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IT operations management and IT support
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May 04, 2021
04
May'21
Half of organisations breached via a third party in 12 months
New report highlights the risks of outsourcing key business processes without paying due care and attention to your service provider’s security
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May 04, 2021
04
May'21
Infosys to create 1,000 tech jobs in UK
Infosys joins TCS in announcing the creation of UK IT jobs as India and the UK negotiate a future trading relationship
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May 04, 2021
04
May'21
Post Office CEO either knew what was going on in Horizon scandal, or was ‘asleep at the wheel’
Post Office IT scandal CEO has no excuse for her inaction in preventing the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history, says Criminal Cases Review Commission chairperson
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April 30, 2021
30
Apr'21
End of support for Build 1909 leaves some Windows open to attack
Biannual Windows updates free IT staff from major updates, but some people prefer older builds of Windows, which leaves a gaping security hole
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April 29, 2021
29
Apr'21
Impact of low chip supply spreads
Covid-19, shifts in consumer purchasing, sanctions and a drought in Taiwan have come together as a perfect storm to squeeze the supply of semiconductors
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April 28, 2021
28
Apr'21
Recruiters can’t afford to hold out for cyber ‘unicorns’
The perfect security candidate is hard to find, so hiring policy needs to be more pragmatic
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April 27, 2021
27
Apr'21
Total cost of ransomware attack heading towards $2m
Sophos’ latest study finds that ransomware attacks are proving increasingly disruptive to their victims’ finances
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April 26, 2021
26
Apr'21
Another 38 subpostmasters submit appeals against convictions
The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is set to get bigger as more subpostmasters take their cases to the Court of Appeal
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April 26, 2021
26
Apr'21
Post Office scandal CEO steps down from roles after massive miscarriage of justice is laid bare
Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells has left roles in the church, Morrisons and Dunelm after postmasters’ convictions were overturned in the Court of Appeal
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April 23, 2021
23
Apr'21
Post Office scandal victims have criminal convictions overturned in Court of Appeal
Subpostmasters have their criminal convictions overturned after a judge rules that the Post Office prosecuted them without investigating computer errors
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April 22, 2021
22
Apr'21
Researchers shed more light on APT29 activity during SolarWinds attack
RiskIQ’s Atlas threat intel team uncovers new patterns and threat infrastructure used in the SolarWind’s attacks
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April 22, 2021
22
Apr'21
Automation, zero-trust, API-based security priorities for EMEA CISOs
Report by FireMon sheds light on buyer behaviour across the EMEA region
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April 22, 2021
22
Apr'21
ToxicEye malware exploits Telegram messaging service
The Telegram instant messaging service is being used by malicious actors to manage a remote access trojan called ToxicEye
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April 21, 2021
21
Apr'21
NCSC offers teachers free cyber security training
The NCSC’s latest security training offer builds on a package of measures designed to protect schools from cyber attack
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April 21, 2021
21
Apr'21
SonicWall Email Security zero-days need urgent patch
Users of SonicWall Email Security are advised to patch immediately, but the supplier is being criticised for the pace of its response
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April 21, 2021
21
Apr'21
Time is running out to probe networks for Emotet
Security teams will lose an unprecedented opportunity to gain valuable intelligence to enhance their defences when Emotet is finally ‘executed’ in a few days’ time
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Chinese APT exploits critical CVE in Pulse Secure VPN
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Pulse Secure’s VPN is being exploited by a Chinese advanced persistent threat group – assume compromise and mitigate today
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Codecov supply chain attack has echoes of SolarWinds
Supply chain attack on code auditing service may have compromised the likes of HPE and IBM
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Banco Santander moving more than 200 servers to cloud per day
Banco Santander has migrated about 60% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud and is reaping the benefits
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April 20, 2021
20
Apr'21
Transatlantic relationship strengthens Sweden’s startup sustainability
Nordic startup network is taking lessons from Canada in getting women into the IT industry
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April 19, 2021
19
Apr'21
Google and Siemens combine forces to address AI at the industrial edge
The partnership shows how the public cloud giants are branching out into specialist application areas to different industry sectors
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April 15, 2021
15
Apr'21
Only government standing in the way of fair compensation for subpostmasters
The UK government is the only block to fair compensation for subpostmasters who were wrongly punished for accounting shortfalls
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April 15, 2021
15
Apr'21
University of Hertfordshire is latest academic cyber attack victim
Multiple systems are offline at the University of Hertfordshire following a cyber attack
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April 15, 2021
15
Apr'21
How Windows patching leaves security exposed
Four years on since it devastated IT systems across the NHS, WannaCry remains a threat to organisations around the world
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April 14, 2021
14
Apr'21
FBI accesses ProxyLogon target servers to disrupt cyber criminals
US Justice Department reveals successful court-authorised effort to clamp down on ProxyLogon exploitation
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April 14, 2021
14
Apr'21
Europe provides growth for TCS despite year floored by pandemic
Tata Consultancy Services grows its continental European business despite economic slowdown brought by Covid-19 restrictions
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April 13, 2021
13
Apr'21
MP told to ditch official email over hacking fears
MP Tom Tugendhat claims the intelligence services advised him to switch to the Gmail service due to concerns his parliamentary email could be hacked
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April 13, 2021
13
Apr'21
Hyperbat accelerates industry 4.0 with 5G virtual 3D engineering model
Vehicle battery manufacturer uses the latest 5G-enabled technology to speed up the manufacturing process for hybrid and electric vehicle production in the UK
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April 13, 2021
13
Apr'21
End of the road for Post Office IT system that destroyed lives
The Post Office has revealed the end to its controversial Horizon IT system which, through its errors and the Post Office's denial of them, caused huge suffering for hundreds of subpostmasters
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April 13, 2021
13
Apr'21
Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs
Newly disclosed set of nine DNS vulnerabilities puts over 100 million consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT devices at risk
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April 12, 2021
12
Apr'21
Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts
With lockdown restrictions easing in the UK, cyber criminals are tailoring their phishing lures to new areas of interest
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April 09, 2021
09
Apr'21
Global demand for IT and business services highest ever for first quarter
Global demand for IT and business services began the year strongly, with a record first quarter
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April 09, 2021
09
Apr'21
Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug
A long-disclosed vulnerability in Fortinet’s Fortigate VPN servers is being exploited to distribute Cring ransomware
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April 08, 2021
08
Apr'21
Post Office Horizon contract extension is part of project to bring Fujitsu work in-house
The Post Office is to move work done by Fujitsu in-house when its outsourcing contract ends, and is already recruiting IT experts
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April 08, 2021
08
Apr'21
Future working models at big banks begin to fall into place
Banks traditionally lead the way in technology adoption, but what can businesses take from their post-Covid-19 remote-working strategies?
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April 07, 2021
07
Apr'21
Post Office gives controversial Fujitsu contract another year
The Post Office's controversial contract with Fujitsu has been extended another year to help the organisation manage its exit
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April 06, 2021
06
Apr'21
Demands for changes to ‘barmy’ rules on digital evidence have government’s ear
The government is listening to calls for changes in how digital evidence is considered in court, as Post Office IT scandal spells out current rule's inadequacy
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March 31, 2021
31
Mar'21
Commerzbank picks Google for cloud migration
German bank expands its work with Google Cloud and plans to move 85% of applications to its platform
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March 31, 2021
31
Mar'21
NHS is apparently closing security skills gap
By the end of 2020, there were more than twice as many in-house security professionals at NHS trusts as there were two years before
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March 30, 2021
30
Mar'21
Strong company culture the basis of a successful hybrid work environment
Study highlights how post-Covid working dynamics increase importance of communicative leadership with an inclusive organisational culture most important once logistics and technology are addressed
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March 30, 2021
30
Mar'21
Ransomware attack on London schools highlights warnings
Ransomware attack on Harris Federation comes just days after a fresh NCSC alert for the education sector
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March 30, 2021
30
Mar'21
The Security Interviews: How to secure an F1 team in a pandemic
A multi-year digital transformation programme paid off for F1 team Williams Racing when the 2020 season was abruptly postponed thanks to Covid-19. Learn how the team’s CIO has been supporting remote working and protecting data
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
How Gulf SMEs are building digital resilience amid the pandemic
SMEs in the Gulf region have accelerated their digital transformations during the Covid-19 pandemic
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
UK courts face evidence ‘black hole’ over police EncroChat mass hacking
French investigators have refused to disclose how they downloaded millions of messages from a supposedly secure cryptophone network used by organised criminals – leaving UK courts to grapple with a forensic ‘black hole’ of evidence
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March 29, 2021
29
Mar'21
CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management
Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Retailer FatFace pays $2m ransom to Conti cyber criminals
Retailer FatFace paid out a $2m ransom to restore its data following a January 2021 cyber attack by the Conti ransomware syndicate
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Remote working burn-out a factor in security risk
After a year of working from the kitchen table, stress and burn-out are increasing, giving rise to more security risks – and Millennials seem to be particularly affected
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Cyber security complacency puts UK at risk, says NCSC head
National Cyber Security Centre CEO Lindy Cameron, in her maiden speech in the role, warns of challenges ahead for the UK and sets out the future agenda for cyber
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Warning: AWS IAM behaves differently to directory services
IT admins use group policies to manage user access via Active Directory, but AWS takes a subtly different approach, which can be exploited
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Four in five UK businesses seek new security suppliers
Decision-makers are ready to buy new security technology, but suppliers must pay close attention to how they present themselves