Zurich Insurance slashes Salesforce application development time
Zurich Insurance has reduced the time it takes to develop and roll out ServiceNow applications from a week and a half to a day and…
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Zero-day that forced Barracuda users to bin kit was exploited by China
Google Cloud’s Mandiant and Barracuda Networks have confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances was heavily exploited by suspected Chinese…
Nats resorts to fail-safe manual process after technical hitch
Nats, the UK’s national air traffic control system, experienced a flight planning issue which affected the system’s ability to automatically process flight plans. This meant…
Top-performing CISOs reserve time for professional development
Just under 70% of the top-performing chief information security officers (CISOs) dedicate recurring time for professional development on their work calendars compared to just 38% of…
Bletchley Park to host UK government AI safety summit
The UK government will be hosting an international artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit at Bletchley Park on 1 and 2 November 2023. The conference will…
Google bets on AI-backed cyber controls for Workspace users
Google has moved to address some of the more pressing needs faced by users of its Workspace service, adding artificial intelligence (AI)-backed features to cover…
Girls taking GCSE computing rises for second year in a row
The number of girls choosing to take GCSE computing has risen for the second year in a row after a few years of falling numbers.…
Teenage Lapsus$ ringleader was responsible for crime spree, UK court rules
The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has…
Accelerated datacentre computing propels record Nvida revenue
Nvidia has reported record revenue of $13.51bn for its second quarter of 2024, an increase of 101% from a year ago, driven by artificial intelligence…
VMware works with Nvidia to deliver generative AI cloud
VMware has expanded its strategic partnership with Nvidia to enable private cloud infrastructure for the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI). It positions the new…
St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
St Helens Borough Council in Merseyside has fallen victim to a suspected ransomware attack, by an as-yet undisclosed threat actor, that has brought down various…
Cyber attacks in 2023 develop quicker as average dwell times plummet
The median dwell time – the time in between an attacker accessing their victim’s systems and the attack being detected or executed – has dropped…