Category: ComputerWeekly

BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
19
Jul
2023

BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder

Estée Lauder Companies, the organisation behind global cosmetics brands such as Aveda, Clinique, Estée Lauder, Mac and Origins, has suffered…

MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
19
Jul
2023

Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results

A generative AI tool called WormGPT that operates without the ethical boundaries or hard-coded limitations of legitimate services such as…

Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
19
Jul
2023

Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI

Microsoft kicked off its annual partner conference, Inspire, with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella discussing the immense opportunity that…

Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development
19
Jul
2023

Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps

Many datacentre operators will struggle to meet emerging sustainability reporting requirements and regulations because of how little data they collect…

Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance
19
Jul
2023

‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute

The UK’s government’s “deregulatory” data reform proposals will undermine the safe development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by making…

Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims
19
Jul
2023

Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims

Despite warning against behaviours that might expose their organisations to an increased degree of risk, 55% of security professionals admit…

Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows
19
Jul
2023

Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

Google Cloud achieved higher growth on a year-over-year (YoY) basis between 2021 and 2022 than the other top four public…

Prepare for quantum to fundamentally change PKI effectiveness
19
Jul
2023

Prepare for quantum to fundamentally change PKI effectiveness

Encryption is a fundamental aspect of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) – a service used to confirm identity by proving ownership…

IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
19
Jul
2023

IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue

The latest IT spending forecast form analyst Gartner points to a 4.3% increase in worldwide IT spending in 2023 compared…

The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses
18
Jul
2023

The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women’s World Cup training push for The Lionesses

The Football Association (FA) has enlisted the help of its long-standing IT partner Google Cloud to create digital tools that…

Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
18
Jul
2023

Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs

Demand for IT outsourcing services spending in Europe bounced back in the latest quarter despite a reduction in cloud services…

Eticas outlines approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing
18
Jul
2023

Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks

Two vulnerabilities in the Adobe ColdFusion platform are being actively exploited by threat actors in a series of cyber attacks,…