Category: ComputerWeekly

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
26
Feb
2024

LockBit bids to save face after NCA takedown

A week after being knocked offline in a combined multinational law enforcement operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency,…

Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP
26
Feb
2024

Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP

Birmingham City Council’s troubled Oracle system is facing reimplementation as part of a recovery programme that aims to have a…

Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance
26
Feb
2024

Netherlands formulates vision to address risks of GenAI

The Netherlands has the ambition to be a leader in Europe in applying and regulating safe and equitable generative AI…

Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development
26
Feb
2024

TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse

UK datacentre operators need to brace themselves for the possibility of the UK government gaining powers that might insist they…

CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association
24
Feb
2024

CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association

Top executives are always on the lookout for leadership best practice. Craig Donald, CIO at The Football Association (The FA),…

Taxpayers to fund a further £150m for Post Office IT scandal
24
Feb
2024

Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex

The Home Office has signed a data sharing and technology-collaboration agreement with European Union (EU) border agency Frontex to crack…

Ransomware-stricken Capita to run Action Fraud successor
23
Feb
2024

NCA trolls under fire LockBit gang leaders

The National Crime Agency (NCA) and its partner agencies have teased limited details of the identity of LockBit’s public face,…

Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
23
Feb
2024

ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware

Cyber attacks against vulnerable instances of the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote management platform are now being observed following the disclosure of…

Post Office lawyer bragged how team ‘destroyed attack on the Horizon system’ and put woman in prison
23
Feb
2024

King Charles strips disgraced Post Office CEO of her CBE

Paula Vennells has had her CBE formally removed by the King following public outrage at her role in the Post…

IR35 compliance review: HMRC applauded over handling of 18-month investigation
23
Feb
2024

IR35 legislative tweak to remedy settlement offset issue by April 2024

A tweak to how the IR35 tax avoidance legislation works means that from 6 April 2024, HM Revenue & Customs…

The world's most advanced Arabic LLM is now available on open source
23
Feb
2024

LLMs explained: A developer’s guide to getting started

Since large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) are increasingly being embedded into enterprise software, barriers to entry –…

Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network
23
Feb
2024

Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network

Toshiba and Orange have carried out an experiment to test quantum-safe networking that could be applied in existing fibre optic…