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• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Neighbouring Kent councils hit by simultaneous cyber attacks

  Canterbury, Dover and Thanet Councils in Kent have all been struck by simultaneous cyber attacks knocking systems offline, with indications of a link between all three

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Fujitsu boss describes Post Office behaviour as 'shameful and appalling'

  The UK head of Fujitsu said he does not know why the Post Office did not reveal information about Horizon software errors to defendants during prosecutions

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  AWS plans huge investment in Japan cloud infrastructure

  Amazon Web Services plans to invest over $15bn into its existing cloud infrastructure in Tokyo and Osaka by 2027 to meet growing customer demand

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  Gartner: The big IT outsourcing contract returns

  Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows IT services is set to become the largest segment of IT spending in 2024

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  Anger sparked by TV drama forces Fujitsu to put public sector contract bidding on hold

  It is not just the UK government that has been forced to act quickly amid public anger, as a wounded Fujitsu stalls government contract bidding

• January 18, 2024 18 Jan'24

  PSTN switch-off threatens access to adult social care services

  The Public Switched Telephone Network switch-off is threatening vulnerable Londoners access to adult social care and other vital services, as councils are left to manage the cost without financial support from the centre, says London chief digital ...

• January 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

  Victims of 2023 Capita data breaches head to High Court

  More than 5,000 people impacted by data breaches arising from two cyber incidents affecting outsourcer Capita have joined a group action lawsuit

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  NAO head calls for clean data and modern government IT

  Better IT procurement, better IT systems and better data are among the recommendations Gareth Davies is giving to Parliament

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  Human-centric technology vision changes IT procurement

  Accenture’s 2024 technology vision report discusses IT systems that use AI in a bid to become more intuitive and capable of adapting to different user skills

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  EU amendment changes open source definition

  The EU Cyber Resilience Act has the potential to cause confusion among open source developers, with questions remaining over open development

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023

  Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform

  Cisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  HPE nabs Juniper Networks in $14bn deal to boost networking

  The two companies position the combined business as a major force in enterprise and datacentre networking

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Hundreds of subpostmasters to have convictions quashed in blanket exoneration

  The government has chosen to introduce legislation that will enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs

  Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Wales makes headway with electronic prescriptions roll-out

  Electronic prescribing will be deployed in both primary and secondary care, while a shared medicines record will be live by the end of March 2024

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Fujitsu gets stay of execution as MPs support exoneration of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters

  Fujitsu will have to wait until the end of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry to hear how MPs will punish it

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Post Office scandal furore is moment to change digital evidence rules

  The current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history

• January 07, 2024 07 Jan'24

  Metropolitan Police launches second criminal investigation in Post Office scandal

  New investigation will examine potential crimes by the Post Office in its recovery of money from subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  China’s UNC4841 pivots to new Barracuda ESG zero-day

  The Chinese state threat actor behind a series of cyber attacks on Barracuda Networks customers embarked on a campaign targeting the supplier’s email security products in the run-up to Christmas

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

• December 22, 2023 22 Dec'23

  Top 10 government IT stories of 2023

  In the year that gave life to four new government departments, Whitehall bosses have continued to fly the flag for technology, with mixed results and success. Here are the stories that made waves in 2023

• December 22, 2023 22 Dec'23

  Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2023

  Generative AI is the buzzword on every financial services IT professional’s lips as the technology promises to accelerate the ongoing fintech revolution

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage stories of 2023

  In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

  In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Post Office gets government handout as Horizon replacement costs increase ‘significantly’

  The increasing costs associated with replacing the Post Office’s controversial IT system have forced the government to hand it over £100m extra

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandal

  MPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Current Post Office executive in denial of Horizon cover-up

  Executives at the Post Office today are still in denial of the part they played in destroying the lives of thousands of people

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

  The UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Critical UK infrastructure a ‘hostage of fortune’ to ransomware

  A lack of ransomware planning and preparedness at the highest levels of government is leaving UK operators or critical national infrastructure dangerously exposed, according to a Joint Committee report

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support

  Customers are being offered a big discount to migrate onto a VMware subscription service

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  SAP strategy: Why customers need an innovation plan

  Rise appears to be the place where SAP has promised customers the latest innovations, raising the question of what happens to everyone else

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Post Office prioritised its ‘bottom line’ over justice

  The Post Office was more concerned with saving money and recovering unexplained losses than getting to the bottom of subpostmaster claims that Horizon errors caused shortfalls, inquiry told

• December 05, 2023 05 Dec'23

  Government to trial new border tech

  The software, which the government hopes will make it easier for border staff to identify what is inside the container, will be tested in the New Year as part of plans to ‘cut red tape’ for UK exporters

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  Atos selected for UEFA Euro 2024 IT contract

  IT services company Atos will deliver on-site and remote IT services for next year’s international football event in Germany

• December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

  Report reveals sorry state of cyber security at UK football clubs

  Football clubs up and down the country are putting staff, players and fans alike at risk through outdated attitudes to cyber security, according to a report

• December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

  Post Office lawyer with his fingerprints all over IT scandal spreads blame

  Senior Post Office criminal lawyer was just following orders and claims his only mistake was believing those that told him the Horizon system was robust

• November 30, 2023 30 Nov'23

  Yarra Valley Water to roll out smart water meters

  The move is expected to stem water losses, alert customers to possible leaks and improve the affordability of water

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Paula Vennells’ email fuelled Post Office Horizon cult, inquiry told

  Faced with serious questions about the robustness of its core computer system, the Post Office doubled down on reliability myth, public inquiry told

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Scope of Okta helpdesk breach widens to impact all users

  Okta has widened the scope of the October breach of its systems to include every customer that has used its helpdesk service, after new information came to light

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  Interview: Sunil Srivastava, CTO, Pandora

  When he joined the jewellery retailer, Sunil Srivastava was labelled as the ‘crazy CTO’ given some of the ideas he had for transforming IT

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  SAP needs to address breakdown in trust

  Outgoing UK and Ireland SAP user group chair calls on SAP to rebuild trust and plot a path to innovate S/4Hana for those who run ERP on-premise

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  ‘Excited’ finance firms pump money into digital technology

  Over three-quarters of finance firms are currently restricted in what they can spend on technology due to the global economic climate, but expect spending to resume next year

• November 24, 2023 24 Nov'23

  UK police plan national roll-out of facial-recognition phone app

  UK police chiefs plan to expand use of facial-recognition technology through a nationwide roll-out of mobile-based tools and increases in retrospective facial-recognition, but oversight problems persist

• November 23, 2023 23 Nov'23

  Three-quarters of finance executives expect generative AI to replace them

  Survey reveals an expectation that GenAI will take over many of the finance executive roles currently held by people

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Executive interview: TechUK CEO Julian David on 10 years of change in UK IT

  It’s 10 years since the UK technology trade association relaunched as TechUK – its chief executive looks back on a dramatic decade, and discusses what’s next for the UK tech sector

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract

  NHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Altman’s back at OpenAI. What next for Microsoft?

  Fired and now rehired, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, leaving a hole in Microsoft’s Advanced AI plans

• November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

  Over half of SME cyber incidents now ‘malware-free’

  The age of malware-driven cyber attacks may have peaked, at least when it comes to incidents affecting small and medium sized enterprises