Poor digital experience a blocker for cyber resilience
Organisations that neglect the so-called digital employee experience (DEX) are exposing themselves to a litany of risk, from employees quitting out of frustration, to increased…
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‘Top’ ransomware gangs favour smaller businesses
In search of the easiest route to a quick pay-off, ransomware gangs in 2023 have been increasingly targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with under…
Toyota car plant outage shows database capacity planning is vital
Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan…
Rishi Sunak under fire from UK tech stakeholders over revision of net-zero policies
Prime minister Rishi Sunak is putting the UK’s position as a potential leader in the clean tech space at serious risk with his plans to…
Parliament passes sweeping Online Safety Bill, tech companies still concerned over encryption
The Online Safety Bill is set to become law after peers passed the controversial legislation which places new duties on social media and technology companies…
Datacentre operators ‘hesitant’ over how to proceed with server farm builds as AI hype builds
With operators in some of the major European colocation hubs struggling to meet the demand for datacentre capacity amid space and power constraints, they need…
Organisations failing to proactively address insider cyber risk
With the cost of insider risk the highest it’s ever been, cyber leaders are failing to direct their budgets towards effectively addressing the problem, spending…
Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Ellison heralds dawn of generative AI era
Oracle chief technology officer and founder Larry Ellison endorsed a radical vision of what generative artificial intelligence (AI) could achieve in the future during his…
Braverman puts pressure on Meta to pause end-to-end encryption plans
Home secretary Suella Braverman is stepping up pressure on Meta over its plans to roll out end-to-end encrypted message services on Facebook and Instagram. The…
New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
He risked his neck. When Edward Snowden chose to expose the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)’s mass surveillance Leviathan, and that of its British counterpart,…
Post Office employee changed story for witness statement used to destroy subpostmaster
Shocking new details have emerged of the legal tactics used by the Post Office to defeat a subpostmaster when he challenged its computer system, with…
Okta confirms link to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos
David Bradbury, chief information security officer (CISO) at identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta, has confirmed that two cyber attacks targeting Las Vegas casino…