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05 Dec 2025
AWS CloudOps hones multi-cloud support for AI, resilience
Network, observability and Kubernetes management news at re:Invent aligned around themes of multi-cloud scale and resilience amid AI growth and cloud outage concerns.
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05 Dec 2025
New HPE node enriches data in real time for AI pipelines
At HPE Discover Barcelona 2025, HPE unveils data intelligence nodes that enrich, organize and prepare data for advanced analytics and machine learning applications.
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05 Dec 2025
News brief: RCE flaws persist as top cybersecurity threat
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
Security News from the past 365 days
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23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice’s OpenAI deal paves way to sovereign AI
OpenAI has been busy signing deals with the UK government to bolster UK artificial intelligence. It’s now launching data residency for UK customers
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23 Oct 2025
Cabinet Office pinches digital ID responsibility from GDS
Prime minister Keir Starmer announces Cabinet Office will take over responsibility for the government’s new digital identity scheme
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22 Oct 2025
Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era
Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption
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22 Oct 2025
Jaguar Land Rover attack to cost UK £1.9bn, say cyber monitors
The UK's Cyber Monitoring Centre calculates the overall cost of the Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack will be almost two billion pounds
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22 Oct 2025
Softcat CEO talks expansion, AI and growing in a tough market
With the publication of the channel player’s FY25 results, Softcat’s boss shares context around the firm’s strong performance
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22 Oct 2025
Container storage: Five key things you need to know
We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer
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22 Oct 2025
Softcat delivers again in FY ’25
Channel player has delivered growth for more than two decades as the focus on data and digital technology continues to pay off
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22 Oct 2025
Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services
What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility
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22 Oct 2025
Building security and trust in AI agents
AI 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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22 Oct 2025
Building security and trust in AI agents
AI 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
New cyber resilience centre to help SMEs fend off cyber threats
Spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation, the cyber resilience centre will equip SMEs in the city-state with cyber security capabilities to mitigate and recover from cyber attacks
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20 Oct 2025
France’s Atos eyes UK public sector with investment in secure UK infrastructure
French IT services supplier invests in highly secure and accredited UK-based infrastructure
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20 Oct 2025
Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide
Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action
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17 Oct 2025
News brief: National cyberdefenses under mounting pressure
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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17 Oct 2025
Opswat continues to invest in UK channel growth
Security player Opswat signals it will increase headcount next year and build on the momentum enjoyed in 2025
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17 Oct 2025
PCL Group unveils SME security offering
Channel player PCL Group invests in developing a service to add data protection to the options it can provide to its customer base
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17 Oct 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at ANS, Hammer, e92plus, TD Synnex, Intermedia, LevelBlue, Barracuda and Westcon-Comstor
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16 Oct 2025
Gov.uk One Login live with digital Veteran Card
The digital version of the Veteran Card is the first government-issued document available in the Gov.uk One Login app, allowing veterans to use their smartphone to access discounts and services
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16 Oct 2025
GTIA sharing MSP threat intelligence
Organisation keen to get members engaged with its forums to share, track and expose the latest efforts by cyber criminals to underline the managed service provider community
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16 Oct 2025
Microsoft identifies boardroom cyber awareness as a top priority
Digital security report urges IT leaders to convince company boards that cyber security is a board-level problem
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16 Oct 2025
Securing the AI era: Huawei’s cyber security strategy for the GCC
At Gitex 2025, Sultan Mahmood, chief security officer for Huawei Gulf North, outlined how the company supports GCC digital sovereignty, AI security, and enterprise cyber resilience
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16 Oct 2025
Gitex 2025: Help AG aims to be global cyber force as UAE leads AI security transformation
Acting CEO Aleksandar Valjarevic discusses how Help AG is evolving from a regional cyber security authority into a global innovation-driven player, powered by sovereign services, AI automation and managed security models
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16 Oct 2025
F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code
F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry
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15 Oct 2025
ICO fines Capita £14m after ransomware caused major data breach
Outsourcing giant hit with £14m fine over 2023 cyber attack, but costs could rise as legal actions continue
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15 Oct 2025
Patch Tuesday: Windows 10 end of life pain for IT departments
Windows 10 is no longer supported, but that does not mean it is not impacted by the latest Patch Tuesday update
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15 Oct 2025
Mimecast channel boss outlines strategy
With three months under his belt as worldwide channel chief at the security player, Micheal McCollough shares his priorities
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15 Oct 2025
Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes
The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist
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15 Oct 2025
Dreamforce 2025: Benioff vaunts Slack as interface to agentic enterprise
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface
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15 Oct 2025
China responsible for rising cyber attacks, says NCSC
Ministers write to business leaders urging them to step up cyber security in wake of threats from ransomware and nation state-sponsored hackers
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14 Oct 2025
Why Keir Starmer’s mandatory national digital ID system may be neither mandatory nor national
The government’s proposals for a national digital identity scheme have been widely criticised, but is the prime minister smart enough to realise that an alternative plan could bring wider public benefits?
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14 Oct 2025
NCSC calls for action after rise in ‘nationally significant’ cyber incidents
National Cyber Security Centre says businesses should take action now as the number of nationally significant cyber incidents doubles
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13 Oct 2025
Court dismisses Apple’s appeal against Home Office backdoor
Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules that Apple’s appeal against a Home Office order to access encrypted data of Apple users world wide will no longer proceed.
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13 Oct 2025
Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered
Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist
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10 Oct 2025
News brief: AI's cybersecurity risks weigh on business leaders
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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09 Oct 2025
Chat Control encryption plans delayed after EU states fail to agree
Plans to require technology companies across Europe to monitor the contents of encrypted messages and emails have been delayed after European Union member states were unable to reach agreement following German objections
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09 Oct 2025
Warlock ransomware may be linked to Chinese state
The operators of Warlock ransomware who exploited a set of SharePoint Server vulnerabilities earlier this year likely have some kind of link to the Chinese government, researchers claim
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09 Oct 2025
Canalys: MSP foundations are eroding
Experts at the Canalys Channel Forum believe the pressure to increase security and the demand for co-managed services are affecting the traditional approach to market
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08 Oct 2025
Teens arrested over Kido nursery hack
London’s Met Police arrested two teenage boys in Hertfordshire on suspicion of involvement in the recent Kido nursery hack that saw the personal data of infants stolen and leaked
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08 Oct 2025
Qilin gang claims cyber attack on Japanese brewing giant
The Qilin ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has halted brewing at Asahi Group Holdings, causing Japanese retailers to run low on beer
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07 Oct 2025
Alert over Medusa ransomware attacks targeting Fortra MFT
Microsoft warns it is seeing potential mass exploitation of a Fortra GoAnywhere vulnerability by a threat actor linked to the Medusa ransomware-as-a-service operation.
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
Nato 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
The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta
Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model
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06 Oct 2025
Oracle patches E-Business suite targeted by Cl0p ransomware
Oracle pushes a patch for a dangerous zero-day under active exploitation by one of the most notorious ransomware gangs around
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06 Oct 2025
Police ordered to give reasons in closed court for seizing phone of UK Hamas lawyer
London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing and copying the contents of a phone belonging to a UK lawyer who represented Hamas, but refuses an injunction to prevent police from reviewing the phone until after judicial review
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06 Oct 2025
Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits
In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts
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06 Oct 2025
Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage
Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%
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06 Oct 2025
Gartner: IT leaders need to prepare for GenAI legal issues
GenAI is being embedded into enterprise software. This has implications for governance and regulatory compliance
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06 Oct 2025
UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use
The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or consultation
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05 Oct 2025
Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1
Latest version of Backup & Replication adds MSP features, plus Proxmox VM backup functionality, while Nakivo responds to critical vulnerability it was tipped off about in February
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03 Oct 2025
News brief: Cybersecurity weakened by government shutdown
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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02 Oct 2025
PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has commissioned a senior lawyer to report back on whether there was any misconduct by police officers following the McCullough Review into the surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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01 Oct 2025
Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption
A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service
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01 Oct 2025
US government shutdown stalls cyber intel sharing
A key US law covering cyber security intelligence sharing has expired without an extension or replacement amid a total shutdown of the federal government, putting global security collaboration at risk.
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01 Oct 2025
Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite
With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists.
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01 Oct 2025
EU Chat Control plans pose ‘existential catastrophic risk’ to encryption, says Signal
As EU member states prepare to vote on plans to mandate tech companies to introduce technology to scan messages before they are encrypted, Signal warns that Chat Control will create new security risks
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30 Sep 2025
MPs press outsourcer TCS over Jaguar cyber attack
The government’s cross-bench Business and Trade Committee has written to Tata Consultancy Services seeking answers over possible links to cyber attacks on Jaguar Land Rover, Marks and Spencer, and Co-op
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30 Sep 2025
Apple’s first iOS 26 security update fixes memory corruption flaw
Apple 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
Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK
In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour
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30 Sep 2025
Harrods hackers start contacting customers
Retailer Harrods has revealed that a number of customers whose data was stolen in a cyber attack have been contacted by the perpetrators
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30 Sep 2025
Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity
Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes
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30 Sep 2025
Google unveils AI-powered security to trap ransomware attacks
The new security capability, available at no extra cost for most Google Workspace users, detects mass file encryption during ransomware attacks, stops the attacks from spreading and allows for restoration of files
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30 Sep 2025
Cloudian launches object storage AI platform at corporate LLM
Object storage specialist teams up with Nvidia to provide RAG-based chatbot capability for organisations that want to mine in-house information in an air-gapped large language model
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29 Sep 2025
UK and US urge Cisco users to ditch end-of-life security appliances
An ongoing campaign of cyber attacks is targeting users of end-of-life Cisco security appliance kit
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29 Sep 2025
Harrods hit by second cyber attack in six months
Data on approximately 430,000 Harrods shoppers was stolen in a third-party breach, but the cyber attack is not related to an earlier Scattered Spider incident, says the retailer
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29 Sep 2025
JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing
Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance
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26 Sep 2025
News brief: AI cybersecurity worries mount
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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26 Sep 2025
Keir Starmer launches digital ID scheme, but does it stand a chance?
Amid an economic crisis, public scepticism and confusing messages, could the government’s digital identity programme fail before it even gets off the ground?
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26 Sep 2025
Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches
Business 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
Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight
Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers
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26 Sep 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Crayon, SoftwareOne, Exclusive Networks, Arrow and Westcon-Comstor
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26 Sep 2025
Government to introduce mandatory digital ID
Prime minister Keir Starmer says the scheme, which will be compulsory by the end of this parliament, will help crack down on illegal workers, as well as provide benefits to citizens
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26 Sep 2025
Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same
At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations
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25 Sep 2025
Government might support Jaguar Land Rover supply chain to mitigate cyber attack impact
The government is considering buying car parts from JLR’s supply chain to sell them on to the company once it recovers from the August cyber attack
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25 Sep 2025
Dell and Lenovo hand partners fresh products to pitch
Hardware suppliers identify private cloud and the SME market as areas where they and their channels can make an impact
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25 Sep 2025
Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m
Co-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
Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing
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25 Sep 2025
Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures
We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected
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24 Sep 2025
Oktane 2025: Okta takes aim at agentic AI governance gap
Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.
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24 Sep 2025
NCA arrests man following cyber attack that disrupted air travel
The NCA has arrested a man in West Sussex over the cyber attack on Collins Aerospace that disrupted Heathrow and other EU airports. He has been released on conditional bail
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24 Sep 2025
McCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no ‘systemic’ surveillance of journalists
A review by Angus McCullough KC reveals that Northern Ireland police failed to comply with the law but that there was no ‘widespread and systemic’ surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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24 Sep 2025
Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI
Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’
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23 Sep 2025
SolarWinds warns over dangerous RCE flaw
A 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
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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23 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover extends cyber attack-induced shutdown to October
Jaguar Land Rover is extending its production shutdown caused by the 31 August cyber attack into next month, as government ministers drop by and supply chain workers lose wages
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23 Sep 2025
‘Our worst day’: The untold story of the Electoral Commission cyber attack
As head of digital at The Electoral Commission, Andrew Simpson’s mettle was tested when threat actors gained access to the regulator’s email systems and accessed sensitive voter data. Three years on, he tells his story to Computer Weekly
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22 Sep 2025
Teen charged with Las Vegas casino cyber heist
Another arrest of a teenage hacker associated with the Scattered Spider gang has been made, this time in relation to two 2023 cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos and resorts
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22 Sep 2025
Cyber attack that downed airport systems confirmed as ransomware
Authorities in Europe say the cyber attack that caused disruption to passenger-facing services at multiple airports, including Heathrow, was the result of ransomware, as investigations continue
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22 Sep 2025
PSNI chief sorry over failure to delete data unlawfully seized from journalists
Police Service of Northern Ireland apologises for failing to destroy data that was unlawfully seized from journalists, despite a court agreement, and to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal for failing to disclose key information to the court
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19 Sep 2025
News brief: KillSec, Yurei score successful ransomware attacks
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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19 Sep 2025
Government meets with car parts suppliers amid JLR cyber crisis
Government officials have met with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders to discuss the challenges they are facing amid disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover
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19 Sep 2025
UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience
A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector
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19 Sep 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Exertis Enterprise, Kite Distribution, e92spark, Akamai Technologies, Inforcer and Asanti Data Centres
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19 Sep 2025
French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack
A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups
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19 Sep 2025
Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers
The 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
The 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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18 Sep 2025
Teen hackers charged over Scattered Spider attack on TfL
Two men have appeared in court in London in connection with the September 2024 cyber attack that disrupted online services at Transport for London
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18 Sep 2025
Bytes shows resilience in first half of 2025
Channel player Bytes shares trading update covering its first half, with the business remaining on track
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18 Sep 2025
Should you run VMware 7 unsupported?
In just a few weeks, VMware version 7 reaches end of life, which means Broadcom will no longer issue patches
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17 Sep 2025
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy
Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
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17 Sep 2025
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty
Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust
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17 Sep 2025
Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials