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The CEO and co-founder of Coalesce gives insight into the startup’s mission and challenges organizations continue to face with transforming data so it’s useful for data analysts.

The bipartisan commission includes experts with a variety of technology backgrounds and is led by two former congressmen. A report by the commission is expected later this year.

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard would provide the technology for building virtual worlds that could provide the foundation for the metaverse.

Companies report they aren't getting their money's worth out of digital transformation projects. ServiceNow's new AI-based software looks to up the value of such projects.

Latest monthly data reveals a significant decline in ransomware attacks at the end of 2021, but a new, emergent gang is making waves

Lawsuits over the ransomware attack that hurt UKG payroll and timekeeping systems are being filed. Workers are claiming inaccurate pay during the outage.

Since its last major update in September 2021, the vendor has added to its array of prebuilt Spotfire Mods applications, including new AI Mods called Data Functions.

Government officials are open to finding a way to properly compensate victims of the Horizon scandal without setting a dangerous legal precedent

Cisco's Kenna Security advised enterprises to consider more than just CVSS scores and update advisories when deciding when and how to address security vulnerabilities.

The combined forces of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye should provide opportunities for partners, states Trellix’s CRO

Government proposals to cover managed service providers in updated regulations come with the threat of eye-watering fines for those that fail to protect data

The International Committee of the Red Cross is probing a cyber attack that has already seen the personal data of hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people compromised

The Network and Information Systems regulations are to be updated to include MSPs and outsourcers, following a spate of supply chain attacks

Delivery vehicle for the UK’s National Policing Digital Strategy announces major procurement contract for comms services and technologies

MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows evident technical improvements over others, making it a more dangerous threat to organisations. It is being used by Chinese state-backed actors

Weakening of the advantages enjoyed by traditional banks over the years is “driven by digital innovation and changing consumer behaviour”, says regulator

Bank has seen rapid growth since its launch and has set ambitious targets for the next 12 months

UK parliamentary committee pours scorn on Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s confidence in meeting targets for gigabit connectivity

Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals

Innovative ideas for ransomware-busting technology are being sought by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and startup incubator Plexal

A new government scheme aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and sales online has opened for applications

Banks in Singapore will have to put in place more stringent measures to combat the rise in online phishing scams targeted at bank customers in the city-state

The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance.

Though the new company is a combination of two high-profile security vendors, private equity firm STG relaunched the merger under an entirely different name.

The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance.

Barnardo’s and other charities begin a government-backed PR campaign to warn of the dangers end-to-end encryption poses to child safety, which has been criticised as being ‘one-sided’

Dell is adding more capabilities to its Dell Apex cloud as-as-service portfolio, which are billed as tools to simplify and manage a multi-cloud infrastructure.

Those responsible for recruiting developers worldwide have admitted that bias during the hiring process is an issue

Study from Kaleido Intelligence reveals significant demand for monitoring and telemetry-based internet of things applications to drive 27% CAGR in permanent roaming IoT connections

Communications and cloud giants extend reach of mobile edge computing footprint in the US and announce deployment for drone and energy management applications

Kasten by Veeam can now use Backblaze's cloud storage as a backup target for Kubernetes data, a need that will continue to grow in popularity.

The AI suite includes a full integration with Tanzu, giving enterprises the flexibility to run workloads on containers and VMs. The vendor also introduced two new servers.

Security flaws in Olympic app may put personal health data at risk of compromise in a man-in-the-middle attack

Vodafone teams with Samsung Networks Europe to switch on the UK’s first Open RAN site to carry live 5G traffic, marking a milestone in the commercial deployment of Open RAN network architectures in Europe, with more than 2,500 additional sites to follow

Vendor adds more features to as-a-service offering for UK partners to put in front of customers

Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report

Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes

Survey of enterprise IT leaders finds little difference between respondents without SASE and those who adopted SASE product portfolios regarding issues such as trade-offs between performance and security

Discount supermarket brand Aldi has launched a checkout-free concept store in London to test contact-free shopping

Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute services enable researchers to develop and test real-world solutions to enhance immersive education, remote learning, virtual reality and data analytics

AV distributor shares trading statement that will give investors some cheer, with solid revenues and pre-tax profits

The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively

The company formed from the merger of FireEye Enterprise and McAfee will team up with managed service providers, among other efforts, to democratise access to extended detection and response capabilities in the region

The private equity owners of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye are merging the companies into a new entity to ‘define the future’ of cyber security through XDR technology

A new type of destructive malware was discovered by Microsoft after public and private organizations in Ukraine endured a series of cyber attacks as tensions with Russia grow.

The FTC and DOJ want public input on the government's merger guidelines, used to challenge potentially anticompetitive mergers. The agencies believe the rules are out of date and ineffective.

VPNLab is accused of facilitating cybercrime including ransomware and malware distribution, and its services were allegedly advertised on the dark web.

Though Bitcoin is still the cryptocurrency standard in ransomware payment demands, Monero has gained prominence due to its more private, less traceable technology.

With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users.

Research reveals demand for cloud agility and cross-enterprise visibility, and that the integration of enterprise-grade 5G will continue to drive opportunities in software-defined wide area networks

Work-from-anywhere IT services company and cyber security provider enter into partnership to assist lean enterprise IT teams in their transition to a secure access service edge

In this Q&A, David Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace, reflects on how COVID-19 and remote work have affected storage vendors that specialize in data storage management.

Nordic fintech Lunar is modernising its banking platform as it sets out to expand free of the limitations of its current systems

Business connectivity provider strikes partnership to connect major universities and research centres in Liverpool and Manchester to gigabit-capable fibre network offering up to 100Gbps connections and 10-fold increases

Online retail giant Amazon continues to allow UK Visa credit card payments as negotiations over fees with the card provider continue

German police led a multinational effort to seize and take down the LabVPN service, which was allegedly used by cyber criminals to facilitate ransomware attacks

Government changes its position in billion-pound Horizon scandal compensation

Its utility and ease of use, coupled with explosive growth in ransomware actions, makes Cobalt Strike Team Servers the C2 infrastructure of choice for malicious actors

Managed services player makes its first acquisition of the year building on expansion moves made in 2021

The cloud data vendor launched a new lakehouse designed for retail and consumer goods customers that includes blueprints and best practices.

Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister

Granite City sees rock-solid gigabit connectivity in £19m expansion of full-fibre network to homes and businesses in the Aberdeen area

SpaceDataHighway deploys space laser communications to increase the operational flexibility of ISS, allowing more astronauts, scientists and researchers to benefit from a direct link with Europe

Kiev claims that a hacking group in Belarus – a close ally of Russia – was responsible for hacking Ukrainian government websites amid threats of military action

Energy Digitalisation Taskforce recommends that policy-makers and regulators drive open standards across the energy sector

So-called ‘disruptive’ communications company specialising in building and operating smart city infrastructure connects first customer to full-fibre network in East Yorkshire

A mixture of promotions and reaching out to fresh talent continues as firms across the industry look for talent

Singapore’s Ensign Infosecurity answers the top three questions about the impact of the Log4j vulnerability

Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK