Category: ComputerWeekly

Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform
28
Sep
2023

Yahoo picks Intigriti to run crowdsourced bug bounty programme

Digital media firm Yahoo has launched a public, crowdsourced bug bounty programme through ethical hacking specialist Intigriti, inviting ethical hackers…

Five more subpostmasters have IT system-related convictions overturned
27
Sep
2023

Five more subpostmasters have IT system-related convictions overturned

Five more subpostmaster victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have had wrongful criminal convictions overturned. A total of…

Campaigning former subpostmaster fears compensation for scandal victims will be delayed to 2025
27
Sep
2023

Post Office had no interest in subpostmaster welfare when taking legal action, says Fujitsu memo

The Post Office’s primary objective was to “protect the integrity of its [IT] system” when taking subpostmasters to court over…

NATO countries must coordinate their cyber forces to combat the Russian threat  
27
Sep
2023

Researchers offer free threat briefings on Vegas casino hackers

Organisations concerned about the possible impact of cyber attacks originating through the threat actor tracked variously as Scattered Spider, UNC3944…

BlackCat on the hook for cyber attack that crippled Vegas casinos
27
Sep
2023

City of Las Vegas masters cyber incident response with Darktrace

At the start of September 2023, the US city of Las Vegas, Nevada hit the cyber security headlines, when two…

IBM reorients to offset historic storage hardware decline
26
Sep
2023

IBM reorients to offset historic storage hardware decline

In this storage vendor profile we look at IBM, which has a long history and in IT much more widely…

Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government
26
Sep
2023

UK government quietly disbands data ethics advisory board

The UK government has disbanded the independent advisory board of its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) without a…

Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
26
Sep
2023

Sony alleged victim of new extortion gang

An emergent cyber extortion operation going by the name Ransomed.vc claims to have compromised the systems of Japanese electronics and…

Umbrella market regulation: Government seeks contractor guidance on how to proceed
26
Sep
2023

IT contractors ‘forced against their will’ to work for umbrella companies, survey finds

IT contractors are being forced into providing their services through umbrella companies “against their will”, with many complaining about not…

Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO
26
Sep
2023

Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

In an age of cloud-native applications, object storage is the future, and storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage…

Interview: Ashish Gupta, head of EMEA at HCLTech
26
Sep
2023

Cover-ups still the norm in the wake of a cyber incident

Despite broad hints from the likes of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that…

HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers
26
Sep
2023

HMRC names and shames non-compliant umbrella firms for running tax avoidance schemes

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has added a further three umbrella companies to its public list of named tax avoidance…