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21 Oct 2026
IT leaders test the waters of autonomous network operations
AI agents largely remain in an advisory role for NetOps teams as they take a 'trust but verify' approach, but autonomy is growing alongside network complexity.
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21 Oct 2026
Grafana Labs targets the rising price of AI observability
Compounding challenges with AI observability and its costs weigh on the minds of IT pros, who are turning to new automation tools for assistance -- within limits.
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21 Oct 2026
Salesforce bets $5.66B on Braze to sharpen Marketing Cloud
Salesforce wants Braze's real-time engagement tech to strengthen Marketing Cloud. Analysts see the logic, but integration and customer migration will be the test.
Security News from the past 365 days
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21 Oct 2026
What to do as critical PHP flaws puts millions of websites at risk
Patch or go offline, say UK, US and EU agencies as two AI-discovered flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites, allow unauthenticated remote code execution
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21 Oct 2026
ClickFix scams pose growing risk to education sector, Jisc says
Observers have noted a surge in so-called ClickFix scams targeting the UK's higher education sector as threat actors seek valuable personal and research data
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21 Oct 2026
Southeast Asian enterprises trail consumers in AI usage
Per capita AI usage in Southeast Asia is about a tenth of US levels, a gap the latest e-Conomy SEA report puts down to consumer-led, mobile-first adoption rather than enterprise deployments
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20 Oct 2026
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down
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20 Oct 2026
Future digital ID arrangements remain unclear, PAC hears
Following the scrapping of the government’s digital ID scheme, future plans, costs and data-sharing agreements are not yet settled
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19 Oct 2026
Denmark stands against critics of public sector AI plans
Public authorities to get standing permit to process personal data with artificial intelligence, but critics say it plays too loosely with rights against government intrusion
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18 Oct 2026
OpenAI backs AI incident reporting rules but leaves timelines to governments
OpenAI’s global affairs chief Chris Lehane said the company is behind Singapore’s call for full transparency on AI incidents, but will let governments decide how quickly they must be told
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16 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Barracuda Networks, Plasma Cloud, WWCS and Zyxel Networks
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16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security
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16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security
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16 Oct 2026
Europe is watching Starshield’s actions in Ukraine
Policymakers in Europe may be having second thoughts following the widely reported throttling of SpaceX’s Starshield system in Ukraine
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15 Oct 2026
AI agents can act, but humans must own the outcome
AI agents can operate at machine speed, but people still need to set intent, make the hard calls and answer for outcomes, says Goh Eng Choon of ST Engineering
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15 Oct 2026
MoD’s new SIEM, analytics platform up and running
At a critical moment for Britain's national security, the Ministry of Defence’s upgraded SIEM and security analytics platform is being delivered by Centerprise and Elastic
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15 Oct 2026
UK data watchdog warns Met Police over shadow IT data breach
The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an ‘ongoing failure’ by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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14 Oct 2026
Bank of America hit with £1.2bn fine after money laundering probe
Bank of America has been fined £1.2bn for its failings related to anti-money laundering
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14 Oct 2026
Amazon uses AI-powered ‘risk’ system to track union activity globally
Internal documents disclosed during a Canadian labour dispute show Amazon is using an artificial intelligence-powered risk-scoring system named Atlas to track union organising among its workforce, while training managers on how to handle what it perceives as the ‘threat’ of union activity
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14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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13 Oct 2026
Fast AI adoption needs ‘good brakes’, says former CSA chief
At his first Singapore International Cyber Week since leaving CSA, David Koh drew on the CrowdStrike outage and the UNC3886 attacks to make the case for building resilience into AI adoption from the start
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13 Oct 2026
Microsoft CVE volumes on relentless upward trajectory
Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday drop breaks yet another record, with over 1,400 flaws listed
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13 Oct 2026
Journalists subject to unlawful surveillance seek legal costs after ‘unreasonable conduct’ by PSNI
Court of Appeal to decide whether Investigatory Powers Tribunal has powers to award compensation for legal costs to victims of unlawful surveillance
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13 Oct 2026
NCA cracks down on foreign cyber fraudsters
Almost 30 arrests and four million online profiles were removed in an NCA-hosted operation targeting fraudsters in Ghana and Nigeria
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13 Oct 2026
IMF warns of cyber threat to digitally connected financial markets
Interconnected services plus software from key suppliers and greater digitisation presents a large attack surface for AI-powered attacks
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13 Oct 2026
Bytes adds MSSP player and shares H1 update
Firm makes acquisition as it reveals it has kept the momentum going through the first half of its fiscal year
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13 Oct 2026
Firms can’t count their AI agents, let alone switch them off
RSA’s CEO wants AI agents managed like employees, but other security leaders differ on how far that should go
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13 Oct 2026
Singapore adopts proactive cyber defence under new national strategy
Singapore’s cyber security strategy is built around continuous threat hunting, a national command centre and AI-assisted cyber defence
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12 Oct 2026
Customer security priorities are changing
Research from Context and commentary from Omdia stress the need for the channel to adapt to evolving market conditions
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12 Oct 2026
AI: Faster than the speed of safety
Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for industry-wide collaboration, while the UK government ramps up cyber defence to tackle AI safety concerns
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09 Oct 2026
Fraudster who targeted ransomware victims appears in US court
Zohar Pinhasi stands accused of duping distressed ransomware victims by profiting from fake cyber services that he could not provide
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09 Oct 2026
NCSC and pals call out company that backed Chinese state hackers
The NCSC’s joint advisory names perennial offender Integrity Technology, accusing it of facilitating cyber attacks on behalf of Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state threat actor
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09 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
We recap developments this week at Arrow Electronics, Black & White Engineering, e92plus, Gridheart and Infinity Group
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09 Oct 2026
Why websites need to assess the Wikimedia attack
An OpenAI bot overloaded Wikimedia, attacked a system at the foundation and attempted to change entries
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09 Oct 2026
Microsoft tweaks Windows to secure agentic AI
The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely
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09 Oct 2026
AI model developers have ‘no justification’ for failing to comply with privacy law
Large language models must have lawful basis for processing personal data – ‘benefiting humanity’ is not enough, says Information Commissioner’s Office
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08 Oct 2026
Scope of Asos data breach wider than first reported
Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asos’ user base than first thought, it has emerged
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08 Oct 2026
The Security Interviews: Evren Karaibrahimgil, Welsh FA
Evren Karaibrahimgil, IT manager at the FAW, on securing the national football association of Wales against evolving cyber threats, with Euro 2028 on home soil in mind
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08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation
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07 Oct 2026
UK Supreme Court to decide whether to block ‘trivial’ data protection claims
Businesses are being inundated with trivial AI-generated data protection, say lawyers
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06 Oct 2026
AI slop overwhelms Google’s OSS bug bounty programme
Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports
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06 Oct 2026
Asos app users receive threatening messages after hack
A previously unknown hacking group sent threatening messages to customers of fashion website Asos after allegedly breaching its Snowflake data platform
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06 Oct 2026
Cyber insurers in Asia step up security services as market softens
Zurich Insurance is using its claims data to show organisations in Asia the potential cost of a supplier breach or cloud outage, as brokers push insurers to do more than just offer a policy
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05 Oct 2026
Single mother faces removal from UK over eVisa and admin errors
A malfunctioning electronic visa status and administrative errors on the part of the Home Office have left a single mother and her son facing removal from the UK, despite her proactive efforts to legally secure a new visa
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05 Oct 2026
AI governance gap emerges as GCC’s biggest cyber security challenge
Cybergate CISO Srdjan Babic warns that organisations are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are building the governance, oversight and workforce capabilities needed to manage it securely
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02 Oct 2026
UK and Europe at risk from Chinese tech, says security think tank
Although the UK and Europe have laws to restrict Chinese technology from critical infrastructure, implementation is patchy
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02 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Exclusive Networks, Opengear, MLL Telecom, Distology and Huntress
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01 Oct 2026
Teen hacker arrested amid KillSec cyber gang takedown
A multinational operation targeting the KillSec ransomware gang has led to three arrests, including an unnamed 16-year-old
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01 Oct 2026
Logicalis research adds to picture of customer gaps
The ambition is there to protect data, but the ability to do so is different, and it’s opening the door for those with managed security skills
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30 Sep 2026
AI industry copes with out-of-control agents. Here’s OpenAI’s response
The generative AI vendor delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after testing exposed new safety concerns, showing why AI models need continued evaluation and enterprise runtime controls.
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30 Sep 2026
Half of Brits struggle to spot AI scams
Artificial intelligence-based scams are increasing in number and sophistication, according to National Trading Standards findings
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30 Sep 2026
Cyber security without humans? The rise of agentic AI
The next evolution of cyber security may be autonomous, but industry leaders warn that trust, governance and human judgement can't be automated
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30 Sep 2026
Sweden boosts cyber threat security defences amid AI advances
Sweden is strengthening its national security defences against cyber attacks
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30 Sep 2026
Saudi Arabia’s next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability
Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial intelligence beyond pilots
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30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’
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29 Sep 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet
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29 Sep 2026
Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training
Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents
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28 Sep 2026
Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend
Kiteworks customers are back up and running after a highly unusual preemptive shutdown that came amid indications of an impending cyber attack
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28 Sep 2026
Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches
The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them
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27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it
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25 Sep 2026
Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance
Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in High Court claim for data protection breaches and harassment
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25 Sep 2026
Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers
An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers
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25 Sep 2026
Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment
Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas
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25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox
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24 Sep 2026
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users
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24 Sep 2026
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
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23 Sep 2026
UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced
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23 Sep 2026
Exabeam heralds channel-driven growth
Supplier updates on progress made since it opted to go partner-first and introduce its Apex programme
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23 Sep 2026
Dubai and Microsoft launch real-time cyber resilience dashboard for government entities
Purpose-built zero-trust platform gives Dubai Electronic Security Center continuous visibility into compliance with the emirate’s Information Security Regulation, replacing point-in-time assessments with live security insights
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23 Sep 2026
Engineering Council licenses CIISec to assess cyber pros
Partnership gives cyber pros the opportunity to achieve Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status from the Engineering Council
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22 Sep 2026
Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch
In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles
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22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler
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22 Sep 2026
UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system
The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks
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22 Sep 2026
Cisco: Partners can fill AI security capability gap
Vendor shares research indicating the areas where the channel can assist users with AI, as ISACA research warns that customers are struggling
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22 Sep 2026
Integrity360 launches identity practice
Firm moves quickly after last month’s acquisition of identity player to bolster its offering around security
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22 Sep 2026
Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security
When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind, and how Splunk is helping her raise a new generation of cyber analysts
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22 Sep 2026
NTU uses AI agents to uncover flaws in mobile networks
Nanyang Technological University’s agentic AI tool checks mobile core network code against 3GPP specifications and has found 84 vulnerabilities, including one that lets an attacker hijack a subscriber’s internet session
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21 Sep 2026
EU states failing to exchange information on cross-border cyber security attacks
European Union urged to deploy real-time European cyber alert platform to share information with member states on cross-border cyber attacks
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21 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike warns AI agents are creating a cyber battleground for GCC organisations
Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations
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21 Sep 2026
Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog
Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce’s Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards
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18 Sep 2026
US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics
Official US guidance suggests organisations consider using cyber decoys to strengthen their detection and response capabilities
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18 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at GTIA, Arrow, Bechtle, Westcon-Comstor and Inforcer
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18 Sep 2026
GISEC: UAE advances collective cyber resilience in AI and quantum era
The UAE Cyber Security Council is advancing a strategy built on AI, cyber readiness and emerging technologies as organisations prepare for the next generation of threats
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18 Sep 2026
Softcat makes $1bn move for GDT
Acquisition of US business seen as delivering a host of benefits that will bring more growth options for the channel platter
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17 Sep 2026
Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order
UK government argues that national security would be damaged if it departs from ‘neither confirm nor deny policy’ on Apple ‘backdoor’ notice
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17 Sep 2026
Trustmarque Ultima ushers in TMU brand
Business unveils fresh look as it continues to integrate businesses that came together in a merger 10 months ago
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17 Sep 2026
Microsoft showcases AI-powered cyber defence tools at GISEC
The company highlights new security capabilities as businesses across the UAE look to secure growing artificial intelligence deployments
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17 Sep 2026
GISEC Global highlights growing influence of women leaders in cyber resilience
Female cyber security leaders from government, finance, research and international organisations share how opportunity, inclusion and confidence are helping shape the next generation of cyber talent across the Middle East and beyond
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16 Sep 2026
Tech companies under fire as Europe proposes social media ban for under-15s
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says technology platforms will have to prove they are safe before children can access them
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16 Sep 2026
MSPs are becoming customers’ chief information security officers
Sophos research reveals the extent to which customers are viewing their security partner as a trusted advisor
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16 Sep 2026
Advice for CIOs on AI’s 'existential threat'
Statements by OpenAI chief Sam Altman, following an essay by Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, raise concerns over the safety of frontier models
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15 Sep 2026
Cisco users urged to patch email gateway flaw
Cisco warns defenders to patch a critical vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliance that may be used by attackers to gain root privileges
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15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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15 Sep 2026
UK, US and Netherlands warn of Iranian state spyware campaign
Cyber attackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are targeting opponents and opposition groups with Windows spyware
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15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia
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15 Sep 2026
Cisco, Kets tech to integrate quantum-safe networks
Collaboration aims to demonstrate how quantum-safe security can be introduced into existing enterprise networks without requiring overhaul of existing infrastructure
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14 Sep 2026
UK rolls out digital ID for alcohol sales
Changes to the law that will enable the retail and hospitality industry to introduce digital identity checks for alcohol sales are being rolled out
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14 Sep 2026
UK lawmakers call for new law to protect human rights from AI systems
MPs and peers call for the UK to create a statutory AI oversight body with powers to test and evaluate high-risk uses of AI and to prevent the deployment of AI that poses risks to human rights
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11 Sep 2026
US lawmakers call for UK court to lift secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ surveillance
Congress warns that the UK’s unprecedented secrecy over a ‘backdoor’ surveillance order against Apple is straining relations between the two countries
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11 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Team Metalogic, Godel, Onecom Partners, Flare and Blackpoint Cyber
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11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency and procurement leverage
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10 Sep 2026
Anthropic calls for ‘verifiable effort’ to control frontier AI
After Claude Mythos circumvented guardrails in July, Anthropic now wants an industry effort to control the pace of frontier model development
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09 Sep 2026
Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure
The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers