UK taskforce set to drive generative AI safety and opportunities
To tie in with the government’s new Business Connect UK innovation and growth conference, prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced £100m of funding to support…
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Post Office paid IBM millions when it ended proposed contract to replace Horizon
Fujitsu used its influence at the Post Office to plant seeds of doubt within management over a proposed contract to replace the IT service provider’s…
Ransomware gang exploiting unpatched Veeam backup products
Researchers at WithSecure have issued an alert after uncovering evidence that a notorious cyber criminal gang is exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Veeam Backup…
UK government introduces Digital Markets Bill to Parliament
The UK government has published a draft of its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), which aims to establish a new regulator to challenge…
Google researchers identify hole in Intel TDX
Google’s Project Zero and cloud security teams’ nine-month assessment of the security of the Intel Trust Domain Extension (TDX) has identified a number of areas…
Cyber security and analytics propel jobs boost in Scotland’s tech sector
Scottish technology sector trade body ScotlandIS has published its annual survey, suggesting growth in employment is on the cards. The Scottish technology industry survey 2023…
Online makes up 25% of retail sales three months in row
Online retail sales have accounted for a quarter of total retail sales three months in a row so far in 2023, according to numbers from…
Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023
It was one of the big surprises of the recent KubeCON show in Amsterdam – dedicated to all things Kubernetes – when customers that asked…
CISOs under-supported, under pressure, Trellix finds
Chief information security officers (CISOs) are still failing to get the support they want and need from their boardrooms, with 96% struggling to get leadership…
AWS under fire for delays in delivering Scope 3 GHG emissions data to enterprises and governments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is coming under pressure to provide easier access to more detailed data about its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as the cloud…
Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group
Lloyds Banking Group has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian), which will see the UK giant contribute its expertise to the group and promote…
Almost three-quarters of cyber attacks involve ransomware
Ransomware continues to be the most common “end game” scenario in a cyber attack, accounting for 68.4% of all incidents to which the Sophos X-Ops…