The supposedly secure terrestrial trunked radio (Tetra) technology used by the emergency services – which have been a sticking point in the long-running and deeply troubled transition to the new Emergency Services Network (ESN) – contains a number of serious flaws in its encryption algorithms which could, and possibly have, enabled malicious actors and […]

The Mayor of London has announced funding for seven startups using technology to alleviate the cost-of-living crisis, as part of an initiative to support the capital’s most vulnerable residents. Launched in January 2023, the idea behind the Poverty Prevention Challenge is to use technology to help Londoners deal with the cost-of-living crisis (City Hall […]

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Science and Technology Facilities Council’s RAL Space have joined forces to create a facility for calibrating small satellites. Funded through the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) £200m Earth Observation Investment Package that was launched last year, the facility is being designed, manufactured and tested […]

Mandatory disclosures and environment, social and governance (ESG) reporting requirements for companies are rapidly expanding. Organisations should prepare themselves to disclose more and leverage disclosed data from others. At both entity and product levels, substantiation of sustainability assertions is required by governments, investors, clients, and several other stakeholders. New regulations that address high-profile issues […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 25 July 2023 Getting comfortable with data Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to ‘Data Bob’ – the head of IT at furniture retailer DFS – about building trust in data. The vulnerabilities in MOVEit software continue to attract […]

Sean Green’s career has gone a full circle from IT through marketing, back to IT at his local university, where he is now heading up IT. Before taking up what he describes as a “pretty rounded CIO role”, at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Green had been on a journey through different sectors […]

The endless capacity of cloud object storage with Posix-compatible file access – that’s the promise of CunoFS, from Cambridge-based PetaGene, which aims to resolve the increasingly widespread challenge of how to combine high-performance compute and huge amounts of stored data. It’s a challenge for workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI), video production, medical research […]

Very few organisations would have launched two new programmes of work by sharing a stage with the artist behind a hot pink puppet-robot hybrid that interrogates subjects about their data use. So the Open Data Institute’s (ODI) London Data Week launch of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and participatory data programmes as part of […]

A zero-day vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix NetScaler Gateway appears to be being exploited by an unspecified advanced persistent threat (APT) actor backed by the Chinese government and should be patched immediately. Per Citrix’s initial advisory released on Tuesday 18 July, the three vulnerabilities patched by Citrix affect multiple […]

Britain’s most secret court is investigating claims that UK agencies unlawfully monitored the phone communications of two Northern Ireland journalists. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has agreed to investigate whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PNSI), Durham Police, GCHQ and MI5 used intrusive surveillance in an attempt to identify the journalists’ sources. Trevor […]