Category: ComputerWeekly

Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs
03
May
2024

Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs

A Lords committee is calling on the government to make market competition in artificial intelligence (AI) “an explicit policy objective”…

US sanctions Iranians behind CNI cyber attacks
02
May
2024

NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and US partner the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a…

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
02
May
2024

Ukrainian national sentenced over REvil ransomware spree

A United States court has sentenced a 24-year-old Ukrainian national named as Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13 years and seven months…

Dropbox Sign user information accessed in data breach
02
May
2024

Dropbox Sign user information accessed in data breach

Users of the Dropbox Sign – until recently known as HelloSign – document-signing service have been alerted to a data…

Tribunal investigates complaint that journalists’ phones were unlawfully monitored
02
May
2024

BBC instructs lawyers over allegations of police surveillance of journalist

Lawyers acting for the BBC have written to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) over allegations that one of its journalists…

MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
02
May
2024

Case study: Why GenAI is taking off in local government

Barnsley has become one of the first councils to roll out generative AI (GenAI) tools across its entire organisation as…

Can SAP Labs’ AI plan accelerate cloud migration?
02
May
2024

Can SAP Labs’ AI plan accelerate cloud migration?

Nestled in the sun-kissed hills of Provence, just north of Cannes and Antibes, is Sophia Antipolis, a renowned technology and…

Downstream breaches of Capita customers spreading
01
May
2024

EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents

Across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), organisations must up their game when it comes to addressing the human…

Australia’s Qantas apologises for mobile app data breach
01
May
2024

Australia’s Qantas apologises for mobile app data breach

Australian flag carrier Qantas has apologised to fliers after a glitch in its mobile application temporarily enabled some customers to…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
01
May
2024

Better hygiene may mitigate the need to ban ransomware payments

The general belief that a cyber breach is a matter of ‘if’ not ‘when’ means all organisations potentially face the…

The essential role of PETs in unlocking the trillion dollar SaaS market
01
May
2024

Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers

Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior (SCW) has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify…

Podcast: 32TB HDDs by 2029, but how much bigger can they get?
01
May
2024

Podcast: 32TB HDDs by 2029, but how much bigger can they get?

In this podcast, we look at the roadmap for spinning disk HDD capacity with Rainer W Kaese, senior manager in…