Category: ComputerWeekly

NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
22
Jul
2024

NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists

Opportunist cyber criminals are the most pressing immediate threat arising from the 19 July Microsoft outage, which caused millions of…

Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
22
Jul
2024

Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates

Former coalition government ministers were “handled” by civil servants who “covered their own backs” while evidence of a scandal at…

IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green
22
Jul
2024

IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green

The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such…

What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?
19
Jul
2024

What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs…

CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know
19
Jul
2024

CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature,…

Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance
19
Jul
2024

Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance

Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are new and different to those we’ve seen previously in the enterprise. They range from intensely…

Crowdstrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
19
Jul
2024

Crowdstrike security update fails Windows PCs globally

Systems using Microsoft Windows software were affected by a major global outage due to a configuration which caused PCs to…

Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
19
Jul
2024

Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to…

Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk
18
Jul
2024

Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk

The growing normalisation of the widespread storing and sharing of self-created intimate images in the UK is heightening the risk…

Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
18
Jul
2024

Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective

 A former detective regarded as a key witness in an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully monitored the phones of…

Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
18
Jul
2024

Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal

The government trusted the views of the Post Office over allegations by subpostmasters that they were being mistreated over unexplained…

DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists
18
Jul
2024

DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of…