Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has today (3 October) unsealed a civil action brought by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU),…
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Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
Local authorities need more support to responsibly procure artificial intelligence (AI) systems, as existing government guidance does not provide a clear or comprehensive account of…
SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
About two-thirds of security operations centre (SOC) staff feel overwhelmed by a tide of pointless cyber alerts from products made by suppliers anxious to avoid…
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…
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…