Category: ComputerWeekly

Meta awarded $167m in court battle with spyware mercenaries
07
May
2025

Meta awarded $167m in court battle with spyware mercenaries

A California court has ordered Israeli spyware merchant NSO Group to pay $167.25m in punitive damages, and $444,719 in compensatory…

Chaos spreads at Co-op and M&S following DragonForce attacks
07
May
2025

Chaos spreads at Co-op and M&S following DragonForce attacks

The bank holiday weekend saw continuing disruption from a series of cyber attacks on the UK retail sector that have…

Oxford Uni adds cyber resilience module to MBA programme
07
May
2025

Oxford Uni adds cyber resilience module to MBA programme

The Saïd Business School at Oxford University is to introduce its first cyber resilience elective as part of its MBA…

Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons
07
May
2025

Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons

IT architects tasked with the design of storage systems for artificial intelligence (AI) need to balance capacity, performance and cost….

Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows
07
May
2025

Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows

Power supply problems remain the most common cause of “impactful” datacentre downtime incidents, but ransomware attacks are the leading cause…

Schools pilot exam results app that could save £30m
07
May
2025

Schools pilot exam results app that could save £30m

Thousands of students will receive exam results digitally this summer, as part of a government plan that could cut bureaucracy…

UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal
07
May
2025

UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal

India’s IT services companies are set to get even more competitive as the UK’s trade deal with the country exempts…

Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing
07
May
2025

Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing

Cisco has unveiled its plans to prepare networking for the era of quantum computing. As it officially opened its Quantum…

DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments
07
May
2025

DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments

The government has put out a call to hire 25 scientists and technologists with expertise in the areas of artificial…

ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary
07
May
2025

ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025…

Government industrial strategy will back cyber tech in drive for economic growth 
07
May
2025

Government industrial strategy will back cyber tech in drive for economic growth 

The government will prioritise cyber security and cyber technology in its forthcoming industrial strategy as it looks for ways to…

Unspoken risk: Human factors undermine trusted platforms
06
May
2025

Unspoken risk: Human factors undermine trusted platforms

By Published: 06 May 2025 The Signal leak incident in which a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat…