Lawyers for the National Crime Agency (NCA) dismissed key findings of a technical expert about the EncroChat hacking operation as inaccurate, despite agreeing to take the findings “as read”, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has heard. The tribunal is due to decide whether the NCA lawfully obtained a surveillance warrant that enabled it to […]
The number of women choosing to take computing degrees has risen over the past three years, according to research from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. When looking at figures from UCAS, JCQ and SQA, BCS found the number of female students being accepted onto computing degree courses had grown by 23% since 2019 […]
Though there have been small improvements when it comes to diversity in the technology sector, the pace of change is too slow. Data this year revealed that if the pace of change continues at the same rate, a 50/50 gender split in the technology industry will not be achieved until 2060. But there are […]
Mitiga threat researchers have identified what they describe as a new potential attack vector leveraging recently introduced functionality in Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology that has made changing Elastic IP ownership in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environments easier. Mitiga is an AWS partner, and provides software and services for security incident response and preparedness […]
In a year in which the mainstream news agenda was dominated by the return of war to Europe, the destructive cyber war against the West that some had imagined never really materialised, although the cyber dimension to the Ukraine conflict still loomed large over the technology news agenda Beyond Ukraine, and beside the usual […]
High-profile cyber attacks elevated cyber security and cyber crime to dinner table conversation in 2021, and although there was no repeat of the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2022, awareness of cyber issues among the general public has never been higher. And cyber criminals showed no sign of slowing down in 2022, even though ransomware […]
A Russian hacking group, believed to be working on behalf of Russian intelligence, has been targeting politicians, journalists, military and former intelligence officers for at least the past seven years. In May this year, the group secured one of its greatest successes by publicly compromising emails and documents from Richard Dearlove, a top British […]
What is a hotfix? A hotfix is code — sometimes called a patch — that fixes a bug in a product. Users of the product might be notified by email or obtain information about new hotfixes at a software vendor’s website and download the hotfixes they wish to apply. Hotfixes are sometimes packaged as a […]
Rather than being driven by technology decisions, composable enterprise resource planning (ERP) offers a way to use technology to support your business outcomes. There isn’t an alternative, especially when the suppliers only offer rigid software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based options to modernise existing IT environments. At a time of such unpredictability, companies need IT systems that are agile […]
“My other computer is your computer”, “Sniff networks, not drugs”, “Hacking is not a crime”. Anybody who knows cyber security will have seen laptops adorned with such stickers and when you see one in the wild, you know you’re in the presence of a hacker. As an accidental cyber security journalist, this reporter often […]