Russian-speaking cyber criminals face diminishing financial returns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with many scams becoming redundant almost overnight due to sanctions and increased scrutiny of Russian entities, say Digital Shadows researchers. Based on anecdotal feedback posted by Russian-speaking cyber criminals to an undisclosed forum, Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team said the financial success […]

Figures from Lloyds Bank have shown how Covid-19 changed the way people make face-to-face payments, with almost 90% now contactless. According to the numbers from the UK bank, 65% of face-to-face payments were made using contactless debit cards in June 2019, in the early stages of the pandemic – but by June 2022, this […]

From sewage outflows to blue-green algae and hosepipe bans, water management has rarely been so much in the public eye. However, utilities are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications and platforms to make this precious resource go further. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Accenture and Colombia’s Ecopetrol, for example, are seeking to address the full water-use cycle […]

To have created the position of vice-president of customer trust yourself just weeks before your organisation becomes the focus of a major cyber security incident demonstrates the kind of prescience that an end-of-the-pier fortune teller can only dream of. But that is exactly what happened to Ben King, who after a two-year stint running […]

Making and keeping a company’s IT infrastructure safe and secure from unauthorised intrusions or malicious actions has always been challenging. With the increased use of cloud computing, coupled with a need to keep developing new functions at an ever-increasing pace through the use of agile technologies, maintaining good security has become even more complex.  […]

At the turn of the century, an in-orbit satellite would have cost more than $17m. These same capabilities can now be put into the same orbit for $200,000.  Satellites rotate around a gravitational body – such as the Earth – at a distance proportional to their speed, but the orbit may not be circular, […]

One of the key benefits of the cloud is its flexible, or “elastic”, nature. Organisations can increase compute resources and storage capacity when they need it with little more than a web browser and a credit card. And, if needs change, they can reduce capacity – and cost – almost as easily. This, however, […]

When Jane Sibley’s mother began losing track of her finances due to dementia, she set her mind to finding a way for her mother to retain her independence while protecting her money. With her father in a nursing home, her mother began to really struggle to understand everyday finances. Sibley said her mother was […]

The public cloud market has seen huge developments over the past decade, with the Covid pandemic being an important accelerator. Cloud services have become more reliable, and are currently used by large numbers of citizens and businesses. The security of public cloud services has increased, and the large-scale deployment of updates and patches makes […]

Structured vs unstructured data – it’s a common way of categorising things. But it’s not quite that simple. Although structured data is easy to grasp, the world of unstructured data and its transformation to more easily understandable, usable and analysable semi-structured data, is less simple. In this article, we look at structured data, unstructured […]