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18 Jul 2025
News brief: Cyberattack trends signal security arms race
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Jul 2025
Data-driven AI: how AWS partners and customers operate
By Esther ShittuFrom the Ocean Cleanup to Dine Brands, a key factor is driving how these enterprises apply AWS’ technology to their applications and needs.
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18 Jul 2025
Entities report several large healthcare data breaches to OCR
By Jill McKeonMillions of individuals were impacted by the most recent healthcare data breaches reported to HHS.
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02 Aug 2024
Labour axes £1.3bn AI funding promised by the Conservatives
By Lis EvenstadGovernment scraps £1.3bn worth of AI and tech programmes launched by the Conservatives, but says it is committed to building technology infrastructure in the UK through its AI Opportunities Action Plan
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01 Aug 2024
Police hunt scammers after takedown of Russian Coms fraud platform
By Bill GoodwinThe National Crime Agency has arrested four people after taking down a phone number spoofing platform used by criminals to defraud hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with more arrests to follow
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
By Alex ScroxtonA US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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01 Aug 2024
Scottish government to roll out digital evidence sharing
By Lis EvenstadFollowing a controversial pilot scheme, Scotland is investing £33m in deploying digital evidence sharing technology nationally
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01 Aug 2024
Community care neglected in national digital transformation efforts
By Lis EvenstadDigital technologies could help the government’s ambition of delivering care at home for longer, but community services suffer from a lack of basic technologies and access to funding, according to the King’s Fund
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01 Aug 2024
Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud
By Alex ScroxtonA Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud
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31 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service confirms resignation of second director in two weeks
By Caroline DonnellyCompanies House filing states the Police Digital Service has said goodbye to non-executive director Allan Fairley, with a representative from the company confirming his departure is for ‘conflict of interest’ reasons
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTo increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
Darktrace and Veracode enhancing partner programmes
By Simon QuickeSecurity vendor responds to channel feedback and rolls out enhanced options to support collaboration and encourage skills development
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30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
By Pratima HarigunaniTraffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India
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30 Jul 2024
Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people
By Bill GoodwinUK government identifies Chinese state-linked hackers as likely to have been behind attack on the Electoral Commission
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30 Jul 2024
Core British Library services to return for new academic year
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library’s recovery from a devastating ransomware attack that laid waste to its IT systems continues - with hopes that some of its most popular services will be running again in September
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30 Jul 2024
GP digital tools could cause patients harm, says report
By Lis EvenstadInvestigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body finds some online tools used in general practices could cause risk to patient safety and impact GP workload
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30 Jul 2024
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
By Karl FlindersHundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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29 Jul 2024
SCC gains security recognition from Microsoft
By Simon QuickeChannel player SCC receives approval from Microsoft for its ability to provide managed detection and response services
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29 Jul 2024
UK government sets up AI action plan unit
New government has ambitious plans to use artificial intelligence to grow the economy, and has hired a tech entrepreneur to help guide the strategy
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
By Alex ScroxtonHundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
By Alex ScroxtonThe vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
UK government invests £106m in five quantum tech hubs
By Cliff SaranFive university hubs are receiving funding to support the development of quantum applications that can support healthcare and businesses
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26 Jul 2024
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
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26 Jul 2024
Vince Cable says the Post Office ‘lied’ to the government over Horizon issues
By Karl FlindersIn the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearings, Vince Cable and Greg Clark reflected on their time as the minister heading the department responsible for the Post Office
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25 Jul 2024
North Korean cyber APT targeting nuclear secrets
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant has upgraded the North Korean threat actor known as Andariel to APT status and warned of coordinated efforts to steal western military IP, including nuclear secrets
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25 Jul 2024
Fortune 500 stands to lose $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
By Alex ScroxtonThe largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars
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25 Jul 2024
India bolsters digital agriculture and space tech in Budget 2024
By Kavitha SrinivasaIndia will extend its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector and set up a venture capital fund for space startups, among other tech initiatives in its latest Budget
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
By Alex ScroxtonMimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
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24 Jul 2024
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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24 Jul 2024
ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford for introducing facial recognition and failing to conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment and obtain the explicit consent of students
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24 Jul 2024
The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship
By Bryan GlickComputer Weekly goes behind the scenes at the 152nd Open golf tournament to find out how private 5G, data visualisation and deep learning tools are enhancing the ancient traditions of the sport
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24 Jul 2024
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
By Bill GoodwinDefence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
By Alex ScroxtonA three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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22 Jul 2024
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
By Alex ScroxtonFinancially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
By Alex ScroxtonThe concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC
By Cliff SaranWith end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
By Karl FlindersEvidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
By Lis EvenstadThe Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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18 Jul 2024
DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams
By Aaron TanThe CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages