Enhance identity controls before banning ransomware payments
I agree with Ciaran Martin that ransomware payments should be banned, however, the reality is that while many large corporations will have appropriate controls, measures…
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Data, online delivery and the search for continual e-commerce improvement
In the sessions at The Delivery Conference 2024 in London, there were echoes of the famous quote, commonly misattributed to Albert Einstein (first written evidence…
Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
Currys has chosen Microsoft and Accenture to enable it to develop core cloud technology infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI)-powered initiatives. The electronics retailer plans…
Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity
There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information across different networks of data,…
Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
Social media firms must implement effective age-checks and “tame toxic algorithms” recommending harmful content to children, according to Ofcom’s new safety codes of practice. Published…
Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble making journalists’
Police in Northern Ireland ran a rolling program to monitor the telephone records of “trouble making journalists”, a tribunal heard. Journalists that “were perceived to…
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
An IT outage that caused the automated passport control e-gates at airports across the UK to crash on 7 May – leading to long delays…
Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints
Microsoft is facing the prospect of an anti-trust probe at the hands of another overseas competition watchdog, following a complaint filed by a Spanish startup-focused…
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
Huawei has launched an exabyte-scale network-attached storage (NAS) array to meet the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The OceanStor A800 is a high-performance NAS…
Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges
A decision by Europe’s highest court is expected to lead to legal challenges over the use of evidence from EncroChat and other encrypted phone networks…
NCA unmasks LockBitSupp cyber gangster who toyed with pursuers
The National Crime Agency (NCA), alongside the global partner agencies that participated in Operation Cronos, the operation against the LockBit ransomware gang, have formally named…
Government plans to scan bank accounts of disabled people will lead to another scandal
It looks like we’re sleepwalking into another Horizon scandal. Disabled people up and down the country are sounding the alarm ahead, with 6.3 million of…