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August 02, 2023
02
Aug'23
Ivanti MDM users told to patch against two dangerous flaws
Users of Ivanti’s mobile device management platform have been warned to act now to patch two vulnerabilities that were chained by a threat actor in a series of cyber attacks on the Norwegian government
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August 02, 2023
02
Aug'23
Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage
Cubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup
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August 01, 2023
01
Aug'23
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores
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July 31, 2023
31
Jul'23
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
Lancaster Uni lends cyber support to nuclear decommissioning body
Lancaster University’s cyber team has joined with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help support and protect its 300-year mission, while enhancing its own capabilities in the process
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
Scottish university hit by Rhysida ransomware gang
Data allegedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland has been put up for sale on the dark web by a ransomware gang going by the name Rhysida
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers
The government tax collection agency has once again been forced to deny it has banned the use of outside IR35 contractors following the publication of its latest set of accounts
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
Cyber criminals pivot away from ransomware encryption
Cyber breaches that saw data theft and extortion without an encryption or ransomware component account for more and more incidents, in a possible indication that ransomware gangs are changing up their business models
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
US cyber breach reporting rules to have global impact
Organisations that operate as Foreign Private Issuers in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations handed down by the SEC in Washington
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July 26, 2023
26
Jul'23
Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts
Ambulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system
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July 26, 2023
26
Jul'23
UK organisations lack confidence to carry out basic cyber tasks
Amid a shortfall of more than 10,000 cyber pros, UK businesses are still finding it difficult to fill their cyber security skills gaps, with even those in charge of security saying they lack confidence in themselves
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition
Network Resilience Coalition focuses on bringing together global expertise to improve data and network security
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation
With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Mayor of London announces startup funding
Seven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia
In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity
Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Citrix NetScaler users told to patch new zero-day urgently
A vulnerability disclosed and patched last week by Citrix appears to be being exploited by China-backed threat actors as a zero-day, prompting warnings from government cyber bodies
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Bank of England’s project to replace ‘beating heart’ is foundation for continuous development
The Bank of England has reached a major milestone in its core system replacement programme, with next landmark in sight
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches
Organisations that go all in on security AI and automation tend to incur lower financial costs when they experience a data breach incident, according to an IBM report
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Electronic Trade Documents Act receives royal assent
Digital trade documents are to be accorded the same status in law as paper ones under a law implemented to help reduce paper waste and speed up the UK’s foreign trade
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, DWP
Only 13 weeks into his new role, the Department for Work and Pensions’ CDIO speaks to Computer Weekly about plans for artificial intelligence, data modernisation and how to complete a business plan in record time
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
How the DSMA balances security and privacy with press freedom
In a world of information sharing and 24-hour news cycles, the Defence and Security Media Advisory committee have to balance national security and data privacy with freedom of the press
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous
The KillNet DDoS gang seems to be becoming more dangerous, but its primary goal remains to create a lot of noise and draw media attention, according to latest analysis
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
Cosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder is experiencing operational disruption in the wake of a cyber attack that seems to involve two different cyber crime gangs
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
Consortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims
Approximately 55% of security professionals say they have engaged in behaviours they would more usually advise against in the workplace, according to a report
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
A newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn
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July 18, 2023
18
Jul'23
Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks
Two vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach...
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July 13, 2023
13
Jul'23
Civil society groups call on EU to put human rights at centre of AI Act
Dozens of civil society groups are calling on EU institutions to prioritise people and human rights in AI legislation as secretive negotiations begin
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July 13, 2023
13
Jul'23
Microsoft issues new warning over Chinese cyber espionage
A newly uncovered Chinese espionage campaign exploited forged authentication tokens to access its victims’ email accounts, says Microsoft
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July 13, 2023
13
Jul'23
One month after MOVEit: New vulnerabilities found as more victims are named
Five weeks after the mass MOVEit breach, new vulnerabilities in the file transfer tool are coming to light as the Clop cyber crime group continues to terrorise victims. But has the gang bitten off more than it can chew?
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July 13, 2023
13
Jul'23
Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon
Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments
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July 12, 2023
12
Jul'23
Digital public services ‘riddled’ with problems, says TUC
The UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in ...
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July 12, 2023
12
Jul'23
Cozy Bear lures victims with used BMW 5 Series
A recent Cozy Bear campaign saw the Russian APT group pivot to exploiting an advert for a used car as it targeted diplomatic missions in Kyiv
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July 12, 2023
12
Jul'23
Hackers: We won’t let artificial intelligence get the better of us
AI is changing how ethical hackers go about their work, and will continue to do so, but the community is convinced the technology will never be able to replicate the creativity of a flesh-and-blood hacker
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July 12, 2023
12
Jul'23
Microsoft users on high alert over dangerous RCE zero-day
A serious RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Office and Windows is among several zero-days disclosed in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday update, but this one does not have a patch yet
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July 11, 2023
11
Jul'23
EU formally grants data adequacy to US
The European Commission has formally granted the US data adequacy, allowing companies and organisations to freely transfer personal data across the Atlantic via the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. But privacy activist Max Schrems has already committed...
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July 11, 2023
11
Jul'23
Malicious URL volumes soar as cyber criminals pull on Threads
Malicious actors have been quick to exploit the buzz around Meta’s newly launched Threads platform, with thousands of new suspicious domains registered exploiting its branding
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July 11, 2023
11
Jul'23
Finland’s VTT partners Nokia on data market
Finish state’s involvement in Nokia project will add weight and capital to work on creating a market for data
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July 11, 2023
11
Jul'23
Apple pushes Rapid Response patch to fix WebKit zero-day
Apple deployed an emergency patch under its Rapid Security Response update programme, but had to temporarily suspend delivery after it caused problems for users of the Safari browser
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July 07, 2023
07
Jul'23
Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA
As the UK cloud market braces itself for the publication of Ofcom's final report into the state of the market, Amazon and Microsoft's responses to regulator's interim findings have been made public
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July 07, 2023
07
Jul'23
Suspicious email reported every five seconds in UK
National Cyber Security Centre report reveals a suspicious email was reported by UK citizens and organisations every five seconds last year
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July 06, 2023
06
Jul'23
VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC
VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity
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July 06, 2023
06
Jul'23
Biometrics watchdog calls for public space surveillance review
The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner is calling for a review of public space surveillance to gain a clearer picture about the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology across the public sector, but warns against applying double...
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July 06, 2023
06
Jul'23
Privacy campaigners call for UK data adequacy to be revoked
The European Commission should revoke the UK’s data adequacy if its Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passes, which campaigners argue ‘flies in the face’ of the decision
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July 06, 2023
06
Jul'23
Meta’s Threads hits app stores, but no EU launch in sight
Meta’s Twitter competitor makes its debut and signs up millions of users in just 12 hours, but concerns over compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act have sunk a pan-European launch for now
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July 04, 2023
04
Jul'23
IT contractors urged to check umbrella payslips as two firms caught making unlawful deductions
Two recently published tribunal judgments emphasise why it is so important for umbrella company contractors to make sure they are being paid exactly what they are entitled to, warn experts
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July 04, 2023
04
Jul'23
EU judgment sinks Meta’s argument for targeted ads
The EU Court of Justice has issued a significant judgment against Meta, ruling that national anti-trust bodies can investigate GDPR breaches, disrupting the platform’s entire basis for carrying out targeted advertising
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July 04, 2023
04
Jul'23
How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE
Maxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers