Category: ComputerWeekly

Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet
15
Nov
2023

Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet

Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all…

Where tech can smooth out the retail returns process
15
Nov
2023

Where tech can smooth out the retail returns process

Fashion retailer H&M started to charge customers for online product returns in September 2023. Citing a rise in delivery and…

November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days
15
Nov
2023

November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five zero-day vulnerabilities on the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2023, three of…

NCSC warns over ‘enduring’ LockBit threat
15
Nov
2023

US government reinforces ICBC hack link to Citrix Bleed

The possibility that this was the case was first raised by security researcher and commentator Kevin Beaumont via social media…

DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?
15
Nov
2023

DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as…

Pentland Brands marshals Google BigQuery to improve customer insight
14
Nov
2023

Million Brits could lose access to bank branch if closure rate continues

A million people in the UK could lose easy access to a bank branch in their local area, as banks…

Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup
14
Nov
2023

Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup

Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen…

ICO under fire for taking limited action over serious data breaches
14
Nov
2023

Fast-acting cyber gangs increasingly disabling telemetry logs

Amid a well-documented crash in dwell times – the period in between a threat actor accessing a victim network and executing…

Are firms using mergers and acquisitions to inherit talent?
14
Nov
2023

Are firms using mergers and acquisitions to inherit talent?

Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, particularly in the tech sector, may have slowed this year due to high interest…

Industry 5.0: What is it and what does its future hold?
14
Nov
2023

Industry 5.0: What is it and what does its future hold?

At the EIT Grow Digital event in Brussels in June, Sean O’Reagain, the deputy head of Industry 5.0 for the…

The UK AI Safety Summit – what did it achieve?
14
Nov
2023

The UK AI Safety Summit – what did it achieve?

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 14 November 2023 The UK AI Safety Summit – what did…

Europe’s fastest supercomputer trains large language models in Finland
14
Nov
2023

What’s the smart way of moving forward with artificial intelligence?

AI and in particular generative AI has the potential to be transformative. Following on from the mass cloud adoption of…