WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
Apple has rolled out a series of patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, among them a critical zero-day discovered in the open source WebKit…
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Southern Water confirms cyber attack after Black Basta claims
UK utility Southern Water, which serves customers in East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and West Sussex, has confirmed it is probing a…
IR35: Contractors call for off-payroll rules to be scrapped in Spring Budget 2024
IT contractors are among the freelance workers calling on the government to consider scrapping the controversial IR35 off-payroll working rules in the March 2024 Spring…
Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo
Cardiff University has deployed 90 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, with Logicalis technology, to support high-performance computing (HPC) research. The university’s Advanced Research Computing @Cardiff (ARCCA) service…
Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users
Barely 12 months since a zero-day in the Fortra GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) tool resulted in a surge in cyber attacks and global infamy…
SEC bitcoin hack was result of SIM-swapping
A cyber attack against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that resulted in misinformation being posted on the financial regulator’s social media channels was…
GenAI outlook: Expect industry disruption and job cuts
Research published by credit rating firm Moody’s has found that generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to disrupt a number of industries, including legal and…
Treat cyber risk like financial or legal issue, says UK government
The UK government has today published a draft Code of Practice on cyber security governance, aimed at directors and other business leaders and urging them…
GitHub: Top tips to make software developers more productive
Developers who report a high degree of understanding of their code feel 42% more productive than those with low or no understanding, research from GitHub…
Podcast: Storage and compliance outlook for 2024
In this podcast we look at the year ahead in 2024 with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about upcoming updates, and changes to law…
NVM Express boosts computational storage standards
The NVM Express consortium has announced additions to its standard that will allow datacentre NVMe flash-based storage systems to take advantage of computational storage and…
Leak of 26 billion records may prove to be ‘mother of all breaches’
The discovery of 12TB (terabytes) of stolen personally identifiable information (PII) and credentials comprising 26 billion records relating to millions, possibly billions, of individuals, may…