Category: ComputerWeekly

What the datacentre industry would like to see from the government's planning reforms
10
Oct
2024

What the datacentre industry would like to see from the government’s planning reforms

The Starmer government lost little time in announcing a consultation on datacentre planning reforms, with more comprehensive, joined-up thinking favoured…

Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge
09
Oct
2024

Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge

The Post Office CEO job description advertised in 2019 didn’t mention the landmark High Court judgment against the organisation and…

MoneyGram customer data breached in attack
09
Oct
2024

MoneyGram customer data breached in attack

Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber…

Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
09
Oct
2024

Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them…

UK Cyber Team seeks future security professionals
09
Oct
2024

UK Cyber Team seeks future security professionals

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the SANS Institute have kicked off a search for people aged…

Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn't put off cyber criminals
08
Oct
2024

Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals

The brutal dismantling of the LockBit ransomware crew and the humiliation of its key players has been one of the…

Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry
08
Oct
2024

Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry

The Post Office’s once-in-a-generation project to replace the controversial Horizon system was “set up to fail” and needs to be…

UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
08
Oct
2024

UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025

The UK’s new government has teased further details of its proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, confirming that it will…

Datacentre power purchase agreements: Are they the right way to lower emissions?
08
Oct
2024

Datacentre power purchase agreements: Are they the right way to lower emissions?

Renewables-based electricity generation in the UK shot to 39TWh (terawatt-hours) in the first quarter of 2024, or 50.9% of the…

DWP CIO Rich Corbridge leaving to join property developer
08
Oct
2024

DWP CIO Rich Corbridge leaving to join property developer

Rich Corbridge, the chief digital and information officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is leaving his role…

How AI is permeating enterprise IT
08
Oct
2024

How AI is permeating enterprise IT

Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a…

Google to appeal Play Store ruling
08
Oct
2024

Google to appeal Play Store ruling

Google is appealing a judgement given on Monday by US District Judge James Donato in California, which would diminish the…