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• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  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

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  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

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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

• May 06, 2024 06 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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.

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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 ...

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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