Environment Agency dumps Fujitsu as Post Office scandal takes its toll
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has ended Fujitsu’s role in providing a flood warning system to the UK, two months after…
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Changes needed for SOCs and CSIRTs, claims Dutch research institute
Extensive automation of cyber security operations could become a game-changer, and the concept of playbook-driven security automation is advancing rapidly. Cyber attacks are becoming more…
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew a programme offering generous discounts…
AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made another round of job cuts, with several hundred tech and sales staff understood to be affected, according to media…
Obituary: Professor Ross Anderson, pioneer in security engineering and campaigner
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, and a fearsome campaigner for digital…
UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers
UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made…
Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets
The latest research from Boomi, conducted by Forrester, has reported that IT leaders expect their cloud costs will exceed budgets. The analyst firm has forecast that…
Security Think Tank: Banning ransomware payments is not so straightforward
I can understand why Ciaran Martin has taken the position of advocating for legal controls on ransomware payments, and the logic behind this proposal is…
RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds
Threat actors are abusing the widely-used Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP) remote access feature in their attack chains at a rate unprecedented since the Covid-19…
Women in Data: MoD’s first chief data officer on overcoming imposter syndrome
The shortage of women working in the technology sector is all-too-well documented. The numbers still haven’t shifted for the better, even with a growing focus on…
Ransomware kill switch may save 99% of files from encryption
Managed and extended detection and response (MDR and XDR) specialist Adlumin is attempting to help midmarket end-users lessen the impact of ransomware attacks by detecting…
Fujitsu staff instructed how to bid for government contracts during self-imposed ban
A Fujitsu leak has revealed staff were given a flow diagram instructing them how to bid for government contracts during the IT supplier’s self-imposed ban…