Customers of 3CX, a unified communications technology supplier, are being targeted by a North Korea-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor in a supply chain attack spreading via a compromised update to one of its products. The developing incident was initially flagged independently by cyber security firms CrowdStrike and Sophos after being spotted in their […]

In this podcast, we look at cloud storage and how to retain control of it from a compliance perspective, with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about the difficulties that arise as a result of being able to easily initiate cloud storage instances. The likelihood is that customers can fail to keep track of […]

The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is deepening its investigation into the VMWare-Broadcom merger, after concluding the $61bn deal could hamper innovation and drive up the cost of servers to UK government departments, banking firms and telcos. The CMA gave Broadcom five working days to issue an undertaking to address these concerns on 22 […]

The UK government has published a whitepaper outlining its “adaptable” approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI), which it claims will drive responsible innovation while maintaining public trust in the technology. Published on 29 March, the whitepaper emphasised the government’s commitment to “unleashing AI’s potential across the economy”, which it said had generated £3.7bn for the […]

Threat researchers at Google Cloud’s Mandiant have attributed a campaign of cyber criminal activity out of North Korea to a newly designated advanced persistent threat actor, APT43, in its first official “upgrade” in six months. Mandiant said APT43 was a prolific threat actor operating on behalf of North Korea’s regime, and like many other […]

Lloyds Banking Group has kicked off a programme to find financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insurtech) startups, which could lead to investment and commercial experiments with the bank. At a time when venture capitalists are reducing investments in the fintech sector, big banks could find opportunities that might otherwise be missed. Lloyds Bank’s […]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the associated large language models (LLMs) used by services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard may prove to be hugely beneficial tools in the classroom, but schools will need to review and strengthen their cyber security postures and teachers will need to work harder to safeguard students, the Department […]

What is reliability of computers? Reliability is an attribute of any computer-related component — software, hardware or a network, for example — that consistently performs according to its specifications. It has long been considered one of three related attributes that must be considered when making, buying or using a computer product or component. Reliability is […]

IBM’s Spectrum brand, in use for numerous IBM products since 2015, is set to disappear and be replaced by the more descriptive IBM Storage. The move comes as part of a wider strategy for storage services in which it will now aim for greater product integration without the need for customers to assemble diverse […]

The Alan Turing Institute has unveiled a new strategy for how data science and artificial intelligence (AI) can be used for social good in support of the government’s ambitions for the technology, with a focus on health, the environment and national security. The strategy, dubbed Turing 2.0, is aimed at helping deliver the UK […]