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• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications

  Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta

  Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  IR35: Conservative Party pledge to reform off-payroll rules gets lacklustre response

  Having overseen two sets of reforms to the IR35 rules while in power, plus an abortive attempt to repeal those same changes, the Conservative Party has pledged another reform of the off-payroll rules

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  AI halves clinical trial approval times

  Use of artificial intelligence to flag up potential issues with clinical trial applications means assessors can approve new treatments faster

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Peer demands Fujitsu pay £700m in interim as it prepares response to Post Office scandal inquiry

  Fujitsu, government and Post Office set to outline restorative justice plans, as peers calls for an interim payment towards costs.

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police ordered to give reasons in closed court for seizing phone of UK Hamas lawyer

  London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing and copying the contents of a phone belonging to a UK lawyer who represented Hamas, but refuses an injunction to prevent police from reviewing the phone until after judicial review

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits

  In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use

  The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or ...

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  Interview: Sacha Vaughan, chief supply chain officer, Joseph Joseph

  As the houseware maker’s supply chain is being transformed for the digital age, its leader explains why technology knowledge is critical to her job

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland has commissioned a senior lawyer to report back on whether there was any misconduct by police officers following the McCullough Review into the surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Interview: Chris Belasco, chief data officer, City of Pittsburgh

  Building data pipelines – the ‘connective tissue’ – is helping to improve operations and deliver better public services in the City of Pittsburgh

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Regional booster programme aims to drive UK tech growth

  The government has launched a £1m programme with 14 projects aimed at supporting startups

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption

  A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  US government shutdown stalls cyber intel sharing

  A key US law covering cyber security intelligence sharing has expired without an extension or replacement amid a total shutdown of the federal government, putting global security collaboration at risk.

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Interview: Wayne Barlow, head of terminal products, Bloomberg

  Techie turned business leader Wayne Barlow heads up the development of Bloomberg’s customer-touching terminal software

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools

  Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets

  Cash accounted for less than 10% of payments in the UK in 2024, according to UK Finance figures

• 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