Category: ComputerWeekly

Defaulting to open: Decoding the (very public) CrowdStrike event
27
Sep
2024

Defaulting to open: Decoding the (very public) CrowdStrike event

We live in an era of cyber ‘incidents,’ from WannaCry to MOVEit. However, it’s undeniably rare that a vendor finds…

Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
27
Sep
2024

Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm

A newly discovered series of four dangerous flaws in the Common Unix Printing System (Cups), which is used across virtually…

AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation
27
Sep
2024

AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands accused of overstating the competitive threat posed to its business by enterprises repatriating workloads to…

More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
27
Sep
2024

More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed

A change in Post Office behaviour after it introduced software to computerise branch accounts in 1993 mirrors an increase in…

Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
27
Sep
2024

Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider

The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi…

UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
26
Sep
2024

UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm

The UK town of Blyth in Northumberland is set to become home to Europe’s biggest datacentre devoted to housing artificial…

Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
26
Sep
2024

Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs

Public Wi-Fi services at 19 of the UK’s most important railway stations, including most London termini, are in the process…

Semiconductor market scaleups to benefit from multimillion-pound investment from Innovate UK
26
Sep
2024

Semiconductor market scaleups to benefit from multimillion-pound investment from Innovate UK

The UK semiconductor industry has secured millions of pounds in government funding to help accelerate the growth of 16 of…

Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims
26
Sep
2024

Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims

A campaign group set up by the children of subpostmasters who had their lives ruined by the Post Office scandal…

CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
25
Sep
2024

CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage

A senior CrowdStrike executive has apologised in front of a United States government committee for the 19 July outage that…

Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices
25
Sep
2024

Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices

Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for…

NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO
25
Sep
2024

NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO

Everyone knows the “these go to 11” scene from Spinal Tap. Another great moment is when the band gathers around…