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Mailchimp suffers third breach in 12 months
19
Jan
2023

Mailchimp suffers third breach in 12 months

Email marketing specialist Mailchimp has suffered its third data breach arising from a social engineering attack in the space of…

KFC, Pizza Hut parent shuts UK restaurants after cyber attack
19
Jan
2023

KFC, Pizza Hut parent shuts UK restaurants after cyber attack

Yum! Brands, the organisation behind iconic restaurant and fast food franchises including KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, was forced…

International post resumes thanks to Royal Mail ‘workarounds’
19
Jan
2023

International post resumes thanks to Royal Mail ‘workarounds’

Royal Mail has resumed a “limited” international export service for letters and parcels leaving the UK, after successfully putting in…

Outdated IT infrastructure poses growing risk to UK Security Vetting
19
Jan
2023

Outdated IT infrastructure poses growing risk to UK Security Vetting

A pattern of chronic underperformance arising in part from a legacy IT estate in dire need of modernisation has left…

Ukraine CERT leaders touch down in London for talks
19
Jan
2023

Ukraine CERT leaders touch down in London for talks

Ukraine’s cyber security leaders have been in London to meet with their UK counterparts at the National Cyber Security Centre…

US hyperscale datacentre operator completes first phase of nuclear-powered server farm campus
18
Jan
2023

US hyperscale datacentre operator completes first phase of nuclear-powered server farm campus

A US-based hyperscale datacentre operator has completed the first phase of its nuclear-powered datacentre campus, and claims the facility is…

Advisory board goal for Post Office scandal victims to be returned to rightful financial position
18
Jan
2023

Advisory board goal for Post Office scandal victims to be returned to rightful financial position

The advisory board set up to oversee compensation awards to 555 victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal has agreed…

IT chiefs raise concerns over cost-of-living crisis
18
Jan
2023

IT chiefs raise concerns over cost-of-living crisis

Almost half (46%) of IT decision-makers who took part in a Census-wide buyer’s sentiment survey for Rimini Street admitted the…

IT budgets under pressure due to poor economic outlook
18
Jan
2023

Oracle and CBI: companies cautious, selective in 2023 IT, business investment

UK companies are taking a cautious and conservative approach to IT and general internal business investment in 2023, but with…

Experts concerned over silence around government obligation to review UK surveillance laws
18
Jan
2023

David Anderson KC to review UK surveillance laws

The Home Office has appointed David Anderson, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, to review the UK’s surveillance law,…

Uptime Institute predicts slower pace of public cloud migrations in 2023
18
Jan
2023

Uptime Institute predicts slower pace of public cloud migrations in 2023

The long-held view that moving to the public cloud is a low-risk, flexible and inexpensive alternative to on-premise IT will…

Ukraine cyber teams responded to more than 2,000 attacks in 2022
18
Jan
2023

Ukraine cyber teams responded to more than 2,000 attacks in 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) responded to 2,194 cyber incidents during 2022, 25% of them targeting the…