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IT supplier relationship management

• March 04, 2024 04 Mar'24

  Amazon lobbyists banned from European Parliament

  Amazon lobbyists have had their access badges to the European Parliament revoked, following allegedly repeated refusals to engage with lawmakers on issues around working conditions and rights

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  MPs demand Fujitsu be ‘nailed down’ on financial promise to Post Office scandal victims

  Select committee hears that government is talking to Fujitsu about its contribution towards the costs of the Horizon scandal but it is not yet negotiating

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Okta doubles down on cyber in wake of high-profile breaches

  Okta launches Secure Identity Commitment to shore up its technology in the wake of a damaging breach and elevate best practice around identity

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  DSIT publishes results of public digital identity trust consultation

  Report from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology shows UK public wants government to be accountable and transparent, and views trust and inclusivity as key

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Post Office CEO’s claim to be ‘working hard’ on Capture investigation in doubt

  The Post Office hasn’t even contacted Capture Software users brought to its attention, but CEO claimed, under oath, that the organisation has been ‘working hard’ on the cases for five weeks

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  75% of third-party breaches target software, IT supply chains

  Data drawn from SecurityScorecard’s telemetry reveals how supply chain breaches are becoming a weapon of choice for threat actors

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan

  The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike

  The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns

  More ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Birmingham sets aside £25m for Oracle transformation

  Council’s budget report shows that £5.3m is needed to continue support and manual intervention on troubled Oracle system

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience

  The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle

  January saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  King Charles strips disgraced Post Office CEO of her CBE

  Disgraced former Post Office CEO, central to the Horizon scandal, has her CBE formally stripped

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware

  ConnectWise ScreenConnect users who have yet to patch against a critical vulnerability are now being targeted by a barrage of cyber attacks, including ransomware

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex

  The UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Co-op signs TCS deal for cloud-first push

  The Co-operative Group has contracted IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services to support its move to a cloud-first IT environment

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Unisys investigating potential involvement in controversial Post Office system

  IT supplier wants to get to the bottom of its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software, linked to potential wrongful convictions

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Birmingham City Council needs a further £45m to fix ‘disastrous’ Oracle system

  Birmingham City Council’s ERP system is failing to deliver an accurate ledger, which means finance staff have spent months manually entering cost centre data

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure

  SUISA handles billions of royalty payments, but had capacity and storage admin nightmares with its EMC hardware. It cued up Pure Storage for simple admin, space and cost savings

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Controversial Post Office Capture system was developed in-house

  Second controversial Post Office system was the work of developers in its own IT operation

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Post Office IT insider and the software decision that lit the Horizon scandal

  As the Post Office replaces its controversial Horizon software, a former Post Office IT executive describes disastrous mistakes of the past

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Security-by-design push prompts new ISC2 accreditations

  Security-by-design has become a hot-button regulatory issue. ISC2 has decided now is the time to upskill cyber pros around these vital software and hardware development principles

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Microsoft patches two zero-days for Valentine’s Day

  Two security feature bypasses impacting Microsoft SmartScreen are on the February Patch Tuesday docket, among more than 70 issues

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Post Office CEO refused to meet government minister without her lawyer after 2015 Horizon report

  Post Office statements on the Horizon system, whether to journalists or the government, were routinely carefully crafted by lawyers

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI

  Is Oracle’s Fusion GenAI leap a bandwagon move or will it add real power to boost customer happiness?

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used second faulty Post Office system

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used a previous faulty computer system in their branches as more people come forward with information following Post Office scandal TV drama

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium

  The FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  MoD ethical hacking programme expands after initial success

  The Ministry of Defence has expanded the scope of its defensive security partnership with HackerOne

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence

  IT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  The challenges of open source in government

  Public sector bodies may find their policy decisions are stymied due to the inflexibility of the software they deploy. Is open source the answer?

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation

  The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  Is SAP on the rise?

  This year represents a tipping point for SAP to convince cagey customers of the value of cloud enterprise resource planning

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  ‘People are now listening,' Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

  The latest phase of the public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – closes with a bang

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Government ‘dragging it out’ by refusing to share knowledge of Post Office trial ‘delaying tactic’

  Subpostmasters will have to wait to find out if the government knew of the Post Office’s plan to derail group litigation order, by trying to push managing judge out

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Aviva signs 15-year contract with Indian IT giant

  Tata Consultancy Services continues to make large gains in the UK life insurance and pensions sector

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure

  The company’s cloud business posted revenue of $33bn, with new AI inferencing workloads driving up demand

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Seagate uses HAMR to hit 30TB in Exos hard drives

  HDD giant Seagate unveils 30TB Exos drives with higher areal density, aimed at hyperscaler customers, with products at 50TB promised for 2028 in its roadmap

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  User groups give SAP’s 50% Rise incentive the thumbs up

  SAP has changed tack, after the furore over its intention to make certain features available only to Rise customers on SAP Cloud

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Pre-Horizon users contacting lawyers as more Post Office IT horror stories emerge

  Lawyer says there is no reason to believe the Post Office treated unexplained shortfalls on systems prior to Horizon any differently to the way it dealt with unexplained Horizon shortfalls

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Russian IT sector still under serious pressure

  Russian IT sector faces challenges on multiple fronts as Western sanctions widen

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Lords question legality of police facial recognition

  Lords committee ‘deeply concerned’ about the rapid expansion of live facial recognition by UK police, which it says is progressing without any real oversight or accountability

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Lawyers carry on Post Office appeals amid uncertainty over government plan to overturn en masse

  Lawyers supporting former subpostmasters said they will continue appealing convictions as normal despite government plan to exonerate hundreds in one go

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  UK government consults on age verification tech in alcohol sales

  The government has said it wants to allow the use of digital identities and various age-verification technologies in alcohol sales

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  Expert IT witness outsmarted an ‘aggressive’ Post Office to get to truth after inspection ‘madness’

  The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known, in light of the public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal how an IT expert was treated during his investigation of Horizon

• January 25, 2024 25 Jan'24

  Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector

  Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users

  Fortra GoAnywhere MFT users must take steps to address a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability without delay

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  Committee chair asks minister to back ‘Mr Bates clause’ in Post Office compensation legislation

  Select committee chair wants guarantees on financial redress for subpostmasters that suffered in the Horizon scandal

• January 22, 2024 22 Jan'24

  PAC calls on MoD to fix inventory management IT

  The Public Accounts Committee is concerned that the ageing and fragmented IT systems used in the MoD’s inventory management puts front-line forces at significant risk

• January 22, 2024 22 Jan'24

  Urgent question asks which ministers knew of Post Office’s shocking plan to remove judge

  Labour peer uses urgent question to uncover who, if anyone, in government was aware of the Post Office’s attempts to remove judge as it became clear it was losing

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality

  The UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government