Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the React JavaScript library, which earlier today caused disruption across the internet as Cloudflare pushed mitigations live on…
Category: ComputerWeekly
Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month
Cloudflare has successfully recovered its services after a second outage in the space of three weeks briefly took down Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, knocking…
Edinburgh Airport grounds flights due to IT issue affecting air traffic control provider
Flights to and from Edinburgh Airport are continuing to be beset by delays, after an undisclosed IT issue grounded passengers for around an hour on…
Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator
Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), is building strong IT foundations as part of a five-year strategy to…
From trust to turbulence: Cyber’s road ahead in 2026
In 2025, trust became the most exploited surface in modern computing. For decades, cyber security has centered on vulnerabilities, software bugs, misconfigured systems and weak…
NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks
Three Greater London councils struck by a cyber attack last week are receiving response support from cyber security experts at NCC Group as they continue…
Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation
The Home Office has formally opened a consultation on the use of facial recognition by UK police, saying the government is committed to introducing a…
In an AI-first world, the future of cyber security is its workforce
The future of cyber security will not only be largely unrecognisable when compared with today, believes David Foote, chief analyst and research partner at Foote…
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war
A coalition of countries has provided Ukraine with more than €1.3bn of telecommunications, information technology and other high-tech equipment since Russia began the deadliest conflict…
Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation
The Metropolitan Police officer leading the national investigation into crimes committed during the Post Office scandal said Fujitsu’s contact to run the police network “complicates…
NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks
Almost a billion early-stage cyber attacks and end-user attempts to access dangerous websites have been blocked by the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) new Share…
UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act
The UK government will forge ahead with changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990, introducing long-called-for changes to the 35 year-old law that…