Category: ComputerWeekly

Norwegian data privacy experts sound alarm over generative AI
31
Aug
2023

Thousands of Klarna staff access ChatGPT Enterprise

Payments fintech Klarna is providing its employees with access to OpenAI’s enterprise version of ChatGPT in a bid to enable…

Sandworm attacks Ukraine with Infamous Chisel malware
31
Aug
2023

Sandworm attacks Ukraine with Infamous Chisel malware

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its partner agencies in the Anglophone Five Eyes collective have formally attributed…

Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again
31
Aug
2023

Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again

Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their…

Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round
31
Aug
2023

Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure

The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the…

Regulatory ‘lacuna’ around facial recognition threatens rights
31
Aug
2023

Home Office and MoD seeking new facial-recognition tech

The UK government’s Defence and Security Accelerator (Dasa) has launched a “market exploration” of facial-recognition technologies to identify mature capabilities…

GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority
31
Aug
2023

GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an IT analyst firm owned by Computer Weekly publisher TechTarget, has published research about generative AI…

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner resigns
31
Aug
2023

MPs say UK at real risk of falling behind on AI regulation

The government should introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-specific legislation in the next session of Parliament or there is a danger the…

MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
30
Aug
2023

NCSC warns over possible AI prompt injection attacks

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been discussing the damage that could one day be caused by the…

Cyber world hails downfall of Qakbot trojan
30
Aug
2023

Cyber world hails downfall of Qakbot trojan

Cyber security experts have welcomed the apparent downfall of the Qakbot malware, following a multinational law enforcement hack-back operation, encompassing…

Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings
30
Aug
2023

Google Cloud gunning for enterprise growth with generative AI push

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian hailed the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as being one of the most “profound…

July sees huge jump in open banking payments
30
Aug
2023

July sees huge jump in open banking payments

Over 11 million UK payments were made using open banking technology in July, more than double the number during the…

Met Police data platform £64m over budget
30
Aug
2023

Met police data platform deployed with data protection issues

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed its Connect integrated record management system in November 2022 despite multiple “issues of concern”…