Users of home media streaming service Plex have been warned to reset their passwords immediately following a breach in which an undisclosed third party was able to make off with a user dataset that included email addresses, usernames and passwords. Service users were contacted by Plex on Wednesday 24 August after the firm discovered […]

Cyber security professionals in the UK say they are more worried about quotidian issues than the threat of having to deal with a major cyber incident as they go about their business, according to the latest State of the profession report produced by the Chartered Institute for Information Security (CIISec). The seventh annual edition […]

The recently updated LockBit 3.0 ransomware seems to have driven a substantial uptick in documented ransomware attacks in July, with incidents rising by 47% on a month-by-month basis, according to the latest monthly threat data produced by NCC Group. The operators of LockBit issued version 3.0 at the end of June under the tagline […]

Cost is often the key factor when it comes to moving IT to the cloud. In practice, working out the cost of moving a workload or business process to the cloud is complex. And, just as with on-premise hardware, there is more to the total cost of ownership of cloud systems than the “ticket […]

That Ozzy Osbourne appeared with Black Sabbath at the closing ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was something of a surprise. That he belted out his band’s most famous hit with great gusto, ending of with the cry of “Birmingham forever!” was something even more so. But it was a most appropriate way […]

Analysis and prediction are core to today’s IT as organisations embark on digital transformation, with use cases that range from speech recognition and pattern analysis in science, to use in fraud detection and security, to AIOps in IT and storage. As artificial intelligence and predictive methods – machine learning, deep learning, neural processing, and […]

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations are using data classification to track information based on its sensitivity and confidentiality, as well as its importance to the […]

Apple has released a series of patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting its macOS Monterey desktop operating system (OS), its iOS and iPadOS OSes, and its Safari web browser. The two vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2022-32893 and CVE-2022-32894. Both are out-of-bounds write issues that affect the Safari WebKit web browser extension, and the […]

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has donated the first batch of 70 computers out of a total of 600 that it has set aside for The Turing Trust, the IT recycling and education charity founded by the family of Alan Turing. In the 10 years since it was formed, the trust has provided access to […]

NVMe-over-TCP 5x cheaper than equivalent NVMe-over-Ethernet (ROCE) solutions – that’s the promise of Lightbits LightOS, which enables customers to build flash-based SAN storage clusters on commodity hardware and using Intel network cards. Lightbits demoed the system to show performance equivalent to NVMe-over-Fibre Channel or ROCE/Ethernet – both much more costly solutions –  in which LightOS […]