Category: ComputerWeekly

GCHQ breached privacy rights of IT professional and security researcher, human rights court rules
13
Sep
2023

GCHQ breached privacy rights of IT professional and security researcher, human rights court rules

Britain’s spy agencies violated the privacy rights of two foreign nationals living outside the UK as part of the UK’s…

GitHub fixes race condition that could have led to ‘repojacking’
13
Sep
2023

GitHub fixes race condition that could have led to ‘repojacking’

GitHub has fixed a race condition vulnerability in its repository creation and user renaming operations that could have enabled threat…

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
13
Sep
2023

BianLian ransomware gang holds Save the Children hostage

NGO Save the Children, one of the world’s oldest and largest charities, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a…

Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform
13
Sep
2023

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service

As autumn begins and the thoughts of security teams turn to mists and mellow fruitfulness, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update arrives…

Cisco tightens link between observability and security
13
Sep
2023

Cisco tightens link between observability and security

Cisco has updated its full-stack observability platform with the latest version of Cisco Secure Application, designed to help IT departments…

Storm-0324 gathers over Microsoft Teams
13
Sep
2023

Storm-0324 gathers over Microsoft Teams

A threat actor tracked in Microsoft’s taxonomy as Storm-0324 has been observed switching up its tactics to incorporate social engineering…

NCSC and ICO sign MoU to forge deeper collaborative links
13
Sep
2023

NCSC and ICO sign MoU to forge deeper collaborative links

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief executive Lindy Cameron and information commissioner John Edwards have signed a joint memorandum of…

ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data
13
Sep
2023

ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop hopes to give security researchers and defenders a little extra help when…

US casino giant MGM Resorts battles 36-hour outage after cyber attack
12
Sep
2023

US casino giant MGM Resorts battles 36-hour outage after cyber attack

US leisure and hospitality giant MGM Resorts is battling through an IT outage after a cyber attack forced it to…

Oxford’s Mini iFactory runs on S/4Hana
12
Sep
2023

Oxford’s Mini iFactory runs on S/4Hana

BMW’s new factory for the electric Mini in Oxford is using SAP S/4 Hana. The Mini plant in Cowley, Oxford…

Podcast: ‘Data first’ a key principle of digital transformation
12
Sep
2023

Podcast: ‘Data first’ a key principle of digital transformation

Be certain about who needs access to data, the purpose the data will be put to, and that the data…

Norwegian data privacy experts sound alarm over generative AI
12
Sep
2023

European enterprises to spend more on generative IT to close gap on US

European enterprises are increasing investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at the fastest ever rate as they attempt to…