Category: ComputerWeekly

Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
03
Oct
2024

Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly

Local authorities need more support to responsibly procure artificial intelligence (AI) systems, as existing government guidance does not provide a…

SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
03
Oct
2024

SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools

About two-thirds of security operations centre (SOC) staff feel overwhelmed by a tide of pointless cyber alerts from products made…

Rise of the cyber clones: When seeing isn’t believing
03
Oct
2024

Rise of the cyber clones: When seeing isn’t believing

Armed with little more than a Flipper Zero, a few apps that specialise in deepfakes and a desire to cause…

Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
03
Oct
2024

Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood

The relationship between the Post Office and its main IT supplier has been strained to the limit in recent years,…

UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims
02
Oct
2024

UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims

The UK and Singapore have committed to lead on developing new policy guidance designed to help support organisations that fall…

Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for 'perverse' court decisions
02
Oct
2024

Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions

A senior police officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland claimed that the provinces’ judicial system made “perverse” judicial…

Cyber UK's quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
02
Oct
2024

Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains

Four years on from an ill-timed NCSC advertisement encouraging people to consider retraining in cyber security, security appears to be…

Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
02
Oct
2024

Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

Hundreds of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform were left unable to work after mass account suspensions caused by…

AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment
02
Oct
2024

AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is in the midst of an investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, after…

GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity
02
Oct
2024

GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity

IT leaders are prioritising generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects that improve productivity or operational efficiency as the key benefits for…

Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
02
Oct
2024

Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash

The Post Office has been paying more than £80,000 per week for contracted IT engineers to sit idle due to…

‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office
02
Oct
2024

‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office

MoneyGram said it is “shocked and disappointed” by Post Office portrayal on a contract breakdown, which saw money transfer services…