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Cyber criminal

UK SMBs estimate average cost of cyberattack more than £730,000

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017
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UK SMBs estimated the average cost of a cyberattack where their customer records or critical business data were stolen at an eye-watering £737,677.
Megaphone

Interxion announces plans for two new EU data centres - at up to £90m each

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Interxion will soon be constructing new data centres in Frankfurt and Marseille – in addition to an expansion in Vienna.
Treasure trove

HBO's Game of Thrones treasure chest ransacked by hackers

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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​It would seem winter has come for HBO after hackers have stormed the company's servers and looted the jewels within to leak data online.
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Cisco fills newly created role of vice president for Middle East & Africa

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Cisco's David Meads expands his role to become vice president for the Middle East and Africa as digital adoption accelerates in the regions.
Security wrong man

New report details exploits of notorious cyberespionage group with EMEA targets

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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Known as CopyKittens, the group is politically-motivated and has increasingly been active in pursuing foreign espionage on strategic targets.
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EU a hive of opportunity – two more data centres opened in Europe

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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OVH and Rackspace have opened data centres in London and Frankfurt respectively, with the former saying Brexit hasn't harmed the tech industry.
Email scam

Nearly a quarter of 'unsafe' emails getting through to user inboxes

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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There is a continuous challenge of securing organisations from malicious attachments, dangerous files type, impersonation attacks as well as spam.
Data center communication

IBM expands global presence with two new data centres in London

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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IBM has expanded its global presence with four new IBM Cloud data centres – two in London, one in San Jose and one in Sydney.
Trojan virus

Malware found prowling within every app of alternative Android store

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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Malware researcher at ESET, Lukáš Štefanko says this is the first time he has ever seen an entire Android market infected like that.
Cutting red ribbon

Visa expands global presence with not one, but TWO new data centres

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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​Visa has announced expanded transaction processing capabilities in two new data centres – one in Singapore and one in the United Kingdom.
Communicationsss

BT boosts cloud collaboration with Cisco Spark integration

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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BT One Collaborate Spark helps customers create productive digital environments for their employees while reducing the cost of international calls.
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ForeScout partners with ServiceNow to enable complementary capabilities

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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ForeScout and ServiceNow have partnered to improve IoT security, providing customers with asset visibility and accelerated response to security incidents.
Businessman help

Majority of organisations that think they're GDPR compliant actually aren't

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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A global study from Veritas has made some disconcerting findings, revealing only 2% of supposedly 'GDPR-ready' organisations are in fact compliant.
Data out the backdoor

Cisco reveals alarming findings from Midyear Cybersecurity Report

Wed, 26th Jul 2017
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The Cisco Midyear Cybersecurity Report warns of rapidly evolving threats and potential 'destruction of service' (DeOS) attacks.
Partnership

Atos seals contract to transform IT infrastructure at National Bank

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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national bank
The French IT giant will be providing comprehensive infrastructure and data centre services for Germany's National Bank.
Data leaky tap

Digital Shadows discovers credit card crime ring cashing in on $24b a year

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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A professional ecosystem has emerged that is providing e-learning courses to allow aspiring cybercriminals to make USD$12k in monthly earnings.
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78% of UK data centres fail ASHRAE guidelines – is IoT the answer?

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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New research from thermal risk experts has revealed UK data centres are seriously lacking when it comes to temperature management.
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'Most technologically advanced stadia ever built' - Tottenham partners with HPE

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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cloud services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been singled out as a key partner in forming one of the most technologically advanced stadia ever built.
Network padlock broken

Hackers steal $32m of ethereum cryptocurrency – expert commentary and advice

Sat, 22nd Jul 2017
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​In the second heist this week, hackers have stolen around US$32 million - Webroot senior threat analyst shares his commentary and insights.
Businessman searching

Tencent Cloud breaks into European market with first hub in Frankfurt

Fri, 21st Jul 2017
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The agreement with Interxion makes Tencent the first Asian cloud provider to be launching in Europe's largest cloud hub.