Chief information security officers (CISOs) have an enormous job of protecting their organisations from multiple threats daily. If you ask any CISO what are the top attacks that could possibly keep them up at night, one of them will almost certainly be ransomware. Ransomware is a form of malware designed to encrypt files on […]

London’s Metropolitan Police have disrupted one of the largest digitally-enabled fraud operations ever seen and arrested the mastermind behind it, in a major blow to criminals targeting the UK public. Operation Elaborate targeted iSpoof.cc, an underground website that sold call spoofing services which allowed fraudsters to contact their targets pretending to be trusted organisations, […]

Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle Applications product development, spoke to Computer Weekly’s business applications editor, Brian McKenna, at Oracle Cloud World 2022 in Las Vegas about the impact of the macroeconomic crisis on the supplier’s customers, and how Oracle cannot do everything on its own, and so has embarked on a strategy of […]

The UK tech sector could curb the amount of carbon emissions generated by 81.8 million tonnes if it were to collectively commit to making four changes to the way it operates, claims a report by startup champions Tech Nation.   The organisation, which is geared towards supporting the growth of UK tech startups and […]

Inadequate and ill-defined algorithmic auditing processes are being used to mask problematic or illegal practices with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a German Marshall Fund (GMF) report. Published under the GMF think-tank’s Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, the report said that while algorithmic audits can help correct for the opacity of AI systems, poorly […]

The UK government has boasted of £14.8m in annual business savings and increased exports to South Korea after finalising a data adequacy agreement with Seoul, having previously secured an agreement in principle in July. Having now completed a full assessment of South Korea’s personal data legislation, the government said it was confident that the […]

Over the past few years, Photobox has been on a journey to unify its e-commerce platform. At the start of 2022, the company merged with Albelli, and, says Alex Hibbit, director of site reliability engineering at Photobox, hopes to build out a solid base for the different brands in the group. Photobox’s IT is […]

UK cyber security consultancy and penetration testing specialist MDSec has defended its commercial Nighthawk framework and criticised what it described as an “irresponsible” disclosure after researchers at Proofpoint warned that the tool risks being co-opted into widespread use in the cyber criminal underground, as happened with Cobalt Strike and others, such as Sliver and […]

The Dutch child benefits scandal showed the devastation that algorithms can cause, which is why the Netherlands government wants to ensure that citizens can keep control of their digital lives and trust the digital world.   Alexandra van Huffelen, state secretary for digitisation, has written to the House of Representatives that it is essential to […]

New research from analyst firm Atlantic Ventures for Nutanix has reported that in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, more than half of datacentre energy consumption is from traditional on-premise datacentres. Although cloud usage is expected to grow over the next three years, this is unlikely to reduce on-premise datacentre usage significantly. Figures from […]