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IT operations management and IT support

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Qilin gang claims cyber attack on Japanese brewing giant

  The Qilin ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has halted brewing at Asahi Group Holdings, causing Japanese retailers to run low on beer

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

  Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

• 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

• 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 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

  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 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

  Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation

• 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 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  How Mediacorp stops livestreams from freezing at key moments

  Singapore’s national broadcaster has achieved a 99.5% crash-free rate for its mobile apps by using observability tools to find and fix issues in real time, ensuring a smoother experience for users

• 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 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  SolarWinds warns over dangerous RCE flaw

  A newly uncovered RCE flaw in SolarWinds’ helpdesk product bypasses two previously issued fixes, and users should prioritise updates as exploitation is likely to occur

• 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 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 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 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Telcos urged to ‘delayer’ for survival and growth

  Faced with commoditised services and low returns, telcos must radically restructure into separate infrastructure, network and service units to unlock value and innovate, says Kearney

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Arqit to support NCSC’s post-quantum cryptography pilot

  Quantum specialist Arqit will provide specialised post-quantum migration planning services to organisations preparing to address the imminent risks to traditional cryptography

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  M&S parts ways with CTO after cyber attack

  M&S chief digital and technology officer Rachel Higham steps back from her role in the wake of the April 2025 cyber attack on the retailer’s systems

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Students an increasing source of cyber threat in UK schools

  Insider threats arising from student activity now appears to be the chief cause of notifiable cyber or data breach incidents in Britain’s schools

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Cisco and Splunk expand agentic SOC vision

  The arrival of agentic AI in the security operations centre heralds an era of simplification for security professionals, Splunk claims

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Splunk urges users to eat their ‘cyber veggies’

  The dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  US politicians ponder Wimwig cyber intel sharing law

  US cyber data sharing legislation is set to replace an Obama-era law, but time is running out to get it over the line, with global ramifications for the security industry, and intelligence and law enforcement communities

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Lloyds Bank to use Workday software to help select staff for redundancy

  Lloyds Banking Group will analyse data on HR software to help it select staff for redundancy

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  Number of UK banks reporting AI-driven productivity improvements doubles

  Survey shows that half of UK banks will increase spending on artificial intelligence as more see AI-related productivity gains

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  IT departments face huge Windows 10 support bill

  When Windows 10 reaches end-of-life on October 14th, organisations will need to purchase an Extended Support contract to receive Microsoft patches

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Open banking take-up grows by a third

  Rising payments are driving the adoption of open banking, with more than 15 million users in July

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform

  Pension provider reaches milestone in its digital transformation with Indian IT services giant

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Fujitsu’s roots in government go too deep

  MPs and peers call on prime minister to review Japanese supplier’s ‘eligibility’ to bid for government contracts

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Zopa Bank seeks partners to form AI skills coalition

  Survey by Juniper Research and Zopa Bank reveals full return on investment in artificial intelligence over next five years

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  VMware rides on private cloud renaissance in APAC

  As enterprise rebalance workload placements and reinvest in private cloud infrastructure, Broadcom is positioning its VMware Cloud Foundation as the new standard for hybrid operations

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Ransomware activity levelled off in July, says NCC

  Ransomware levels held steady in the month of July, although the risk remained as persistent as ever

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Three new Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation

  Citrix patches three new vulnerabilities in its NetScaler lines warning of active zero-day exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw

  Latest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

  Metropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

  Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains

  Storage firm Commvault fixes four vulnerabilities that, when combined, create a pair of RCE exploit chains that could be used to target on-premise customers with ransomware and other nasties

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

  Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  ISACA launches AI security management certification

  ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

  L’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Warlock claims ransomware attack on network services firm Colt

  UK network services firm Colt is attempting to recover various customer-facing systems following a cyber attack that has been claimed by the Warlock ransomware gang and may have arisen via a SharePoint flaw

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence

  US-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Santander will make AI training mandatory for all staff in 2026

  Spanish banking giant announces mandatory AI training for staff, and collaborates with OpenAI on a ‘data and AI-first transformation’

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Researchers firm up ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider link

  ReliaQuest researchers present new evidence that firms up a potential link, or outright partnership, between the ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider cyber gangs

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native

  State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

  Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Cyber criminals would prefer businesses don’t use Okta

  Okta details a phishing campaign in which the threat actor demonstrated some unusually strong opinions on what authentication methods they would like their targets to use

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework

  Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles