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• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Latest LockBit ransomware versions have wormable capabilities

  Sophos researchers have reverse-engineered the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware, shedding new light on its evolving capabilities and firming up links with BlackMatter

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  NIS regulations to be extended to cover MSPs

  The UK government is moving ahead with plans to update the Network and Information Systems regulations to bring outsourcers and MSPs into scope

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Scotland launches national digital platform for health and care

  The online platform aims to give people access to their health and social care data, as well as provide staff with access to data to inform decisions about care

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  ‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill

  Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  How MongoDB is driving growth in ANZ

  MongoDB, which counts the likes of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as clients, has been driving skills development and investing in local manpower in Australia and New Zealand

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS eyes mission-critical workloads in ASEAN

  Cloud giant AWS is eyeing more business from mission-critical workloads and the financial services industry in Southeast Asia as it readies itself for the next phase of growth

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 27, 2022 27 Nov'22

  Plexal inducts six into cyber leadership scheme

  Tech innovation hub Plexal is expanding its Cyber Runway programme with a new Ignite strand dedicated to supporting high-potential security leaders

• November 26, 2022 26 Nov'22

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility

  More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Getting data analytics right

  Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  South Korea data adequacy pact brings £15m Brexit bonus

  UK government finalises a data adequacy agreement with South Korea, saying it will unlock a post-Brexit business bonus of just under £15m

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Red team tool developer slams ‘irresponsible’ disclosure

  UK security firm MDSec defends its Nighthawk command and control penetration testing framework after suggestions were made that it could be appropriated by threat actors

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Killnet DDoS hacktivists target Royal Family and others

  Russia-aligned hacktivists targeted multiple UK websites, including those of the Royal Family, in a new campaign of DDoS attacks

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Bug Bounty Calculator helps organisations fine-tune their payouts

  Newly launched comparison tool will supposedly help operators of vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty programmes to ensure their payments match market rates and expectations, and attract the right sort of attention

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Genome lab puts Vast Data’s rapid I/O to work on patient data

  French government-backed SeqOIA ditched its Lustre-based storage after it reached performance limits and files got corrupted. That got fixed by a Vast Data QLC flash-based array

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  AI adopted without due consideration for workers, MPs told

  MPs have been warned that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence in workplaces has changed UK enterprises’ management practices so much that current employment law is no longer fit for purpose

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Is Elon Musk’s Twitter safe, and should you stop using it?

  With a litany of security and compliance issues exposed and in many cases caused by Elon Musk’s takeover of social media platform Twitter, some may be asking if it’s still safe or appropriate to use

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  New gold standard to protect good faith hackers

  HackerOne’s new Gold Standard Safe Harbour statement will supposedly act as a guarantee for good faith hacking

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  CyberPeace Institute helps NGOs improve their security resilience

  Adrien Ogée of the CyberPeace Institute talks about his work supporting NGOs and humanitarian organisations, and how the security community at large can help protect the world’s most vulnerable people

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Brexit deregulation will make UK next Silicon Valley, vows Hunt

  Chancellor vows to revolutionise how the IT industry is regulated to spur competition, investment and innovation in a technological ‘Big Bang’

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Virgin Media Business Wholesale launches new National High Capacity Services core network

  Enhanced high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency core platform launched for National High Capacity Services network to enable simpler, faster delivery of services and improve customer experience

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Another Log4Shell warning after Iranian attack on US government

  The breach of a US federal body by an Iranian threat actor exploiting the Adobe Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability has prompted a fresh flurry of patching

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’

  Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Agility, business more important than cost, network management for IT teams

  Cisco report finds new rules applying in a multicloud world, with IT decision-makers regarding security as the top networking challenge when managing distributed and hybrid workloads

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Global network fragmentation a source of increasing risk

  Risk consultancy’s report says the weaponisation of cyber space and geopolitical clashes herald a breakdown of global networks into distinct regional or national architectures

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Commoditisation of NHS tech is a problem, says NHS Digital interim CEO

  NHS Digital interim CEO Simon Bolton calls for a stronger mandate from the centre around the systems in use in the NHS, with no more than four to six electronic patient record systems used across the country

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  A modern approach to enterprise software development

  Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  APP fraud volumes expected to double by 2026, says report

  Losses to authorised push payment fraud in the UK are expected to climb to over $1.5bn in the next four years. Meanwhile, the NAO accuses the Home Office of lagging on progress to tackle the issue

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

  Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

  Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board

  Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Online scam victims lose an average of £1,000 each

  New data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows victims of online fraud lose an average of £1,000 per person

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Volume of self-reported breaches to ICO jumps 30%

  The number of self-reported breaches to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office soared by nearly 30% in the 12 months to 30 June 2022

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  MoD recruits Immersive Labs to bolster cyber resilience

  UK’s Ministry of Defence will run cyber drills and address its security talent gap with Immersive Labs’ CyberPro, Cyber Crisis Simulator and Application Security products

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Lenovo bolsters services play with PCCW Solutions

  Lenovo’s acquisition of PCCW Solutions brings sought-after capabilities in hybrid cloud and application modernisation as it expands its services footprint in Asia

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals have World Cup Qatar 2022 in their sights

  Volumes of malicious cyber activity around the upcoming FIFA World Cup are already starting to tick upwards and are likely to continue to do so

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Loan charge contractors hit with fresh loan repayment request from new firm

  IT contractors who participated in loan-based remuneration schemes and were previously pursued to repay loans issued to them by a company called Felicitas Solutions are now being chased for payment by a new entity

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  UK’s National Cyber Advisory Board convenes for first time

  Government convenes National Cyber Advisory Board to further its goals of making the UK one of the safest places to live and work online

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Microsoft serves smorgasbord of six zero-days

  November’s Patch Tuesday fixes significantly fewer vulnerabilities of late, but includes six actively-exploited zero-days, three of them of critical severity

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  How organisations can right-size their data footprint

  More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  UK climate tech startup investment doubles in 2022

  Climate technology investment has nearly doubled in the UK over the past year and is growing globally, but questions remain over how to scale capacity and whether the necessary change will occur in time to prevent climate catastrophe

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Public sector IT projects need ethical data practices from start

  Data ethics needs to be integrated into public sector IT projects from the very start, and considered throughout every stage of the process, to be effective

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Summit majors on ethics in data use, demonstrates diversity

  The Data Lab’s Data Summit majored on the ethical use of data, and featured Scottish government minister Tom Arthur, science broadcaster Hannah Fry, and Nasa chief science data officer Kevin Murphy

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Microsoft: Nation-state cyber attacks became increasingly destructive in 2022

  The willingness of nation-state actors to conduct destructive cyber attacks is a source of grave concern, as Microsoft’s latest annual Digital Defence Report lays bare

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Lab bolsters business execs data course in time with Data Summit

  Course focuses on the leadership skills needed to design, resource and implement a data strategy that will enable organisational change

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine

  Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Automated threats biggest source of cyber risk for retailers

  Threat actors targeting retailers during the coming holiday season are increasingly turning to automated forms of cyber attack, according to a report

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Global coalition reaffirms commitment to fight ransomware

  Representatives of 36 countries, as well as the EU, attended the second International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit in Washington DC

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Why technology change is slow at larger firms

  Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say