The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has today published new guidance to encourage organisations to work in tandem with others in their supply chains to identify and address security issues, following a marked rise in incidents. Cyber attacks originating from within supply chains have become widespread in the past 18 months to two […]

The PC market has declined by almost 20%, according to the latest market data from analyst Gartner. Worldwide PC shipments totalled 68 million units in the third quarter of 2022, a 19.5% decrease from the third quarter of 2021. The analyst said the figure represents the steepest market decline since it began tracking the […]

Google Cloud and Spanish bank Santander have developed a service that promises to help businesses across industry sectors migrate legacy systems to the cloud. Dual Run, as it is known, will be a service from Google built on top of Santander technology, known as Gravity. The Spanish bank is itself currently using the service […]

Let’s be clear: we face a climate emergency. The United Nations says the world needs to reduce emissions by 7.6% every year through 2030 to prevent potentially catastrophic global warming beyond 1.5°C – and producers and consumers of technology must step up to the plate and take affirmative action. Estimates suggest the IT industry […]

France’s Supreme Court has referred a criminal case that relies on evidence from the hacked EncroChat encrypted phone network back to the court of appeal after finding that prosecutors failed to disclose sufficient information about the hacking operation. The Cour de Cassation in Paris found that French investigators and prosecutors had failed to supply […]

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of 85 newly discovered common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its October Patch Tuesday drop, among them a single zero-day vulnerability, but has not yet moved to patch two other zero-days discovered in Exchange Server in September, raising eyebrows in the community. The two vulnerabilities in Exchange […]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued reprimands to seven public and private organisations over failures to respond to requests for personal information, but experts have questioned why the regulator chooses to publicly disclose some reprimands and not others. Under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 18), the ICO has the power to […]

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, used the start of its Meta Connect conference to showcase new hardware and its vision for the business metaverse. The overall aim is to offer a collaborative workspace capable of combining virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and online video conferencing in an immersive collaborative […]

In organizations with remote employees, productivity depends on secure, reliable access to applications, services and data over the internet from any device, at any location or time. Yet the internet can expose IP addresses and create security risks due to implicit trust and a wealth of vulnerabilities. This is where zero-trust network access (ZTNA) […]

In a see-sawing economy, it can be difficult to determine how best to invest, which is why Forrester’s latest Planning guide 2023: Security and risk report is seen as providing a much-needed steer. It suggests that CISOs should prioritise by focusing on technologies that improve the customer experience or increase revenue, but at the […]