Coronavirus: UK mobile operators discuss sharing crowd movement data with government

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ISSUE DATE: 23 March 2020 TOP STORIES Coronavirus: UK mobile operators discuss sharing crowd movement data with government Reports emerge of unprecedented cooperation between UK telcos and government to provide people-modelling data to prevent spread of coronavirus. READ MORE → Cyber gangsters hit UK medical firm poised for work on Coronavirus with Maze ransomware attack The Maze ransomware group has published personal and medical details of thousands of former patients of a London-based medical research company after a failed attempt to disable the firm's computer systems. READ MORE → EU telecoms operators granted permission for ‘fair’ management of online traffic EC and BEREC allow telcos unprecedented network traffic control to mitigate the effects of network congestion due to the massive increase in home working caused by the coronavirus. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH MP warns minister not to parrot civil servants’ lines on Post Office IT scandal MP Kevan Jones has warned a government minister not to repeat the mistakes of predecessors in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. READ MORE → Dstl launches report on the future of cities Dstl research aims to support decision-making of the UK military by analysing topics such as the influence of technology in urban warfare. READ MORE → Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia. READ MORE → Unpatched Zyxel storage devices co-opted into IoT botnet Owners of Zyxel network-attached storage devices are in danger of being hijacked by Mukashi, a descendant of the infamous Mirai botnet, if they don’t patch a critical vulnerability. READ MORE →

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