A national anti-fraud strategy, launched today, will target digitally enabled fraud and scams, taking the fight to the criminal underground and stopping fraudsters from ever reaching their victims, the government has claimed. Earlier today, prime minister Rishi Sunak tabled a number of key measures designed to make it harder for criminals to use modern […]

Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to classify data to ensure it has the right level of protection and whether it is stored on the most suitable type of storage […]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning to companies over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manipulate people’s behaviour for commercial gain. In a blog post published 1 May 2023, FTC advertising practices attorney Michael Atleson said firms are already using the new wave of generative AI tools in ways […]

Quantum computing will process massive amounts of information. Workloads could include diagnostic simulations and analysis at speeds far greater than existing computing. But, to be fully effective, quantum computing will need to access, analyse and store huge amounts of data. There is an expectation that quantum computing will be the next step in the […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved to assure enterprises and governments around the world that details about its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) will be made available to them via its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool from “early 2024”. A report by Computer Weekly in April 2023 saw the public cloud giant come in […]

A Gartner survey of 2,500 executive leaders has found that almost half (45%) say publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence (AI) investments. The survey reported that 70% of executives said their organisations are investigating the use of AI while 19% are in pilot or have deployed AI in production. The […]

Apple has released the first security update under its new Rapid Security Response programme, but has sparked confusion after releasing no information about any of the issues it was fixing, while some users have reported that their devices are refusing to accept the update. Rapid Security Responses are a new type of software release for […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed it could have a legislative solution to the long-standing issue of it over-collecting tax in instances where organisations have fallen foul of the IR35 rules by April 2024. The government tax collection agency has come under growing pressure in recent years to address this issue, which originates […]

Seagate recently launched its record capacity 22TB (terabytes) IronWolf Pro hard disk drive in 3.5in form factor. Already waiting in the Seagate portfolio is a double-drawer 5U JBOD rack that can contain 84 IronWolf 22TB drives to give capacity of 1.8PB (petabytes) for use with servers and storage arrays. As soon as Seagate announced […]

What is Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC)? Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) is a message encryption method that uses a cryptographic key in conjunction with a hash function. It provides the server and the client each with a private key that is known only to that specific server and client, providing a more secure means […]