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• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  UK government to spend £210m on public sector cyber resilience

  The UK government unveils a £120m Cyber Action Plan to help reinforce and promote IT security resilience across the country's public services

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  Singtel trials 50Gbps fibre to support future AI and cloud workloads

  Singtel kicks off technical pilot for ultra-high-speed broadband, targeting the bandwidth requirements of immersive media, remote enterprise workflows and AI-driven systems

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025

• December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25

  Top 10 cyber security stories of 2025

  AI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 2025.

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2025

  In many regards, 2025 proved to be a relatively normal year for the cyber security world as threat actors and security pros continued their long-running cat-and-mouse game, but it was also a stand-out year that saw some of the largest cyber attacks ...

• December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2025

  AI and data breaches both caused major disruption in banking this year as the industry faced increased challenges and a seismic shift thanks to emerging tech. Find out more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2025

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings

  Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  AI safeguards improving, says UK government-backed body

  Inaugural AI Security Institute report claims that safeguards in place to ensure AI models behave as intended seem to be improving

• December 17, 2025 17 Dec'25

  ClickFix attacks that bypass cyber controls on the rise

  NCC’s monthly threat report details the growing prevalence of ClickFix attacks in the wild

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

  Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Trump plans bonfire of US state-level AI regulation

  US president’s executive order targets state-level AI regulatory frameworks across the country, saying they are too onerous and endangering leadership in the field

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

  Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Microsoft patched over 1,100 CVEs in 2025

  The final Patch Tuesday update of the year brings 56 new CVEs, bringing the year-end total to more than 1,100

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

  Malicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month

  A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks

  Three west London councils hit by a cyber attack continue to investigate as services remain disrupted nearly two weeks on

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

  The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act

  Campaigners celebrate as security minister Dan Jarvis commits to amending the outdated Computer Misuse Act to protect security professionals from prosecution

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks

  A protective service jointly developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  UK national security strategy failing to account for online world

  The UK government’s national security strategy is falling short on online matters, according to the independent reviewer of terrorism

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk

  Nine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

  It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

  As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

  Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Chief data officers hire for tech innovation

  Once an organisation’s data maturity is sorted, CDOs need to show how strong data management can power tech initiatives

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit

  A billion-dollar money laundering network active in the UK funnelled money, including the profits of ransomware attacks, into its own bank to circumvent sanctions on Russia and help fund its attacks on Ukraine

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Swedish welfare authorities suspend ‘discriminatory’ AI model

  A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Cloudflare contrite after worst outage since 2019

  Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince apologises for the firm’s worst outage in years and shares details of how a change to database system permissions caused a cascading effect that brought down some of the web’s biggest names

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital

  Changes have been proposed to simplify AI Act compliance for smaller businesses, easier cyber security reporting and tweaks to GDPR

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Ransomware resilience may be improving in the health sector

  A Sophos report on ransomware highlights resilience improvements among healthcare organisations but warns that the wider threat is still live and growing

• November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

  Australia lags regional peers in AI adoption

  Report finds governance gaps, a lack of training and fear of risks as key reasons for the nation’s slow uptake of artificial intelligence compared with regional peers

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Cl0p claims ransomware hit on NHS

  Ransomware gangsters claim to have attacked the NHS, but clarity on the nature of the incident is yet to emerge

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development

  Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme

  The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  US cyber intel sharing law set for temporary extension

  The CISA 2015 cyber intelligence sharing law, which lapsed just over a month ago amid a wider shutdown, will receive a temporary lease of life should attempts to reopen the federal government succeed

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Microsoft users warned over privilege elevation flaw

  An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Kernel tops the list of issues to address in the latest monthly Patch Tuesday update

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Synnovis to notify NHS of data breach after nearly 18 months

  Synnovis, the pathology lab services provider hit by a Qilin ransomware attack in 2024, is notifying its NHS partners that their patient data was compromised, following a lengthy investigation

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  Most Singapore SMEs yet to start their sustainability journey

  Lack of funds, skills and time are the barriers faced by Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises in the green transition, according to a study by Gprnt and PwC

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  UK’s ‘deregulatory’ AI approach won’t protect human rights

  Expert witnesses called before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights have told MPs and Lords that the UK’s current approach to artificial intelligence regulation will fail to effectively protect people’s rights

• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  Popular LLMs dangerously vulnerable to iterative attacks, says Cisco

  Cisco researchers probed some of the most widely used public GenAI LLMs and found many of them were dangerously susceptible to so-called multi-turn cyber attacks producing undesirable outputs

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  US indicts three cyber pros who moonlit for ransomware gang

  US prosecutors indict three men who allegedly attacked multiple victims with ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware while working as professional cyber incident responders

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  M&S profits tumble after cyber attack

  M&S profits fall by over 90% in the wake of the spring 2025 cyber attack that crippled the retailer’s systems for weeks

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools

  Study finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Ryt Bank taps agentic AI for conversational banking

  Malaysia’s Ryt Bank is using its own LLM and agentic AI framework to allow customers to perform banking transactions in natural language, replacing traditional menus and buttons

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  The Security Interviews: Colin Mahony, CEO, Recorded Future

  Recorded Future’s CEO talks threat intelligence, AI in cyber security and the ever-changing cyber threat landscape

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

  Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server