Five more subpostmasters have IT system-related convictions overturned
Five more subpostmaster victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have had wrongful criminal convictions overturned. A total of 91 former subpostmasters and Post…
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Post Office had no interest in subpostmaster welfare when taking legal action, says Fujitsu memo
The Post Office’s primary objective was to “protect the integrity of its [IT] system” when taking subpostmasters to court over unexplained accounting shortfalls, and not…
Researchers offer free threat briefings on Vegas casino hackers
Organisations concerned about the possible impact of cyber attacks originating through the threat actor tracked variously as Scattered Spider, UNC3944 and 0ktapus can avail themselves…
City of Las Vegas masters cyber incident response with Darktrace
At the start of September 2023, the US city of Las Vegas, Nevada hit the cyber security headlines, when two of its most prominent casino…
IBM reorients to offset historic storage hardware decline
In this storage vendor profile we look at IBM, which has a long history and in IT much more widely than just storage. It’s still…
UK government quietly disbands data ethics advisory board
The UK government has disbanded the independent advisory board of its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) without a public announcement amid a wider…
Sony alleged victim of new extortion gang
An emergent cyber extortion operation going by the name Ransomed.vc claims to have compromised the systems of Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony. The incident…
IT contractors ‘forced against their will’ to work for umbrella companies, survey finds
IT contractors are being forced into providing their services through umbrella companies “against their will”, with many complaining about not understanding the contents of their…
Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO
In an age of cloud-native applications, object storage is the future, and storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) won’t play a part.…
Cover-ups still the norm in the wake of a cyber incident
Despite broad hints from the likes of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that openness and transparency is the…
HMRC names and shames non-compliant umbrella firms for running tax avoidance schemes
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has added a further three umbrella companies to its public list of named tax avoidance schemes, as part of its…
Crest and IASME to deliver upcoming NCSC Cyber Exercise programme
Security trade association Crest and skills specialist IASME have teamed up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to deliver the UK security authority’s new…