Category: ComputerWeekly

Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
04
Apr
2024

Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts

Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew…

Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for deeper anti-competition probe
04
Apr
2024

AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made another round of job cuts, with several hundred tech and sales staff understood to…

Renowned hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick dead at 59
04
Apr
2024

Obituary: Professor Ross Anderson, pioneer in security engineering and campaigner

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, and…

UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers
04
Apr
2024

UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers

UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and…

Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets
04
Apr
2024

Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets

The latest research from Boomi, conducted by Forrester, has reported that IT leaders expect their cloud costs will exceed budgets. The…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
04
Apr
2024

Security Think Tank: Banning ransomware payments is not so straightforward

I can understand why Ciaran Martin has taken the position of advocating for legal controls on ransomware payments, and the…

Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition
03
Apr
2024

RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds

Threat actors are abusing the widely-used Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP) remote access feature in their attack chains at a…

Women in Data: MoD’s first chief data officer on overcoming imposter syndrome
03
Apr
2024

Women in Data: MoD’s first chief data officer on overcoming imposter syndrome

The shortage of women working in the technology sector is all-too-well documented. The numbers still haven’t shifted for the better, even…

Manchester University students threatened by ransomware gang
03
Apr
2024

Ransomware kill switch may save 99% of files from encryption

Managed and extended detection and response (MDR and XDR) specialist Adlumin is attempting to help midmarket end-users lessen the impact…

Fujitsu staff instructed how to bid for government contracts during self-imposed ban
03
Apr
2024

Fujitsu staff instructed how to bid for government contracts during self-imposed ban

A Fujitsu leak has revealed staff were given a flow diagram instructing them how to bid for government contracts during…

Case study: Network Rail on the data-driven decisions keeping our railways safe
02
Apr
2024

Case study: Network Rail on the data-driven decisions keeping our railways safe

Britain’s railway network is made up of around 200,000 kilometres of track, most of it dating from Victorian times. But…

Microsoft pushes Teams out of M365 and O365 bundle globally
02
Apr
2024

Microsoft pushes Teams out of M365 and O365 bundle globally

Since October 2023, Microsoft unbundled Teams from its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites in the European Economic Area (EEA)…