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• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence

  CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress scheme

  Redress claim on ‘pause’ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers

  Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap

  Boards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Half of Google’s software development now AI-generated

  In a bid to free up budget to spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure, Google parent Alphabet is using AI to improve operational efficiency

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  SolarWinds RCE bug makes Cisa list as exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of CVE-2025-40551, an RCE flaw affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, appears to be spreading, with defenders on high alert

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  UK government must get its hands dirty on security, report says

  As the UK government develops its National Cyber Action Plan, a report from the Rusi think tank urges Westminster to take a more interventionist approach

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Ransomware gangs focus on winning hearts and minds

  Ransomware-as-a-service operations are increasingly seeking to forge connections with employees, contractors and trusted partners of their target organisations as an alternative to straight-up hacking, says NCC

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  CGI’s artificial intelligence boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

  IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Banks on the hook for £173m in APP fraud reimbursement

  Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

  As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

  Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

  Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  RAMP ransomware forum goes dark in probable FBI sting

  RAMP, an infamous Russian-speaking cyber crime forum, has gone off the air after an apparent US operation

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Security now one of the UK’s fastest-growing career paths

  The number of people working in the cyber security field has almost trebled in the 2020s, with one cyber professional for every 68 businesses in the UK

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible

  The Financial Conduct Authority will consider the impact of emerging artificial intelligence adoption in the financial services sector

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI

  Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Wave of ShinyHunters vishing attacks spreading fast

  The ShinyHunters hacking collective that caused chaos in 2025 is ramping up a new voice phishing campaign, with several potential victims already identified

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters

  The DWP’s promised review of subpostmaster prosecutions doesn’t satisfy the demands of politicians and campaigners

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift

  A coding error in an emergent strain of ransomware leaves victims unable to recover their data, even if they cooperate with the hackers’ demands

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins

  The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used

• January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26

  US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September

  US lawmakers have extended the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 for another nine months, buying time to enact a replacement for the legislation.

• January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26

  Singapore debuts world’s first governance framework for agentic AI

  The Infocomm Media Development Authority has released a guide to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence agents safely and address specific risks such as unauthorised actions and automation bias

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  JPMorgan CEO urges slowdown of AI roll-out to ‘save society’

  The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence will prompt ‘civil unrest’ if governments and companies fail to protect workers from its displacing effects, says JPMorgan boss

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  DWP review of Post Office worker prosecutions yet to start, months after announcement

  The DWP said in August that it would carry out an independent review of prosecutions of subpostmasters, but it has yet to appoint a reviewer

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Sportswear firm Under Armour falls victim to data breach

  Details of over 70 million customers of US sportswear giant Under Armour were leaked following a supposed ransomware attack by the Everest gang

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  UK and China reach out across cyber no-man's land

  London and Beijing have supposedly conducted high-level talks seeking to establish a joint security forum to help de-escalate potential cyber flashpoints, according to reports

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  UK government appoints banking tech bosses as AI champions

  Appointment of artificial intelligence champions from banking sector comes as MPs make stern warning about AI risks in financial services

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  E& enterprise brings agentic AI to MENAT

  A strategic partnership introduces autonomous, governance-by-design artificial intelligence as enterprises in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey move from experimentation to real-world impact

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  AI slop pushes data governance towards zero-trust models

  Organisations are implementing zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  UK public sector, CNI in Russian hacktivist crosshairs

  Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Met claims success for permanent facial recognition in Croydon

  Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s ...

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Lloyds Bank to train all staff on artificial intelligence

  UK high street bank is already training senior staff to get the most out of artificial intelligence

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UK financial regulators exposing public to ‘potential serious harm’ due to AI positions

  MPs warn that action is needed to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted safely in the finance sector as companies capitalise on its opportunities

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI

  As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

  Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content

• January 18, 2026 18 Jan'26

  APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026

  Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of APAC organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  PSNI resorted to pen and paper after issues with ControlWorks command and control software

  Northern Ireland’s Policing Board has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland for clarification after it emerged the PSNI has not reported IT issues that affected its ability to record reports from the public to the oversight body

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  Cyber body ISC2 signs on as UK software security ambassador

  Professional cyber association ISC2 pledges support to UK government’s Software Security Ambassador scheme, part of the recently unveiled Cyber Action Plan

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  Zoho opens its first UAE datacentres to boost cloud adoption

  New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services

• January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  Microsoft DCU uses UK courts to hunt down cyber criminals

  Microsoft has taken down the RedDVS cyber crime-as-a-service network after obtaining a UK court order, marking its first civil legal action outside of the US

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026

  January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  ‘Dual-channel’ attacks are the new face of BEC in 2026

  Business email compromise remains a significant threat as cyber fraudsters deploy a more diverse range of tactics against their potential victims, according to a report

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

  Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Post Office scandal’s oldest victim calls for total ban on Fujitsu

  Betty Brown wants the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal banned from all government contracts

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  UK open banking is eight years old and ready to grow into the wider economy

  The next phase of open banking will have a greater impact as it morphs into cross-sector open finance

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  How one IT chief shifted the needle on a reactive IT strategy

  In spite of headlines that suggest every business should be ploughing vast sums of money into tech innovation, the reality remains that IT plays a supporting role for most firms

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  AI to handle four in 10 customer queries in Singapore by 2027

  As companies turn to AI agents to solve manpower constraints, more than nine in 10 APAC consumers say they want clear explanations for AI-driven decisions