Personal data on up to 10 million people who shopped online at sporting goods and fashion retailer JD Sports has been accessed and potentially stolen by cyber criminals in a cyber incident of a currently unknown nature. The incident, disclosed today (30 January), is understood to affect individuals who shopped online between November 2018 […]
The amount of money enterprises are investing in their own private datacentres experienced a “post-pandemic” bounce-back in 2022, as shown by data accrued by IT market watcher Synergy Research Group. The analyst has published its analysis of the 2022 infrastructure capital expenditure (capex) habits of hyperscalers, telcos and enterprises, finding that collectively these three […]
Just over 30% of people over the age of 55 want to improve their digital skills in the hopes of new career opportunities before they retire, according to research. Skills training organisation AND Digital found 31% of people aged 55 and over want new digital skills, but don’t have the support from the organisations […]
Safeguards will be written into the Online Safety Bill to ensure the secretary of state does not unduly interfere with the work or independence of online harms regulator Ofcom, digital minister Paul Scully has told a Lords committee. Under the draft Online Safety Bill, which was first published in May 2021 but has since […]
SAP has announced what it calls a “targeted restructuring” as part of its full-year and fourth-quarter 2022 results. It expects this to affect 2.5% of its employees in 2023. It predicts a “moderate cost benefit” in 2023 and €300m to €350m in annual cost savings as of 2024. It is also exploring the sale […]
In one of the largest international cyber law enforcement actions seen to date, the Hive ransomware cartel’s infrastructure was hacked, its decryption key “stolen” and distributed to victims, and its servers seized, bringing an end to an 18-month crime spree that had stolen over $100m from around 1,500 victims including hospitals, schools, financial services […]
Electrical wholesale network City Electrical Factors (CEF) is set to deploy HPE GreenLake as the first stage of its digital transformation. CEF plans to use HPE GreenLake platform to optimise its infrastructure management and security using disaster recovery capabilities provided by IT services firm Zerto. HPE Greenlake provides an on-demand service for IT infrastructure. When […]
What is the QWERTY keyboard? The QWERTY (pronounced KWEHR-tee) keyboard is the standard typewriter and computer keyboard in countries that use a Latin-based alphabet. QWERTY refers to the first six letters on the upper row of the keyboard. The key arrangement was devised by Christopher Latham Sholes, whose Type-Writer, as it was then called, was […]
What is a nanosecond (ns or nsec)? A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one-billionth (10-9) of a second. It is a common measurement of read or write access time to RAM. The nanosecond rating determines the speed and latency of the RAM and impacts the computer system’s performance. A nanosecond is a measure of time […]
Royal Mail continues to make steady progress on recovering its international letter and parcel export services following a suspected LockBit ransomware attack earlier in January. Having started to despatch standard export letters, and letters and parcels from Northern Ireland into Ireland, on Thursday 19 January, the postal service now says that having made progress […]