Rise of the cyber clones: When seeing isn’t believing
Armed with little more than a Flipper Zero, a few apps that specialise in deepfakes and a desire to cause mischief, I recently proved how…
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Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
The relationship between the Post Office and its main IT supplier has been strained to the limit in recent years, according to evidence from senior…
UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims
The UK and Singapore have committed to lead on developing new policy guidance designed to help support organisations that fall victim to ransomware attacks through…
Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions
A senior police officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland claimed that the provinces’ judicial system made “perverse” judicial decisions because of the disproportionate…
Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
Four years on from an ill-timed NCSC advertisement encouraging people to consider retraining in cyber security, security appears to be the fastest growing technology field…
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
Hundreds of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform were left unable to work after mass account suspensions caused by a suspected glitch in the…
AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is in the midst of an investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, after communications regulator Ofcom uncovered evidence…
GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity
IT leaders are prioritising generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects that improve productivity or operational efficiency as the key benefits for early deployments of the technology,…
Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
The Post Office has been paying more than £80,000 per week for contracted IT engineers to sit idle due to major delays in rolling out…
‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office
MoneyGram said it is “shocked and disappointed” by Post Office portrayal on a contract breakdown, which saw money transfer services removed from thousands of branches.…
Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case
A former detective brought in to investigate the confidential sources of two journalists who exposed collusion between police in Northern Ireland and paramilitary groups reported…
Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has named and shamed a high-profile LockBit affiliate as its ongoing Operation Cronos takedown action against the notorious gang…