Log4Shell, ProxyShell still among most widely exploited flaws
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alongside its Five Eyes partner agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, have released details of the…
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Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has credited a shift in its customers’ cloud-spending priorities as playing a pivotal role in helping the e-commerce giant post a…
Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says
Two and a quarter years after President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to harden the US’ cyber security defences in the wake of high-profile…
UK government recruits panel to focus on semiconductors
The UK government has begun recruiting a panel of experts to work on boosting the semiconductor sector and growing the economy. The Semiconductor Advisory Panel’s…
Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp
NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after 26 staff at the trust used a WhatsApp group to share…
Plexal takes on new cohort for cyber security leadership scheme
London startup hub Plexal has inducted six “high-potential” startup founders into its government-backed leadership mentoring programme. Part of Plexal’s broader Cyber Runway accelerator programme, Cyber…
Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign
A new campaign of social engineering activity targeting organisations of interest to Russian intelligence has been observed in the wild, in which already-compromised Microsoft 365…
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
Tenable’s CEO and former national cyber security director to the George W Bush administration, Amit Yoran, has hit out at Microsoft and accused the software…
Hybrid quantum workflow offers potential for hydrogen fuel cell efficiency
Researchers from Airbus and BMW have used Quantinuum’s H-series hardware and InQuanto quantum chemistry software to study catalysed oxidation reduction reaction, one of the most…
Pig butchers caught using ChatGPT to con victims
Romance scammers looking to con people out of their savings appear to be turning to generative AI services such as ChatGPT to save time as…
Hiring women could close tech skills gap, says tech professionals
Many think a focus on recruiting women into the tech sector could help to close longstanding IT skills gaps, according to research by Computer Weekly.…
The rise of Generative AI in software development
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) aren’t completely new technologies, but the world reached a greater awareness of their powers when OpenAI presented ChatGPT.…