KFC, Pizza Hut data stolen in January ransomware attack
Yum!, the US-based parent organisation of KFC and Pizza Hut, has written to a number of employees whose data was stolen by the undisclosed ransomware…
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NatWest supports tech training for displaced Ukrainian women
NatWest bank has teamed up with tech training organisations to pilot a programme aimed at providing technology training to displaced Ukrainian women in Scotland, with…
Anne Keast-Butler named as new director of GCHQ
MI5 deputy director general and long-serving intelligence expert Anne Keast-Butler has been named as the next director of GCHQ, succeeding the outgoing Jeremy Fleming. Keast-Butler,…
Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended after technical challenges moving to cloud
The Post Office will pay £16.5m to extend a contract with Fujitsu after fundamental technical challenges meant its planned migration to the cloud could not…
Security Think Tank: Adopt a coherent framework for ID first security
Cyber security models are currently focused on securing relatively static ring-fenced environments of centrally-hosted services. Organisations now face the challenge of transforming those models to…
Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project
Credit reporting bureau Experian is undergoing a multi-year digital transformation project that has seen it name Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider…
The Folio Society turns over new leaf with NetSuite
In 1947, in the midst of post-war austerity, The Folio Society was launched by Charles Ede to bring aesthetic pleasure to book lovers. The war,…
CGI signs up to prison leaver employment initiative
CGI joins KPMG and Amazon in helping deliver a programme of IT and business training to support prison leavers attempting to join the workforce. The…
Italy’s ChatGPT ban: Sober precaution or chilling overreaction?
A sudden ban on the use of ChatGPT by the Italian data protection authority has divided artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy experts over whether…
Cops bust Genesis cyber crime marketplace
Genesis Market, one of the largest global suppliers of stolen personal data to the cyber criminal underground, has been taken down and more than 120…
Nordic app-based bank offloads its peer-to-peer lending business
App-based bank Lunar has sold its peer-to-peer (P2P) lending business to Swedish fintech SaveLend to give the business the focus it requires. Lunar said that…
Quick-acting Rorschach ransomware appears out of nowhere
A newly detected ransomware dubbed Rorschach – so named because everybody who examined it “saw something different” – is being flagged by researchers at Check…