Category: ComputerWeekly

New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
19
Sep
2023

New revelations from the Snowden archive surface

He risked his neck. When Edward Snowden chose to expose the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)’s mass surveillance Leviathan, and…

Post Office lawyer bragged how team ‘destroyed attack on the Horizon system’ and put woman in prison
19
Sep
2023

Post Office employee changed story for witness statement used to destroy subpostmaster

Shocking new details have emerged of the legal tactics used by the Post Office to defeat a subpostmaster when he…

US casino giant MGM Resorts battles 36-hour outage after cyber attack
19
Sep
2023

Okta confirms link to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos

David Bradbury, chief information security officer (CISO) at identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta, has confirmed that two cyber…

Cloud remains IT investment priority for UK enterprises despite testing economic times
19
Sep
2023

38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing

Microsoft has learned an important lesson after having to clean up a major data leak resulting from an “overly permissive”…

BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
19
Sep
2023

Cosmetics giant L’Oréal turns to Databricks for cloud data-led customer personalisation push

Cosmetics giant L’Oréal has turned to Databricks to help pull together all of the data stored in its disparate cloud…

Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous
19
Sep
2023

Nominet and European counterparts link up on intelligence sharing

The UK’s internet domain registrar, Nominet, has joined up with its counterparts from across Europe to launch a top-level domain…

Securing Eurovision’s online voting system against cyber attacks
19
Sep
2023

Securing Eurovision’s online voting system against cyber attacks

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Journalists’ confidential communications subject to unlawful spying, court hears
18
Sep
2023

Government offers £600,000 to subpostmasters with overturned convictions

The government is offering £600,000 to former subpostmasters who have had wrongful convictions overturned, to settle their claims – but…

CMA focuses on data for AI foundation model
18
Sep
2023

CMA focuses on data for AI foundation model

Accountability, access, diversity, choice, flexibility and transparency are among the key principles the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
18
Sep
2023

Security Think Tank: A user’s guide to encryption

Encryption is a key component of everyday life for most people, whether messaging on WhatsApp, shopping online, reading articles over…

French supreme court dismisses legal challenge to EncroChat cryptophone evidence
18
Sep
2023

Government seeks industry views on cyber threat to UK CNI

The cross-bench Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee (SITC) has launched an inquiry into the cyber resilience of the UK’s…

Simplifying cloud integrations with legacy IT
18
Sep
2023

Simplifying cloud integrations with legacy IT

In the past, IT departments embarked on huge enterprise application integration programmes to connect silos of business software data. IT…