What is a pizza box server? The term “pizza box server” refers to the shape of a computer server enclosed in a rectangular and horizontally arranged chassis and often installed in a rack with similar servers. A pizza box is roughly the same size as one of these servers, hence the name. A pizza box […]

High street retailer WH Smith has been the victim of a cyber attack in which the perpetrators accessed sensitive company data, including personal information of former and current employees. The company confirmed that the attackers have been unable to access any customer data from either its website or backend databases, as that information is […]

The UK government is tapping into the Indian tech industry by giving thousands of Indians the opportunity to work in the UK for two years, as well as creating a tech envoy in the Indo-Pacific region. Through the migration scheme, which was marked during foreign secretary James Cleverly’s visit to the Indian Institute of […]

Critical security flaws in Booking.com’s implementation of Open Authorization (OAuth) could have enabled attackers to launch large-scale account takeovers, putting millions of people’s sensitive personal data at risk, finds threat research by Salt Labs. An industry-standard social login protocol, OAuth allows users to log in to sites via their social media accounts, but by […]

As a project to replace the Post Office’s controversial core computer system by 2025 progresses, a statutory public inquiry has been told of a failed attempt to replace the software 10 years earlier. A plan to replace the Horizon retail and accounting system, which is at the centre of a national scandal, with software […]

Clare Lansley, CIO at Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One, reflects on the role of the modern IT leader and says she’s lucky enough to be in her dream job: “I’ve been an F1 fan all my life, courtesy of my parents. I was indoctrinated at an early age.” While she’s a motor racing enthusiast, […]

Pretty much everyone knows why backups are important. More so than ever in an age of heightened ransomware threats, it’s critical to have a clean copy of data to roll back to in case of emergency. However, you shouldn’t be waiting until an emergency to find out if recovery from backups will work. In […]

Pure Storage has launched FlashBlade//E, which will provide capacity-focussed QLC flash-based storage aimed at unstructured data use cases where performance is less important. In this, it complements the company’s FlashBlade//S family, which brings higher levels of performance alongside capacity. FlashBlade//E starts with 4PB of capacity in two chassis and will scale to about 20PB. […]

Startups working with artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, robotics and other emerging technologies to improve safety and risk management in industrial workplaces have secured more than £150m in funding since 2020, according to the Safetytech Accelerator. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), more than 100 people are killed each year in the […]

Senior Post Office executives told staff as part of its internal messaging not to reveal problems caused by its Horizon IT system, due to concerns the organisation would face serious business and legal difficulties. During the latest public inquiry hearing into the Post Office Horizon scandal, Shaun Turner, a former executive working in the […]