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• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team

  Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  Four arrested in M&S cyber attack investigation

  Police have made four arrests in connection with a trio of cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address

  Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  M&S calls for mandatory ransomware reporting

  The government should extend ransomware reporting mandates to businesses to help gather more intelligence and better support victims, says M&S chairman Archie Norman

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks

  The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides

  Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Google fixes type confusion flaw in Chrome browser

  An actively exploited type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser needs immediate attention from users

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

  Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach

  Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that more than two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made

  The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe

  The national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Wrongly convicted subpostmasters may have to wait another year for redress

  MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the government has not done enough to contact all those who qualify for Post Office scandal compensation schemes

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  UK ransomware costs significantly outpace other countries

  UK organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid much higher ransoms than in other countries over the past 12 months, according to study

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily

  The number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts

  The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty

  The Netherlands’ ambitious talk of digital independence meets the unforgiving economics of global cloud dominance

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Report on integrity of current Post Office Horizon system due in autumn

  Investigation into the integrity and discrepancy identification capabilities of Post Office core system being carried out by independent specialists

• June 19, 2025 19 Jun'25

  Government announces details of Post Office Capture redress scheme

  The government says it wants new scheme to take a ‘common sense’ approach to redress for former Capture users

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Scattered Spider widens web to target insurance sector

  Following a series of high-profile attacks on prominent retailers and consumer brands, the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective appears to be expanding its targeting to the insurance sector

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

  Urgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders

  Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline

  While victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone

  The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

  The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  NCSC sets out how to build cyber safe cultures

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance for security teams and leaders on how to foster accessible and appropriate cyber security cultures in their organisations

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal

  Post Office accused of suppressing the views of victims of the Horizon scandal by deleting comments on social media platforms

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Armed forces charity steps in to address cyber mental health crisis

  CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware

  Microsoft, along with a consortium of partners, has seized and disrupted a significant part of the Lumma malware-as-a-service network used to steal data and funds

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract

  HMRC looking for a supplier to support its planned exit from three Fujitsu datacentre contracts

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July

  M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations

  The NCSC and its partner agencies have blown the whistle on an extensive campaign of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by the Russian state Fancy Bear operation

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal

  HM Revenue & Customs described as a UK ‘cash cow’ for the Japanese IT giant at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month

  Reported ransomware attacks eased off during April following a dramatic spike in the first quarter of 2025

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse

  Millions more pounds of public money spent by the Post Office as a result of an IT error that exposed the personal details of Horizon victims

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Retail cyber attacks hit food distributor Peter Green Chilled

  Cold chain services provider Peter Green Chilled, which supplies the likes of Aldi, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, has been forced to halt operations after succumbing to a ransomware attack

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon

  Post Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  Mid-career professionals must learn to understand and use AI as GenAI tips balance

  Whether in the finance, IT or legal sectors, artificial intelligence will change the way businesses operate and how their people work

• May 15, 2025 15 May'25

  Post Office scandal inquiry to publish first findings this summer

  Inquiry announces that findings on compensation and human impact will be presented in the next few months

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Scattered Spider retail attacks spreading to US, says Google

  Google’s threat intel analysts are aware of a number of in-progress cyber attacks against US retailers linked to the same Scattered Spider gang that supposedly attacked M&S and Co-op in the UK

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  May Patch Tuesday brings five exploited zero-days to fix

  Microsoft fixes five exploited, and two publicly disclosed, zero-days in the fifth Patch Tuesday update of 2025

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  M&S forces customer password resets after data breach

  M&S is instructing all of its customers to change their account passwords after a significant amount of data was stolen in a DragonForce ransomware attack

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Controversial Post Office Horizon system could stay until 2033

  Post Office seeks off-the-shelf Horizon replacement as part of £492m tender that includes ongoing support for Horizon up to 2033

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Evidence reveals Post Office scandal victims short-changed in compensation payouts

  Subpostmasters who appealed compensation payments have significantly increased ‘worryingly undervalued’ settlements

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Chaos spreads at Co-op and M&S following DragonForce attacks

  No end is yet in sight for UK retailers subjected to apparent ransomware attacks

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Oxford Uni adds cyber resilience module to MBA programme

  Oxford University’s Saïd Business School is working with cyber response specialist Sygnia to help future business leaders get on top of security

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal

  Trade deal will exempt IT workers from India from paying National Insurance contributions for three years

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  Retail cyber crime spree a ‘wake-up call’, says NCSC CEO

  The National Cyber Security Centre confirms it is providing assistance to M&S, Co-op and Harrods as concerns grow among UK retailers

• May 01, 2025 01 May'25

  Harrods becomes latest UK retailer to fall victim to cyber attack

  Harrods confirms it is the latest UK retailer to experience a cyber attack, shutting off a number of systems in an attempt to lessen the impact