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19 Dec 2025
News brief: Browser security flaws pose growing risk
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Dec 2025
Agentic AI security focus of ServiceNow acquisition targets
By Don FluckingerServiceNow attempts to build one (secure) platform to rule them all.
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18 Dec 2025
Hyland continues pivot to AI-fueled enterprise platform
By Don FluckingerCan a fragmented ECM landscape support agentic AI? Hyland's Jitesh Ghai believes it can be done.
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18 Dec 2025
Post Office six years late to warn subpostmasters about Horizon defect
By Karl FlindersFollowing pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years
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18 Dec 2025
AI safeguards improving, says UK government-backed body
By Alex ScroxtonInaugural AI Security Institute report claims that safeguards in place to ensure AI models behave as intended seem to be improving
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15 Dec 2025
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026
By Aaron TanEnterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends
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11 Dec 2025
Microsoft expands bug bounty scheme to include third-party software
By Bill GoodwinThe company is to offer bug bounty awards for people who report security vulnerabilities in third-party and open source software impacting Microsoft services
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09 Dec 2025
Microsoft patched over 1,100 CVEs in 2025
By Alex ScroxtonThe final Patch Tuesday update of the year brings 56 new CVEs, bringing the year-end total to more than 1,100
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09 Dec 2025
IBM's Confluent buy has observability, IT ops implications
By Beth PariseauIBM's $11 billion deal for another open source software company raises possibilities for its Red Hat and HashiCorp portfolios, and for some, uneasy echoes of the past.
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09 Dec 2025
Why bug bounty schemes have not led to secure software
By Bill GoodwinComputer Weekly speaks to Katie Moussouris, security entrepreneur and bug bounty pioneer, about the life of security researchers, bug bounties and the artificial intelligence revolution
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09 Dec 2025
Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code
By Aaron TanWith 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures
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08 Dec 2025
NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection
By Alex ScroxtonMalicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC
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08 Dec 2025
NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection
By Alex ScroxtonMalicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC
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08 Dec 2025
Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer
By Aaron TanWhile AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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05 Dec 2025
Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads
By Alex ScroxtonExploitation of an RCE flaw in a widely used open source library is spreading quickly, with China-backed threat actors in the driving seat
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03 Dec 2025
AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
By Beth PariseauKiro emerges as a significant alternative to GitHub Copilot agents, while AWS AgentCore updates square off against Agent 365 in the battle for enterprise AI development.
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach
By Karl FlindersThe Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy
By Karl FlindersSubpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier
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03 Dec 2025
Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA
By Andrea BenitoAs AI reshapes the regional cyber security landscape, diversity and skills development remain at the heart of building a resilient digital workforce
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02 Dec 2025
AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent
By Aaron TanAt AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics
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02 Dec 2025
Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk
By Alex ScroxtonNine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents
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02 Dec 2025
Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach
By Karl FlindersPolice say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example
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02 Dec 2025
ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’
By Aaron TanOrganisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region
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28 Nov 2025
CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system
By Karl FlindersThe latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software
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26 Nov 2025
London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit
By Brian McKennaFour London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation
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26 Nov 2025
US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses
By Karl FlindersCyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems
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26 Nov 2025
AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance
By Aaron TanAMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities
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25 Nov 2025
Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro
By Karl FlindersSimplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs
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25 Nov 2025
Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective
By Mark BallardNordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces
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21 Nov 2025
MCP OAuth update adds security for personalized AI
By Beth PariseauAn impending update to Model Context Protocol marks an important step toward secure, personalized AI, but also shows that significant work remains to secure AI agents.
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20 Nov 2025
Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh
By Andrea BenitoSaudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit
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19 Nov 2025
Microsoft Foundry ties in with Agent 365
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft Foundry adds context, including model routing, and tightens governance for developers working on AI agents within its broader Agent 365 control plane.
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14 Nov 2025
Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped
By Kim LoohuosING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped
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13 Nov 2025
Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development
By Karl FlindersSurvey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents
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13 Nov 2025
Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028
By Karl FlindersExtension agreement for controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu has option that could take the relationship well into 2028
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12 Nov 2025
Microsoft users warned over privilege elevation flaw
By Alex ScroxtonAn elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Kernel tops the list of issues to address in the latest monthly Patch Tuesday update
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12 Nov 2025
Northrop Grumman, Ford prep AI infrastructure with OpenShift
By Beth PariseauThe defense contractor leaned on OpenShift AI and GitOps as it installed a 30,000-core GPU farm, while the automaker established workload identity federation across clouds.
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11 Nov 2025
New high-accuracy GPS aims to end navigation woes
By Aaron TanGrab and its tech partners are trialling a system that promises lane-level accuracy, a first for ride-hailing in Southeast Asia
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11 Nov 2025
Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats
By Aaron TanWhile hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google
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10 Nov 2025
IBM Apptio deepens FinOps ties with HashiCorp Terraform
By Beth PariseauCloudability Governance succeeds last year's CostGuard, with FinOps tagging policy enforcement in Terraform and bidirectional data sharing.
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07 Nov 2025
Popular LLMs dangerously vulnerable to iterative attacks, says Cisco
By Alex ScroxtonCisco researchers probed some of the most widely used public GenAI LLMs and found many of them were dangerously susceptible to so-called multi-turn cyber attacks producing undesirable outputs
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06 Nov 2025
Unearthed report reveals source of Post Office’s tenuous Capture sales pitch
By Karl FlindersComputer Weekly reveals report that misguided the Post Office’s sales pitch to subpostmasters for its controversial Capture system
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06 Nov 2025
Cisco beefs up secure AI enterprise network architecture
By Joe O’HalloranIT and networking giant builds on enterprise network architecture with systems designed to simplify operations across campus and branch deployments such as network configuration
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05 Nov 2025
Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack
By Stephen WithersAttackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer
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05 Nov 2025
Bugcrowd brings Mayhem AI to bear on ethical hacking community
By Alex ScroxtonBugcrowd acquires scaleup Mayhem Security to enhance the ingenuity of its human hackers with AI-backed software testing capabilities
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05 Nov 2025
Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools
By Aaron TanStudy finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance
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03 Nov 2025
CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
By Brian McKennaEurope faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European
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31 Oct 2025
Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide
By Alex ScroxtonUS and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server
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30 Oct 2025
GitHub Universe: Large IT orgs share AI automation gains
By Beth PariseauNordstrom saved 15,000 developer hours during a migration with AI agents, while Copilot Autofix helped Cathay Pacific address DevSecOps challenges, but there are also caveats.
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29 Oct 2025
Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub
By Aaron TanThe work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base
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28 Oct 2025
GitHub Agent HQ opens platform to third-party coding agents
By Beth PariseauGitHub will support and orchestrate agents from partners including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI through an agent control plane and mission control interface.
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27 Oct 2025
Glut of AI agent tools faces paradox of choice, skills gap
By Beth PariseauAccording to Gartner, there are already more AI agent providers than the market needs, while IT buyers planning to adopt agents face a learning curve to use them effectively.
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27 Oct 2025
Post Office paid one law firm more for inquiry representation than cost of actual inquiry
By Karl FlindersPublic inquiry into one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history cost less to run than the Post Office paid one law firm for representation during the four-year process
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27 Oct 2025
BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration
By Aaron TanZscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia
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22 Oct 2025
Building security and trust in AI agents
By Aaron TanAI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say
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21 Oct 2025
Startup law firm wants to ‘live and breathe technology’
By Karl FlindersLaw firm will use artificial intelligence in its business from the word go, cutting the cost of managing large business contracts
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20 Oct 2025
EU regulation sharpens fear of Norwegian AI exodus
By Mark BallardNorway’s government wants fast-track adoption of EU AI Act as pressure mounts for the EU to ease regulation on high-tech sectors
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16 Oct 2025
CCRC formally sends Post Office Capture referral to Court of Appeal
By Karl FlindersThe statutory body agreed in July to refer the conviction of Capture software user Patricia Owen to appeal court
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16 Oct 2025
Pet insurers fuel AI take up in veterinary sector
By Karl FlindersThrough tech startups, insurers are offering artificial intelligence-based veterinary services as part of pet insurance contracts
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
By Brian McKennaNato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology
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07 Oct 2025
Peer demands Fujitsu pay £700m in interim as it prepares response to Post Office scandal inquiry
By Karl FlindersFujitsu, government and Post Office set to outline restorative justice plans, as peers calls for an interim payment towards costs.
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07 Oct 2025
Vibe coding: A question of chicken feed or food
By Cliff SaranIf used correctly, large language models promise to revolutionise software development – but they do not easily fit some obvious corporate IT use cases
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06 Oct 2025
Oracle patches E-Business suite targeted by Cl0p ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonOracle pushes a patch for a dangerous zero-day under active exploitation by one of the most notorious ransomware gangs around
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03 Oct 2025
Software engineering limited by lack of full automation
By Cliff SaranThe continuous deployment part of the software development lifecycle appears to be velocity-limiting
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02 Oct 2025
Market research: AI coding tools push production problems
By Beth PariseauRecent reports show that AI-generated code adds instability and vulnerabilities in production, but auto-remediation tools face persistent organizational friction.
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02 Oct 2025
Aston University partners Capgemini for AI centre of excellence
By Karl FlindersUniversity works with IT services giant to open artificial intelligence centre of excellence in London campus
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02 Oct 2025
Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment
By Aaron TanSingtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty
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30 Sep 2025
Apple’s first iOS 26 security update fixes memory corruption flaw
By Alex ScroxtonApple issues an update for its brand new iOS 26 mobile operating system, fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability affecting iPhones, iPads and other Mac devices
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30 Sep 2025
Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers
By Karl FlindersQueries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant
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30 Sep 2025
Google to pay $24m to settle lawsuit with president Trump
By Karl FlindersTrump launched legal challenge after being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel, which Google is now seeking to settle
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29 Sep 2025
Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors
By Gerard O'DwyerFinland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?
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29 Sep 2025
Global payments network Swift builds blockchain capability
By Karl FlindersNot-for-profit global payments network to initially use blockchain-based shared ledger for cross-border payments, with further use cases to follow
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29 Sep 2025
Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI
By Aaron TanSabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation
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26 Sep 2025
Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches
By Karl FlindersBusiness supply chains, which include Indian companies, are at risk of attack as more than half of suppliers were breached last year
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26 Sep 2025
How Mediacorp stops livestreams from freezing at key moments
By Aaron TanSingapore’s national broadcaster has achieved a 99.5% crash-free rate for its mobile apps by using observability tools to find and fix issues in real time, ensuring a smoother experience for users
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25 Sep 2025
HashiCorp Terraform actions adds 'Day 2' ops, Ansible ties
By Beth PariseauThe beta feature and another long-requested update called Terraform search drew strong interest from attendees at HashiConf this week.
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25 Sep 2025
Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m
By Brian McKennaCo-op reveals £206m costs from April cyber attack, with revenues hit, member data stolen and shelves emptied, exposing major retail supply chain vulnerabilities
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25 Sep 2025
Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence
By Kim LoohuisNetwork will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing
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23 Sep 2025
Google DORA: Software delivery caught up to AI coding tools
By Beth PariseauA Google DORA survey on AI-assisted software development found last year's delivery bottleneck resolved, but stability, trust and organizational issues remain.
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23 Sep 2025
SolarWinds warns over dangerous RCE flaw
By Alex ScroxtonA newly uncovered RCE flaw in SolarWinds’ helpdesk product bypasses two previously issued fixes, and users should prioritise updates as exploitation is likely to occur
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23 Sep 2025
Post Office Capture appeals slowed by poor records
By Karl FlindersPoor data on the use of the Post Office Capture software is slowing the review of criminal convictions, says lawyer
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19 Sep 2025
Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers
By Aaron TanThe penetration testing specialist is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and deploying AI-driven capabilities as it eyes acquisitions and a potential IPO
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18 Sep 2025
Harness takes aim at AI 'bottleneck' with DevSecOps agents
By Beth PariseauThe vendor's new agentic features are included in products that already have a track record in AI-driven automation, as coding agents swamp software delivery pipelines.
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17 Sep 2025
Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments
By Aaron TanGoogle’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions
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16 Sep 2025
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Preparing for emerging tech
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Forrester about how IT decision-makers should prepare for emerging technologies that have a short, mid or long-term ROI
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15 Sep 2025
‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office legal representation at public inquiry into Horizon scandal cost twice as much as the actual inquiry
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12 Sep 2025
Splunk preps OpenLLMetry tie-ins for deeper AI monitoring
By Beth PariseauDetailed visibility into internal communications will be essential to enterprise trust in AI agents, and something Splunk and the OpenTelemetry project intend to offer.
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12 Sep 2025
Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away
By Karl FlindersSources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not
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10 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover admits data has been compromised in cyber attack
By Brian McKennaThe car maker revealed that data was stolen in the cyber attack that began on 31 August, as its production line continues to be affected
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09 Sep 2025
Splunk.conf: Splunk urges users to eat their ‘cyber veggies’
By Alex ScroxtonThe dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right
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09 Sep 2025
Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’
By Karl FlindersInternally, Fujitsu UK is braced for major revenue decline as Post Office scandal takes its toll
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04 Sep 2025
Depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts: Post Office victims speak out
By Karl FlindersReport finds that former subpostmasters suffered and are continuing to suffer severe mental and physical problems due to their treatment by the Post Office
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04 Sep 2025
Number of UK banks reporting AI-driven productivity improvements doubles
By Karl FlindersSurvey shows that half of UK banks will increase spending on artificial intelligence as more see AI-related productivity gains
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03 Sep 2025
Open banking take-up grows by a third
By Karl FlindersRising payments are driving the adoption of open banking, with more than 15 million users in July
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02 Sep 2025
New VMware private AI infrastructure rethinks Tanzu, again
By Beth PariseauBroadcom's VMware finally abandons a long effort to unify Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry as it battles cloud and virtualization rivals on multiple fronts.
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02 Sep 2025
JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance
By Aaron TanThe software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models
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29 Aug 2025
AI supports care of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon hospital
By Karl FlindersArtificial intelligence pilot in Lebanon hospital aimed at freeing up time for medics to treat more Palestinian refugees
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28 Aug 2025
Zopa Bank seeks partners to form AI skills coalition
By Karl FlindersSurvey by Juniper Research and Zopa Bank reveals full return on investment in artificial intelligence over next five years
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27 Aug 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce
By Aaron TanSingapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows
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26 Aug 2025
Three new Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation
By Alex ScroxtonCitrix patches three new vulnerabilities in its NetScaler lines warning of active zero-day exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor
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21 Aug 2025
Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI
By Alex ScroxtonUS authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software
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21 Aug 2025
Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m
By Karl FlindersMetropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds
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21 Aug 2025
Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial
By Karl FlindersThe National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system
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21 Aug 2025
Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank
By Karl FlindersRedwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet