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IT operations management and IT support
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November 28, 2022
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Nov'22
How MongoDB is driving growth in ANZ
MongoDB, which counts the likes of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as clients, has been driving skills development and investing in local manpower in Australia and New Zealand
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November 25, 2022
25
Nov'22
Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility
More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year
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November 23, 2022
23
Nov'22
AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices
Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank
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November 23, 2022
23
Nov'22
How Photobox keeps site reliability in the picture
Photobox’s site reliability head discusses how the photo book and personalised gifts site manages a complex microservices architecture
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November 23, 2022
23
Nov'22
Red team tool developer slams ‘irresponsible’ disclosure
UK security firm MDSec defends its Nighthawk command and control penetration testing framework after suggestions were made that it could be appropriated by threat actors
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November 23, 2022
23
Nov'22
Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence
Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms
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November 23, 2022
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Nov'22
Dutch national cyber security strategy aims to protect digital society
Cabinet sets up national cyber security strategy to make the Netherlands digitally secure
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
IT services sector hiring slows to pre-pandemic levels
IT services firms have slowed their recruitment after a major acceleration in hiring during the Covid-19 pandemic
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
Killnet DDoS hacktivists target Royal Family and others
Russia-aligned hacktivists targeted multiple UK websites, including those of the Royal Family, in a new campaign of DDoS attacks
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
C-suite mystified by cyber security jargon
Malware, supply chain attack, zero-day, IoC, TTP and Mitre ATT&CK are just some of the everyday terms that security pros use that risk making the world of cyber incomprehensible to outsiders
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November 21, 2022
21
Nov'22
EDF UK deploys Riverbed’s Alluvio Aternity to tackle IT issues
Monitoring software links into ServiceNow and PowerShell scripts are being used to automate remediation
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November 21, 2022
21
Nov'22
Bug Bounty Calculator helps organisations fine-tune their payouts
Newly launched comparison tool will supposedly help operators of vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty programmes to ensure their payments match market rates and expectations, and attract the right sort of attention
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November 18, 2022
18
Nov'22
Is Elon Musk’s Twitter safe, and should you stop using it?
With a litany of security and compliance issues exposed and in many cases caused by Elon Musk’s takeover of social media platform Twitter, some may be asking if it’s still safe or appropriate to use
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November 18, 2022
18
Nov'22
New gold standard to protect good faith hackers
HackerOne’s new Gold Standard Safe Harbour statement will supposedly act as a guarantee for good faith hacking
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November 18, 2022
18
Nov'22
CyberPeace Institute helps NGOs improve their security resilience
Adrien Ogée of the CyberPeace Institute talks about his work supporting NGOs and humanitarian organisations, and how the security community at large can help protect the world’s most vulnerable people
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November 17, 2022
17
Nov'22
Another Log4Shell warning after Iranian attack on US government
The breach of a US federal body by an Iranian threat actor exploiting the Adobe Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability has prompted a fresh flurry of patching
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November 16, 2022
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Nov'22
Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’
Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told
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November 16, 2022
16
Nov'22
Agility, business more important than cost, network management for IT teams
Cisco report finds new rules applying in a multicloud world, with IT decision-makers regarding security as the top networking challenge when managing distributed and hybrid workloads
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November 16, 2022
16
Nov'22
Global network fragmentation a source of increasing risk
Risk consultancy’s report says the weaponisation of cyber space and geopolitical clashes herald a breakdown of global networks into distinct regional or national architectures
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’
Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
A modern approach to enterprise software development
Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix
Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database
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November 14, 2022
14
Nov'22
Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board
Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services
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November 14, 2022
14
Nov'22
CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions
AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers
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November 11, 2022
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Nov'22
MoD recruits Immersive Labs to bolster cyber resilience
UK’s Ministry of Defence will run cyber drills and address its security talent gap with Immersive Labs’ CyberPro, Cyber Crisis Simulator and Application Security products
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November 11, 2022
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Nov'22
Lenovo bolsters services play with PCCW Solutions
Lenovo’s acquisition of PCCW Solutions brings sought-after capabilities in hybrid cloud and application modernisation as it expands its services footprint in Asia
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November 09, 2022
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Nov'22
Microsoft serves smorgasbord of six zero-days
November’s Patch Tuesday fixes significantly fewer vulnerabilities of late, but includes six actively-exploited zero-days, three of them of critical severity
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November 09, 2022
09
Nov'22
Fujitsu expert witness in subpostmaster trial ‘manoeuvred’ into role, public inquiry told
A former Fujitsu technology expert who defended the Horizon system’s robustness in court was unhappy after being ‘manoeuvred’ into acting as an expert witness, public inquiry hears
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November 08, 2022
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Nov'22
Six subpostmaster convictions referred for appeal in Scotland
Six former subpostmasters in Scotland will have appeals against criminal convictions heard after being referred by Scotland’s Criminal Cases Review Commission
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November 04, 2022
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Nov'22
Microsoft: Nation-state cyber attacks became increasingly destructive in 2022
The willingness of nation-state actors to conduct destructive cyber attacks is a source of grave concern, as Microsoft’s latest annual Digital Defence Report lays bare
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November 03, 2022
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Nov'22
Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine
Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future
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November 03, 2022
03
Nov'22
Automated threats biggest source of cyber risk for retailers
Threat actors targeting retailers during the coming holiday season are increasingly turning to automated forms of cyber attack, according to a report
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November 02, 2022
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Nov'22
Game of ‘hardball’ in Horizon negotiations left subpostmasters exposed to tragedy
‘Hardball’ negotiations between the government, the Post Office and ICL meant subpostmasters were ignored and thrown into a tragedy that could have been averted
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November 01, 2022
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Nov'22
A third of UK cyber leaders want to quit, report says
Nearly a third of UK security leaders are considering leaving their current role, and more than half are struggling to keep on top of their workload
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November 01, 2022
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Nov'22
NCSC looks back on year of ‘profound change’ for cyber
The NCSC ramped up its support for UK plc in the past 12 months, but it was events beyond the UK’s borders that proved the most impactful
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November 01, 2022
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Nov'22
How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search
Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search
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October 31, 2022
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Oct'22
Prepare today for potentially high-impact OpenSSL bug
OpenSSL trailed a critical vulnerability patch last week, which will be only the second such flaw ever found in the open source encryption project. Unfortunately, the first was Heartbleed
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October 28, 2022
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Oct'22
Post Office warned of Horizon software-induced ‘tragedy’ in 1999
Problems experienced during live trials of the Post Office Horizon system predicted the ‘tragedy’ that unfolded
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October 27, 2022
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Oct'22
Horizon system EPOSS code writers lacked basic programming skills, public inquiry hears
Horizon system code writers lacked basic programming skills, according to the task force set up to investigate reported problems with the controversial software
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October 26, 2022
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Oct'22
New minister asked to pause Fujitsu government contracts
Parliamentarians keep focus on Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal with demand for pause on government contracts to the supplier
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October 26, 2022
26
Oct'22
When technology lets you sleep easy
Indian mattress supplier Duroflex has taken a leaf out of mattress design in its technology implementation to double its growth in an industry dominated by unorganised players
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October 25, 2022
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Oct'22
One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance
Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace
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October 24, 2022
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Oct'22
Government speeds up NHS Digital and NHS England merger
NHS bodies will now merge in early January 2023, aiming to create a single statutory body for NHS data and technology
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October 21, 2022
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Oct'22
Ukrainian and UK IT sectors to deepen collaboration, partnerships
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and the IT Ukraine Association have signed an MoU to deepen collaboration between the UK and Ukrainian IT sectors, and champion new partnerships and growth opportunities
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October 20, 2022
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Oct'22
The Security Interviews: Why now for ZTNA 2.0?
With organisations facing escalating online threats, security teams need to improve their defences using zero-trust network access to preserve the integrity of their systems. Palo Alto Networks’ Simon Crocker shares his views on zero-trust network ...
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October 20, 2022
20
Oct'22
Cyber professional shortfall hits 3.4 million
Shortage of cyber security professionals continues to grow and shows no signs of abating, says report
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October 19, 2022
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Oct'22
Treat cyber crime as a ‘strategic threat’, UK businesses told
The government’s new National Cyber Advisory Board aims to help elevate cyber discussion and spur action in the business community
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October 18, 2022
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Oct'22
Apache vulnerability a risk, but not as widespread as Log4Shell
A newly disclosed Apache Commons Text vulnerability may put many at risk, but does not appear to be as impactful or widespread as Log4Shell
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October 18, 2022
18
Oct'22
Virtually all vulnerable open source downloads are avoidable
Some 96% of known vulnerable open source downloads could have been avoided altogether, according to a report