Category: ComputerWeekly

European digital sovereignty: Storage, surveillance concerns to overcome
21
Aug
2025

European digital sovereignty: Storage, surveillance concerns to overcome

In mid-June 2025, Microsoft made an announcement about a suite of “Sovereign Cloud solutions” designed to ensure that data belonging…

Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures
21
Aug
2025

Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

The national police investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal is expected to cost taxpayers more than £50m. Scandal victims…

Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff
21
Aug
2025

Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial

Fujitsu sponsored an annual event held by the National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) just months before a High Court trial…

UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful
21
Aug
2025

UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful

The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for…

NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails
21
Aug
2025

Judge throws out NHS whistleblower’s challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails

An NHS doctor has lost his appeal to challenge a court decision that cleared a hospital trust over allegations of…

T-Levels not attracting as many students as hoped
21
Aug
2025

Number of girls taking GCSE computer science drops amid fall in overall candidates

The number of girls choosing to take a GCSE in computer science fell this year, breaking a consistent growth streak….

Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank
21
Aug
2025

Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

As a youngster, Simon Goodyear believed there was nothing that couldn’t be solved with technology, and he is now applying…

Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month
20
Aug
2025

Warlock claims more victims as cyber attacks hit Colt and Orange

Warlock, the emergent cyber crime gang that claims it is holding UK network and telecoms services provider Colt’s data to…

Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations
20
Aug
2025

Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations

Two years after the debut of its Quantum Safe Programme (QSP) Microsoft is now moving steadily through the process of…

Current approaches to patching unsustainable, report says
20
Aug
2025

Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains

Data backup and replication specialist Commvault has issued patches covering off four vulnerabilities in its core software product that, left…

Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty
20
Aug
2025

Jack of all managed security services, or master of none?

If you crank up the Wayback Machine and load the websites of today’s biggest managed security service providers (MSSPs), you’ll…

Is it time to build an AI factory?
20
Aug
2025

Is it time to build an AI factory?

The digital skyline will be dominated by factories, artificial intelligence (AI) factories. That is if you believe the hype –…