Poor tech kills hybrid work productivity
While most knowledge workers say they are well-equipped to work from home, many feel hybrid working makes their job more difficult. A Censuswide survey for…
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Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
Microsoft has released a total of 49 new patches marking the first Patch Tuesday event of 2024, addressing a variety of vulnerabilities across its product…
SEC social media hack highlights value of MFA
Cryptocurrency markets fluctuated wildly on the evening of Monday 9 January after the US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), briefly appeared to…
Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill
Scotland risks “sleepwalking” into a surveillance state that places every citizen in a permanent digital line-up if it does not deviate from the UK government’s…
Inadequate cloud logs are proving a headache for CISOs
The mass adoption of cloud environments has helped businesses transform their operations through scalability and cost efficiency, but it has also put additional strain on…
Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available
Cyber security experts at Cisco Talos and Avast, working alongside law enforcement in the Netherlands, have collaborated to make available a decryptor for the Tortilla…
British Library cyber attack explained: What you need to know
At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption…
Study reveals cyber risks to US elections
With the next US presidential election less than a year away, and concerns growing in Washington DC that the democratic process will again be a…
QuEra Computing sets out plan for error-correcting quantum computing
QuEra Computing (QEC) has unveiled a roadmap for advanced error-corrected quantum computers, in which it plans to achieve 100 logical error-corrected qubits in 2026. The…
Trauma and fear means victims of the Post Office scandal are suffering in silence
The ITV drama, Mr Bates v the Post Office, conveys a good sense of the appalling nature and enormous scale of the Post Office scandal.…
British Library ransomware attack could cost up to £7m
The cost of rebuilding the British Library’s systems following the October Rhysida ransomware attack is likely to hit between £6m and £7m, dwarfing the £650,000…
Post Office scandal furore is moment to change digital evidence rules
With the general public now alert to and furious over the mistreatment of subpostmasters, the government must take the opportunity to change the law that…