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• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Google unveils AI-powered security to trap ransomware attacks

  The new security capability, available at no extra cost for most Google Workspace users, detects mass file encryption during ransomware attacks, stops the attacks from spreading and allows for restoration of files

• 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 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 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 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

  Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m

  Co-op reveals £206m costs from April cyber attack, with revenues hit, member data stolen and shelves emptied, exposing major retail supply chain vulnerabilities

• 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

  Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures

  We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected

• 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 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI

  Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’

• 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

  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

  ‘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 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

• September 22, 2025 22 Sep'25

  PSNI chief sorry over failure to delete data unlawfully seized from journalists

  Police Service of Northern Ireland apologises for failing to destroy data that was unlawfully seized from journalists, despite a court agreement, and to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal for failing to disclose key information to the court

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Government meets with car parts suppliers amid JLR cyber crisis

  Government officials have met with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders to discuss the challenges they are facing amid disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience

  A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK needs better defences to protect undersea internet cables from Russian sabotage

  A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called for the UK to step up defences to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage risks

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

  A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers

  The penetration testing specialist is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and deploying AI-driven capabilities as it eyes acquisitions and a potential IPO

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  Teen hackers charged over Scattered Spider attack on TfL

  Two men have appeared in court in London in connection with the September 2024 cyber attack that disrupted online services at Transport for London

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  Should you run VMware 7 unsupported?

  In just a few weeks, VMware version 7 reaches end of life, which means Broadcom will no longer issue patches

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy

  Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves

  Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop

  A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients

• 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 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments

  Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Exabeam: Treat AI agents as the new insider threat

  As artificial intelligence agents are given more power inside organisations, Exabeam’s chief AI officer, Steve Wilson, argues they must be monitored for rogue behaviour just like their human counterparts

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Jaguar Land Rover extends production shutdown for another week

  Jaguar Land Rover says that vehicle production will remain suspended in the wake of a cyber attack, while the hackers allegedly responsible claim they are retiring from a life of crime

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Preparing for emerging tech

  We speak to Forrester about how IT decision-makers should prepare for emerging technologies that have a short, mid or long-term ROI

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  ShinyHunters linked to breach of French luxury goods house

  Kering, the parent group of fashion houses including Balenciaga and Gucci, becomes the latest organisation to allegedly fall victim to ShinyHunters

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations

  Amnesty International says AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants and revoke visas, raising fears of unlawful detentions and mass deportations

• 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 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Digital sovereignty in the public cloud

  We look at how IT leaders need to balance data access, data residency and data sovereignty

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  MI5 unlawfully monitored the phone of BBC journalist Vincent Kearney

  The Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard today that the security service has conceded that it unlawfully monitored the phone data of former BBC Spotlight reporter Vincent Kearney

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  EU Data Act comes into force amid fears of regulation fatigue

  The EU Data Act will potentially give users control of device data, and boost data sharing, cloud switching and competition while raising compliance demands

• 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 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages

  Law enforcement and police experts meet on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images amid growing opposition from security experts

• 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