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21 Jul 2025
Microsoft SharePoint attacks target on-premises servers
By Shane SniderThousands of organizations, including government agencies, running SharePoint on-premises are vulnerable after Microsoft issued a security alert warning of active attacks.
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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 ShittuA key factor is driving how organizations like The Ocean Cleanup and Dine Brands apply AWS' technology to their applications and needs.
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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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24 Jul 2024
PBM execs defend role amidst bipartisan drug price scrutiny
By Alivia Kaylor, MScPBM executives defended their role in a House hearing as lawmakers criticized their influence on high drug prices.
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23 Jul 2024
Meta intros its biggest open source AI model: Llama 3.1 405B
By Esther ShittuThe model is the biggest open source model yet, the tech giant claims. The social media company also upgraded its model context window to 128k and updated its AI assistant.
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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
Adtech, regulators react to Google's third-party cookie reversal
By Don FluckingerFollowing many delays and an alternative still in development, Google has relented to advertisers on the timing of depreciating third-party cookies.
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23 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage shows business continuity still a must
By Tim McCarthyDisaster recovery has centered on cyberattacks the past few years, but the CrowdStrike outage illustrates why companies can't forget about traditional business continuity.
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
By Alex ScroxtonSecure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal
By Beth PariseauDatadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.
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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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23 Jul 2024
Most hospitals face public health data exchange challenges
By Hannah NelsonWhile electronic public health reporting has grown significantly in recent years, hospitals and physicians continue to report barriers to public health data exchange.
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23 Jul 2024
OIG audit: HHS secretary must improve cloud security controls
By Jill McKeonHHS-OIG auditors recommended that the HHS Office of the Secretary address gaps in its cloud security controls to better safeguard its cloud information systems.
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23 Jul 2024
Global broadband reliability gets consistently higher
By Joe O’HalloranLatest study from Opensignal places UK among the top countries for broadband reliability, reaching third out of 18 markets surveyed, behind only Sweden and Norway
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23 Jul 2024
UK 5G reaches new heights in successful flight trials
By Joe O’HalloranUK consortium completes flight trials for airborne next-generation mobile infrastructure designed to offer applications such as restoring networks after disasters where traditional mobile infrastructure has been disrupted
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
By Cliff SaranThe ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
How ACO models can improve to support patient engagement
By Sara HeathGreater ACO success will come with more flexible beneficiary communication policies governing the models.
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23 Jul 2024
Roche’s weight-loss drug trials yield positive results
By Alivia Kaylor, MScRoche's $2.7B investment in Carmot's GLP-1 drugs shows promising early weight-loss results, positioning it as a strong market contender.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry
By Caroline DonnellyDigital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works
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23 Jul 2024
NTT Data unveils Edge AI platform for industry, manufacturing
By Joe O’HalloranInfrastructure and services company claims to be breaking down IT/OT silos with what it says is industry’s first fully managed Edge artificial intelligence offering, enabling advanced AI use cases for industrial and manufacturing applications
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23 Jul 2024
Virgin Media O2 to begin 2G network transition
By Joe O’HalloranAfter announcing that it will be turning off 3G in 2025, operator reveals plans to start moving customers off 2G network, claiming to be the first UK company of its kind to make such a move
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23 Jul 2024
Dragos: New ICS malware FrostyGoop abuses Modbus
By Alexander CulafiDragos published research Tuesday unveiling an industrial control systems-focused malware it dubbed FrostyGoop that targets Modbus to disrupt critical infrastructure.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital apps effective stopgap for mental healthcare access challenges
By Anuja VaidyaDigital mental health apps can improve depression and anxiety symptoms among patients who are waiting to receive mental healthcare services, new research reveals.
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
By Aaron TanHuawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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23 Jul 2024
Nationwide Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats
By Alivia Kaylor, MScNationwide Listeria outbreak in deli meats affects 12 states, causing 28 illnesses and 2 deaths. High-risk groups should avoid deli meats or heat them thoroughly.
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22 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Faulty CrowdStrike update affected 8.5M devices
By Arielle WaldmanMicrosoft says less than 1% of all Windows machines were affected by a defective CrowdStrike Falcon update on Friday, but the disruption has been widespread.
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22 Jul 2024
Apollo takes off for Converge to break optical networking terabit barrier
By Joe O’HalloranPhilippines fibre broadband and technology provider taps technology firm to deploy optical network system to enhance network capacity from 800Gbps to 1.2Tbps per channel
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22 Jul 2024
Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
By Cliff SaranWe speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved
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22 Jul 2024
NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest
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22 Jul 2024
ChatGPT demonstrates promise for digital pathology
By Shania KennedyA private, domain-specific version of ChatGPT can accurately respond to digital pathology questions and help clinicians utilize complex histopathology software.
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22 Jul 2024
Nokia, Bharti Airtel claim success in 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal comms tech provider successfully completes first 5G non-standalone Cloud RAN trial with leading Indian telco to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources
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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
BT fined £17.5m for ‘catastrophic’ emergency network outage
By Joe O’HalloranUK comms regulator issues fine to country’s leading telco for being underprepared to handle disruption in June 2023, affecting 14,000 emergency calls and lasting 10.5 hours
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22 Jul 2024
AMA updates CPT code set for avian influenza vaccines
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe update to the CPT code set includes codes for vaccines protecting patients from the H5N8 strain of avian influenza.
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22 Jul 2024
Openreach accelerates copper broadband Stop Sell
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s largest telco continues network transformation making full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses, with more than four million premises currently taking a service
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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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21 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices
By Aaron TanAbout 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational