Lloyds admits coding fault exposed customer transactions
Lloyds Banking Group’s response to a request from the UK government’s Treasury Committee shows that a programming error was the root cause of a breach…
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UK government lacks ambition to fight tax fraud, says PAC
The UK’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the government of lacking the “modernising ambition” to use technology to fight tax fraud and error, as…
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred a second subpostmaster appeal against a conviction based on the Post Office’s faulty Capture system to the…
Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues
Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching, and identity security…
Bank of England IT project offers lessons for wider government
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were in new territory as they looked for lessons learned from a government IT project that was a…
UAE positions cyber security as pillar of national resilience and digital growth
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reinforcing its status as a regional cyber security leader, advancing a nationally coordinated model to protect critical infrastructure and…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has become a strategically significant part of Oracle’s business, and one it hopes offers differentiation from the major hyperscalers. The company…
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting
The Post Office is unable to find evidence to support about 1,400 claims for redress, which is an increase in the number of people in…
Amazon Web Services bags Fujitsu’s HMRC loss
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has won the contract to supply datacentre services to HMRC through a contract designed to rid the UK government department of…
Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness
Google has announced plans to migrate to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by 2029, moving up its timeline given recent progress in the field and emerging threat…
US government launches Bureau of Emerging Threats
The US government has formally launched a new Bureau of Emerging Threats within the State Department to protect and mitigate against threats posed to America’s…
Platformisation or platform theatre? Navigating cyber consolidation
The consolidation wave in enterprise security is real, and the business case is compelling. A January 2025 report from IBM and Palo Alto Networks found…