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• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  UK government does not see need for specific AI legislation

  The UK government does not currently see the need for new artificial intelligence legislation, as many regulators are already dealing effectively with AI-related harms

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  The Security Interviews: Why cyber needs to integrate better

  Cyber security is an intensely technical field, but we shouldn’t ignore the soft skills of communication and collaboration. Wipro’s Tony Buffomante explains why a robust security posture is dependent on a security team engaging with the wider ...

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Why IT governance is a coding issue

  Two new pieces of research point to benefits of policy as code

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud

  Australian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme

  Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Former Post Office manager has no memory of preparing witness statement in legal dispute

  Evidence of computer problems was omitted from the witness statement of a former Post Office manager in a legal battle with a subpostmaster blamed for unexplained accounting shortfalls

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

  Organisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  AI Summit not the place for human rights, says French finance minister

  Despite commitments at the UK’s AI Safety Summit to respect and protect human rights, the French finance minister said it was not the right forum to discuss signatories' human rights records

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Iconic Singapore hotel caught up in major data breach

  The Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore uncovered a data breach of its guest loyalty programme last month

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations

  SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  King’s Speech misses the mark on cyber law reform, says campaign

  A group of activists who want to reform the UK’s computer misuse laws to protect bona fide cyber pros from prosecution have been left disappointed by a lack of legislative progress

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  The Security Interviews: ISC2’s Clar Rosso on cyber diversity and policy

  Computer Weekly catches up with ISC2 CEO Clar Rosso to talk about diversifying the cyber workforce and supporting cyber pros as they keep up with growing compliance and security policy demands

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Post Office disclosure failures delay Horizon scandal inquiry again

  Many of the 300,000 emails unearthed could be relevant to evidence from future and past witnesses in the Post Office scandal inquiry

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Gartner Symposium: More about AI

  The keynote presentation on the second day of the Barcelona conference examined whether artificial intelligence should be more intelligent than humans

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Researchers ‘break’ rule designed to guard against Barracuda vulnerability

  Vectra AI researchers found that a Suricata rule designed to detect exploitation of a dangerous Barracuda Email Security Gateway flaw was not entirely effective

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Interview: Paul Scully, minister for technology and the digital economy, DSIT

  The technology minister speaks to Computer Weekly about the government’s semiconductor strategy, how to solve the digital skills challenge in the UK and moving towards the country’s net-zero target

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Unesco unveils seven-point anti-disinformation plan

  United Nations body outlines seven proposals for civil society, governments, regulators and tech platforms to adopt to combat the source of disinformation

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  AI Safety Summit review

  Computer Weekly takes stock of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit and the differing perspectives around its success

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  Gartner Symposium: It’s all about AI

  CEOs want CIOs to take the lead when it comes to AI business initiatives. IT leaders need a clear plan of what they want to do with AI

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  NatWest taps IBM skills for generative AI

  NatWest and IBM are developing generative AI capabilities to expand the capabilities of the bank’s virtual customer assistant

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  Netherlands starts building its own AI language model

  Dutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  Shadow IT use at Okta behind series of damaging breaches

  Okta now believes the initial access vector in a series of damaging breaches was one of its own employees who used a corporate device to sign into their personal Google account

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  How Trellix’s CISO keeps threat actors at bay

  Trellix’s chief information security officer, Harold Rivas, outlines how the company mitigates security threats through containment and by helping security analysts to respond faster to cyber incidents

• November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

  UK science minister announces quantum tech funding and collaboration plans

  Science minister George Freeman announces £14m in funding for quantum technology projects as government signs collaboration agreements with Australia and the Netherlands

• November 03, 2023 03 Nov'23

  Executive interview: Sergio Gago, Moody’s

  Why should companies invest in quantum computing? We speak to Sergio Gago, managing director for artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum at Moody’s

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  Bristol and Cambridge to host 2024 AI supercomputers

  Dell and HPE are working on supercomputers with the two universities as part of the government’s artificial intelligence funding drive

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  Admins told to take action over F5 Big-IP platform flaws

  Two vulnerabilities in the widely used F5 Networks Big-IP platform are now being exploited in the wild

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  CDDO publishes digital roadmap update

  The CDDO envisions that by 2025, digital services will exceed public expectations, civil servants will be equipped for a digital future, and government efficiency and security will be enhanced

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  Pension changes set to boost UK tech

  UK technology and science startups could benefit from changes to UK pension funds

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  UK workers exhibit poor security behaviours, report reveals

  Report by KnowBe4 has found that four in five UK workers do not make security-conscious choices, whether in-office, remote or hybrid working

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data

  UK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life in messages sent on encrypted phone network

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  EU digital ID reforms should be ‘actively resisted’, say experts

  Over 300 cyber security experts have called for the EU to rethink its proposals for eIDAS digital identity reforms, saying some of the provisions risk damaging user privacy and security

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  AI Summit: 28 governments and EU agree to safe AI development

  In a joint communique at the UK government’s AI Safety Summit, all participating governments agreed to deepen their cooperation around the risks associated with artificial intelligence

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  Banking should start testing out quantum ideas

  The finance sector should not ignore quantum computing, even though the technology is not yet ready

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals

  As the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park takes place, Computer Weekly caught up with Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to find out what one of the UK’s most prominent AI advocates wants from proceedings

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  British Library falls victim to cyber attack

  The British Library is experiencing a major IT outage following a cyber incident of an undisclosed nature

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  Biden’s AI plans focus on US workers’ protection

  The US president has issued an Executive Order that sets out his administration’s strategy for AI safety and security

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  SEC sues SolarWinds, alleging serious security failures

  SolarWinds and its CISO have been charged with fraud and internal control failures by the US authorities amid allegations of a series of cyber security failings leading up to the 2020 Sunburst attacks

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  Over a quarter of UK adults use buy now, pay later fintechs

  Latest research from UK financial services regulator shows BNPL more likely to be used by people experiencing financial difficulty

• October 31, 2023 31 Oct'23

  How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?

  Without the ongoing work of developers, open source projects would become stale and riddled with unfixed bugs and security issues. We look at the issues of funding and fairness

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  UK government AI Summit already branded ‘missed opportunity’

  The dominance of big tech firms, a focus on speculative risks over real-world harms, and the exclusion of affected workers, mean the AI Safety Summit is a wasted opportunity, say civil society groups

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  Frontier AI Taskforce starts recruitment drive

  The second progress report from the Frontier AI Taskforce reveals new hires plus vacancy posts for software and research engineers

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Tech firms cite risk to end-to-end encryption as Online Safety Bill gets royal assent

  Tech firms continue to be concerned that the Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption despite government reassurances

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Domestic abuse charities surface fresh worries over NHS data sharing

  With new NHS data access options coming into effect at the end of October, a group of campaigners including womens' charities and the BMA have warned that the revived GP-patient data sharing scheme risks putting vulnerable people at risk

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  ‘Egregious’ to link passport data with facial recognition systems

  The Scottish biometrics watchdog has spoken out against the UK policing minister’s plans to integrate passport data with police facial recognition systems

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Microsoft warns over growing threat from Octo Tempest gang

  The English-speaking Octo Tempest extortion gang – which became an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate recently – presents one of the most significant and rapidly growing threats to large organisations at this time, says Microsoft

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Google launches bug bounties for generative AI attack scenarios

  Google expands its bug bounty programme to encompass generative AI and takes steps to grow its commitment to supply chain security as it relates to the emerging technology

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  UK regulators confident they are ready for AI safety governance

  MPs at a recent artificial intelligence governance meeting were keen to hear how Ofcom, the FCA and the ICO are preparing for UK AI legislation

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Webex deploys AI to enhance contact centre agent potential, boost CX

  AI-powered innovations in contact centre designed to generate agent efficiency and well-being, resulting in reduced turnover and improved customer experiences, faster resolution of customer needs and real business outcomes