent Alphabet calls a halt to its roll-out of FTTP broadband in the US as it embarks on a strategic rethink

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impose rules and costs on cloud computing companies so onerous that it will help big players - such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft -...

Schneider Electric has patched a security flaw that highlights the vulnerability of industrial control systems to cyber attack

The Public Accounts Committee is to scrutinise the controversial Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme

Adobe has issued a security patch for a Flash zero day that covers almost all versions of the endless buggy software. The issues relate to Flash player on Windows, OS X, Linux and Chrome OS, and is rated...

Many UK-based firms are feeling the squeeze as their cloud providers raise prices in response to the falling value of the pound. Microsoft has been one of the first US-based providers to announce price...