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• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  North Wales Police pilots hybrid quantum emergency response

  A hybrid quantum solver accessed through D-Wave’s cloud has been used to halve police incident response times in Wales

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  MPs press outsourcer TCS over Jaguar cyber attack

  The government’s cross-bench Business and Trade Committee has written to Tata Consultancy Services seeking answers over possible links to cyber attacks on Jaguar Land Rover, Marks and Spencer, and Co-op

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Apple’s first iOS 26 security update fixes memory corruption flaw

  Apple issues an update for its brand new iOS 26 mobile operating system, fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability affecting iPhones, iPads and other Mac devices

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers

  Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Harrods hackers start contacting customers

  Retailer Harrods has revealed that a number of customers whose data was stolen in a cyber attack have been contacted by the perpetrators

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity

  Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  NHS App set to front-end online health service access

  Additional functionality is being built into the NHS App to provide online appointments and access to healthcare professionals across England

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Google to pay $24m to settle lawsuit with president Trump

  Trump launched legal challenge after being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel, which Google is now seeking to settle

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloudian launches object storage AI platform at corporate LLM

  Object storage specialist teams up with Nvidia to provide RAG-based chatbot capability for organisations that want to mine in-house information in an air-gapped large language model

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  UK and US urge Cisco users to ditch end-of-life security appliances

  An ongoing campaign of cyber attacks is targeting users of end-of-life Cisco security appliance kit

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Harrods hit by second cyber attack in six months

  Data on approximately 430,000 Harrods shoppers was stolen in a third-party breach, but the cyber attack is not related to an earlier Scattered Spider incident, says the retailer

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing

  Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Women’s Rugby World Cup premiered GenAI for broadcast match analysis

  England’s triumph at the Women’s Rugby World Cup also saw the debut of generative AI for real-time broadcast rugby match analysis

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Global payments network Swift builds blockchain capability

  Not-for-profit global payments network to initially use blockchain-based shared ledger for cross-border payments, with further use cases to follow

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Keir Starmer launches digital ID scheme, but does it stand a chance?

  Amid an economic crisis, public scepticism and confusing messages, could the government’s digital identity programme fail before it even gets off the ground?

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches

  Business supply chains, which include Indian companies, are at risk of attack as more than half of suppliers were breached last year

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight

  Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Government to introduce mandatory digital ID

  Prime minister Keir Starmer says the scheme, which will be compulsory by the end of this parliament, will help crack down on illegal workers, as well as provide benefits to citizens

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same

  At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Government might support Jaguar Land Rover supply chain to mitigate cyber attack impact

  The government is considering buying car parts from JLR’s supply chain to sell them on to the company once it recovers from the August cyber attack

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence

  Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle

  Zoom bets on free AI to drive enterprise adoption, despite evidence the highest return on investment comes from back-office automation

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory

  A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain ...

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Oktane 2025: Okta takes aim at agentic AI governance gap

  Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  NCA arrests man following cyber attack that disrupted air travel

  The NCA has arrested a man in West Sussex over the cyber attack on Collins Aerospace that disrupted Heathrow and other EU airports. He has been released on conditional bail

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  McCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no ‘systemic’ surveillance of journalists

  A review by Angus McCullough KC reveals that Northern Ireland police failed to comply with the law but that there was no ‘widespread and systemic’ surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Jaguar Land Rover extends cyber attack-induced shutdown to October

  Jaguar Land Rover is extending its production shutdown caused by the 31 August cyber attack into next month, as government ministers drop by and supply chain workers lose wages

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Post Office Capture appeals slowed by poor records

  Poor data on the use of the Post Office Capture software is slowing the review of criminal convictions, says lawyer

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  ‘Our worst day’: The untold story of the Electoral Commission cyber attack

  As head of digital at The Electoral Commission, Andrew Simpson’s mettle was tested when threat actors gained access to the regulator’s email systems and accessed sensitive voter data. Three years on, he tells his story to Computer Weekly

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing

  US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  Teen charged with Las Vegas casino cyber heist

  Another arrest of a teenage hacker associated with the Scattered Spider gang has been made, this time in relation to two 2023 cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos and resorts

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  Cyber attack that downed airport systems confirmed as ransomware

  Authorities in Europe say the cyber attack that caused disruption to passenger-facing services at multiple airports, including Heathrow, was the result of ransomware, as investigations continue

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  PSNI chief sorry over failure to delete data unlawfully seized from journalists

  Police Service of Northern Ireland apologises for failing to destroy data that was unlawfully seized from journalists, despite a court agreement, and to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal for failing to disclose key information to the court

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Government meets with car parts suppliers amid JLR cyber crisis

  Government officials have met with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders to discuss the challenges they are facing amid disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience

  A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK needs better defences to protect undersea internet cables from Russian sabotage

  A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called for the UK to step up defences to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage risks

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

  A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago

  More than half of UK banks still rely on computer code written in or before the 1970s, and which is understood by only a few of their staff

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  Teen hackers charged over Scattered Spider attack on TfL

  Two men have appeared in court in London in connection with the September 2024 cyber attack that disrupted online services at Transport for London

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves

  Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop

  A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Lufthansa pilots EU Digital Identity Wallet-based travel

  Travellers will only be required to tap their phone to pass the various steps of checking in and boarding aircraft

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  NCC: How RaaS team-ups help Scattered Spider enhance its attacks

  Scattered Spider’s alliances with ransomware-as-a-service gangs act as a force multiplier for the scope, and number, of its cyber attacks, according to NCC Group analysts

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments

  Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Jaguar Land Rover extends production shutdown for another week

  Jaguar Land Rover says that vehicle production will remain suspended in the wake of a cyber attack, while the hackers allegedly responsible claim they are retiring from a life of crime

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Interview: Using AI agents as judges in GenAI workflows

  We speak to Ranil Boteju, chief data and analytics officer at Lloyds Banking Group, about how the bank sees agentic AI in customer-facing chatbots

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Turkish state tightens grip on comms

  Turkish subscriptions to fixed broadband were the lowest in Europe in 2024 and half as common as those in more developed countries

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs

  eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it