Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit
A series of services disruptions experienced by users of Microsoft Azure, OneDrive and Outlook were the result of a major distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
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Prime minister Rishi Sunak faces pressure from banks to force tech firms to pay for online fraud
Prime minister Rishi Sunak is facing pressure from banks to force tech firms to foot the bill for online fraud. The leaders of the UK’s…
UK to contribute up to £25m to Ukraine cyber defences
The UK is to expand the successful Ukraine Cyber Programme (UCP) with up to £25m between now and 2025 to support Ukraine’s cyber security defences,…
Collaboration in finance sector develops prototype API for digital currency
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has proved that an application programming interface (API) layer could be used to connect financial infrastructures to enable everyday…
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS
BBVA is using cloud-based machine learning and analytics from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support its strategy to put artificial intelligence (AI) and data technologies…
Latest ONS data shows that 10% of UK businesses plan to adopt AI
The latest data from the Office of National Statistics shows that approximately one in six businesses (16%) are currently implementing at least one of the…
Pure Storage: HDDs dead by 2028 and our flash will replace it
At the Pure Storage Accelerate event in Las Vegas this week, a couple of ideas got piled up higher than a heap of end-of-lifed hard…
CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft
CGI is to head up a consortium tasked with developing a virtual, cloud-based alternative to traditional “black box” flight data recorders that will be able…
Citi US Personal Banking turns to AI to ‘delight’ customers with personalised services
US retail bank Citi is rolling out technology that will enable its US Personal Banking business to offer customers highly personalised services whether they walk…
Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth
Climate tech startups from across the UK and parts of Europe are being encouraged to join an initiative designed to make it easier for them…
Exploitation of Barracuda ESG appliances linked to Chinese spies
Cyber security researchers at Google Cloud’s Mandiant have linked exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability existing in a limited subset of Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG)…
Enterprise software price hikes risk derailing digitial transformation
The price hike in software licences and cloud-based services is no longer just an issue for IT asset managers. The increases are so large that…