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• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Kyndryl kindles cyber incident recovery pact with Dell

  IBM spin-out Kyndryl hops into bed with Dell Technologies in a joint cyber resilience proposition

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Multi-ERP systems are on the menu for SAP implementations

  Organisations using SAP may build future ERP systems from composable building blocks from multiple software providers

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Zhadnost DDoS botnet deployed against Finland

  A coordinated DDoS attack hit two government ministries in Finland at the same time as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a virtual address to the Finnish parliament

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Incontroller ICS malware has ‘rare, dangerous’ capabilities, says Mandiant

  Mandiant joins a growing chorus of warnings over novel nation state threats to ICS systems

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources

  Campaign group Liberty to launch legal appeal that will call for journalists to receive stronger legal protections from state surveillance

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Hybrid work catching on in India

  More tech workers in India now enjoy flexi-work arrangements and higher salaries, but talent retention remains an issue in the subcontinent, study finds

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  WatchGuard firewall users urged to patch Cyclops Blink vulnerability

  The US authorities have seen fit to add the WatchGuard vulnerability used by Sandworm to build the Cyclops Blink botnet to its list of must-patch vulnerabilities

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  News UK hires former Discovery Inc tech head as new CTO

  Simon Farnsworth, who previous worked as chief technology officer at Discovery Inc, is now driving News UK's tech strategy

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Microsoft patches two zero-days, 10 critical bugs

  Patch Tuesday is here once again. This month, security teams must fix two privilege escalation zero-days in the Windows Common Log File System Driver and the Windows User Profile Service

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Criminals researched hacking TTPs post-breach in ‘messy’ cyber attack

  Sophos shares details of a cyber attack that saw attackers hang out in their victim environment for five months while they prepared to sow further mischief

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Executive interview: How Audi provides developer self-service

  Audi is transforming IT in line with digitisation across the VW Group. We look at how Audi’s IT architecture is supporting developers

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  More ANZ organisations warm to DevSecOps

  About four in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand are undertaking the transition to development, security and operations, while a further 36% plan to do so in 2022, study finds

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Scotland 5G Centre issues call to business for improved healthcare delivery

  S5GC launches innovation challenge to use advanced connectivity to transform and improve healthcare delivery in Scotland, with three shortlisted projects to receive access to a private 5G testbed

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Universal IAM policy failings put cloud environments at risk

  Almost all organisations lack appropriate IAM policy controls to effectively secure their data in the cloud, according to a damning study

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Multiple arrests made in RaidForums takedown

  A Portuguese national and a 21-year-old man from Croydon are among a number of individuals arrested ahead of the closure of RaidForums by police

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  PassiveLogic to get more active in smart building tech with $15m funding

  Global alternative asset manager partners with provider of autonomous building systems and foundation technology for smart cities to bring the first general-purpose autonomous platform to the building market

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Sandworm rolls out Industroyer2 malware against Ukraine

  A second generation of the Sandworm-linked Industroyer malware has been identified by ESET researchers and Ukraine’s national CERT

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  The metaverse: A virtual reality check

  The so-called metaverse is years away, but many businesses are keen to ride the industry hype in a bid to benefit from first-mover advantage

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  AI researcher says police tech suppliers are hostile to transparency

  Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee’s findings but questions whether its recommendations on how to end the ‘Wild West’ of police artificial intelligence and algorithmic technologies in the UK would be implemented

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  UK altnet demands regulatory probe into broadband mid-contract price hikes

  UK full-fibre broadband provider ‘startled’ to see majority of broadband customers are unaware of being locked into large-scale price rises

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Border IT system fixed after 10-day outage

  Post-Brexit border IT system failure fixed after going down at the start of April, allowing traders to once again file customs documents electronically rather than by hand

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Open source CMS platform Directus patches XSS bug

  A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Directus platform could have enabled malicious actors to gain access to valuable data

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Mastercard opens European tech hub in Dublin

  Mastercard is doubling its technology workforce in Dublin through a new European tech hub in the Irish capital

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Raspberry Pi Foundation ditches default username policy

  Raspberry Pi owners will no longer be able to use the default ‘pi’ username, as the Raspberry Pi Foundation clamps down on insecure practices

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Nordic countries discuss joint cyber defence capability

  Nordic countries are in talks to increase their cyber defences in the face of the threat from Russia

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  EncroChat: France says ‘defence secrecy’ in police surveillance operations is constitutional

  Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional. Defence lawyers now head for the supreme court

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Ukrainian cyber criminal gets five years in jail

  A US court has sentenced Denys Iarmak, who worked as a penetration tester for the FIN7 cyber crime group, to a five-year prison sentence

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Was Spring4Shell a lot of hot air? No, but...

  Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  IT contractors warned as HMRC draws on ‘IR35-adjacent’ legislation in tax avoidance clampdown

  IT contractors are being urged to take action now, as details emerge about how HM Revenue & Customs is drawing on some IR35-adjacent legislation to send out five-figure tax bills to individuals who engage with contractor-focused accountants

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app

  AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Goldacre review outlines recommendations on safer use of health data

  The findings of an investigation into use of health data for research and analysis includes a number of proposals to improve innovation in the NHS

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  US shuts down Russia’s Cyclops Blink botnet operation

  Operation by US authorities has taken the Russia-attributed Cyclops Blink botnet ‘off the board’

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Banks should be able to integrate e-krona into existing systems, says Swedish regulator

  Swedish financial services regulator says banks and service providers should be able to integrate a potential digital currency into existing systems

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  APAC organisations to spend more on AI

  The higher investments in AI will be led by the region’s banking industry which is harnessing AI systems to mitigate risks and detect fraud

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Apple criticised over unpatched CVEs in Catalina, Big Sur

  Apple patched two zero-days in macOS Monterey last week, but did not address the same issue in Catalina or Big Sur, raising questions

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Siemens looks at quantum computing to accelerate simulations

  Using quantum computing to solve complex non-linear differential equations offers a way to speed up digital-twin simulations

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda

  The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Hydra takedown merely shifts cyber criminal problem elsewhere

  The seizure of the Hydra dark web marketplace is a positive development in the fight against cyber crime, but will only be a temporary setback for determined criminals

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  IR35 reforms: Private sector warned HMRC's 12-month 'light-touch' enforcement period is ending

  HMRC confirmed, in the lead up to the IR35 reforms coming into force in the private sector in April 2021, that it would be taking a ‘light-touch’ approach to enforcing the rules for 12 months. And that grace period ends today

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Structured decentralisation is the key to unlocking Nordic-level innovation

  Finnish tech entrepreneurs will be taking the stage at the World Economic Forum to tell the world about the role of trust in Finnish startup success

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Secrecy over police EncroChat hacking is unconstitutional, defence lawyers tell top French court

  France’s constitutional court, the Conseil Constitutionnel, has heard arguments that the use of ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about police surveillance operations breaches the French constitution

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Discount retailer The Works hit by cyber attack

  A small number of The Works’ bricks-and-mortar stores were forced to close amid a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Triple-threat Borat malware no joke for victims

  Unlike its namesake, the newly discovered Borat malware won’t raise a smile for IT security pros

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Zopa bank profitable after just 21 months

  The bank that emerged from peer-to-peer lending pioneer has hit its first profit after 21 months of operation

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Saudi Arabian ICT sector hits $32.1bn after strong pandemic response

  The Saudi Arabian IT and communications sector is recovering strongly from the Covid-19 pandemic

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  IBM z16 tackles financial fraud and quantum hacks

  New addition to Z series mainframe family uses IBM Telum processor to accelerate AI for real-time credit card fraud detection

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Office Wi-Fi may not cope with hybrid work

  Continued growth of online meetings is triggering disruption across the employee productivity technology market, research from CCS Insight has found

• April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22

  Fujitsu bags £430m government contracts despite rising cost of Post Office Horizon scandal

  Fujitsu has won two huge government IT contracts, worth over £400m, while taxpayers face footing the massive bill for the Post Office scandal caused by its software

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Two teenagers charged with Lapsus$ cyber attacks

  City of London Police have charged two teenagers in connection with the Lapsus$ cyber crime spree

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  Four moves to ‘checkmate’ critical assets thanks to lax cloud security

  Malicious actors can compromise 94% of critical assets within four steps of the initial breach point, according to a report