Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts

Staff at two UK ambulance services have been forced to fall back on traditional analogue systems to carry on working after access to patient record systems hosted by a third-party supplier was disrupted in a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature. The services in question are the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust […]

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What is a floating gate transistor?

What is a floating gate transistor (FGT)? A floating gate transistor (FGT), also known as a floating gate MOSFET, is a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology capable of holding an electrical charge in a memory device that is used to store data. Floating gate transistors were first used in erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) and […]

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How do companies protect customer data?

Data breaches have become an everyday reality for many organizations, whose customers feel the effects of identity theft and other fraudulent activities. Business operations require the exchange of customer information, but companies that take customer data security seriously can build trust between themselves and their customers. To protect customer data, organizations must maintain compliance and […]

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UK organisations lack confidence to carry out basic cyber tasks

Businesses across the UK continue to suffer from a basic cyber security skills gap, with supposed security leaders at approximately 50% of organisations saying they lacked the confidence to carry out the most basic tasks as outlined in the NCSC’s Cyber Essentials programme, or lacking appropriate support from third parties. This is according to […]

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Artifical intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear

Earnings from the Azure public cloud accounted for half of Microsoft’s $56.2bn revenue in its fourth quarter filing, with the company reporting overall annual revenue of $212bn, 7% higher than 2022. Microsoft reported that its productivity and business processes business posted a 10% revenue increase to $18.3bn. This was driven mainly by its Office […]

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Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition

Some of the world’s largest suppliers of networking technology have joined together with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, a Washington DC-based non-profit, to form an industry alliance focused on aligning technology providers, cyber security experts and non-profits to help solve some of the most pressing cyber security problems affecting data and networks […]

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CCRC refers two more subpostmaster convictions for appeal

Two more Post Office Horizon scandal convictions referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which warned against referring similar cases “en masse”. The appeals of former subpostmasters Therese Gooding and Ian Davies will now go to Southwark Crown Court. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 736 subpostmasters who ran Post […]

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