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• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Cisco snaps up Splunk in $28bn application observability deal

  The acquisition builds out Cisco’s observability portfolio, with AI-based full-stack observability for hybrid cloud environments

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing

  An accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  GitHub fixes race condition that could have led to ‘repojacking’

  A subtle flaw in how GitHub handled repository creation and user renaming could have had serious consequences for the open source community, but has now been fixed. Learn more about how it worked

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  Cisco tightens link between observability and security

  The company's observability platform now offers a way for IT decision-makers to understand the impact of security issues

• September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

  Salesforce and Zoom embrace ethical hackers. You should, too

  Software companies Salesforce and Zoom discuss their successful bug bounty programmes, what they learned at a recent in-person hackathon in which they participated, and why others shouldn’t be scared of hackers

• September 08, 2023 08 Sep'23

  Executive interview: Richard Moulds, Amazon Braket

  We speak to Richard Moulds, who heads up the company’s Braket quantum computing services, about how the technology is progressing

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Duplicate waypoints root cause of Nats subsystem failover

  Processing of waypoints that determine when a flight enters and leaves UK airspace caused the air traffic system to report a critical error

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders

  BMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  Saudi Arabian fintech gets Mastercard boost

  Saudi-based fintechs could soon benefit from Mastercard's extensive payments network

• September 06, 2023 06 Sep'23

  CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, Adobe

  Adobe's IT chief is looking to build on its cloud migration with widespread adoption of AI, machine learning and robotic process automation – as well as low-code/no-code software development tools

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform

  WithSecure’s research team uncovered an authentication flaw in an application security platform developed by Mend.io, which has now been fixed

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  NCSC warns over possible AI prompt injection attacks

  The UK’s NCSC says it sees alarming potential for so-called prompt injection attacks driven by the large language models that power AI chatbots

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  July sees huge jump in open banking payments

  The number of open banking payments in the UK have doubled over the past year, according to latest figures

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Zurich Insurance slashes ServiceNow application development time

  Insurance giant cuts time it takes to complete development of ServiceNow applications by days

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers

• August 29, 2023 29 Aug'23

  Nats resorts to fail-safe manual process after technical hitch

  Just a few hours of manual processing has resulted in a massive backlog in flights

• August 23, 2023 23 Aug'23

  Six subpostmaster appeals to be heard in Scottish court

  Scottish court will hear appeals against the convictions of six former subpostmasters based on evidence from a Post Office computer system

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  IBM uses generative AI to modernise mainframe Cobol

  In combination with code discovery, IBM plans to offer artificial intelligence-based Cobol to Java application modernisation

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle

  Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• August 17, 2023 17 Aug'23

  MP calls for review of computer evidence rule which led to subpostmasters being wrongly convicted

  MP writes to minister in charge of courts requesting he looks at the controversial rules on the use of computer evidence in court

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  TSB and Fintech Scotland lab open for applications

  High street bank opens applications to its latest fintech programme in partnership with Fintech Scotland

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says

  Two years and three months after Joe Biden mandated new standards in supply chain security, over 40% of UK respondents to a survey say they have implemented new SBOM policies in direct response

• 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 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 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 07, 2023 07 Jul'23

  TTTech Auto, ZettaScale extend collaboration to launch in-vehicle, V2X service

  Collaboration looks to bring about what software-defined vehicle technology provider and open-source communication middleware firms say is a much-needed unification across the cloud-to-microcontroller communication continuum

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  Public inquiry hears how Post Office security withheld evidence from people it suspected of theft

  The Post Office told investigators to include potential evidence in reports to their own lawyers, but not the subpostmasters they suspected of theft

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  PAC slams HMCTS justice system transformation programme

  HMCTS has consistently underestimated the scale and complexity of the reforms, and criticises the programme, which only has £120m of its £1.3bn budget left with only just over half of projects completed, MPs say

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Brits are using healthcare apps without proper checks

  As mobile health app acceptance increases, people are taking risks by using them without any advice from their medical professionals, finds survey

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023

  Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive

  The energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge

  Fastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals

• 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 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  Ada Lovelace Institute warns against Covid app reuse

  There are a number of lessons policy-makers should take away from the use of apps developed as part of the Covid-19 response

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  UK has time limit on ensuring cryptocurrency regulatory leadership, says Parliamentary report

  Parliamentary report makes 53 recommendations to the government's plans to regulate cryptocurrency

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank adds more than a million customers in a year

  The app-based bank launched in the UK by US giant JPMorgan has added one million customers in the past 12 months

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Post Office scandal – cover-up a ‘dark chapter’ in government, corporate and legal history

  Third phase of public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal reveals extent of Post Office and Fujitsu cover-up of software problems that went on to write ‘as dark a chapter in our governmental, corporate and legal history as can be imagined’

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government

  The Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  How Rolls-Royce uses citizen developers

  The engineering company is using Microsoft Power Apps to democratise digitisation

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  Post Office executive told to report false bill of health on controversial software

  A 2010 Post Office internal review of the Horizon software was designed to ignore the system’s problems to reassure stakeholders amid questioning of its reliability

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

  A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Software development

  Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Banks don’t want to develop fintech in-house

  Banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs to gain access to their platforms, with few interested in developing such capabilities in-house

• April 13, 2023 13 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

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Deutsche Bank to close Russian software operations

  German bank has been winding down its Russia-based software development operations and is close to shutting them down