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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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April 05, 2022
05
Apr'22
Saudi Arabian ICT sector hits $32.1bn after strong pandemic response
The Saudi Arabian IT and communications sector is recovering strongly from the Covid-19 pandemic
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April 04, 2022
04
Apr'22
Office Wi-Fi may not cope with hybrid work
Continued growth of online meetings is triggering disruption across the employee productivity technology market, research from CCS Insight has found
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April 01, 2022
01
Apr'22
Four moves to ‘checkmate’ critical assets thanks to lax cloud security
Malicious actors can compromise 94% of critical assets within four steps of the initial breach point, according to a report
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April 01, 2022
01
Apr'22
Apple drops emergency patches for two zero-days
Apple has fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities that appear to have been actively exploited in the wild
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March 31, 2022
31
Mar'22
EU Act ‘must empower those affected by AI systems to take action’
Ada Lovelace Institute publishes recommendations on how European institutions can improve the Artificial Intelligence Act by establishing a ‘comprehensive remedies framework’ around those affected by the deployment of AI systems
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March 31, 2022
31
Mar'22
Global upheaval shows cyber security isn’t good enough, says GCHQ director
Generational global upheaval has laid bare significant gaps in national cyber strategies, GCHQ chief Jeremy Fleming has said in a speech
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March 31, 2022
31
Mar'22
Lapsus$ cyber crime spree continues despite arrests
The arrests of seven people in connection with the Lapsus$ cyber crime group has not dented the gang’s enthusiasm for causing chaos
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March 31, 2022
31
Mar'22
Spring4Shell zero-day sprung on security teams
Some are describing a newly disclosed Spring Java framework vulnerability as the next Log4Shell, but what is Spring4Shell, and what can we do about it?
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March 31, 2022
31
Mar'22
BCS Pride group calls for end to transphobia in tech
The BCS has called for an end to transphobic abuse and harassment in the technology industry
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March 30, 2022
30
Mar'22
One-third of UK firms suffer a cyber attack every week
New statistics from the annual DCMS Cyber security breaches survey reveal the extent and frequency with which UK organisations are being attacked by malicious actors
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March 30, 2022
30
Mar'22
CIO interview: Spencer Clarkson, CTO, Verastar
Digital transformation and unifying customer relationship management systems are driving the business services group forward
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March 30, 2022
30
Mar'22
Executive interview: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO, Nutanix
We speak to the CEO of Nutanix about growing up in India, the switch from engineering to business leader, and mentoring
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March 29, 2022
29
Mar'22
NCSC: Not necessarily wise to ditch Kaspersky
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre issues refreshed guidance on organisations’ usage of technology and services of Russian origin, but stops short of advising users to expunge all Russian products from their IT estates
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March 29, 2022
29
Mar'22
Wave of Log4j-linked attacks targeting VMware Horizon
Sophos issues a new warning to organisations that have so far failed to patch their VMware Horizon servers against Log4Shell
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March 29, 2022
29
Mar'22
Cabinet Office publishes playbook with rules for government digital projects
Digital, Data and Technology guide outlines measures supporting overhaul intended to “get things right at the start”
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Sajid Javid pushes digitisation of social care records
Health secretary wants 80% of providers to abandon paper-based records by 2024 ahead of broader plans for digital health and care
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March 28, 2022
28
Mar'22
Virgin Media O2 Business aims to ‘go beyond’ traditional broadband SLAs
Business arm of UK connectivity provider proposes new way of working, built on successful outcomes rather than service deliverables alone, with bespoke agreements offering flexible use, reduced dual running costs and next-level service for new large...
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March 25, 2022
25
Mar'22
NHS advances digital trials with high-tech mobile health clinic
The NHS’ Find and Treat van uses tech tools including artificial intelligence software and a tele radiology network to care for vulnerable, high-risk Londoners
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
CIO interview: Craig York, CTO, Milton Keynes University Hospital
A cloud-first digital strategy is helping the NHS trust becoming an innovator in the use of healthcare systems such as document management and electronic patient records
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
Ad agency slashes NetApp costs with Datadobi data migration
US-based branding agency needed to migrate 20TB of large files to new NetApp hardware, but unwilling to stomach the vendor’s migration costs it chose Datadobi instead
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
Hiring and retention challenges in cyber security persist
Latest ISACA report shows that enterprises are struggling to find and retain cyber security talent
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation
The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2022
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March 24, 2022
24
Mar'22
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming Australia’s national assessment programme
Education Services Australia has transformed the country’s national assessment programme through an online platform that has enabled teachers to design adaptive tests and improved student engagement
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March 23, 2022
23
Mar'22
Private equity house spins SSE company out of McAfee Enterprise
The launch of Skyhigh Security completes division of McAfee Enterprise into separate businesses by Symphony Technology Group, which acquired the long-standing cyber security firm for $4bn in March 2021
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March 23, 2022
23
Mar'22
SAP to invest S$250m in Singapore innovation lab
New lab will double SAP’s engineering workforce in Singapore by 2025 and help to shape the company’s product development roadmap
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection
Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
Details of Conti ransomware affiliate released
Information about a new Conti affiliate has been released by eSentire and BreakPoint Lab after a joint investigation into the group’s indicators of compromise
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March 22, 2022
22
Mar'22
Edge computing implementations still in their infancy
It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud
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March 21, 2022
21
Mar'22
DWP Digital launches Birmingham hub
The new space will aim to create 130 jobs and tap into the digital talent pool of the West Midlands
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March 18, 2022
18
Mar'22
Electronic patient records key to NHS digital transformation
Getting EPR systems rolled out across NHS organisations will help boost digital transformation efforts, and are key to fulfilling government healthcare plans
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March 18, 2022
18
Mar'22
Ukrainian cyber defences prove resilient
Thanks to a combination of prior experience and global support, Ukraine’s defences against cyber incidents are holding strong in the face of Russian attacks