Category: ComputerWeekly

ICO issues guidance on workplace surveillance
10
May
2024

NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project

The National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) report into delays in the Department of Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Pension Dashboard Programme (PDP)…

Belgian researchers build energy-efficient AI frameworks
10
May
2024

Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominant both in and outside of the tech sector at the moment, and…

Law firm Fieldfisher launches data breach management tool
10
May
2024

Over 5.3 billion data records exposed in April 2024

Over 5.3 billion data records are known to have bene breached in a total of 652 publicly disclosed cyber security…

Wales gets UK’s first national SOC
10
May
2024

Wales gets UK’s first national SOC

The Welsh government is today opening a national security operations centre (SOC) to offer local authorities and fire and rescue…

Zero Trust: Unravelling the enigma and charting the future
09
May
2024

Zero Trust: Unravelling the enigma and charting the future

For nearly two decades, the concept of Zero Trust has perplexed and intrigued IT and cybersecurity professionals alike. It’s been…

Fujitsu staff had ‘unrestricted and unauditable’ remote access to Post Office branch systems
09
May
2024

Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases

Post Office lawyers misled a barrister acting for them in subpostmaster prosecution cases, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
09
May
2024

Enhance identity controls before banning ransomware payments

I agree with Ciaran Martin that ransomware payments should be banned, however, the reality is that while many large corporations…

Government’s Online Fraud Charter welcomed
09
May
2024

Data, online delivery and the search for continual e-commerce improvement

In the sessions at The Delivery Conference 2024 in London, there were echoes of the famous quote, commonly misattributed to…

Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
09
May
2024

Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

Currys has chosen Microsoft and Accenture to enable it to develop core cloud technology infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI)-powered…

MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
09
May
2024

Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information…

Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
09
May
2024

Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

Social media firms must implement effective age-checks and “tame toxic algorithms” recommending harmful content to children, according to Ofcom’s new…

Tribunal investigates complaint that journalists’ phones were unlawfully monitored
08
May
2024

Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble making journalists’

Police in Northern Ireland ran a rolling program to monitor the telephone records of “trouble making journalists”, a tribunal heard….