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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
CyberUK 23: Irresponsible use of commercial hacking tools a rising threat
Commercial cyber tools and hackers-for-hire pose a growing threat to organisations and individuals worldwide, according to an NCSC report
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
TUC says government is failing to protect workers from AI harms
TUC issues warning about artificial intelligence leading to more widespread workplace discrimination if the right checks are not put in place
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
UK plc sees fewer cyber breaches and attacks, but lacks resilience
Latest government figures reveal UK businesses and charities reported lower volumes of cyber breaches and attacks over the past 12 months, but the statistics mask widespread underreporting and the true state of cyber readiness and resilience appears...
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
Surrey and Sussex police spared fines after recording 200,000 phone calls without people’s knowledge
Police forces escape potential £1m fines following change of policy by ICO to protect the finances of public sector bodies
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
IT Priorities 2023: Budget optimism among EMEA IT leaders
IT leaders across the EMEA region are optimistic that their budgets will increase over the coming year
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
CyberUK 23: NCSC launches Cyber Advisor service for SMEs
The UK’s NCSC has launched an industry assurance scheme designed to address the needs of SMEs, and is calling for potential advisors to step up and help out
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April 19, 2023
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CyberUK 23: NCSC CEO calls for collaboration and warns against complacency
NCSC boss Lindy Cameron kicked off the annual CyberUK conference in Belfast with a plea for collaboration and a warning against complacency
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
Cisco urges users to keep its network hardware up-to-date
In the wake of a campaign of threat activity targeting a six-year-old Cisco router vulnerability, the networking giant has warned users to be on high alert and update their hardware
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April 19, 2023
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Apr'23
CyberUK 23: Alert over mercenary Russian threat to CNI
Russian hacktivists supportive of their government’s war on Ukraine are turning their attention to disruptive or destructive attacks on critical infrastructure in the UK, the NCSC has warned
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
Reduced spending on cloud services weighs European IT services market down
Reduced spending on cloud services in the EMEA region meant a year-on-year drop in total IT and BPO services spend
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
CyberUK 23: NCSC conference centres cyber collaboration
The NCSC’s annual CyberUK conference gets underway in Belfast this week, with collaboration and cooperation high on the agenda
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
Tech companies and NGOs urge rewrite of Online Safety Bill to protect encrypted comms
The Online Safety Bill faces amendments in the House of Lords amid concerns that it could weaken the security of end-to-end encrypted communications for UK citizens
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security
Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report
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April 18, 2023
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Apr'23
UK presses on with post-Brexit data protection reform
The revised version of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has had its second reading in Parliament as the government presses on with post-Brexit changes, but critics remain sceptical that the EU will be convinced to maintain the UK's ...
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April 17, 2023
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Apr'23
Restaurants hit by IT problems after BlackCat attack on supplier NCR
Ransomware attack on systems of payments giant causing service outages for restaurants around the world
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April 17, 2023
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Apr'23
Charity data stolen in ransomware attack on supplier
A number of charities in Ireland and the UK have had their data compromised following a ransomware attack on an IT supplier
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April 17, 2023
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Apr'23
Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia
New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022
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April 14, 2023
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Apr'23
Global spending on IT and BPO down as cloud deals slow
Spending on IT and BPO services drops as demand for cloud services slows
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
Thousands at risk from critical RCE bug in legacy MS service
Thousands of organisations worldwide are at risk from three vulnerabilities – one critical – in a legacy Microsoft service that they may not be aware they are running
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
UK joins key allies to launch secure-by-design guidelines
The UK has joined international partners in sharing new advice to help technology companies embed security into the product design and development process
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
Three charged over banking fraud for hire website
UK authorities have charged three men in connection with the operation of a website that sold social engineering tools to cyber fraudsters
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
Italy to lift ChatGPT ban subject to new data protection controls
Italian regulator will lift its ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT subject to a strict new data protection regime
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
AstraZeneca launches African healthtech hub
AstraZeneca has launched its latest healthcare innovation hub, which will focus on using digital technology to improve healthcare in Africa
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse
Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services
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April 13, 2023
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Apr'23
ICO responds to UK government AI regulation plans
The ICO has officially responded to the government’s plans for regulating artificial intelligence as outlined in its recent whitepaper, but called for clarity on certain aspects before the proposals are taken further
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April 12, 2023
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Apr'23
UK police double down on ‘improved’ facial recognition
The Met and South Wales Police have doubled down on their use of facial recognition technology after research found improved accuracy in their algorithms when using certain settings, but civil society groups maintain that the tech will still be used...
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April 12, 2023
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Apr'23
April Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used to deliver ransomware
A zero-day in the Microsoft Common Log File System that has been abused by the operator of the Nokoyawa ransomware is among 97 vulnerabilities fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday update
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April 12, 2023
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Apr'23
Gartner: Rebalance cyber investment towards human-centric elements
Security decision-makers need to reprioritise their investment outlooks towards people, rather than technology, according to the latest market forecast from Gartner
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April 12, 2023
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Apr'23
Bank of England starts recruiting Britcoin team
The Bank of England is recruiting people to join its team focused on the development of a digital pound
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
NatWest supports tech training for displaced Ukrainian women
NatWest bank joins scheme to give tech training to displaced Ukrainian women in Scotland
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
Anne Keast-Butler named as new director of GCHQ
The government has appointed current MI5 deputy director general Anne Keast-Butler to head signals and cyber agency GCHQ
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April 11, 2023
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Apr'23
KFC, Pizza Hut data stolen in January ransomware attack
Yum!, the parent organisation behind KFC and Pizza Hut in the UK, has disclosed that employee data was accessed and exfiltrated in a January 2023 ransomware attack
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
IBM's Nataraj Nagaratnam on the cyber challenges facing cloud services
Governments are introducing increasingly prescriptive data protection policies, but with organisations becoming ever more reliant on multiple cloud service platforms for essential business needs, how can they ensure they meet regulatory requirements?
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
Prioritise automated hardening over traditional cyber controls, says report
A report from strategic risk specialist Marsh McLennan advises security buyers to funnel their budgets towards automated cyber security hardening techniques, saying they have a much better chance of reducing risk in a meaningful way
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
Clop ransomware booms in March as Fortra zero-day pays off for gang
Backed by the threat actor tracked variously as Gold Tahoe and TA505, the Clop ransomware operation hit new ‘heights’ of activity last month, according to researchers
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April 06, 2023
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Apr'23
CCRC says ‘door open’ for more reviews of subpostmaster convictions
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told former Post Office workers the door is still open for them to come forward if they were prosecuted for financial crimes based on evidence from Horizon software
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
Quick-acting Rorschach ransomware appears out of nowhere
Emergent Rorschach ransomware strain is highly advanced and quite unusual in its capabilities, warn researchers, who say they have been unable to link it to any other known strains
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
Cops bust Genesis cyber crime marketplace
Multinational Operation Cookie Monster takes down Genesis Market, a crucial source of compromised data used by criminals for fraud and other cyber attacks
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
Italy’s ChatGPT ban: Sober precaution or chilling overreaction?
Italy’s data protection authority issued a temporary ban on ChatGPT citing data protection concerns and alleged breaches of the GDPR. Is this a reasonable precaution, or a chilling restriction on personal freedoms?
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
Scottish police tech piloted despite major data protection issues
Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
CGI signs up to prison leaver employment initiative
IT supplier is working with training company specialised in helping prison leavers to find recruitment in the tech sector
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
Developers say Apple and Google are running app store monopolies
Coalition for App Fairness and its members speak to Computer Weekly about alleged anti-competitive practices of Apple and Google in their respective app stores, and call for urgent regulatory action to level the playing field
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April 04, 2023
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Apr'23
TikTok fined in UK over unlawful use of children’s data
The ICO has fined TikTok £12.7m for breaches of data protection law, including unlawfully collecting data on children under 13
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April 04, 2023
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Apr'23
Threat researchers dissect anatomy of a Royal ransomware attack
Trellix researchers share the inside track on a Royal ransomware attack that hit one of its customers in late 2022
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April 04, 2023
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Apr'23
Over 90% of organisations find threat hunting a challenge
Understaffed security teams and high levels of background noise are making basic security operations tasks a chore for defenders, according to a report
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April 03, 2023
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Apr'23
Lloyds and NatWest banks join Barclays in latest round of branch closures
Lloyds and NatWest banks announce more branch closures as UK high streets continue to be stripped of banking services
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April 03, 2023
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Apr'23
Better SME connectivity could contribute more than £5bn a year to local economies
Operator research finds almost two-thirds of small to medium-sized enterprises in UK’s second city reveal their business could grow faster if they had access to better tech
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April 03, 2023
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Apr'23
Three-day Capita outage was result of cyber attack
Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed a major outage which began on 31 March was the result of a cyber attack affecting its Office 365 apps
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April 03, 2023
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Apr'23
CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato
Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business
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March 31, 2023
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Mar'23
Mounting Russian disinformation campaign targeting Arab world
Researchers have found evidence of a broad Russian disinformation campaign targeting Arabic-speakers in the Middle East and North Africa