The National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) deliberately kept stories of Horizon errors quiet because it “did not want to kill the project”. The NFSP, a membership organisation representing subpostmasters, even proposed to propagate positive news about the accounting system to hide the problems experienced during its roll-out. During a Horizon scandal statutory public inquiry […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has reported revenue of $7.9bn for the fourth quarter of 2022, up 7%. Its compute business reported revenue of $3.7bn, up 16% from the prior-year period, and storage revenue was $1.3bn, up 4%. Its intelligent edge business reported revenue of $965m, up 18%. However, growth in its financial services arm […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky is imploring cash-strapped enterprises to move more of their IT to the cloud if they want to cut costs. During the opening keynote of this year’s AWS Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas, Selipsky cited a series of examples of reference customers who, against a […]

Utility South Staffordshire Water has been forced to apologise to customers after bank details stolen in a Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware attack on its systems were leaked on the dark web. The firm – which is operated by a parent company that also oversees Cambridge Water – has been working alongside forensic security experts […]

The LockBit ransomware cartel behind the recent Advanced Software – NHS attack continues to evolve and upgrade its locker malware, incorporating new wormable functionality that allows it to self-spread, making it easier to use, and obfuscation capabilities that enable it to mimic the activity of legitimate penetration testers. Operatives at Sophos’s Managed Detection and […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a mission to make its cloud the “cleanest and most energy-efficient way” for enterprises to run all of their IT infrastructure and applications, according to the company’s CEO, Adam Selipsky. He made the declaration during the opening keynote at this year’s AWS Re:Invent partner and customer conference in […]

The government is to press ahead with a series of reforms and updates to the Network Information Systems (NIS) regulations of 2018, which it claims will strengthen them to better protect the UK’s critical national services from cyber attack by bringing providers of outsourced IT and managed service providers (MSPs) into scope. The NIS […]

We are in an age of unprecedented flexibility in storage procurement. The cloud has been a huge driver, making the concept of pay-as-you-go a norm of far-reaching influence. The fundamental pull of pay-as-you-go is flexibility in use, deployment, upgrades, scalability, speed of development and roll-out, and with the promise of better cost efficiency. Storage has […]

Independent algorithmic auditing firm Parity AI has partnered with talent acquisition and management platform Beamery to conduct ongoing scrutiny of bias in its artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools. Beamery, which uses AI to help businesses identify, recruit, develop, retain and redeploy talent, approached Parity to conduct a third-party audit of its systems, which was […]

Effective ransomware handling is not simple – it must span every area of the business and requires a multi-layered approach. To achieve this, CISOs need to focus on providing all employees and the organisation with the necessary “tools” to recognise and react appropriately to an attack and prevent it from succeeding. These can be […]