Category: ComputerWeekly

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….

Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
08
May
2024

Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage

An IT outage that caused the automated passport control e-gates at airports across the UK to crash on 7 May…

Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints
08
May
2024

Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

Microsoft is facing the prospect of an anti-trust probe at the hands of another overseas competition watchdog, following a complaint…

Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
08
May
2024

Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

Huawei has launched an exabyte-scale network-attached storage (NAS) array to meet the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The OceanStor…

Germany: European Court of Justice hears arguments on lawfulness of EncroChat cryptophone evidence
08
May
2024

Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges

A decision by Europe’s highest court is expected to lead to legal challenges over the use of evidence from EncroChat…

NCSC warns over ‘enduring’ LockBit threat
07
May
2024

NCA unmasks LockBitSupp cyber gangster who toyed with pursuers

The National Crime Agency (NCA), alongside the global partner agencies that participated in Operation Cronos, the operation against the LockBit…

Government plans to scan bank accounts of disabled people will lead to another scandal
07
May
2024

Government plans to scan bank accounts of disabled people will lead to another scandal

It looks like we’re sleepwalking into another Horizon scandal. Disabled people up and down the country are sounding the alarm…

Gen AI: what we know and don’t know, what excites us, what scares us
07
May
2024

Gen AI: what we know and don’t know, what excites us, what scares us

First, an admission. I am not a GenAI expert. Then again, who is? Even the computer scientists, coders and product…

Cyber experts urge EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans
07
May
2024

Chinese APT suspected of Ministry of Defence hack

An undisclosed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor possibly backed by the Chinese government is suspected of involvement in a serious…

Navigating the DPDI Bill: A transformative shift ahead
07
May
2024

What does the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill mean for UK industry?

The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is the first major piece of data protection legislation since the UK…

Tech jobs are on the rise, but soft skills are most coveted, says WEF
07
May
2024

Gartner: Few organisations have mature AI processes

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading rapidly in organisations, the latest survey from analyst Gartner has reported. However,…

Security and risk management spending to grow 14% next year
07
May
2024

Government jumps on Wayve self-drive funding boost

Wayve, a UK company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) for self-driving vehicles, has secured more than $1bn of investment from…