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• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system

  The Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams

  The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective

  Former Durham detective will be required to give evidence to a tribunal investigating allegations that police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phones

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk

  The normalisation of sharing self-created intimate content with others is putting great numbers of people at risk of online abuse, says Kaspersky

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal

  The government referred allegations about subpostmasters’ mistreatment by the Post Office to the alleged abuser itself

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Glasgow’s digital strategy highlights digital rights for citizens

  The strategy aims to create organisational change, equipping Glasgow to reap the benefits of digital and protect its citizens’ rights

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting

  In the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill introduced in the King's Speech, the UK's new government pledges to give regulators more teeth to ensure compliance with security best practice and to mandate incident reporting

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Hackney Council reprimanded over 2020 ransomware attack

  The London Borough of Hackney has been reprimanded by the ICO over a series of failures that led to a devastating cyber attack, but at the same time, the regulator praised the local authority for its response and commitment to making improvements

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests

  Two weeks after news emerged that two employees of the Police Digital Service had been arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and misconduct, Companies House confirms PDS CEO Ian Bell has resigned as company director

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Labour government plans new laws around cyber security, data sharing and skills

  The King's Speech outlined the legislative agenda for the new Parliament, including several bills that will impact the tech community

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  How the Mercedes F1 IT team helped Lewis Hamilton win the British Grand Prix

  Computer Weekly went behind the scenes with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, during its victorious British Grand Prix weekend, to find out about the role of IT in beating the stopwatch

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Strategic Defence Review must emphasise cyber security, says industry

  Cyber security leaders say the new government's Strategic Defence Review needs to put digital security front and centre

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Fujitsu analyst gave witness statements when more qualified colleagues refused

  Fujitsu employee provided witness statements to courts in cases against subpostmasters despite not understanding the evidence, after qualified IT experts refused

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost

  Cyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  CMA looks deeper into Microsoft’s AI hirings

  Microsoft recently hired two former co-founders of AI specialist Inflection AI, and signed a deal to host the company’s AI model on Azure

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Legal, tax and audit professionals look forward to AI efficiency promise

  Hundreds of hours a year could be saved through the use of AI in the legal, tax, and risk and compliance fields

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Cloud spend trumps AI but data, security and cost a common headache

  Nasuni-sponsored survey finds cloud projects higher on the to do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Labour government begins to dish out digital responsibilities

  As the new government begins to settle in, ministers with technology remits begin to emerge as DHSC and others declare which ministers will have digital responsibilities

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  NHS Trusts cancelled over 6,000 appointments after Qilin cyber attack

  The two NHS Trusts most heavily impacted by the Qilin ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis have cancelled over 6,000 appointments and procedures in the past five weeks

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  Schools hit with cost hike as free Microsoft licences end

  The A1 Plus academic licence, which gave teachers and pupils access to the Microsoft productivity suite, stops in August

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  DACH education ‘ready for AI’ as parents call for next phase of innovation

  A rallying cry for digital intervention in the sector across the DACH region could set the tone for a continental shift towards more dynamic and intuitive learning in the years to come

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  WHO launches digital health collaboration network

  The World Health Organisation’s network, which includes 53 member states alongside data and digital health partners, will tackle digital transformation issues in healthcare

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  Civil servant said subpostmasters’ threat of legal action was ‘sabre-rattling’

  Post Office scandal public inquiry hears damning evidence capping off a bad week for the reputation of high-profile civil servants

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach

  Hackers have stolen records of virtually every call made by AT&T's customers during a six-month period in 2022, after compromising the US telco's Snowflake data environment

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain

  Consumers are improving their awareness of the issues around digital identity security, but there are still some big issues preventing many from doing better, according to an Okta report

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  How Howdens used GenAI to power app user experience

  The Howdens app has been updated with a GenAI-powered digital assistant that helps its trade customers tackle technical issues

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Life sciences, medtech and the NHS must marry, says health secretary

  Health secretary Wes Streeting wants the UK to be an international powerhouse for life sciences and medtech, and plans to turn the Department for Health and Social Care into a ‘public growth department’

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  ITER workshop highlights the role of computing technology in nuclear fusion

  One of the themes from the private sector workshop run in France this May is that information technology remains a key enabler for nuclear fusion

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future

  In only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Challenges of deploying AI to run public services more efficiently

  A report from an organisation headed by former prime minister Tony Blair has set an AI challenge for the Labour government

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  GDS appoints Christine Bellamy as CEO

  The former head of Gov.uk has taken over as CEO of the Government Digital Service following the departure of Tom Read in June

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Inside Israel’s cyber security operations

  An emergency phone line allows cyber security analysts at the Israel Computer Emergency Response Team to map threats against national infrastructure

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Tennis and technology: How Wimbledon gave fans a GenAI experience

  Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to see how tennis fans are benefiting from the latest developments in artificial intelligence

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Civil servant was lone voice on Post Office board to query legal plan that blew taxpayers' cash

  Government representative felt he was 'in a minority of one' on the Post Office board of directors in questioning the handling of a High Court battle with subpostmasters that cost £100m

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Setting the high bar in digital transformation

  Roel Louwhoff, Standard Chartered’s chief transformation, technology and operations officer, outlines what it takes for the company to become a client-focused, data-driven bank

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks

  China’s APT40 is ramping up targeting of victims using vulnerable small and home office networking kit as command and control infrastructure, according to an international alert

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Government left monitoring of Post Office to ‘luck’

  If the Post Office board failed to spot bad faith within its management, it would be down to ‘luck’ for the government to find out

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking

  The general director of the Israel National Cyber Directorate talks about the rise in cyber attacks and what lessons the country has gleaned to defend against hacking from foreign parties

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Room to grow in UK for Tata Consultancy Services after half a century

  Indian-headquartered IT giant has built a large UK footprint as part of its global network, a commitment which is helping it increase its business in the UK’s public sector

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024

  Atos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup

  Tony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Revamped DSIT to transform digital public services, says government

  The incoming government sets out preliminary plans to conduct a major revamp and relaunch of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT

  More cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Sir Alan Bates welcomes MP’s elevation to House of Lords

  Former Labour MP has moved to the House of Lords where he will continue campaigning for justice for victims of the Horizon scandal

• July 04, 2024 04 Jul'24

  UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments

  The Scottish biometrics commissioner has called for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based evidence sharing system is fully compliant with data protection laws

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  NCA’s Operation Morpheus targets illicit Cobalt Strike use

  International law enforcement operation targets cyber criminals using the Cobalt Strike penetration testing framework for dodgy purposes

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Former Post Office chair 'regrets' keeping critical Horizon report secret

  Tim Parker, chairman of the Post Office from 2015 to 2022, admits he should not have accepted legal advice to prevent release of a review that could have supported victims of the Horizon scandal

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  UK must push forward greater use of open tech

  OpenUK is calling on policymakers to put more effort into building the UK’s open source capabilities

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service employees arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct

  The Police Digital Service has confirmed an internal review of its processes will be undertaken in the wake of staff arrests