Category: ComputerWeekly

UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims
02
Oct
2024

UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims

The UK and Singapore have committed to lead on developing new policy guidance designed to help support organisations that fall…

Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for 'perverse' court decisions
02
Oct
2024

Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions

A senior police officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland claimed that the provinces’ judicial system made “perverse” judicial…

Cyber UK's quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
02
Oct
2024

Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains

Four years on from an ill-timed NCSC advertisement encouraging people to consider retraining in cyber security, security appears to be…

Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
02
Oct
2024

Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

Hundreds of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform were left unable to work after mass account suspensions caused by…

AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment
02
Oct
2024

AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is in the midst of an investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, after…

GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity
02
Oct
2024

GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity

IT leaders are prioritising generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects that improve productivity or operational efficiency as the key benefits for…

Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
02
Oct
2024

Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash

The Post Office has been paying more than £80,000 per week for contracted IT engineers to sit idle due to…

‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office
02
Oct
2024

‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office

MoneyGram said it is “shocked and disappointed” by Post Office portrayal on a contract breakdown, which saw money transfer services…

Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case
01
Oct
2024

Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case

A former detective brought in to investigate the confidential sources of two journalists who exposed collusion between police in Northern…

Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit
01
Oct
2024

Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has named and shamed a high-profile LockBit affiliate as its ongoing Operation Cronos takedown…

Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale
01
Oct
2024

Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale

Just one-third of tech executives polled in a recent KPMG survey say they are successfully scaling artificial intelligence (AI) into…

Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue
01
Oct
2024

Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue

No project is smooth sailing all the way. So perhaps it was appropriate that the Open Source Summit Europe kicked…