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• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  UK government presses on with new cyber rules for telcos

  Government has finalised new security rules for telecoms companies and will move to make them binding in the near future

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  One Login digital identity project makes headway

  Government services are lining up to work with the GDS on its One Login digital identity system, according to its director of digital identity, Natalie Jones

• August 26, 2022 26 Aug'22

  Making her mark in financial technology

  Archana Manjunatha’s career in financial technology took her to the trading floors in India, where she learned the ropes of futures and options trading and the back offices of some of the world’s largest banks

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack

  Researchers at Group-IB have published research on a major phishing campaign that ensnared victims at the likes of Cloudflare and Twilio

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform

  Kaspersky researchers have shared new intelligence on two emergent cyber criminal groups that have adapted their ransomwares to target different operating systems at the same time

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Millions of Plex users may be at risk in password breach

  Up to half of Plex’s 30 million users may have had their personal data stolen by an unknown threat actor

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Security pros fret about stress and promotion over cyber attacks

  CIISec’s annual report on the state of the security profession reveals some home truths for security leaders

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  LockBit 3.0 cements dominance of ransomware ecosystem

  Ransomware attacks were up 47% in July compared with the previous month, according to the latest threat data from NCC Group, with the LockBit family largely to blame

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Most CISOs think they’ve been attacked by a nation state

  Most organisations have made changes to their cyber strategies and policies following Russia’s invasion, and almost two-thirds suspect they have been directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyber attack

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alleged Twitter security failings spell trouble ahead

  Twitter’s former security head, Peiter Zatko, has alleged a number of serious cyber failures at the social media platform, raising the spectre of investigations and sanctions

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms

  Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  NCSC shares cyber guidance for large infrastructure builds

  Balfour Beatty and McAlpine are among the large construction firms to have input into latest NCSC guidance for ensuring the security of major infrastructure projects

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Farming tech projects get £16.5m in government funding

  Projects receiving funding through latest round of farming innovation programme include tech to improve fruit farming and the use of artificial intelligence to improve pigs’ welfare

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI

  Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Kaspersky threat data added to Microsoft Sentinel service

  Microsoft and Kaspersky have agreed a collaboration to integrate Kaspersky’s threat data feeds into Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM/SOAR service

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Lloyd’s to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks

  Lloyd’s of London has instructed its members to exclude nation state cyber attacks from insurance policies beginning in 2023, saying they pose unacceptable levels of risk

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Google employees demand end to collection of abortion data

  In the wake of the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion rights, Google employees are calling on the company to stop collecting abortion-related data, so that it can never be shared with police

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Cozy Bear targets MS 365 environments with new tactics

  Cozy Bear, or APT29, is trying out new tricks as it seeks access to its targets’ Microsoft 365 environments

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  LexisNexis sued by immigration advocates over data practices

  Four immigration advocacy groups launch lawsuit in Illinois alleging data broker’s collection, aggregation and sale of people’s personal data, including non-public information, to corporations and government bodies

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Growing MFA use spurs ‘pass-the-cookie’ attacks

  The exploitation of stolen session cookies by cyber criminals is once again back on the agenda, thanks to the growing popularity of multifactor authentication tools

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  It takes a breach to force boards to take notice of cyber, says UK government

  Too often, it takes a major incident for business leadership to pay attention to cyber issues, according to a government-commissioned study of victims

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Contactless accounted for one-third of all payments made in the UK in 2021, research shows

  Latest data from finance industry body reveals how the payments market is bouncing back after the pandemic

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  GPS tagging of migrants breaches UK data protection law, says Privacy International complaint

  Privacy group files complaints with Information Commissioner’s Office and Forensic Science Regulator over Home Office’s GPS monitoring of migrants

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  CTO interview: Steve Otto, CTO, The R&A

  The Open Championship was fully back in 2022 after Covid, and back at golf’s spiritual home of St Andrews – and it was an opportunity for the club’s CTO to reflect on where technology will take the sport next

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  The Turing Trust receives first batch of donated Govia Thameslink computers

  Train operator plans to donate 600 computers to the charity, which will refurbish them and send them to schools in Malawi

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Cyber security accelerator launches in Greater Manchester

  Accelerator will add to Manchester’s growing cyber security ecosystem, which already includes several tech unicorns, arms companies and the offices of GCHQ

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Older customers prefer phone calls to chatbots

  Businesses are increasingly adopting customer-facing digital technologies, but the older generation are not so keen to embrace tech

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  South Staffs Water is victim of botched Clop attack

  South Staffordshire Water moves to reassure customers that their supplies remain safe after its attackers screw up their initial assault

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Why organisations need to harmonise their CIO and CISO roles

  Unless properly managed, conflicting responsibilities between the chief information officer and the chief information security officer can cause project delays and budget overruns, says Netskope’s Mike Anderson

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  DWP looks to hire new CDIO

  Department is on the hunt for a chief digital and information officer to lead on its digital agenda, offering up to £200,000 pa for the role

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lawyers and journalists sue CIA and Mike Pompeo over Assange surveillance claims

  CIA and its former director sued over allegations that they authorised unlawful spying on US citizens when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  How clean data helps Southern Water identify vulnerable customers

  Escalating prices means households around the country are having to tighten spending, with many struggling to pay their bills. Water4All, a consortium led by Southern Water, is using data to identify low-income and vulnerable households so they can ...

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Royal Mint turns to Circular Computing for remanufactured Lenovo laptops

  BSI Kitemark for laptops supplied by Circular Computing intended to certify remanufactured products that are ‘as good as’ brand new devices

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Department of Health investigates bias in medical devices and algorithms

  The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  UK Amazon workers stage series of wildcat strikes over pay offers

  Amazon warehouse workers across the UK have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant’s management offered them pay rises between 35p and 50p

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Online Safety Bill ‘not fit for purpose’, say tech experts

  IT specialists lack confidence that legislation compelling tech firms to tackle online harms will work as intended, with only a small minority believing ‘harmful but legal’ content can be effectively and proportionately policed by internet platforms

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Cisco averts cyber disaster after successful phishing attack

  A potentially serious cyber attack on Cisco’s systems that began after a threat actor successfully exploited an employee’s carelessly secured credentials was thwarted without major damage

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  NHS may take a month to recover from supply chain attack

  Ransomware attack victim Advanced warns its NHS customers they could be waiting until early September to fully recover their operations

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Online retail sales see year-on-year drop of 2.3% in July 2022

  Despite another year-on-year drop in online retail sales in July, the fall is smaller than those seen in previous months of 2022 as online sales decline slows

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Nokia on track to modernise Western Australia rail communications

  Leading comms tech provider to upgrade Public Transport Authority of Western Australia’s railway communications system with private wireless and mission-critical IP/MPLS covering 250km of railway track and tunnels in project including designing, ...

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Increase in UK startups scaling to exit, but half still struggle

  Despite more startups scaling to the point of exit than ever before, half are still stuck in low growth stages – particularly those working with emerging technologies

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Microsoft fixes two-year-old MSDT vulnerability in August update

  August’s Patch Tuesday drop fixes more than 120 CVEs, including another MSDT RCE zero-day that is being actively exploited.

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Waterstones’ supply chain disrupted in Blue Yonder implementation

  Bookseller Waterstones is recovering from the effects of a Blue Yonder implementation that has seen authors and readers up in arms

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  ‘Coopetition’ a growing trend among ransomware gangs

  Sophos shares data from its new X-Ops unit at Black Hat in Las Vegas, revealing a growing number of ransomware victims being attacked by multiple gangs at the same time

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  UK to surveil convicted migrants with facial recognition

  A Home Office scheme to biometrically scan the faces of convicted migrants who have already carried out punishments has come under fire from privacy and human rights groups for being discriminatory

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  HS2 sets aside £9.5m to cover cost of IR35 non-compliance

  HS2 has become the latest public sector entity to have fallen foul of the IR35 rules, with its accounts confirming that it is anticipating a tax bill of £9.5m for failing to assess the status of contractors provided to it by a third party

• August 08, 2022 08 Aug'22

  NHS recovering key services after attack on supplier

  Incident at software provider Advanced took out multiple NHS services before the weekend, including the 111 advice service

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  NAO guide for senior government leaders flags barriers to better data use

  A National Audit Office guide for government chiefs on improving data use points to difficulties in achieving data sharing benefits and laments variability in cross-government data quality