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11 Oct 2024
Zero-day flaw behind Rackspace breach still a mystery
By Arielle WaldmanMore than two weeks after threat actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party utility to breach Rackspace, the details about the flaw and the utility remain unknown.
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11 Oct 2024
European Commission commits €865m funding for 5G, fibre networks
By Joe O’HalloranLatest part of the Connecting Europe Facility sees huge investment to bring about fast, secure digital wireless and wired connectivity across EU member states
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself
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10 Jun 2024
Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems
By Karl FlindersPost Office branch managers have told Computer Weekly they had no training on how to use Capture software, which pre-dated Horizon
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07 Jun 2024
Northern Irish police used covert powers to monitor over 300 journalists
By Bill GoodwinPSNI publishes report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers, but Northern Ireland’s Policing Board says it does not give the assurances needed
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07 Jun 2024
DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections
By Alex ScroxtonRussian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process
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07 Jun 2024
eSIM set to be next mobile industry disruptor
By Joe O’HalloranEven though its current acceptance and take-up is low, embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) pinpointed by industry report to be the next industry disruptor, bringing about lasting changes to the way people connect with mobile providers and manage subscriptions
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07 Jun 2024
Bitdefender makes MDR services free to NHS bodies hit by Qilin
By Alex ScroxtonBitdefender offers NHS bodies affected by a major cyber incident free access to its product suite, as the health service continues to deal with the impact of the Qilin ransomware attack on partner Synnovis
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07 Jun 2024
Rapid AI development poses supervisory challenges in the Netherlands
By Kim LoohuisIn the Netherlands, the financial regulator and the monetary authority are grappling with the pace of artificial intelligence development and its implications for the financial industry
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07 Jun 2024
Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersPost Office scandal inquiry hears how board member believed Fujitsu was exploiting the Post Office
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06 Jun 2024
Are diamonds a quantum computer’s best friend?
By Cliff SaranThe UK report on quantum tech is out, revealing that synthetic diamonds could play a key role in establishing a niche for the UK quantum sector
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06 Jun 2024
Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document
By Karl FlindersCapture software was used by about 2,000 subpostmasters in the 1990s, with allegations that errors in the software caused account shortfalls
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05 Jun 2024
Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act
By Karl FlindersAlmost immediately after joining the Post Office, Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about an imbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu
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05 Jun 2024
Executive interview: Richard Wazacz, CEO, Travelex
By Mark SamuelsThe data-savvy chief executive is rebuilding Travelex as an omnichannel, digital business after the company foundered during the pandemic
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05 Jun 2024
ANS opens apprenticeship scheme to channel
By Simon QuickeFirm adds its apprenticeship academy to the range of benefits available for its indirect partners to tap into
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05 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang likely behind crippling NHS attack
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity experts investigating a major cyber attack on an NHS partner that has caused frontline services across South London to grind to a halt say the Qilin ransomware gang appears to be the culprit
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05 Jun 2024
Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress
By Karl FlindersCampaigner says former subpostmasters may have to resort to legal action in pursuit of the money they are owed
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04 Jun 2024
Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWebsites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent
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04 Jun 2024
NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonA major cyber attack at NHS services provider Synnovis is disrupting frontline care at hospitals across London
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04 Jun 2024
Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI
By Yann SerraOne supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI
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04 Jun 2024
Russia used fake AI Tom Cruise in Olympic disinformation campaign
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft threat researchers report a surge in Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including AI-enhanced propaganda
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04 Jun 2024
Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters were reassured by Post Office executives that the Horizon replacement project was satisfactory the day before Computer Weekly reported news to the contrary
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03 Jun 2024
Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers
By Bill GoodwinPNSI chief constable appoints lawyer to conduct review into police phone surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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03 Jun 2024
97 FTSE 100 firms exposed to supply chain breaches
By Alex ScroxtonBetween March 2023 and March 2024, 97 out of 100 companies on the UK’s FTSE 100 list were put at risk of compromise following supply chain breaches at third-party suppliers
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03 Jun 2024
Major breaches allegedly caused by unsecured Snowflake accounts
By Alex ScroxtonSignificant data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander appear to have been orchestrated through careful targeting of the victims’ Snowflake cloud data management accounts
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03 Jun 2024
AI Seoul Summit review
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of governments and tech companies attending the second global AI Safety Summit have committed themselves to the safe and inclusive development of the technology, but questions remain around whether the commitments made go far enough
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03 Jun 2024
Uktech50 2024: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadUKtech50 received a record-breaking 434 nominations for the 2024 list. Unfortunately, there wasn’t space for everyone in the top 50, and as you can see for yourself in this year’s longlist, it was a difficult decision for the judges
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03 Jun 2024
How poor IT project management failed Birmingham Oracle implementation
By Cliff SaranBirmingham City Council’s Oracle system – the biggest of its kind in Europe – went live in April 2022, resulting in a catastrophic IT failure. We investigate
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03 Jun 2024
Sellafield local authority slammed over response to North Korean ransomware attack
By Tommy GreeneThe local authority for Europe’s biggest nuclear site has been slammed by auditors for its response to a North Korea-linked cyber attack that temporarily crippled its operations
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31 May 2024
Fujitsu set for further £180m deal as Post Office Horizon replacement delayed
By Karl FlindersProblems with the Post Office project to replace its controversial Horizon IT system mean Fujitsu is set to receive up to £180m more in taxpayers' cash to support the system for another five years
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31 May 2024
M247 enhances channel offering and looks to bolster London activity
By Simon QuickeCloud player rolls out updated partner programme and a promotion designed to get customers in the capital spending with the channel
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30 May 2024
Post Office Horizon replacement project labelled 'unachievable' as taxpayer bill reaches £1bn
By Bryan GlickThe project to replace the Horizon IT system in Post Office branches is late, over budget and lacking quality – and government auditors sent in to assess a request for £1bn funding say it is currently unachievable
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30 May 2024
FWD teams up with AWS on cloud
By Aaron TanThe pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services
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29 May 2024
Storebrand divests from IBM over supply of biometrics to Israel
By Andrew KersleyNorwegian asset manager Storebrand’s decision to divest from IBM comes amid growing scrutiny of the role technology companies play in Israel’s human rights abuses
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29 May 2024
Organisations value digital trust, but aren’t working at it
By Alex ScroxtonThree quarters of organisations believe digital trust is relevant to their businesses, yet clear gaps in strategies still seem to persist
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29 May 2024
Next UK government must be prepared to legislate on AI, say MPs
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe House Science, Innovation and Technology Committee says the next government should be ready to legislate on artificial intelligence to plug any regulatory gaps
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29 May 2024
Interview: EU data chief Ulrich Ahle on obstacles to Europe’s digital single market
By Mark BallardEU data scheme Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into Europe’s planned digital single market as opposition mounts to efforts to extend the reach of Europe’s vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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28 May 2024
Executive Interview: Why Dell wants to be your one-stop AI shop
By Alex ScroxtonAt Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was the talk of the town as Dell staked out an all-encompassing strategy ahead of an anticipated goldrush. Dell’s Nick Brackney explains why the tech giant believes it's onto a winner
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28 May 2024
Government appoints investigators to analyse Post Office Capture software used before Horizon
By Bryan GlickPC-based accounting software used by subpostmasters in the 1990s will be investigated by forensic specialist Kroll after reports that Post Office workers may have been wrongly prosecuted in the years before Horizon
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28 May 2024
Post Office scandal: Met Police investigation set to go national
By Bryan GlickThe police investigation into Post Office and Fujitsu executives is about to gain the status of a major national investigation – but it could be years before any individuals are charged with crimes or face trial
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24 May 2024
Parliamentarians warn of UK election threat from Russia, China and North Korea
By Bill GoodwinJoint parliamentary security committee chair Margaret Beckett writes to prime minister urging government to prepare for foreign states interfering with 4 July election
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24 May 2024
Over 700 wrongful subpostmaster convictions overturned by new legislation
By Karl FlindersParliament has approved a law that will see hundreds of subpostmasters with wrongful convictions exonerated as one of the government’s final acts before the general election
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24 May 2024
Paula Vennells boasted about removing Horizon risk reference in Royal Mail flotation prospectus
By Karl FlindersA reference to Horizon was removed from Royal Mail prospectus by Paula Vennells in the eleventh hour
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24 May 2024
UKtech50 2024: Vote for the most influential person in UK IT
By Lis EvenstadOur judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of more than 400 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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23 May 2024
Government was aware of Post Office strategy to fight subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersFormer CEO Paula Vennells reveals that the government was aware of the controversial Post Office strategies to suppress subpostmasters' campaign for justice
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23 May 2024
Northern Ireland police face £750,000 fine after data protection blunder put lives at risks
By Bill GoodwinInformation commissioner John Edwards uses discretion to reduce proposed fine from £5.6m to £750,000
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23 May 2024
Third police probe into Post Office scandal under consideration
By Karl FlindersThe Metropolitan Police Service is looking into investigating potential corporate and individual crimes committed in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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22 May 2024
Rockwell urges users to disconnect ICS equipment
By Alex ScroxtonICS systems maker Rockwell Automation calls on users to take steps to secure their equipment, and reminds them there is no reason to ever have its hardware connected to the public internet, as it tracks an increase in global threat activity
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22 May 2024
‘You knew’ – former ally accused Paula Vennells of knowing about Horizon problems
By Karl FlindersFormer Royal Mail CEO messaged Paula Vennells following the broadcasting of ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, questioning what the former Post Office boss knew and removed her support
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22 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 27 nations and EU to set red lines on AI risk
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe countries will now work together to identify thresholds at which the risks presented by an AI model or system would be unacceptable without safeguards in place, as well as develop interoperable safety testing regimes for the technology
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22 May 2024
UK government announces £8.5m in grants for AI safety research
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe funding programme will be directed by the UK’s AI Safety Institute, with grants being used to understand and mitigate the impacts of artificial intelligence, including any systemic risks it presents at the societal level
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22 May 2024
G-Cloud 14: Overseas suppliers risk non-compliance as CCS changes stance on UK VAT requirements
By Caroline DonnellyAfter assuring overseas suppliers multiple times during the G-Cloud clarification period that they did not need a UK VAT number to participate in the framework, government procurement chiefs have now backtracked on this guidance by telling non-UK suppliers to get VAT registered by October or risk being non-compliant
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 10 nations and EU recommit to safe inclusive AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDuring the latest AI Summit in South Korea, the participating governments reaffirmed their prior commitments to deepening international cooperation on AI safety, and have agreed to launch an international network of ‘safety institutes’
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonProminent artificial intelligence companies from around the world have committed to a set of voluntary AI safety measures, which includes developing continuous risk assessment processes, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and ensuring greater transparency
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21 May 2024
Parliamentary committee criticises big tech response to election threats
By Bill GoodwinParliamentary committee says tech companies ‘regurgitated publicly available content’ and failed to address questions raised by MPs and peers
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21 May 2024
CIO interview: Nic Granger, director of corporate and CFO, North Sea Transition Authority
By Mark SamuelsSpending time with penguins in the Falkland Islands may not seem an obvious background for an IT leader, but it's worked for Nic Granger as she sets out to overhaul the way data is used in the oil and gas sector
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21 May 2024
Post Office clique deepened Horizon scandal
By Karl FlindersA general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells
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20 May 2024
HMRC underestimates Single Trade Window project complexity, says NAO
By Lis EvenstadA National Audit Office report on UK border calls on government to have a more realistic approach to digital transformation
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20 May 2024
UK AI Safety Institute to open San Francisco branch
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonNews of the AI Safety Institute’s expansion to the US follows the first public release of its AI safety testing results
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20 May 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted appeal
By Bill GoodwinTwo high court judges granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leave to appeal against extradition to the US after defence lawyers argued that the US had failed to give adequate assurances
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20 May 2024
Post Office directors went crawling back to Fujitsu when IBM project got complex, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersMore details emerge about how close IBM came to replacing Fujitsu and its controversial Horizon system at the Post Office
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20 May 2024
The fall from grace of ex-priest and Post Office boss Paula Vennells
By Karl FlindersAs Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss
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17 May 2024
MuleSoft integration tackles EDI supply chain data issues
By Don FluckingerSalesforce integrates EDI data into its platform for users who deal with many suppliers -- or distributors -- with MuleSoft in an attempt to solve an age-old integration snafu.
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17 May 2024
Why the UK needs to fix its broken IT security market
By Bill GoodwinOllie Whitehouse, CTO of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, says the market for secure software is broken. Are new laws required to make software companies liable for poor security?
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17 May 2024
Report highlights disagreement among experts on AI safety
By Cliff SaranAn interim AI safety report coming out of the Bletchley Declaration shows AI experts are not in agreement over some of the biggest risks
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17 May 2024
Post Office CEO Paula Vennells ‘didn’t believe there were miscarriages of justice,’ inquiry told
By Karl FlindersAs the nation waits for the impending appearance of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells at the public inquiry, a former colleague reveals her certainty that there were no miscarriages of justice
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17 May 2024
Post Office considered asking Computer Weekly to review Horizon IT system
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office CIO was tasked by directors with sizing up Computer Weekly for the task of reviewing a forensic investigation into Horizon
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16 May 2024
Post Office IT boss failed to raise concern over false Horizon statements
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office CIO Lesley Sewell failed to raise concern over Post Office’s false stance on Horizon integrity
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16 May 2024
HMRC Single Trade Window project hits turbulence
By Lis EvenstadLess than a year into the programme to create a Single Trade Window as a digital gateway for traders, HMRC has already gone through a formal dispute resolution process with its supplier
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16 May 2024
Sunak warned against changing foreign student visa rules
By Cliff SaranBusiness leaders have called on prime minister Rishi Sunak not to be pressured into altering the graduate visa route
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16 May 2024
HMRC channel shift to digital ‘too aggressive’, says NAO
By Lis EvenstadHMRC digital services have not had the anticipated effect on customer service it hoped for, NAO report reveals, as the auditor says the department needs to develop more realistic plans
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16 May 2024
Tom Read to bid farewell to GDS
By Lis EvenstadThe Government Digital Service chief is leaving his role, and the civil service as a whole, in June, after three-and-a-half years in charge of the department
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15 May 2024
GCHQ to protect politicians and election candidates from cyber attacks
By Bill GoodwinThe National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, to protect election candidates from hostile state cyber attacks
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15 May 2024
Critical SharePoint, Qakbot-linked flaws focus of May Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonA critical SharePoint vulnerability warrants attention this month, but it is another flaw that seems to be linked to the infamous Qakbot malware that is drawing attention
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15 May 2024
WikiLeaks founder’s extradition case labelled ‘institutional corruption’
By Charlie MoloneyCall for Julian Assange to be prosecuted in the US has been condemned as ‘institutional corruption on a judicial level’ with the WikiLeaks founder a ‘political prisoner’
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15 May 2024
Government focuses on improving AI security
By Cliff SaranTwo codes of practice are now available to help developers boost the security of their AI applications
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15 May 2024
Comms director at centre of cover-up never thought Post Office were the ‘baddies’
By Karl FlindersHead of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error-prone Horizon system when challenged
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14 May 2024
GenAI complicates IT vendor management
By John MooreIT leaders at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium cited the challenge of managing the 'explosion' of GenAI companies while also working with vendors in maturing technology sectors.
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14 May 2024
Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse
By Karl FlindersThe Scottish parliament will introduce its own legislation to exonerate subpostmasters with convictions based on evidence from Post Office Horizon system
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14 May 2024
Cradlepoint enhances MSP programme
By Simon QuickeNetworking player Cradlepoint improves managed service offering to encourage more partners to get behind 5G
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14 May 2024
CyberUK 24: UK insurance industry gets tough on ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonThree of the UK’s largest insurance associations have signed on to a new initiative spearheaded by the NCSC to try to bring down the number of ransomware payments being made
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13 May 2024
Startup partnerships at MIT Sloan event rev sales channels
By John MooreEarly-stage companies featured at MIT Sloan's annual CIO event tap partners to speed up technology deployment and broaden their offerings and distribution channels.
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10 May 2024
UK hails first test of quantum aircraft navigation
By Cliff SaranThe government’s £2.5bn quantum strategy receives a boost with test of quantum technology that gets around GPS jamming
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10 May 2024
MHRA launches AI regulatory sandbox
By Lis EvenstadThe Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hopes the AI Airlock sandbox will help in improving safe development and use of medical devices
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10 May 2024
NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project
By Cliff SaranLack of tech skills, disconnected agile development and non-compliance with government standards are among the issues identified in report
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09 May 2024
Cyber attack victims need to speak up, says ICO
By Alex ScroxtonThe Information Commissioner’s Office is urging organisations to be transparent and learn from each other’s mistakes as it reveals most of the cyber attacks it responds to stem from the same core errors
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09 May 2024
Wales gets UK’s first national SOC
By Alex ScroxtonThe first national security operations centre of its kind in the UK has opened in the south of Wales to safeguard public sector bodies across the country
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09 May 2024
Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases
By Karl FlindersSimon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions
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09 May 2024
Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability
By Karl FlindersBarrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials
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09 May 2024
Government injects £1.8m into space tech innovation
By Lis EvenstadFunding is being split between nine projects, covering a range of technologies aiming to support new space capabilities in the UK
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09 May 2024
Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online
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09 May 2024
Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
By Cliff SaranIT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience
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08 May 2024
Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’
By Bill GoodwinThe Police Service of Northern Ireland ran a rolling programme to monitor phone records of journalists to identify the source of police leaks, it was claimed today
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08 May 2024
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
By Alex ScroxtonAn 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
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08 May 2024
Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges
By Bill GoodwinA ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states
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07 May 2024
Chinese APT suspected of Ministry of Defence hack
By Alex ScroxtonA cyber attack on the Ministry of Defence is suspected to be the work of threat actors working on behalf of Chinese intelligence
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07 May 2024
Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court
By Karl FlindersA 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
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03 May 2024
EU calls out Fancy Bear over attacks on Czech, German governments
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
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03 May 2024
Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonChair 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
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03 May 2024
Post Office legal boss withheld details from statutory body reviewing miscarriages of justice
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office’s top lawyer held back vital information when requested by the criminal cases review commission, preventing wrongful convictions from being reviewed
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02 May 2024
NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
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02 May 2024
Dropbox Sign user information accessed in data breach
By Alex ScroxtonAccount data belonging to Dropbox Sign users was accessed by an unknown threat actor after they hacked into the organisation’s backend infrastructure
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02 May 2024
Post Office investigators saw subpostmasters as ‘enemies’ – and that’s what they became
By Karl FlindersPost 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