The Netherlands is one of the most digitised countries in the world. Dutch people work, live, shop and meet ever more digitally, making digital systems the beating heart of society. This offers many opportunities, but also risks as security in the digital world falls behind that in the physical world.   Now the Netherlands government […]

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is launching a £1.5m artificial intelligence (AI) innovation programme that will see the technology put to use to curb the UK’s carbon emissions. The AI for Decarbonisaton Programme, as it is known, forms part of the government’s broader £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, which was […]

After a series of operational setbacks, including having its tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) exposed on the internet by WithSecure, the Vietnam-based Ducktail cyber crime cartel has been busily evolving its operations, seeking new methods to compromise its targets and steal their Facebook Business accounts. The group had been using LinkedIn to conduct research […]

The Killnet collective, a group of hacktivists aligned with the Russian state’s interests, claim to have caused significant disruption to multiple websites and organisations in the UK in a wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber attacks, supposedly in revenge for the government’s support for Ukraine. A DDoS attack is a relatively crude […]

What is a general-purpose computer? A general-purpose computer is one that, given the application and required time, should be able to perform the most common computing tasks. Desktops, notebooks, smartphones and tablets, are all examples of general-purpose computers. A general-purpose computer is made up of a central processing unit, memory, input/output devices and a bus […]

Since videos about “quiet quitting” went viral on TikTok this July, the concept has scarcely been out of the headlines. The notion that employees simply stick to their job description and decline to get involved in any discretionary effort above and beyond the essential has resonated widely with both employees and leaders, sending frissons […]

Although the C-suite are now keenly aware of the threats to their organisation, and how often they are attacked, many struggle to understand the terminology that cyber security professionals would consider everyday language, but to them sounds more like jargon. As a result, many are struggling to prioritise appropriate action on cyber issues, a […]

Enterprise cloud storage is more flexible and offers more features and performance than ever. Even among the three main cloud services – Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure – there is now a comprehensive range of capacity, availability, performance and security options. However, this choice does not make the IT department’s task […]

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A few years ago, speculation that we could be replaced by robots at work seemed rife. But it subsided among other pressing concerns and real-world events such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, however, with spiralling inflation leading to unsustainable salary demands, talent shortages that are only getting worse, and increased operational costs for businesses […]