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August 16, 2024
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Aug'24
Campaigners criticise Starmer post-riot public surveillance plans
A UK government programme to expand police facial recognition and information sharing after racist riots is attracting criticism from campaigners for exploiting the far-right unrest to generally crack down on protest and increase surveillance
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August 14, 2024
14
Aug'24
August Patch Tuesday proves busy with six zero-days to fix
Microsoft patches six actively exploited zero-days among over 100 issues during its regular monthly update
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August 14, 2024
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Aug'24
Automated police tech contributes to UK structural racism problem
Civil society groups say automated policing technologies are helping to fuel the disparities that people of colour face across the criminal justice sector, as part of wider warning about the UK’s lack of progress in dealing with systemic racism
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August 13, 2024
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Aug'24
NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms
NIST has launched the first three quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and as the threat of quantum-enabled cyber attacks grows greater, organisations are encouraged to adopt them as soon as they can
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August 13, 2024
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Aug'24
Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads
Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind
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August 08, 2024
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Aug'24
Royal ransomware crew puts on a BlackSuit in rebrand
The Royal ransomware gang is back, with a new name and refreshed capabilities, including an apparently unique ‘partial encryption’ gambit, according to CISA
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August 07, 2024
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Aug'24
Rocketing AI demand sees Lumen light up custom networks division
Connectivity provider shakes up corporate structure in response to artificial intelligence economy changing business operations and companies recognising need for powerful network to manage unprecedented data flows and demand
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August 06, 2024
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Aug'24
Advanced faces fine over LockBit attack that crippled NHS 111
Advanced Software faces a multimillion pound fine for a series of failings which directly led to a 2022 LockBit ransomware attack that disrupted NHS and social care services across the UK
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August 06, 2024
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Aug'24
2024 seeing more CVEs than ever before, but few are weaponised
The number of disclosed CVEs soared by 30% in the first seven-and-a-half months of the year, but a tiny fraction of these have been exploited by threat actors, a reminder of the importance of focused security strategies
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August 05, 2024
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Aug'24
Chinese cyber attack sparks alert over six-year-old MS vuln
After a proof-of-concept for a six-year-old Microsoft vulnerability emerged in a Chinese APT attack chain, defenders should be on the look-out for exploitation of CVE-2018-0824
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August 05, 2024
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Aug'24
World’s largest companies at near-universal risk of supply chain breach
Data from SecurityScorecard once again focuses on the interconnected nature of business supply chains and the risk posed to operational resilience by unexpected IT problems and cyber threats
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August 05, 2024
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Aug'24
Post Office scandal: Phases 5 and 6 had islands of conscientiousness in great depths of neglect
Computer Weekly rounds up the latest phase of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry after a marathon 16 weeks of questions
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August 01, 2024
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Aug'24
Scottish government to roll out digital evidence sharing
Following a controversial pilot scheme, Scotland is investing £33m in deploying digital evidence sharing technology nationally
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August 01, 2024
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Aug'24
Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud
A Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud
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July 31, 2024
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Jul'24
Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems
Business process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial
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July 31, 2024
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Jul'24
Police Digital Service confirms resignation of second director in two weeks
Companies House filing states the Police Digital Service has said goodbye to non-executive director Allan Fairley, with a representative from the company confirming his departure is for ‘conflict of interest’ reasons
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July 31, 2024
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Jul'24
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
To increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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July 30, 2024
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Jul'24
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
Hundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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July 29, 2024
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Jul'24
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
Hundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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July 29, 2024
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Jul'24
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
The vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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July 29, 2024
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Jul'24
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
A digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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July 26, 2024
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Jul'24
Interview: Abhijit Dubey, global CEO, NTT Data
A merger between NTT Data and NTT Ltd has created a $30bn tech services and consulting business. We speak to its new CEO to find out what it has to offer IT leaders
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July 26, 2024
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Jul'24
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
A coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
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July 26, 2024
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Jul'24
Vince Cable says the Post Office ‘lied’ to the government over Horizon issues
In the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearings, Vince Cable and Greg Clark reflected on their time as the minister heading the department responsible for the Post Office
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July 25, 2024
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Jul'24
Fortune 500 stands to lose $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
The largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars
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July 24, 2024
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Jul'24
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
CrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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July 24, 2024
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Jul'24
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
Mimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
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July 24, 2024
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Jul'24
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
Former government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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July 24, 2024
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Jul'24
ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use
The Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford for introducing facial recognition and failing to conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment and obtain the explicit consent of students
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July 23, 2024
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Jul'24
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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July 23, 2024
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Jul'24
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
Former government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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July 22, 2024
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Jul'24
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
Financially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow
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July 22, 2024
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Jul'24
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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July 22, 2024
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Jul'24
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
Evidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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July 18, 2024
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Jul'24
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
The government referred allegations about subpostmasters’ mistreatment by the Post Office to the alleged abuser itself
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July 18, 2024
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Jul'24
Glasgow’s digital strategy highlights digital rights for citizens
The strategy aims to create organisational change, equipping Glasgow to reap the benefits of digital and protect its citizens’ rights
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July 17, 2024
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Jul'24
UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting
In the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill introduced in the King's Speech, the UK's new government pledges to give regulators more teeth to ensure compliance with security best practice and to mandate incident reporting
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July 16, 2024
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Jul'24
Fujitsu analyst gave witness statements when more qualified colleagues refused
Fujitsu employee provided witness statements to courts in cases against subpostmasters despite not understanding the evidence, after qualified IT experts refused
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July 16, 2024
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Jul'24
Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost
Cyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market
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July 16, 2024
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Jul'24
Cloud spend trumps AI but data, security and cost a common headache
Nasuni-sponsored survey finds cloud projects higher on the to do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment
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July 15, 2024
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Jul'24
DACH education ‘ready for AI’ as parents call for next phase of innovation
A rallying cry for digital intervention in the sector across the DACH region could set the tone for a continental shift towards more dynamic and intuitive learning in the years to come
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July 15, 2024
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Jul'24
Civil servant said subpostmasters’ threat of legal action was ‘sabre-rattling’
Post Office scandal public inquiry hears damning evidence capping off a bad week for the reputation of high-profile civil servants
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July 11, 2024
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Jul'24
Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future
In only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain
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July 11, 2024
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Jul'24
Inside Israel’s cyber security operations
An emergency phone line allows cyber security analysts at the Israel Computer Emergency Response Team to map threats against national infrastructure
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July 10, 2024
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Jul'24
Civil servant was lone voice on Post Office board to query legal plan that blew taxpayers' cash
Government representative felt he was 'in a minority of one' on the Post Office board of directors in questioning the handling of a High Court battle with subpostmasters that cost £100m
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July 09, 2024
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Jul'24
Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention
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July 09, 2024
09
Jul'24
Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks
China’s APT40 is ramping up targeting of victims using vulnerable small and home office networking kit as command and control infrastructure, according to an international alert
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July 09, 2024
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Jul'24
Government left monitoring of Post Office to ‘luck’
If the Post Office board failed to spot bad faith within its management, it would be down to ‘luck’ for the government to find out
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July 09, 2024
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Jul'24
Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024
Atos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship
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July 09, 2024
09
Jul'24
Room to grow in UK for Tata Consultancy Services after half a century
Indian-headquartered IT giant has built a large UK footprint as part of its global network, a commitment which is helping it increase its business in the UK’s public sector