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August 03, 2023 03 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’
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
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
July 28, 2023 28 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

July 27, 2023 27 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
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
July 26, 2023 26 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
July 25, 2023 25 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
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
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

July 21, 2023 21 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
July 20, 2023 20 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
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
July 20, 2023 20 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
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
July 19, 2023 19 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
July 19, 2023 19 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
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
July 18, 2023 18 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
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...
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
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
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?
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 ...
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...
July 11, 2023 11 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
July 11, 2023 11 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
July 10, 2023 10 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
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...
July 04, 2023 04 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?
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
June 30, 2023 30 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
June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23
The Finnish Food Authority uses AI to accelerate research

Researchers have reduced the time taken to get critical insights into potential public health crises and address issues in real-time, through artificial intelligence
June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round

The Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
Oracle shifts database support goalpost

Oracle has updated its maintenance and support across its relational database family – we explore the implications
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
UK pension scheme expands relationship with IT services giant TCS

Tata Consultancy Services retains contract with UK pension scheme for another decade after extending a contract that was first signed in 2011
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
Lloyds Bank to open tech centre in India

UK bank taps into Hyderabad tech ecosystem by opening a tech centre focused on improving digital experiences for customers
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
Co-op Group adds nearshore engineering resources

Manchester headquartered Co-op group adds additional engineering resources as competition for talent in the UK ramps up
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance

Japanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’

Bill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Post Office will not oppose potential Horizon conviction appellants

Post Office CEO told MPs that the organisation is telling some subpostmasters it won't oppose them if they appeal
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house

Unison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform

Middle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Visa takeover means economic turmoil won’t slow Tink’s progress

Tink is one of the pioneers of the open banking sector, and under Visa’s light-touch ownership is continuing to think like a startup
June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS

BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data
June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23
Enterprise software price hikes risk derailing digital transformation

Buying software and cloud services for strategic initiatives is all very well as long as the price is stable. But costs are escalating, which is impacting value
June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23
Clop begins naming alleged MOVEit victims

Clop uploaded details of 12 new victims to its dark web leak site late on 14 June, many of them likely linked to the ongoing MOVEit cyber attack
June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23
No zero-days for June Patch Tuesday, but plenty to chew over

On the face of it, Microsoft’s monthly round of updates is a lighter-than-usual load for security teams, with no zero-days in evidence, but there are still plenty of issues needing attention
June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23
Belgian bank leaps forward in digital transformation through core banking outsourcing deal

Online bank moves to a software-as-a-service core banking platform to ‘leapfrog’ in-house development
June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23
GoCardless cuts jobs and wants its ‘startup spirit’ back

Payments fintech unicorn GoCardless will cut its workforce in the UK as part of a 15% reduction in its global workforce