Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?
A 2009 EU anti-competition ruling has been used as a line of defence by Microsoft as questions are being asked over why a third-party product…
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CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
Under-fire cyber firm CrowdStrike has published an initial post incident review setting out more information on the update-gone-wrong that brought down millions of Microsoft devices…
Fortune 500 stands to lost $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
The total direct financial loss faced by Fortune 500 companies as a result of the 19 July Microsoft – CrowdStrike outage has been set at…
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
The Post Office always acted like the victim of “incompetent” or “criminal” subpostmasters when it faced pressure in relation to problems experienced by users of…
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
Human-centred risk management experts Mimecast and Code42 are to come together as a single business in an acquisition that builds on a previously established tech…
SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness
SAP has posted cloud revenue of €4.2bn, up 25% for the second quarter of 2024. The company said the increase in cloud revenue was underpinned…
ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use
The UK’s data regulator has reprimanded a secondary school in Essex for illegally deploying facial-recognition technology to take cashless canteen payments from students. Under the…
The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship
Since it was founded in 1754, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (The R&A) has been a bastion of sporting tradition and history, preserving the…
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s…
CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update
Microsoft users across the globe should review the state of their infrastructure security setups in the wake of the botched CrowdStrike software update that took…
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working with social media platforms Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, has removed almost 12,000 posts, pages and accounts that were…
IT sustainability: Why we’re still waiting for quantified emissions reductions
That’s even though seemingly straightforward proxy metrics such as energy consumption exist – and it’s not for want of trying. Precision down to the kilowatt-hour…