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May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Wales gets UK’s first national SOC

The first national security operations centre of its kind in the UK has opened in the south of Wales to safeguard public sector bodies across the country Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 Opinion

Zero Trust: Unravelling the enigma and charting the future

A special interest group aims to start a long-overdue discourse on the merits, dangers, costs, and development of Zero Trust and IAM in information security Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases

Simon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability

Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 Opinion

Enhance identity controls before banning ransomware payments

In the wake of renewed calls for lawmakers to consider enacting legal bans on ransomware payments, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank weighs in to share their thoughts on how to tackle the scourge for good. Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 In Depth

Data, online delivery and the search for continual e-commerce improvement

Retailers and carriers met for the annual Delivery Conference in February, discussing how to use tech and data to drive improvements in e-commerce Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Government injects £1.8m into space tech innovation

Funding is being split between nine projects, covering a range of technologies aiming to support new space capabilities in the UK Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

We speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

In the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online Continue Reading

May 09, 2024 09May2024 News

Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 News

Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’

The Police Service of Northern Ireland ran a rolling programme to monitor phone records of journalists to identify the source of police leaks, it was claimed today Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 News

Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 News

Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage

An IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 News

Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 Blog Post

Application connectivity for the hybrid cloud: Red Hat Connectivity Link

Red Hat used its annual conference Red Hat Summit 2024 to introduce the developer preview of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi cloud application connectivity technology that is said to ... Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 Blog Post

The Untapped Potential of Liquid Cooling in Modern Data Centres

Ever since IBM sold off its x86 business to Lenovo back in 2014, I've been closely watching how the company has transitioned from arguably a commodity player to one that often innovates in ... Continue Reading

May 08, 2024 08May2024 News

Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges

A ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 Blog Post

Mamma mia, Red Hat now in tune with AI Sweden

At the risk of starting with an Alan Patridge quote. “The Swedish don’t have a bad life when you think about it,” said Partridge. “They get up in the morning, have a bowl of suede, hop into the ... Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 Opinion

Government plans to scan bank accounts of disabled people will lead to another scandal

The government is sleepwalking into another scandal as it pushes plans for ‘bank scanning’ algorithms to monitor bank accounts of disabled people Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 Opinion

Gen AI: what we know and don’t know, what excites us, what scares us

GenAI is probably the most exciting technology development since the creation of the internet but its essential businesses put in the right controls Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 Blog Post

Red Hat OpenShift AI expands predictive & generative AI

If there are three z-heavy terms that describe the current shape of functional cloud computing deployments then they might be compartmentalisation, individualisation and customisation in the face ... Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Chinese APT suspected of Ministry of Defence hack

A cyber attack on the Ministry of Defence is suspected to be the work of threat actors working on behalf of Chinese intelligence Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

NCA unmasks LockBitSupp cyber gangster who toyed with pursuers

The NCA and its partners have named the administrator of the LockBit ransomware gang, LockBitSupp, as Dmitry Khoroshev, who now faces sanctions and criminal charges Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 In Depth

What does the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill mean for UK industry?

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the first shift in the UK’s data protection regime since leaving the EU, but what could it mean for UK industry? Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 In Depth

Polar Bear Pitching: Hot mobile apps come in from the cold

Flexing its current technological muscle, the city of Oulu in Finland shows that in addition to being a hub of 5G and 6G development, it is also a hot house for mobile apps, even from a hole in the ice Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Government jumps on Wayve self-drive funding boost

DSIT says the $1bn of funding announced by UK startup Wayve shows that a pro-innovation approach to regulation works Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028 Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Gartner: Few organisations have mature AI processes

Survey results show that estimating and delivering value from AI projects are among the biggest challenges organisations face Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Versa Networks adds AI capabilities to SASE platform

Artificial intelligence and machine learning-based secure access service edge provider enhances core solution to include GenAI firewall for threat detection and data protection Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 News

Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court

A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial Continue Reading

May 07, 2024 07May2024 E-Zine

Casting a critical eye on HMRC’s IR35 checker tool

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we investigate what has been going on with HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool. We also speak to the CIO of Danfoss about making datacentres greener and explore the issue of restoring data and system ... Continue Reading

May 06, 2024 06May2024 Opinion

Embrace alternative education pathways for cyber success

Shifting focus toward passion, adaptability, and a willingness to learn can revolutionise talent acquisition, fostering a more diverse and effective cyber security force. Continue Reading

May 06, 2024 06May2024 News

Microsoft beefs up cyber initiative after hard-hitting US report

Microsoft is expanding its recently launched Secure Future Initiative in the wake of a hard-hitting US government report on recent nation state intrusions into its systems Continue Reading

May 05, 2024 05May2024 Opinion

Making end-user computing more sustainable

Identifying endpoint assets, implementing virtual desktops and using refurbished equipment are some of the ways to manage the environmental sustainability of endpoint devices Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI

Adobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned

The addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

EU calls out Fancy Bear over attacks on Czech, German governments

The European Union, alongside member states Czechia and Germany, have accused Russian government APT Fancy Bear of being behind a series of attacks on political parties and government bodies Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Openreach ups pace of copper network switch-off

UK’s largest broadband provider maintains pace of digital network transformation adding nearly 100 locations to its roster of communications exchanges that are now able to offer digital comms based on full-fibre networks Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs

Chair of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has written to the UK’s digital secretary about the government’s approach to generative AI, lamenting a lack of support for copyright holders and measures to ensure competition in AI markets Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Nokia, Infobip team to accelerate CPaaS API development

Global cloud communications platform teams with comms services provider to enable developers to build wider array of network-powered applications Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 Opinion

IT Sustainability Think Tank: How CIOs can measure their carbon emissions and energy use

CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Optimising application connections, improving security posture top SD-WAN priorities

Research looking into key drivers behind global SD-WAN investments find deployments are mainly driven by need to optimise network connections to cloud-based applications and improve overall security posture Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Post Office legal boss withheld details from statutory body reviewing miscarriages of justice

The Post Office’s top lawyer held back vital information when requested by the criminal cases review commission, preventing wrongful convictions from being reviewed Continue Reading

May 03, 2024 03May2024 News

Why IAM is central to cyber security

BeyondTrust’s chief security strategist talks up the importance of identity and access management, and the role of cyber insurance in driving security improvements Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Palo Alto Networks claims to raise bar on SASE

Palo Alto Networks releases version 3.0 of SASE tech designed to extend zero trust to unmanaged devices, secure data with artificial intelligence and boosts application performance for partners and customers Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Broadband Forum forges enhancements to 5G convergence standards

Latest 5G work by developer of broadband standards sees major enhancements building on 3GPP’s Release 18 to advance next-generation applications, network resilience and support of converged services Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Update from eSync Alliance accelerates software-defined vehicle roadmap

Trade association eSync Alliance publishes updated specification aimed at achieving further interoperability and collaboration in automotive use cases Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI

The NCSC and CISA have warned about the evolving threat from Russia-backed hacktivist threat actors targeting critical national infrastructure, after a number of American utilities were attacked Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Ukrainian national sentenced over REvil ransomware spree

A 24-year-old Ukrainian man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison after being convicted of his role in the REvil ransomware attacks Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Dropbox Sign user information accessed in data breach

Account data belonging to Dropbox Sign users was accessed by an unknown threat actor after they hacked into the organisation’s backend infrastructure Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Post Office investigators saw subpostmasters as ‘enemies’ – and that’s what they became

Post Office investigators were only focused on getting money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls, according to a 2013 report commissioned by organisation’s legal boss Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Case study: Why GenAI is taking off in local government

Councils have been doing more with less for over a decade. GenAI might just buy them a little breathing space Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

Can SAP Labs’ AI plan accelerate cloud migration?

Top notch R&D centre shows it is more than just a bunch of boffins with electric cars and robots as it opens doors to AI-curious SAP partners and customers. Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

BBC instructs lawyers over allegations of police surveillance of journalist

Lawyers for the BBC have written to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over allegations that the Police Service of Northern Ireland spied on investigative journalist Vincent Kearney Continue Reading

May 02, 2024 02May2024 News

How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks

Okta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Blog Post

Atlassian Team ‘24: AI as a teammate in the 'new compute' era

Atlassian used its Team ‘24 conference and exhibition to showcase a wide range of enhancements and extensions to its team collaboration, productivity software and service management platform. Held ... Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents

The 17th annual Verizon report on data breaches makes for sobering reading for security pros, urging them to do more to address the human factors involved in cyber incidents, and highlighting ongoing issues with zero-day patching Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Blog Post

Tabnine tables AI platform integrations at Atlassian Team ’24

Based in the Holy Land, Tabnine claims to be the originator of the AI coding assistant category. The company has now announced an expanded partnership and integration within the Atlassian platform ... Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Blog Post

Atlassian heralds ‘new era’ of Jira

Jira is entering a new era. As we know from TechTarget, Atlassian Jira is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that provides tools for bug tracking, issue tracking and project ... Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Opinion

Better hygiene may mitigate the need to ban ransomware payments

In the wake of renewed calls for lawmakers to consider enacting legal bans on ransomware payments, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank weighs in to share their thoughts on how to tackle the scourge for good. Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

Australia’s Qantas apologises for mobile app data breach

Australian flag carrier Qantas has apologised after a glitch in its mobile application temporarily enabled some customers to view the flights and booking details of other frequent fliers on two separate occasions Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

TomTom maps out support for Qualcomm IoT

Mobile platform giant to use location technology firm’s global map data to help provide asset tracking solutions to meet asset visibility needs and challenging use cases across industries Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers

Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Podcast

Podcast: 32TB HDDs by 2029, but how much bigger can they get?

We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the roadmap for conventional magnetic recording on hard disk drives, the roadmap to 32TB, and what it would take to get to 100TB or 200TB Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

Google Cloud accelerates asteroid discovery for US-based non-profit

Google Cloud opens up about the work it is doing with a US-based planetary science non-profit to help map the solar system Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Blog Post

Datacentres can play a bigger role in grid sustainability

While improvements in energy efficiency have kept electricity consumption in datacentres in check, according to the International Energy Agency, to reach net zero, emissions must halve by 2030. ... Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

Google ups investment to improve Hawaiian internet infrastructure

Hawaii receives major financial fillip from Google to develop critical internet infrastructure across the state, connecting to Japan and mainland US Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

DSIT launches SME training fund

Businesses have up until May 31st to apply for a grant covering 50% of the costs for training staff on AI Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

AWS results see public cloud giant tap into surging GenAI demand

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims AWS has turned a corner where its customers’ worries about cloud cost optimisation are concerned Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

DWP anti-fraud measures will allow monitoring of bank accounts of landlords, carers and parents

Parliamentarians raise concerns that a proposed law to require banks to monitor the accounts of millions of people receiving state benefits could lead to those on welfare being denied accommodation or bank accounts Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Opinion

Are we ready for the era of the ‘sentient’ document?

This year is set to be the automation of documents since the invention of the printing press. Content control is key Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 Podcast

AWS & GenAI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to Francessca Vasquez, vice president, professional services and GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services Continue Reading

May 01, 2024 01May2024 News

Autonomous weapons reduce moral agency and devalue human life

Military technology experts gathered in Vienna have warned about the detrimental psychological effects of AI-powered weapons, arguing that implementing systems of algorithmic-enabled killing dehumanises both the user and the target Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Persistent data breaches deny people with HIV dignity and privacy

The ICO has urged charities and healthcare organisations that work with people living with HIV to do better when it comes to protecting their personal data, after the HIV status of more than 100 people was accidentally disclosed by London’s Central ... Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Keeper to help Williams F1 keep up with cyber challenges

Keeper Security signs up to support F1 team Williams Racing with credential management ahead of the 2024 Miami Grand Prix Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Nokia and Vodafone claim successful Open RAN trial in Italy

Leading comms tech provider and operator have successfully completed an end-to-end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone network, including hybrid cloud application platform connected to dedicated 5G core Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers to containers and OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

SES agrees to acquire Intelsat

After abortive attempt a year ago, leading satellite operators present takeover deal that they say will result in creating a stronger multi-orbit operator with around 60% of revenue in high-growth segments Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 Opinion

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Calculating IT equipment capacity – the challenging path forward

CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Digitisation sees eSIM adoption double in 2023

Analysis reveals how eSIM downloads more than doubled in 2023, increasing 109% year on year, driven by accelerating adoption within North America and strong growth in Asia and Western Europe Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons

Foreign ministers and civil society representatives say that multilateralism is key to controlling the proliferation and use of AI-powered autonomous weapons, but that a small number of powerful countries are holding back progress Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Intelsat and CNH sow seeds of smart farming satellite connectivity

Firms partner to deliver field-ready connectivity in hard-to-reach locations to support precision agriculture applications, starting with deployment in Brazil Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Altnets continue full-fibre deployments in UK

UK’s independent broadband supply sector shows more momentum in the north and south of England, and also in Northern Ireland, tailoring cable offerings for different needs Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Barnsley Council drives social care efficiency with Copilot

Microsoft generative AI tool Copilot is being used to streamline many of the admin tasks Barnsley Council social care workers need to do Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates

Australian startup offers single namespace file and object storage with rapid access via a metadata database that puts the right data in the right place according to recent use Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 E-Zine

What’s it like being the IT chief at Man Utd?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we speak to the chief digital information officer at Manchester United Football Club to discuss the IT that keeps a premiership team running. We also investigate how well prepared the UK is for major semiconductor ... Continue Reading

April 30, 2024 30Apr2024 News

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