
Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster is currently an associate editor at Forbes and an award-winning journalist who covers cyber security, surveillance, and privacy. Starting his career at ITPro as a staff writer and working up to a senior staff writer role, Tom has been covering the tech industry for more than ten years and is considered one of the leading journalists in his specialism. Between his roles at ITPro and Forbes, Tom has also assumed the position of deputy editor at TechWeekEurope and worked as a freelance journalist for nine years, securing bylines in other leading technology publications.
He is a proud alum of the University of Sheffield where he secured an undergraduate degree in English Literature before undertaking a certification from General Assembly in web development. You can read his work here at ITPro, over at Forbes, and sign up for his newsletter, The Wiretap, to learn about how surveillance is used in the real world, as well as containing all the security and privacy news worth knowing.
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Gove plans ICT overhaul in schools
News The education secretary promises ICT classes in school will improve with the arrival of computer science teaching.
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Twitter slams Google search changes
News The micro-blogging service is worried Google's changes are 'bad for people, publishers, news organisations and Twitter users.'
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Virgin pledges to double broadband speeds for 4m
News The UK will shoot up the broadband speed tables thanks to Virgin's upgrade, according to the operator.
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Google makes search more personal
News The 'Search plus Your World' changes bring Google+ closer into the search fold.
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CES 2012: HP unveils glassy Spectre ultrabook
News The tech giant unveils a shiny ultrabook - the form factor set to dominate CES this week.
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UK left waiting on Nokia Lumia 900
News Nokia is talking up how US-focused the Lumia 900 is, without indicating when the phone will arrive in the UK, if at all.
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Orange and Huawei combine for Tahiti tablet
News The mobile operator announces its first own-brand tablet with the help of Huawei.
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Parliament puts out communications tender
News The Government is looking to get value for money and flexibility for Parliament's Wi-Fi and comms network.
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Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads
News The internet giant makes money off of illegal Olympic 2012 ads, according to a report.
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Motorola disappoints with smartphone results
News The mobile giant expects sales weaker than analysts had predicted, as a massively competitive industry and the patent wars take their toll.
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Microsoft and Adobe plan busy January patch days
News IT departments will have a busy month of patching to kick off 2012.
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Hackers expose British military and Government details
News Consultancy Stratfor is hit by hackers, leaking Government and military data.
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RIM quiet on BlackBerry phone ditching
News Two BlackBerry devices had reportedly been ditched and RIM isn't saying a thing about it.
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London gets Europe's largest free Wi-Fi zone
News Some posh areas of London are to get free Wi-Fi thanks to a deal amongst councils and operator O2.
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Symantec confirms product source code theft
News The security giant says source code on two of its older enterprise products is accessed.
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Facebook boosts security after worm steals logins
News The social network claims the Ramnit-acquired data is out-of-date, but still improves security and takes remedial steps.
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Windows 8 to feature simple factory reset feature
News Microsoft makes it simple to reinstall Windows, giving users options to delete or keep their data and settings.
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Western Europe IT spending 'to shrink 0.7 per cent' in 2012
News The European IT market looks set for a depressing 2012 amidst financial turmoil.
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Quanta sues AMD over alleged contract breach
News Quanta claims AMD chips were not able to meet desired heat tolerances for NEC notebooks.
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Cisco dumps umi videoconferencing service
News The networking giant ditches umi less than two years after its launch.
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IBM to buy app tester Green Hat
News Green Hat is set to move over to Big Blue, taking a large number of customers with it.
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Fake Wendi Deng and Murdoch gaffes embarrass Twitter
News Twitter is looking a little red in the face after a number of snafus over the Murdochs' accounts.
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Google acquires 217 IBM patents
News Google adds to its intellectual property portfolio with a tonne of fresh IBM patents.
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Comet accused of counterfeiting Windows CDs
News Microsoft takes legal action against Comet, claiming the retailer produced and sold 94,000 recovery CDs for Windows XP and Vista.
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