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• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Innovate UK hit with £36m unpaid tax bill over IR35 contractor employment status errors

  UK's national innovation agency is the latest public sector organisation to have found itself saddled with a sizeable tax bill because of IR35 compliance issues

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Alert over Chinese cyber campaign targeting critical networks

  A Chinese threat actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed infiltrating CNI networks in a cyber espionage campaign, according to intelligence

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Almost all ransomware attacks target backups, says Veeam

  Some 93% of ransomware attacks go for backups and most succeed, with 60% of those attacked paying the ransom, according to a Veeam survey

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Visa to recruit 1,500 tech staff in Poland

  Visa’s latest global tech hub will recruit up to 1,500 staff, with focus on artificial intelligence, cyber security, and resilience in payments and ecommerce sectors

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

  Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 21, 2023 21 May'23

  AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables

  Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Navigating artificial intelligence: Red flags to watch out for

  Lou Steinberg, founder of cyber security research lab CTM Insights, flags up the risks of the growing use of AI, and what organisations can do to tame the technology for good

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Eticas outlines approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing

  Algorithmic auditing firm Eticas speaks to Computer Weekly about its approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing, including its strengths and limitations, and how the process works

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Home Office pushes for more police facial-recognition deployments

  An independent report commissioned by the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales reveals that the UK policing minister is pushing for wider adoption of facial-recognition technology by police, and further criticises the government’s proposed ...

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Knowledge 2023: Ready for the exponential enterprise, says McDermott

  ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott called for IT and ‘the business’ to finally come together in what he called the ‘exponential enterprise’ at the supplier’s Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  CIO interview: Ravi Malick, Box

  Ravi Malick has always been a technologist at heart, and via political science, startups and consultancy, landed in his current role at Box

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage

  Object storage specialist announces v2.0 of Artesca, with a heavy focus on functionality that can protect against ransomware such as object locking, sharding, backup to object etc

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  MS macro-blocking has forced cyber criminals to innovate

  One year after Microsoft started blocking VBA and XL4 macros by default, the cyber criminal ecosystem has all but stopped exploiting macros in their attacks. They’re instead innovating at an unprecedented rate

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  Demand for access to talent driving UK IT outsourcing growth

  Organisations in the UK are increasing the amount of IT work they outsource to enable them to access talent

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act

  The proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent and the latter as not stringent enough in many areas, despite positive progress in others

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  Let’s put an end to secrecy and cover-ups in ransomware attacks

  The NCSC and the ICO are calling for organisations to bite the bullet and be more open about cyber security and ransomware incidents, and the community is firmly behind them

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  IT leaders missing vital connection between enterprise network and employee experience

  Survey reveals that despite the rise of hybrid and remote working, and as digitisation demands increase, companies are struggling to connect their employees to the enterprise network

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023

  Australia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Secure Boot vulnerability causes Patch Tuesday headache for admins

  Applying the fix for a security bypass zero-day affecting the Windows Secure Boot feature will be a long process that will drag into 2024, but for good reason, says Microsoft

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m

  Exceptional costs arising from the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on the systems of outsourcer Capita will be somewhere between £15m and £20m, the organisation says

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

  OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Capita pension clients told data may have leaked

  Capita has told trustees of some of the pension funds for which it provides outsourced services that their customer data may have been stolen by the Black Basta ransomware operation

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Open banking use to increase 470% in next four years, driven from Europe

  Europe is leading the surge in the take-up of API-based open banking services, according to Juniper Research

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Cyber Action Plan for Wales launched

  The devolved Welsh government has set out four priorities in an action plan designed to foster cyber resilience, talent and innovation across the country

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  TikTok fixes vulnerability that could have exposed user activity data

  A potentially dangerous vulnerability in the TikTok video-sharing platform was discovered by Imperva researchers, and has now been fixed

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Government anti-fraud strategy targets the tech behind the scams

  The UK government’s anti-fraud strategy proposes to make it much harder for criminals to target their victims by cracking down on the exploitation of technology

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks

  ChatGPT and other large language models can rewrite value, and business leaders now realise they need a plan

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Mystery Apple security update sparks speculation

  Apple releases its first Rapid Security Response update for iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, but users are in the dark about what security problems they have fixed

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Delays, downscaling of national fast broadband roll-out threaten BBC digitisation

  UK parliamentary committee warns uncertainty over funding and regulation around national fast broadband roll-out plans threaten public broadcaster’s digitisation plans

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Seagate launches 22TB IronWolf straight into QNAP NAS partnership

  Seagate’s 22TB IronWolf Pro HDD equals Western Digital for capacity. Of the big drive makers, only Toshiba now lags behind. QNAP NAS to offer petabyte capacities with new Seagate drive

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  UK Cyber Security Council launches certification mapping tool

  Cyber careers body aims to offer clarity for professionals seeking to advance through security certification

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Researchers see surge in scam websites linked to coronation

  Scammers and fraudsters continue to take advantage of large public events, with the coronation of King Charles III no exception

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Tenable opens playground for generative AI cyber tools

  A set of generative AI cyber tools designed to help security researchers in reverse engineering, debugging and other areas of work have been made available for the community to experiment with

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

  The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Researchers deal blow to Gootloader gang that supported REvil

  Thousands of compromised WordPress blogs have been spreading the Gootloader malware for years, but eSentire’s security research team are turning the tables on the gang that played a key role in REvil ransomware attacks

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Ransomware gang exploiting unpatched Veeam backup products

  Cyber criminals with links to multiple virulent ransomware strains are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Veeam’s Backup & Replication product, threat analysts have warned

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  UK government introduces Digital Markets Bill to Parliament

  The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill will seek to level the playing field in digital markets by empowering regulators with new tools and powers to directly enforce competition and consumer protection laws

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  CISOs under-supported, under pressure, Trellix finds

  The vast majority of CISOs say they are finding it difficult to get sign-off on the resources they need to do their job

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Almost three-quarters of cyber attacks involve ransomware

  Data from Sophos’s annual Active Adversary Report reveals that almost three-quarters of the cyber security incidents it responded to in 2022 involved ransomware

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  UAE improves healthcare through information technology

  Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates are increasing their emphasis on new, smart technologies to modernise healthcare services