Category: ComputerWeekly

Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
01
Oct
2024

Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes

Across Europe, cyber security professionals feel increasingly constrained and restricted, according to data produced at professional association ISACA, which reveals…

Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
30
Sep
2024

Investigation finds ‘reasonable likelihood’ Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses

An analysis by specialist forensic investigators has concluded there is a “reasonable likelihood” that the Post Office’s Capture software used…

How to keep datacentres cool
30
Sep
2024

How to keep datacentres cool

Power, and efficient cooling, are essential to datacentre operations. This applies equally to a cloud hyperscaler, a commercial colocation facility,…

UK on high alert over Iranian spear-phishing attacks, says NCSC
27
Sep
2024

UK on high alert over Iranian spear-phishing attacks, says NCSC

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and American agencies including the FBI and the Department of the Treasury have…

Cyber companies need a best practice approach to major incidents.
27
Sep
2024

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…

Defaulting to open: Decoding the (very public) CrowdStrike event
27
Sep
2024

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…

Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
27
Sep
2024

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…

AWS accused of overstating competitive threat posed by cloud repatriation
27
Sep
2024

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…

More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
27
Sep
2024

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…

Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
27
Sep
2024

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…

UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
26
Sep
2024

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…

Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
26
Sep
2024

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…