In February 2022, I wrote in a Computer Weekly article about metacognition, the ability to think about thinking, remains a critical gap to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). I pointed to a 2021 paper that I co-authored where we experimented with giving AI abilities in metacognition, finding that whilst the AI was slightly […]

A slim majority of British adults would be perfectly happy for the government and its allies to break international cyber security laws and norms, and almost as many feel they would be happy to support or engage in online cyber criminal activity themselves, given the right circumstances, according to a report. The survey, conducted […]

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and National Crime Agency (NCA) have published a whitepaper examining the ongoing evolution of the business models and underpinnings of the cyber criminal ransomware ecosystem, and highlighting that responding appropriately and effectively need neither be complex, nor expensive. The joint NCSC NCA report, Ransomware, extortion, and the […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a £4.4m, 15-month mainframe management contract with IBM spin-off Kyndryl that will support the government tax agency with migrating more of its IT infrastructure to the cloud. HMRC is in the midst of a multi-year migration of its applications and workloads to the public cloud, with the […]

Huawei has launched a network-attached storage (NAS) array in Europe, the OceanStor Pacific 9920, which will offer up to 92TB raw capacity in 2U of rack space. This move by Huawei aims at datacentres and dodges the equipment operator market restrictions it is subject to, notably from the European Union. The 9920 is an […]

UK business leaders are far less concerned about the risk of a material cyber attack on their organisation than they were this time last year, according to data compiled by Proofpoint, which suggests a growing sense of alignment between security leaders and boardrooms. In a study published last week, Cybersecurity: The 2023 board perspective […]

The University of Glasgow has opened a centre dedicated to supporting its research in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), bringing together hundreds of academics with expertise in different disciplines. The Centre for Data Science will support the university’s efforts to address challenges such as climate change and inequality, through data science and AI. Data […]

A senate investigation in Poland has found the use of Pegasus spyware by members of the ruling party against political opponents during the 2019 elections amounted to a gross violation of constitutional standards. A report by a Senate of Poland special committee found that the 2019 election, which returned Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice […]

It is probably safe to say that Salesforce and Zoom are two of the most high-profile software companies operating today, and outside of an IT context, two of the best known to the public. And it’s certainly safe to say that thanks to their prominence, both are targets for threat actors and cyber criminals […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will have a solution in place by April 2024 to solve a long-standing issue that has repeatedly seen the government agency accused of over-collecting tax from non-IR35-compliant public sector bodies, it is claimed. The issue relates to the fact that when HMRC calculates how much tax a non-compliant public […]