Cyber companies need a best practice approach to major incidents.
Cyber security companies have made global headlines recently with a series of significant incidents which caused widespread disruption. The CrowdStrike incident is estimated to have…
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Defaulting to open: Decoding the (very public) CrowdStrike event
We live in an era of cyber ‘incidents,’ from WannaCry to MOVEit. However, it’s undeniably rare that a vendor finds themselves at the epicentre of…
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
A newly discovered series of four dangerous flaws in the Common Unix Printing System (Cups), which is used across virtually all GNU/Linux distros including Debian,…
AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands accused of overstating the competitive threat posed to its business by enterprises repatriating workloads to on-premise datacentres. In a recent…
More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
A change in Post Office behaviour after it introduced software to computerise branch accounts in 1993 mirrors an increase in prosecutions six years later, when…
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi services provided at mainline UK…
UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
The UK town of Blyth in Northumberland is set to become home to Europe’s biggest datacentre devoted to housing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The £10bn…
Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
Public Wi-Fi services at 19 of the UK’s most important railway stations, including most London termini, are in the process of being recovered following an…
Semiconductor market scaleups to benefit from multimillion-pound investment from Innovate UK
The UK semiconductor industry has secured millions of pounds in government funding to help accelerate the growth of 16 of the sector’s scaleup businesses. The…
Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims
A campaign group set up by the children of subpostmasters who had their lives ruined by the Post Office scandal are still waiting for Fujitsu…
CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
A senior CrowdStrike executive has apologised in front of a United States government committee for the 19 July outage that caused IT systems around the…
Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices
Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing…