Just 15% of organisations have a clearly defined and well-understood AI strategy in place, research from Mesh-AI has found, which also exposed that the top technical challenges to AI adoption are poor data quality (40%) and accessibility (38%). Based on the responses from 200 business leaders, the IT consulting firm looked at what organisations […]
TikTok, the video-sharing social medial platform, is to be fined €345m for failing to protect children’s privacy. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) announced the fine against the video-sharing app for breaches of the GDPR data protection law. TikTok exposed children aged 13 to 17 to risks by making their accounts publicly available by default […]
French Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud is rolling out an “exhaustive” carbon calculator to its customers to help make it easier for them to track the Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions generated by their cloud usage. Eight months in the making, the tool is accessible via the OVHcloud customer panel, and – […]
Software engineering covers all of Dunelm’s business domains. Over the past few years, the retailer has updated its IT infrastructure from running off-the-shelf ecommerce via IBM WebSphere on Rackspace to building everything in-house. “Like many companies, digital transformation starts with the website and goes deeper and wider after that,” says Paul Kerrison, director of […]
Ceasars Entertainment, operator of the venerable Las Vegas casino Ceasars Palace, has revealed that it paid a significant sum of money to its attackers following a recent ransomware attack, which was possibly the work of the same threat actor that breached competitor MGM Resorts using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware. In a filing made to the […]
Some 17 billion contactless payments were made in the UK last year, a 30% increase on the previous year, with 87% of people using the technology at least once a month, according to the latest figures from banking industry body UK Finance. The average value of contactless payments also increased. In 2022, a total […]
A ransomware attack on Digital ID, a Stockport-based supplier of identity and access cards, is developing into a serious supply chain incident after data breaches affecting Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and London’s Metropolitan Police forces came to light. The breach at the Met came to light in August, but GMP only revealed its data […]
A large number of firms are struggling to keep diverse talent, with more than half saying it isn’t easy to retain diverse tech employees, according to Wiley Edge. The training provider’s Diversity in tech 2023 report found that 64% of firms in the UK have lost tech talent from diverse backgrounds, with only 13% […]
A threat actor and alleged ransomware operator going by the alias USDoD has leaked data on over 3,000 suppliers of aviation giant Airbus after supposedly penetrating the organisation’s systems using a hacked customer account belonging to Turkish Airlines. According to Hudson Rock, which was first to identify the emerging incident, USDoD had already gained […]
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation appears to be behind the ongoing cyber attack on US hospitality and leisure operator MGM Resorts, which has disrupted operations at Las Vegas casinos including Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, the MGM Grand and New York-New York. First revealed by malware research collective VX-Underground, the gang claimed it had conducted […]