Category: ComputerWeekly

Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor
02
Apr
2024

Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor

Users of the open source XZ Utils data compression library may have narrowly avoided falling victim to a major supply…

Finish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures
02
Apr
2024

Finish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures

Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan, are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
01
Apr
2024

Security Think Tank: Ransomware lessons from the armed forces

Coming from a military intelligence background, focusing on the financing of terrorist groups, I saw the power of the dollar…

Biometric revolution in IAM: The future of authentication
29
Mar
2024

Organisations getting better at spotting identity fraud

The barriers to committing identity fraud are tumbling down, but organisations are proving that thanks to adoption of more advanced…

Regulatory ‘lacuna’ around facial recognition threatens rights
28
Mar
2024

Facial recognition endangers us all without a clear legal basis

On 27 January 2024, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee in the House of Lords became the latest voice to…

UK plc going backwards on cyber maturity, Cisco report claims
28
Mar
2024

UK plc going backwards on cyber maturity, Cisco report claims

UK organisations appear to be going backwards when it comes to their levels of cyber security maturity, with just 2%…

Coping with the ongoing chip crisis in the UK
28
Mar
2024

Government lifts chip strategy with a bit more cash

The government has unveiled £16.6m of funding, which it said has been earmarked for the development of semiconductors that power…

Prepare for quantum to fundamentally change PKI effectiveness
28
Mar
2024

HM Treasury builds out its data science team

The UK’s HM Treasury has expanded its headcount of data scientists as part of its plans to drive “data transformation”…

Operator of Sellafield nuclear facility denies hacking claims
28
Mar
2024

Sellafield to be prosecuted over alleged cyber compliance failure

Sellafield Ltd, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation currently working to wind up operations at the troubled Sellafield nuclear facility in…

Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage
28
Mar
2024

Podcast: What is distributed cloud storage and what are its benefits?

In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We…

Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
27
Mar
2024

Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps

Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, has launched a consultation into the feasibility of introducing a more dynamic price cap on…

Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
27
Mar
2024

Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation

Threat actors operating at the behest of government backers are significantly more likely to be behind the exploitation of newly…