UK government to bring in ransomware payment ban
Hospitals and other public health bodies, public sector organisations such as councils and schools, and operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) will be among those…
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Interview: How OpenAI is making ChatGPT public and private sector-ready
OpenAI’s mission statement is focused on building artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit everyone. It has now signed a strategic partnership with the UK government,…
The Bank of England’s quiet ‘Big Bang’
The Bank of England has completed the replacement of the UK financial system’s “beating heart”, and is making good progress in its goal of providing…
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in a move it claims will reduce…
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
Among storage player claims about how well-suited their products are to AI workloads, Hitachi Vantara has a unique backstory to support its arguments. Namely, that…
Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters
A former BBC journalist who exposed the involvement of MI5 in concealing evidence of abuse at the Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland was repeatedly…
The most influential people in UK IT
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UK may be seeking to pull back from Apple encryption row with US
The government may be seeking to pull back from a diplomatic row with the US over UK demands to require Apple to give the UK…
Darktrace buys network visibility specialist Mira
British cyber giant Darktrace has announced it is to acquire network traffic visibility specialist Mira Security for an undisclosed sum as it seeks to reinforce…
Patch ToolShell SharePoint zero-day immediately, says Microsoft
Organisations running on-premise instances of Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration and document management platform should update without delay after multiple reports of an as-yet unidentified party exploiting…
Meet the deepfake fraudster who applied to work at a deepfake specialist
Last year, security company KnowBe4 helped spark a wave of interest in fraudulent workers when it revealed extensive details of how it uncovered a rogue…
The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent
Jason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, firmly believes the blame for cyber weaknesses needs to shift towards how systems are…