IT Sustainability Think Tank: Risk and resilience – two sides of the same climate coin

During the UK’s sweltering heatwave this summer, many people encountered an additional challenge to the stifling temperatures – problems accessing their emails, streaming services or items stored in the cloud. Google, Amazon and Oracle all experienced server outages as their cooling systems struggled in the record-breaking heat. In a year of floods, hurricanes, extreme […]

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Digital Ethics Summit: Who benefits from new technology?

The siloed and insulated nature of how the tech sector approaches innovation is sidelining ethical considerations, it has been claimed, diminishing public trust in the idea that new technologies will benefit everyone. Speaking at TechUK’s sixth annual Digital Ethics Summit this month, panellists discussed the ethical development of new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), […]

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Lego fixes dangerous API vuln in BrickLink service

The Lego Group has moved swiftly to fix a pair of application programming interface (API) security vulnerabilities that existed in its BrickLink digital resale platform, after they were identified by Salt Labs, the research arm of API specialist Salt Security. With over a million members, BrickLink is the world’s largest forum for buying and […]

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Cops dismantle 48 DDoS-for-hire websites

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working alongside the FBI, the Dutch Police, and European Union law enforcement agency Europol, has taken down 48 of the world’s most widely used booter sites suspected of being used by cyber criminals and other threat actors to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Operation PowerOFF also […]

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CW APAC: Tech career guide – women in IT

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. December 2022 CW APAC: Tech career guide – women in IT Share this item with your network: Efforts continue apace to bridge the IT gender gap. In this handbook, focused on tech careers for women in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at what can be […]

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NCA officer questioned in Investigatory Powers Tribunal over failure to disclose EncroChat notes

A National Crime Agency (NCA) officer faced questions in Britain’s most secret court on Wednesday 14 December after she failed to disclose a key document about the agency’s use of hacked text messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network in criminal prosecutions. NCA intelligence officer Emma Sweeting told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) that […]

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CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

Andy Pocock, IT director at vehicle dealership group TrustFord, has been with his organisation since April 2008. When he looks back on his time at the company, he says that – quite simply – there’s been a huge focus on digital transformation. “We’ve had periods where there’s been heavy growth and a lot of […]

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Quarter of UK businesses looking abroad for tech talent

In the UK, a quarter of leaders who are hiring are looking in other regions for technology talent, according to research by Remote. In its survey of almost 1,500 global leaders hiring tech talent in the US, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden, the software and services provider found 36% of hiring managers […]

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Private health provider data could be shared with NHS England

Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt), which has today (14 December) recommended that private healthcare providers should be able to routinely share information with the […]

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Advanced Azov data wiper likely to become active threat

An emergent data wiper ransomware known as Azov – which first came to attention as a payload delivered by the SmokeLoader botnet – is becoming increasingly widespread and seems to be on its way to being an active and dangerous threat, according to researchers at Check Point. Azov is distinct from more common or […]

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