Cheshire councils face complaints over proposed 12-year ERP contracts

The Crown Commercial Service confirms two complaints about a proposed joint council IT procurement framework – offering contracts up to 12 years in length – have been raised

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SpaceX rocket explosion is setback for Facebook internet project

Facebook’s internet project has lost a satellite it was planning to use to provide broadband coverage to sub-Saharan Africa

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More IoT botnets connected to DDoS attacks

Security researchers have found another botnet operation exploiting internet of things devices to carry out powerful distributed denial of service attacks, prompting calls for IoT device makers to improve security

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Security Think Tank: Human factor is key to defeating evasive malware

How can businesses best prepare their cyber defences in light of the fact that attackers are increasingly using malware designed to evade detection and analysis?

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Nordic CIO interview: Mattias Wedar, Eniro

Computer Weekly talks with Mattias Wedar, head of user and customer experience at Eniro, about how the Swedish directory company is tackling change with closer integration of IT and product development

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VMware banks on competitive collaboration to succeed in multi-cloud era

VMware explains why cosying up to the competition makes sense when it comes to helping customers negotiate the multi-cloud world

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Lessons from the Dropbox breach

Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons

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