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By Matthew Broersma Public-sector Websites and mobile apps across Europe are to be made accessible to those with disabilities under a directive agreed to by E.U. legislative and executive bodies this week. The European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission approved the Directive on Web Accessibility for Public Sector Websites, which is particularly […]

By Tom Jowitt Computer users are being warned of a sudden spike in ransomware attacks, after security specialist ESET revealed that the United Kingdom is being heavily targeted. ESET said that its telemetry revealed a spike in detections of malware dubbed JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment, and attackers are currently spamming email inboxes. U.K. Spike Ransomware typically infects an […]

By Steve McCaskill From April 30, mobile operators across the continent will only be able to charge an additional €0.05 (4p) per minute for calls, €0.02 (2p) per text and €0.05 (4p) per MB of data on top of domestic charges or allowances. The move should save companies and business travellers money when using their […]

By Tom Jowitt A German nuclear power plant in Bavaria has admitted that its systems are riddled with malware, and has been shut down as a precaution—a day after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Tuesday. It was reported that the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant is located (75 miles) northwest of Munich, […]

By Steve McCaskill At least one quarter of the four million properties being added to Virgin Media’s broadband network will be connected with pure fiber in what the company claims is the United Kingdom’s single biggest deployment of fiber to the premise (FTTP) technology. “Project Lightning” will increase Virgin Media’s footprint from 12.9 million premises […]

By Steve McCaskill Nearly half (47 percent) of British organizations ban their employees from using free WiFi hotspots because of the associated security risks, according to research conducted by iPass, a figure which rises to 62 percent across the United Kingdom, United States, France and Germany. It is expected that the number of public hotspots […]

By Matthew Broersma IT security researchers have discovered an unusual family of malicious code written entirely in the Python programming language, making it easy to port to different operating systems. The malware uses a modular design that allows it to carry out a selection of different attacks, including executing files, logging keystrokes, mining bitcoins using […]

By Ben Sullivan Security worries are preventing containers from becoming a mainstream technology, experts have said today at London’s Cloud Expo Europe. During a panel discussion on the future of containers versus virtual machines (VMs) at Cloud Expo Europe, analysts and vendors agreed that limitations at present were preventing large enterprises from moving large applications […]

By Steve McCaskill BT is embarking on a cyber-security recruitment drive to help its consumer and business divisions protect customers from threats and to address a major skill shortage in the field. The company wants to employ 900 cyber-security professionals, including 170 graduates and apprentices, who will be trained at the BT Security Academy in […]

By Michael Moore The enormous scale of the financial damage that could be done by a major cyber-attack on Britain’s utilities infrastructure has been revealed by a new report. An attack on the power grid and water system could cost the country up to £442bn over five years, equivalent to around 2.3 percent of the […]

By Ben Sullivan Facebook is expanding its planned data center in County Meath, Ireland, before construction has even started. The social network now plans to add a second building to the site, its second data center in Europe, after it was granted permission to build the extension this week by the local council. 14 Aviva […]

By Steve McCaskill The number of complaints made to Ofcom about Vodafone’s mobile network increased by almost a third quarter-on-quarter and more than doubled year-on-year during the three months between October and December 2015. EE also retained the unwanted title of the U.K.’s most complained about broadband provider. The industry average for complaints per 100,000 […]