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In a geopolitical “first”, the Albanian government has reacted to a cyber attack on its systems that was attributed to an Iran-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor by severing diplomatic ties with Iran, forcing its embassy in Tirana to close, and expelling its diplomatic staff and ambassador. The July 2022 attack incorporated a combination […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected 10 startup participants for its first-ever defence-focused accelerator programme after sifting through more than 100 applications. The cloud giant worked with UK government technology consultancy Public to select the accelerator’s participants, who are all now on course to embark on a four-week body of work beginning later in […]
Thirty-five technology scaleups have been selected to join entrepreneurial network Tech Nation’s second Libra cohort, a programme designed to support underrepresented startup founders. The six-month long, government-backed Libra programme was created to tackle the tech sector’s lack of racial diversity, and aims to act as a springboard for underrepresented founders looking for support while […]
The disclosure of multiple impactful and, critically, widespread vulnerabilities and proof-of-concept (POC) exploits made August a busy month for patching, with urgent updates needed for users of Apple and Google products, while corporate security teams were kept on their toes with fixes for vulns targeting Microsoft, Palo Alto and VMware, among others. That is […]
Youth charity The Prince’s Trust has teamed up with Adarma, an Edinburgh-based supplier of threat management services, to launch a scheme aimed at empowering 21- to 30-year-olds to pursue careers in cyber security, and to push for a more inclusive and diverse profession. The Get Started in Cybersecurity programme comprises a two-week course offering […]
UK-based hospitality multinational IHG, the operator of hotel chains such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Kimpton, among many others, has confirmed it has been targeted by an as-yet unknown threat actor in an ongoing cyber attack. According to hospitality sector website LoyaltyLobby, which was among the first to pick up on whispers […]
Despite the rise and emergence of major datacentre hubs in countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands, more than half of the world’s hyperscale facilities are located in the US. That is according to market watcher Synergy Research Group, which has released data on the hyperscale datacentre footprint of 19 of the world’s biggest […]
Sweden’s attitude towards innovation is perhaps best exemplified by the Swedish innovation agency, Vinnova, a government agency founded in 2001 based on a series of predecessors going back to at least 1968. The innovation agency functions much like its counterparts in other countries, similarly to the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) […]
On 26 August this year, Montenegro’s state infrastructure was hit by an “unprecedented” cyber attack, and national government officials expressed alarm. “Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons, but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised,” public administration minister Maras Dukaj announced on Twitter. […]
Key among the announcements made at VMware Explore 2022 was the launch of version 8 of vSphere and vSAN. With that backdrop, ComputerWeekly.com’s French sister website, LeMagIT, met with John Gilmartin, VMware’s senior vice-president and general manager in its cloud infrastructure group, responsible for storage product updates. vSAN is an extension of vSphere that […]