What is a pen test? A penetration test, also called a pen test or ethical hacking, is a cybersecurity technique that organizations use to identify, test and highlight vulnerabilities in their security posture. These penetration tests are often carried out by ethical hackers. These in-house employees or third parties mimic the strategies and actions of […]

Bug bounty programme operator and ethical hacking platform HackerOne has launched a Gold Standard Safe Harbour (GSSH) statement for its customers to help them demonstrate that they can and will protect ethical hackers from liability when hacking in good faith. Any vulnerability disclosure policy or operational bug bounty programme should already include a safe […]

The Post Office IT scandal inquiry’s appointed expert IT witness was “troubled” by the lack of integrity of data from the Horizon system that was used to send people to prison. During his investigations, Charles Cipione said he was also “disturbed” by some of the development team’s practices. The Post Office Horizon scandal public […]

LEO pioneer Peter Hermon, who oversaw the technology integration of airlines BEA and BOAC to form BA in the 1970s, has died, aged 93. Hermon’s career in IT began when he joined J Lyons & Co in 1954. There, he cut his computer teeth as one of a remarkable group of British computer pioneers […]

The son of a Brazilian immigrant to France, Adrien Ogée reflects on how the migrant experience kindled in him a desire to transcend national borders and address imbalance in the world – something that in his work for the CyberPeace Institute, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) devoted to supporting its fellow NGOs and humanitarian organisations, […]

Scality has announced version 9 of its Ring object storage software. Key additions include enhanced tiering – called Storage Accelerator – for high-performance use cases, new monitoring tools based on the Prometheus open source product, and new integrations with VMware and backup software supplier Veeam. Flash support was added in Ring 8, with some […]

Although overshadowed by global turmoil, climate breakdown and the growing cost-of-living crisis driving inflation to 7.4%, unemployment to 4.2% and GDP down 1.4% in 2023, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the 2022 Autumn Statement still contained plenty to interest technologists, particularly when it comes to driving investment and innovation. Speaking in […]

What is the control plane? The control plane is the part of a network that carries signaling traffic and is responsible for network routing. Control packets originate from or are destined for a router. The concept of planes first originated in the 1980s to address the need to logically separate the functions of an Integrated […]

The compromise of an unnamed US government organisation by an Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that exploited the Adobe Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability on a VMware Horizon server has led to renewed calls for organisations to remain vigilant against the still highly dangerous threat, and prompted a renewed flurry of patching and remediation among […]

NHS Digital has paid £3.95m in unpaid tax to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), following the completion of a long-running investigation into how the digital arm of the health service had applied the IR35 rules. The payment is to cover the cost of errors made in how NHS Digital assessed the IR35 status of […]