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ICO orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete UK data

UK data watchdog fines facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5m for multiple privacy breaches. Firm, which offers services to police and law enforcement, faces growing pressure from regulators and legal action around the world
Oxbotica completes Euro-first on-road autonomous vehicle trial

Driverless vehicle software provider collaborates with regulators and insurers to facilitate autonomous vehicle testing and announces landmark deployment with zero-occupancy, fully autonomous, new-type electric vehicle on UK roads
Ransomware volumes grew faster than ever in 2021

Verizon’s annual DBIR assessment of the security landscape highlights an unprecedented boom in ransomware volumes, to the surprise of nobody
Durham University upgrades supercomputer with Rockport Networks

Researchers working within the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University are set to reap the benefits of a network upgrade in one of its core supercomputers
Steady growth for fibre networks across Europe in next five years

Research from European fibre trade association covering 39 countries shows more than half of total homes now passed with fibre, with FTTH/B roll-out accelerating
Chase UK reaches half a million customers

Chase Bank in the UK has already reached the half-million customer mark, but expects a profit to be some years away

Evolution of unified comms services

Post-pandemic ways of working are forcing organisations to rethink their comms – we look at the growth in cloud-based services to support hybrid working
The limits and risks of backup as ransomware protection

Backups can provide a sound means of recovery from ransomware infection, but they are not 100% certain to foil attackers. We look at the limits and risks of depending on backups
CPaaS – a technology for the future

There is a received wisdom that as businesses flock towards the cloud, they are looking for a single platform on which to manage all their communication needs, leading to boom times ahead for communications platform as a service

Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused- Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics

Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon-CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia last week. As in, Kubernetes ... Continue Reading
Sourcery COO: Let's make refactoring code continuously great - CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his capacity as co-founder & COO of Sourcery – a company known for work focused on refactoring ... Continue Reading
GitLab 15 drops slops on DIY DevOps flops & muttonchops - Open Source Insider

Provider of The One DevOps Platform GitLab Inc has announced the launch of its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, bringing forward new DevOps ... Continue Reading
Need a CISO? No need to look for that tech boffin- Eyes on APAC

This is a guest post by Yvette Lejins, resident CISO at Proofpoint Asia-Pacific and Japan The role of the CISO (chief information security officer) has become increasingly important as more ... Continue Reading

Understanding attack paths is a question of training

The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these ...
Yes, zero trust can help you understand attack pathways

The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these ...
Security Think Tank: To follow a path, you need a good map

The modern-day abundance of platforms, apps and IT tools presents malicious actors with a web of interconnection that is easily exploited to move rapidly through the network to compromise critical assets. Security teams need to understand these ...