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August 29, 2023
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Aug'23
Zero-day that forced Barracuda users to bin kit was exploited by China
Mandiant has published details of how a Chinese threat actor targeted high-profile users of Barracuda Networks' Email Security Gateway appliances, including government agencies of interest to Beijing's intelligence goals
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August 23, 2023
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Aug'23
Innovative UK SMEs spend half of turnover on tech
UK SMEs are increasing spending on technology, with dedicated IT teams set up to enable them to keep pace with tech change
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August 22, 2023
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Aug'23
Met Police data platform £64m over budget
A freedom of information request has revealed that the Met’s Connect integrated record management system is running tens of millions over budget, and has already generated more than 25,000 support requests so far
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August 22, 2023
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Aug'23
Clop’s MOVEit attacks drive ransomware volumes to record high
Such has been the scope of Clop’s activity since May that ransomware attack volumes have more than doubled year on year, according to the latest data
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August 21, 2023
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Aug'23
Cyber attack on Aussie energy services firm may hit UK CNI
Energy One, an Australia-based supplier of tech services to the energy sector, is investigating the possibility that some UK customers may have been caught up in an ongoing cyber attack on its systems
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August 16, 2023
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Aug'23
NCSC expands Cyber Incident Response service more widely
The NCSC has added a level to its CIR programme to enable more cyber attack victims to take advantage of the service, which offers access to assured incident response specialists
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August 15, 2023
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Aug'23
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner resigns
Dual biometrics and surveillance camera watchdog will step down at the end of October 2023, noting that while he agreed to stay on until the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received royal assent, continuing delays to its passage means ...
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August 14, 2023
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Aug'23
CMA provisionally clears US healthcare giant’s purchase of GP IT supplier EMIS
US company UnitedHealth is looking to buy UK healthcare technology firm EMIS in a £1.2bn deal
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August 11, 2023
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Aug'23
Google Help workers claim layoffs are retaliation for unionising
More than 100 Google Help workers claim that Google and Accenture’s decision to layoff two-thirds of the team was done in retaliation for their attempts to form a union, while companies claim decision was made well in advance of unionisation attempt
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August 10, 2023
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Aug'23
Implications of SAP Rise premium strategy
SAP dropped a bombshell during its second-quarter 2023 results call that will negatively impact those using S/4Hana on-premise or through a hosted service provider
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August 10, 2023
10
Aug'23
Google speeds up security update frequency for Chrome
Changes to Google’s security update policy are supposed to help close the gap in which cyber criminals can exploit n-day vulnerabilities
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August 09, 2023
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Aug'23
AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon
Remote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face
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August 09, 2023
09
Aug'23
Microsoft addresses Office vulnerability attacked by Russian spooks in latest update
Microsoft has issued fixes for over 70 vulnerabilities in its August Patch Tuesday drop, including remedies for CVE-2023-36884, which was disclosed without a fix in July and has been the subject of Kremlin-backed cyber attacks
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August 07, 2023
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Aug'23
Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism
Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes
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August 07, 2023
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Aug'23
HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices
HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services
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August 04, 2023
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Aug'23
SAP called out by German user group for Rise U-turn
German SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe calls on SAP for clarity around on-premise S/4Hana product enhancements
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August 04, 2023
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Aug'23
Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says
Two years and three months after Joe Biden mandated new standards in supply chain security, over 40% of UK respondents to a survey say they have implemented new SBOM policies in direct response
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August 03, 2023
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Aug'23
UK government recruits panel to focus on semiconductors
A panel of experts is being recruited as part of the government's national semiconductor strategy to ensure the UK’s chip sector can grow
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August 03, 2023
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Aug'23
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’
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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
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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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July 28, 2023
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Jul'23
Risks of opening up AI
Meta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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July 27, 2023
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Jul'23
Post Office tried to convince independent IT witness that he was wrong about Horizon
‘Delusional’ Post Office tried to influence an expert witness and get him to change his view about IT evidence which was detrimental to its case against a subpostmaster
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July 26, 2023
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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
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Jul'23
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue
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July 25, 2023
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Jul'23
Tetra radio users’ comms may have been exposed for years
A number of flaws in the encryption algorithms used in the secure Tetra radio communications standard have potentially left users exposed to snooping
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July 25, 2023
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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
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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 21, 2023
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Jul'23
SAP’s Klein sees $1tn market for AI business software
Enterprise software company embeds AI across product portfolio to improve efficiency in business processes
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July 20, 2023
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Jul'23
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
The Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
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July 20, 2023
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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
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Jul'23
BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services
TCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer
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July 19, 2023
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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
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Jul'23
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate
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July 19, 2023
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Jul'23
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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July 18, 2023
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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 18, 2023
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Jul'23
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
Overall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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July 17, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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 12, 2023
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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 11, 2023
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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
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Jul'23
Horizon inquiry adjourned as Post Office disclosure failures threaten to ‘derail’ proceedings
Statutory public inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal adjourned because of Post Office disclosure failures, ‘retraumatising’ victims of a scandal that destroyed the lives of thousands of people
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July 11, 2023
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Jul'23
Peer calls for every Post Office prosecution to be reviewed
Post Office prosecutions should be reviewed in light of damning evidence laid bare by statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, says peer James Arbuthnot
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July 10, 2023
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Jul'23
Post Office inquiry must examine rule on IT evidence if miscarriages of justice are to be avoided
Public inquiry must examine role of court rules around use of computer evidence that enabled Post Office to prosecute innocent people
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July 06, 2023
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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 04, 2023
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Jul'23
Coping with the ongoing chip crisis in the UK
China has imposed export restrictions on key semiconductor compounds, so how will the UK's National Semiconductor Strategy cope?
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July 04, 2023
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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
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June 30, 2023
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Jun'23
NHS data stolen in Manchester Uni ransomware attack
The ransomware gang behind the cyber attack on the University of Manchester appears to have got its hands on an NHS dataset being used by the university for research purposes