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OVH launches public cloud service in Poland – with plans for UK and Germany

Thu, 10th Aug 2017
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The French cloud services provider is investing to broaden the offerings from its European data centres, with Poland complete and more on the cards.
Targeting cyber threats

Cybercrime: What to expect for the rest of 2017 and how to prepare

Wed, 9th Aug 2017
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​So far this year we have already borne witness to a multitude of serious cybercrime. NordVPN has provided insights for what the second half may hold.
Thumbs up and down

Symantec sells digital certificate business – good or bad for customers & partners?

Wed, 9th Aug 2017
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Symantec has sold its digital certificate business to DigiCert - the question is what will be the implications? We talk to both sides to find out.
Businessperson hand holding secrets

Sunbird's new release to drive faster and more secure data centre management

Tue, 8th Aug 2017
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The release is designed to provide data centre managers with enhanced tools that enable easy and agile responses to their most common challenges.
Hand data

Want to cause chaos? ICIT says hacking elections is easy

Mon, 7th Aug 2017
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elections
Hackers at DEFCON were able to exploit vulnerabilities in voting machines in a matter of minutes - ICIT breaks down just how easy it is.
Big fish eat small fish

Silent-Aire breaks into European data centre market with acquisition

Mon, 7th Aug 2017
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colocation
Silent-Aire has acquired the Dublin-based manufacture of bespoke air handling equipment, RMI Engineering in a move to establish an EU headquarters.
Data centree

Teraco launches Riverfields hyperscale data centre facility

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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Africa is becoming a priority for large players in the hyperscale computing market, with significant infrastructure investments being made on the continent.
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.
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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government
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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public cloud
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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apps
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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commerce systems
​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.
Handshake blue black

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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martech
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.