From The Tinder Swindler to Inventing Anna, true crime documentaries and dramatisations found a prominent place in popular culture in 2022. The Netflix specials captivated audiences’ attention and curiosity about identity fraud, fraudsters and their victims. While true crime TV shows, podcasts, and movies give insights into real-world fraud activity, as many as 65% […]

Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) could help the NHS and other public institutions unlock “life-saving” data without compromising people’s privacy, says the Royal Society. PET is an umbrella terms that refers to range of technologies and approaches – such as homomorphic encryption and synthetic data – that are designed to maintain an information system’s functionality while […]

Under-resourced charities running services and fundraising activities online are increasingly seen as a soft touch by cyber criminals looking to make a quick buck, and are at risk of malicious actors taking advantage of public generosity during challenging times. In a newly issued report, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) highlighted how besides launching […]

The cloud’s pay-as-you-go model offers flexibility and an easy way to expand data storage. But, although most cloud providers allow free data uploads to their infrastructure, downloading – or even moving – data from cloud storage comes at a cost. Those fees, or “egress” charges, are one of the hidden costs of cloud computing, […]

“Life’s what you make it,” sang the synth-pop post-rock band Talk Talk in 1986 – perhaps a suggestion we should all take on board when considering the predictions for 2023. Economic forecasts are starting to make Nostradamus look like a fun dinner party guest, so when we start seeing stories about composable computing being the […]

Royal Mail has said that international deliveries of letters and parcels are getting back on track after being suspended for over a week in the wake of a suspected LockBit ransomware attack, but has asked customers to refrain from posting new items to overseas destinations just yet. A limited export service resumed on Thursday […]

The UK government has awarded Barclays Eagle Labs a £12m digital growth grant to support technology startups and scaleups across the UK, replacing longstanding provider Tech Nation in the role. The Digital Growth Grant funding was established by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to support the development of the UK’s […]

French car parts maker Bontaz used to find IT a stop-start process. Every time it suffered the slightest loss of electrical power, it had to restart its entire IT infrastructure. That was then, however, and seven years on, it’s pleased with its move to software-defined storage from DataCore, which it has just upgraded to […]

The announcement from Microsoft chief executive, Satya Nadella, about the company’s need to cut 10,000 jobs is indicative of an industry set on realigning costs as the economic slowdown worsens. Over the last few weeks, Salesforce announced a 10% reduction in its workforce, Meta is reducing its workforce by 13% while Amazon said it […]

Most IT leaders (83% ) think there’s an “availability gap” between how quickly they need systems to be recoverable and how soon that can be achieved. Meanwhile, 81% identify a “protection gap” between how much data they can afford to lose and how often data is protected. So, while most IT leaders are less […]