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• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns

  More ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  VulnCheck bug listing to help track new threats quicker

  Exploit intelligence firm VulnCheck launches a proprietary Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in hopes of improving end-user access to intel on emerging threats and reaching those that the likes of CISA do not

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Government should face legal deadlines on paying Post Office victims

  The government should face a legal deadline on paying Horizon scandal victims and unfair previous settlements should be reopened, MPs have been told - amid further boardroom controversy at the Post Office

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Majority of UK employees ‘willingly gamble’ with security

  Human-centric threats originating from employees continue to damage organisations both financially and reputationally, according to a report

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Government won’t rush to include Post Office Capture convictions in overturning legislation

  The government said it does not yet have the 'right body of evidence' to include users of the Post Office's Capture software in Horizon compensation schemes and legislation to overturn convictions

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle

  January saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  King Charles strips disgraced Post Office CEO of her CBE

  Disgraced former Post Office CEO, central to the Horizon scandal, has her CBE formally stripped

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware

  ConnectWise ScreenConnect users who have yet to patch against a critical vulnerability are now being targeted by a barrage of cyber attacks, including ransomware

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Law to clear hundreds of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters expected in July

  Law to overturn Post Office convictions based on computer evidence set to be introduced in July following unprecedented legislation

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  CVE volumes set to increase 25% this year

  The number of reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is likely to grow significantly in 2024, hitting a new high of almost 35,000, according to Coalition, a cyber insurance specialist

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Co-op signs TCS deal for cloud-first push

  The Co-operative Group has contracted IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services to support its move to a cloud-first IT environment

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Unisys investigating potential involvement in controversial Post Office system

  IT supplier wants to get to the bottom of its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software, linked to potential wrongful convictions

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Controversial Post Office Capture system was developed in-house

  Second controversial Post Office system was the work of developers in its own IT operation

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Post Office IT insider and the software decision that lit the Horizon scandal

  As the Post Office replaces its controversial Horizon software, a former Post Office IT executive describes disastrous mistakes of the past

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Microsoft patches two zero-days for Valentine’s Day

  Two security feature bypasses impacting Microsoft SmartScreen are on the February Patch Tuesday docket, among more than 70 issues

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Post Office CEO refused to meet government minister without her lawyer after 2015 Horizon report

  Post Office statements on the Horizon system, whether to journalists or the government, were routinely carefully crafted by lawyers

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Hunter-killer malware volumes seen surging

  Latest Picus Security report on malware tactics, techniques and procedures reveals an increasing focus on disabling security defences

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used second faulty Post Office system

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used a previous faulty computer system in their branches as more people come forward with information following Post Office scandal TV drama

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK’s McPartland Cyber Review to probe trust in technology

  The UK government has launched a cyber security review that will investigate how best to give businesses the confidence they need to use new technologies

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal: Phase four’s rogues’ gallery

  Phase four of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the teams investigating and prosecuting subpostmasters

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  ‘People are now listening,' Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

  The latest phase of the public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – closes with a bang

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Government ‘dragging it out’ by refusing to share knowledge of Post Office trial ‘delaying tactic’

  Subpostmasters will have to wait to find out if the government knew of the Post Office’s plan to derail group litigation order, by trying to push managing judge out

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Pre-Horizon users contacting lawyers as more Post Office IT horror stories emerge

  Lawyer says there is no reason to believe the Post Office treated unexplained shortfalls on systems prior to Horizon any differently to the way it dealt with unexplained Horizon shortfalls

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  MP demands answers from government minister over second faulty Post Office IT system

  Kevan Jones MP highlighted evidence of injustices caused by a computer system used in Post Office branches prior to the introduction of the controversial Horizon system.

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Akira ransomware gang claims Lush cyber attack

  The Akira ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100GB of data from cosmetics manufacturer and retailer Lush

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Lawyers carry on Post Office appeals amid uncertainty over government plan to overturn en masse

  Lawyers supporting former subpostmasters said they will continue appealing convictions as normal despite government plan to exonerate hundreds in one go

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Expert IT witness outsmarted an ‘aggressive’ Post Office to get to truth after inspection ‘madness’

  The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known, in light of the public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal how an IT expert was treated during his investigation of Horizon

• January 25, 2024 25 Jan'24

  Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector

  Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024

  A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC

  The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  Committee chair asks minister to back ‘Mr Bates clause’ in Post Office compensation legislation

  Select committee chair wants guarantees on financial redress for subpostmasters that suffered in the Horizon scandal

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Treat cyber risk like financial or legal issue, says UK government

  UK government and NCSC launch proposed code of practice on cyber security governance to help directors and business leaders toughen their defences

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  Leak of 26 billion records may prove to be ‘mother of all breaches’

  The discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people

• January 22, 2024 22 Jan'24

  Fujitsu agrees to support former subpostmasters’ families beyond financial redress

  Fujitsu will meet with victims of the Post Office scandal and their representatives to discuss what the IT giant can do for them beyond financial redress

• January 22, 2024 22 Jan'24

  Urgent question asks which ministers knew of Post Office’s shocking plan to remove judge

  Labour peer uses urgent question to uncover who, if anyone, in government was aware of the Post Office’s attempts to remove judge as it became clear it was losing

• January 21, 2024 21 Jan'24

  Stellar Lifestyle opens high-tech retail space

  The Hive 2.0 retail space in Esplanade Xchange uses AI and robots to enable self-checkout, prepare and serve beverages, and deliver items to offices in a nearby building

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Unilever provides recipe support to blind and partially sighted shoppers

  Accessible QR codes and an app from Be My Eyes link shoppers direct to Unilever customer support

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Fujitsu boss admits to missed opportunities to prevent miscarriages of justice

  Concerns of an expert witness in subpostmaster trials were ignored by Fujitsu

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Fujitsu boss describes Post Office behaviour as 'shameful and appalling'

  The UK head of Fujitsu said he does not know why the Post Office did not reveal information about Horizon software errors to defendants during prosecutions

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  More than 900 subpostmaster convictions wouldn’t have happened without Post Office-backed law change

  IT expert says it cannot be the case that computer evidence is treated as accurate in court, without investigation into surrounding circumstances

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Fujitsu ‘morally obliged’ to contribute to subpostmaster financial redress amid ‘insane’ delays

  Fujitsu has apologised for its role on the Post Office scandal and said it is ‘morally obliged’ to contribute to the financial redress of victims

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  Cosmetics retailer Lush dealing with mystery cyber incident

  Cosmetics retailer Lush confirms it’s investigating a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature, but key public-facing systems appear to be unaffected

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year

  Long-running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decades-long scandal

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform

  Cisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Hundreds of subpostmasters to have convictions quashed in blanket exoneration

  The government has chosen to introduce legislation that will enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs

  Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available

  A joint effort between Cisco Talos, Avast and the Dutch police will bring relief to many victims of a variant of the Babuk ransomware known as Tortilla

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Former Post Office CEO hands back CBE amid public backlash

  Former Post Office CEO hands back her CBE after public backlash following dramatisation of her role in Post Office Horizon scandal

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  ‘Hero’ subpostmaster accuses government of diversion tactics through ‘weaselly’ statistics

  Campaigning subpostmaster calls out government’s use of ‘weaselly’ statistics to hide its slow progress

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Fujitsu gets stay of execution as MPs support exoneration of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters

  Fujitsu will have to wait until the end of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry to hear how MPs will punish it