Cancer Research uses AWS for payments and trial search function
Well-known charity Cancer Research has moved its donations platform on to AWS architecture, and has since been experimenting with ways to use the technology. Cancer…
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Ransomware gang grasses up uncooperative victim to US regulator
In a development that observers are already calling predictable, the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel appears to have added a new tactic to its playbook of methods…
SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
An annual sustainability study from SAP has revealed that 83% of UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability activities by 2026, but…
Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings
The Post Office scandal statutory inquiry has once more been forced to postpone sessions with key witnesses following the identification of thousands of relevant documents…
BlackCat affiliate seen using malvertising to spread ransomware
An affiliate member of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel has turned to malvertising techniques beloved of fraudsters to compromise its victims, masking its payloads as legitimate…
Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet
Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all over the world, has pled…
Where tech can smooth out the retail returns process
Fashion retailer H&M started to charge customers for online product returns in September 2023. Citing a rise in delivery and processing costs, as well as…
November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days
Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five zero-day vulnerabilities on the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2023, three of them known to have already…
US government reinforces ICBC hack link to Citrix Bleed
The possibility that this was the case was first raised by security researcher and commentator Kevin Beaumont via social media website Mastodon on Thursday 9…
DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?
Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics…
Million Brits could lose access to bank branch if closure rate continues
A million people in the UK could lose easy access to a bank branch in their local area, as banks continue to shutter their high…
Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup
Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen it slash data restores from…