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IT operations management and IT support
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October 16, 2024
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Oct'24
Digitisation forum launched ahead of Norway’s digital strategy
Norway's government is preparing itself for the future by establishing an advisory hub to support its digital strategies
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October 16, 2024
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Oct'24
Applying IT observability to deliver business metrics
The complex nature of modern IT requires advanced tooling to ensure systems are running optimally. These tools can also identify business trends
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October 15, 2024
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Oct'24
NCSC expands school cyber service to academies and private schools
The National Cyber Security Centre is expanding its PDNS for Schools service to encompass a wider variety of institutions up and down the UK
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October 10, 2024
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Oct'24
Government launches cyber standard for local authorities
Local government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks
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October 10, 2024
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Oct'24
How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit
Threat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them
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October 10, 2024
10
Oct'24
Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The technology chief reflects on a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games – and how what he learned as a former Olympic medallist helped him be a better IT leader
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October 10, 2024
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Oct'24
Afas leads the way with four-day work week in the Netherlands
Dutch labour unions want a shorter working week and software company Afas is leading the way, introducing a four-day work week from 1 January 2025
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October 09, 2024
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Oct'24
MoneyGram customer data breached in attack
MoneyGram confirms that customer data has been stolen in an incident that appears to have started with a social engineering attack on its IT helpdesk staff
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October 09, 2024
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Oct'24
Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
Stand-out vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday drop include problems in Microsoft Management Console and the Windows MSHTML Platform
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October 09, 2024
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Oct'24
UK Cyber Team seeks future security professionals
Young people from across the UK have a chance to represent the country in international competitions and advance their future careers in cyber security
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October 08, 2024
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Oct'24
Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals
The number of active cyber criminal ransomware gangs has surged by almost a third in the space of 12 months, according to the latest intelligence from Secureworks
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October 08, 2024
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Oct'24
Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry
Post Office interim chairman tells Horizon public inquiry that the Post Office needs to reset New Branch IT project
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October 06, 2024
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Oct'24
Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter
A letter from Post Office staff to MPs, statutory inquiry chair Wyn Williams and the Post Office chairman demands their intervention and an investigation into the organisation's leadership
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October 04, 2024
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Oct'24
NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in
Outgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne
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October 04, 2024
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Oct'24
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
The Cups Linux printing vulnerabilities disclosed at the end of September would seem to have a nasty sting in their tail, according to researchers at Akamai
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October 03, 2024
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Oct'24
Rising IT talent costs shadow Sweden’s skills shortage and market reforms
Swedish businesses face challenges recruiting the right IT staff, as salary demands increase
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October 03, 2024
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Oct'24
SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
Security operations centre practitioners are fed up of being flooded with pointless alerts and many no longer have much confidence in their threat detection tools, according to a report
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October 03, 2024
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Oct'24
Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
Former Post Office chief transformation officer’s evidence to the public inquiry reveals organisation’s strained relationship with main IT supplier Fujitsu
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October 02, 2024
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Oct'24
Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
More people than ever are joining the cyber security profession in the UK, according to a report, but there is still a serious shortage even with a doubling in numbers
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October 02, 2024
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Oct'24
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay
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October 02, 2024
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Oct'24
Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
Revelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches
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October 01, 2024
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Oct'24
Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
Over 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA
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September 30, 2024
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Sep'24
Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
An independent forensic analysis finds the predecessor to Horizon IT system was also likely to have caused shortfalls for which subpostmasters were blamed, years before the Post Office scandal
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September 27, 2024
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Sep'24
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
Security pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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September 26, 2024
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Sep'24
Subpostmasters living years with disputed but unresolved debts to the Post Office, inquiry told
Continued errors with the Horizon system mean subpostmasters have unresolved account shortfalls hanging over them for years
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September 25, 2024
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Sep'24
CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers appears before a US government committee to explain the series of errors that led directly to one of the biggest IT outages in history
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September 25, 2024
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Sep'24
Splunk and Cisco integration moving apace
Splunk is rapidly integrating with Cisco’s technology to enable seamless transitions between their platforms while delivering advanced threat detection capabilities
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September 25, 2024
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Sep'24
Post Office IT procurement mess saw £35m spent on air conditioner, says board member
Post Office IT procurement mistakes have wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money, non-executive board member tells public inquiry
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September 24, 2024
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Sep'24
Money transfer firm MoneyGram rushes to contain cyber attack
Money transfer specialist MoneyGram services remain down several days after a network outage developed into a full-blown cyber security incident
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September 24, 2024
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Sep'24
Post Office IT department’s focus on chasing a discount meant botched procurement
Post Office IT team and executives slammed for rushing into tech hardware purchase while eyeing a discount
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September 23, 2024
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Sep'24
Fujitsu faces financial challenges, with doubts over its commitment to righting Post Office wrongs
Fujitsu worker tells Computer Weekly that firm only cares about shareholders and not subpostmaster suffering
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September 18, 2024
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Sep'24
NCSC exposes Chinese company running malicious Mirai botnet
The NCSC and its Five Eyes allies have published details of the activities of a China-based cyber security company that is operating a Mirai IoT botnet in the service of government-backed intrusions
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September 18, 2024
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Sep'24
Third of enterprises to automate majority of network activities by 2026
Research shows infrastructure and operations leaders increasingly looking to AI-based analytics and augmented decision-making to improve operational resilience and responsiveness
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September 17, 2024
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Sep'24
Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation
CRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration
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September 17, 2024
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Sep'24
Barclays takes on more GreenLake
Barclays has ramped up its HPE-powered private cloud, as it continues to modernise IT and reduce its carbon footprint
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September 12, 2024
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Sep'24
Government receives report on second controversial Post Office IT system
Former subpostmasters suffered as a result of unexplained accounting shortfalls which they believe were caused by errors in Post Office Capture software, used before the controversial Horizon system
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September 12, 2024
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Sep'24
Mphasis expands UK roots with leap into quantum computing
Indian heritage software development services supplier opens London hub to help customers integrate the latest technologies into their business plans
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September 12, 2024
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Sep'24
Mainframe teams turn to AI for modernisation gains
Given the skills crisis, generative artificial intelligence may offer a way for IT and business leaders to modernise their mainframe environments
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September 11, 2024
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Sep'24
Datacentres granted critical national infrastructure status
The global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike has shown why keeping datacentres secure and safe is critical to the UK
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September 11, 2024
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Sep'24
Under-pressure Post Office botches hardware procurement in project to replace error-prone system
Pressured decision-making caused mistakes in the Post Office project to replace the system at the heart of national scandal
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September 10, 2024
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Sep'24
JFrog and GitHub unveil open source security integrations
Secure software specialist JFrog is working with code development service GitHub to integrate the onboard capabilities of its Software Supply Chain Platform service into GitHub’s platform
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September 09, 2024
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Sep'24
Multiple Veeam vulns spark concern among defenders
Veeam users are urged to patch a series of vulnerabilities in the firm’s Backup & Replication product to get out ahead of potential exploitation by ransomware gangs
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September 09, 2024
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Sep'24
Forrester: IT budget growth pushed towards cross-functional teams
Analyst firm Forrester has forecast a slight increase in IT budgets for 2025, but technical debt is one of the areas likely to feel the squeeze
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September 05, 2024
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Sep'24
NCSC and allies call out Russia's Unit 29155 over cyber warfare
The NCSC and counterpart agencies from the US and other countries have exposed a long-running campaign of Russian cyber espionage and warfare conducted by GRU Unit 29155
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September 04, 2024
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Sep'24
PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise
Thousands of PyPI packages are at risk of an attack technique dubbed Revival Hijack, which exploits a loophole in the platform’s package naming feature
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September 04, 2024
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Sep'24
How digital models help Anglian Water manage leaks
We speak to Anglian Water about how it uses digital technologies to improve operations and provide on-site engineers with the data they need
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September 03, 2024
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Sep'24
TSB systems could be on the move again as BBVA eyes its parent
TSB was migrated to the systems of Sabadell in a project remembered for its monumental IT meltdown in 2018
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September 03, 2024
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Sep'24
Swedish law firms debate AI’s future impact on profession
Swedish law firms examine the use of artificial intelligence in their businesses as the sector sees a surge in take-up
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September 02, 2024
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Sep'24
UK and Ukraine digital trade deal comes into force
The UK eases access to the deep tech startup community in Ukraine through digital-only agreement
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August 30, 2024
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Aug'24
Norwegian Refugee Council leverages Okta for Good cyber scheme
Pietro Galli, CIO of the Norwegian Refugee Council, reveals how the globally distributed NGO has been taking advantage of the Okta for Good CSR programme to improve its own cyber security and data protection practice, and elevate good practice in ...