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February 23, 2024
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CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association
England men’s and women’s football teams have had a good few years – and like any successful organisation, they are supported by technology. We meet the IT chief behind football in England and Wales
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February 22, 2024
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Cyber experts alarmed by ‘trivial’ ConnectWise vulns
The disclosure of two dangerous vulnerabilities in the popular ConnectWise ScreenConnect product is drawing comparisons with major cyber incidents, including the 2021 Kaseya attack
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February 22, 2024
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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
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February 22, 2024
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Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network
Researchers used QKD on a fibre-optic network spanning 184km to show how the technology could be used to secure networks cost-effectively
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February 22, 2024
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Mid and South Essex sets out plans for shared care record
The Essex-based integrated care system is developing a shared care record for health and social care, aiming to go live in spring 2024
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February 22, 2024
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Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’
Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia
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February 22, 2024
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Inside LockBit: A ransomware gang in decline?
The LockBit ransomware gang was already on the ropes prior to the NCA-led takedown, according to security researchers
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February 21, 2024
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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
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February 21, 2024
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NasuniIQ brings visualisation of massive unstructured datasets
Global file system provider adds visualisation of massive distributed unstructured datasets to allow customers to analyse data usage and prepare clean training data for artificial intelligence
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February 21, 2024
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Assange created a ‘grave and immediate risk’, says US government, as it seeks extradition
Lawyers for the US government hit back at claims that extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is politically motivated
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February 21, 2024
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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
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February 21, 2024
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IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud
Survey shows that fewer IT leaders are prioritising workload migration, which suggests they are happy with their deployment plans
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February 21, 2024
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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
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February 20, 2024
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Birmingham City Council needs a further £45m to fix ‘disastrous’ Oracle system
Birmingham City Council’s ERP system is failing to deliver an accurate ledger, which means finance staff have spent months manually entering cost centre data
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February 20, 2024
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Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’
Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’
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February 20, 2024
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LockBit locked out: Cyber community reacts
Reaction to the takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang is enthusiastic, but tempered with the knowledge that cyber criminals are often remarkably resilient
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February 20, 2024
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US extradition of Julian Assange is ‘state retaliation’ for exposing war crimes, court hears
Lawyers argue that the US extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is politically motivated and in is breach of the UK-US extradition treaty
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February 20, 2024
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LockBit gang members arrested in Poland and Ukraine
The UK’s National Crime Agency and its global partners have shared more details on their audacious takedown of the LockBit ransomware operation, including news of two arrests
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February 20, 2024
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Rolls-Royce looks at viability of quantum computing in nuclear safety
The manufacturing firm is one of several participating in a Digital Catapult programme looking at industrial applications for quantum computing
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February 20, 2024
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Government agrees law to protect confidential journalistic material from state hacking
The government will update Investigatory Powers Act to require secret intelligence agencies to seek independent approval before accessing confidential journalistic material obtained by bulk hacking, but journalists remain vulnerable to other bulk ...
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February 20, 2024
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Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio
Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models
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February 19, 2024
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Cops take down LockBit ransomware gang
The notorious LockBit ransomware crew has been disrupted in an international law enforcement sting led by the UK's National Crime Agency
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February 19, 2024
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Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure
SUISA handles billions of royalty payments, but had capacity and storage admin nightmares with its EMC hardware. It cued up Pure Storage for simple admin, space and cost savings
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February 19, 2024
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Cradlepoint embedded IoT connects AI-driven sustainable intelligent waste system
Collaboration shows how cellular-connected artificial intelligence can support environmental sustainability through secure, scalable IoT connectivity that merges cellular technology with AI for optimal waste diversion and profitability
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February 19, 2024
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Controversial Post Office Capture system was developed in-house
Second controversial Post Office system was the work of developers in its own IT operation
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February 18, 2024
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Singapore to invest S$1bn in AI over five years
The funding will go towards compute, talent, and industry development to support Singapore’s national AI strategy
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February 16, 2024
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Poor data and IT hamper cross-government working, PAC report finds
Report cites inadequate data, poor IT systems and departmental silos as major barriers to cross-government working, and calls on government to do better
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February 16, 2024
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Google claims AI advances with Gemini LLM
Code analysis, understanding large volumes of text and translating a language by learning from one read of a book are among the breakthroughs of Gemini 1.5
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February 16, 2024
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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
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February 15, 2024
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Security-by-design push prompts new ISC2 accreditations
Security-by-design has become a hot-button regulatory issue. ISC2 has decided now is the time to upskill cyber pros around these vital software and hardware development principles
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February 14, 2024
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Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT
Threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack
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February 14, 2024
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Dutch Supreme Court approves use of EncroChat evidence
Defence lawyers plan appeal to European Court of Human Rights after Supreme Court upholds a conviction based on intercepted messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network
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February 14, 2024
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Met Police to scrap and replace ‘racist’ Gangs Violence Matrix
A database used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and track people linked with gang violence is being decommissioned and replaced. The decision follows a long-running controversy over its discriminatory impacts on young black people, but ...
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February 14, 2024
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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
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February 14, 2024
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Security experts: Investigatory powers plans will delay security updates
Cyber security experts warn that government proposals to amend the Investigatory Powers Act will limit tech companies’ ability to respond to security threats and could hamper the use of end-to-end encryption
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February 14, 2024
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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
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February 13, 2024
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How DBS is industrialising AI across its business
Southeast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank
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February 13, 2024
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New variants of Qakbot malware under development
Despite its infrastructure having been taken down by the FBI last year, someone appears to be actively working on a new and improved version of the infamous Qakbot malware
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February 13, 2024
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Hunter-killer malware volumes seen surging
Latest Picus Security report on malware tactics, techniques and procedures reveals an increasing focus on disabling security defences
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February 13, 2024
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Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI
Is Oracle’s Fusion GenAI leap a bandwagon move or will it add real power to boost customer happiness?
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February 13, 2024
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What will result from Cohesity’s Veritas acquisition?
The $7bn backup giant will leverage huge assets in enterprise customer base, compliance and governance intelligence, AI, R&D, and Kubernetes backup and storage
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February 12, 2024
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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
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February 09, 2024
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Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium
The FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police
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February 09, 2024
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MoD ethical hacking programme expands after initial success
The Ministry of Defence has expanded the scope of its defensive security partnership with HackerOne
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February 09, 2024
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Europe carves out niche in quantum computing
As the US, China and Europe accelerate investment in quantum computing, Europe is beginning to develop its own unique position in the fledgling global ecosystem
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February 08, 2024
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Why open data is needed in the battle to address homelessness
Centrepoint needed to send FOIs to more than 300 local authorities in England to access required information
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February 08, 2024
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CIO interview: Sandy Venugopal, SentinelOne
We speak to the former CIO of Uber and LinkedIn, current CIO of SentinelOne, about how artificial intelligence should be deployed in business
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February 08, 2024
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Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence
IT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use
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February 07, 2024
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NCSC warns CNI operators over ‘living-off-the-land’ attacks
Malicious, state-backed actors may well be lurking in the UK’s most critical networks right now, and their operators may not even know until it is too late, warn the NCSC and its partners
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February 07, 2024
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Dozens of surveillance companies are supplying spyware to governments, says Google
Google’s Threat Analysis Group has identified 40 companies involved in selling and supplying security exploits and spyware services to governments