Category: ComputerWeekly

Public Accounts Committee highlights smart meter failures
20
Oct
2023

Public Accounts Committee highlights smart meter failures

The update on the roll-out of smart meters by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reported that progress is currently…

Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres
20
Oct
2023

Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres

Partially funded by grants from the European Commission, Belgian research and technology organisation (RTO) imec recently completed work that demonstrates…

Computer Weekly contributor named Godfather of UK Security
20
Oct
2023

Computer Weekly contributor named Godfather of UK Security

Mike Gillespie, founder of cyber consultancy Advent IM and a frequent contributor to the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank, has…

Alert over Chinese cyber campaign targeting critical networks
20
Oct
2023

Five Eyes chiefs warn of Chinese spying campaign to steal high-tech secrets

The heads of the security services of the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have urged businesses and universities…

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
20
Oct
2023

RagnarLocker cyber gang that pioneered double extortion busted

The RagnarLocker ransomware collective that was an early and enthusiastic pioneer of the notorious double extortion technique has become the…

CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters
20
Oct
2023

CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters

It’s been a huge 12 months for data and models. From the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such…

Five key questions about disaster recovery as a service
20
Oct
2023

Five key questions about disaster recovery as a service

Research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) suggests more than half of firms now use DRaaS. That’s because DRaaS allows customers…

NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout
20
Oct
2023

NetApp: NAS pioneer well set for the cloud revolution

In this storage supplier profile, we look at NetApp, which made its name synonymous with the network-attached storage (NAS) filer…

Fixing developer AI fear is a team effort
20
Oct
2023

Fixing developer AI fear is a team effort

A study has found that software developers around the world are concerned about their job prospects as artificial intelligence (AI)…

Nuclear regulator raps EDF over cyber compliance
19
Oct
2023

Nuclear regulator raps EDF over cyber compliance

France-headquartered energy giant EDF has been singled out by the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and placed under significantly…

Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
19
Oct
2023

Fears grow over extent of Cisco IOS XE zero-day

Three days after Cisco disclosed details of a dangerous zero-day in its IOS XE software, known compromises appear to be…

TechUK publishes ‘UK tech plan’ for next government
19
Oct
2023

DORA: Moving into a new era of digital resilience

Operational resilience is the discipline that is taking organisations beyond an internally-focused business continuity or information technology disaster recovery (ITDR)…