What is the QWERTY keyboard? The QWERTY (pronounced KWEHR-tee) keyboard is the standard typewriter and computer keyboard in countries that use a Latin-based alphabet. QWERTY refers to the first six letters on the upper row of the keyboard. The key arrangement was devised by Christopher Latham Sholes, whose Type-Writer, as it was then called, was […]

Royal Mail continues to make steady progress on recovering its international letter and parcel export services following a suspected LockBit ransomware attack earlier in January. Having started to despatch standard export letters, and letters and parcels from Northern Ireland into Ireland, on Thursday 19 January, the postal service now says that having made progress […]

More people than ever before switched current account providers in the final three months of last year, with 376,000 moving to a new bank. In November alone, more than 157,000 UK consumers moved their current account to a new bank using the government’s Current Account Switching Service (Cass), which is in its 10th year […]

Hostile advanced persistent threat (APT) groups aligned with the national interests of Iran and Russia are targeting UK nationals including academics, activists, charity and NGO workers, defence and government officials, journalists, and politicians, with carefully crafted and highly targeted spear-phishing emails, according to new intelligence from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The […]

The start of 2023 has seen several of the technology industry’s biggest names, including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, announce tens of thousands of job cuts. This is against an economic backdrop of high interest rates and rising inflation, prompting tech firms to find ways to reduce their operating costs as their customers similarly seek […]

Leeds Building Society (LBS), has updated its systems management, replacing an existing hardware monitor tool with Dynatrace, enabling the building society to improve reliability and performance of its digital savings, mortgage and investment services. The building society needed a way to modernise IT observability to combine insight from across its entire multi-generational technology stack, which […]

In today’s world, cybercrime is evolving daily. According to a special report by Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is expected to cause a staggering $10.5 trillion in annual losses by 2025. Therefore, it’s more crucial than ever for both businesses and individuals to stay up to date on the latest developments in cybersecurity. Podcasting is an […]

Glasgow-based Arnold Clark – one of the UK’s largest car dealer networks, which made a billionaire out of its founder – is facing a multimillion-pound ransom demand from the Play double extortion ransomware cartel following a cyber attack on its systems. The attack on the organisation took place in the run-up to Christmas and […]

Although the terms security threat, security event and security incident are related, in the world of cybersecurity these information security threats have different meanings. A security threat is a malicious act that aims to corrupt or steal data or disrupt an organization’s systems or the entire organization. A security event refers to an occurrence […]

The latest Global 2023 state of DevOps report from Puppet by Perforce has found that IT professionals whose organisations adopt “platform engineering” are more likely to report success. In 2022, the State of DevOps report revealed that enterprises with more mature DevOps practices tend to use platform teams. It identified platform team adoption as […]