It is de rigueur for any company to be talking about the metaverse these days, but for German engineering firm Siemens, it is becoming something of a crusade. Following up on its announcement of a collaboration with Nvidia in June this year to “enable the industrial metaverse”, Siemens now seems to have gone all-in. […]
Ransomware continues to afflict companies, non-profit organisations and government agencies worldwide. Stories about new ransomware attacks regularly appear in the tech news headlines – and there are many other incidents that don’t make the news, but we hear about anecdotally. Being exploited by ransomware perpetrators has a negative stigma that is exacerbated by a […]
Recent ransomware campaigns, such as REvil and Ryuk, have become “human-operated ransomware”, whereby the attack is controlled by an operator rather than spreading automatically. Such attacks often take advantage of well-known security weaknesses to gain access. For example, a number of recent ransomware incidents are thought to have started with poorly configured or vulnerable […]
UK-based victims of online shopping scams lost an average of £1,000 per person during the 2021 holiday season, according to National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) statistics released today to coincide with a new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) anti-fraud campaign run under the auspices of its Cyber Aware programme. All told, UK shoppers lost […]
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The volume of self-reported breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) rose by 29% year on year from 9,535 to 12,314 in the 12 months to 30 June 2022, according to data sourced via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by enterprise data management specialist Veritas. The ICO provided information on breach reports received […]
“On the surface, you might think that the usage of IT has a positive impact on the environment due to less business travel and commuting to work,” writes Niklas Sundberg in his new book, Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders, published in October 2022. As CIO of the Global Solutions division at Sweden’s Assa Abloy, […]
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to deploy a package of solutions from “people-centric” security specialist Immersive Labs to upskill existing individuals and teams to confront threats, prove their cyber readiness and identify up-and-coming talent to fill open roles. The integration is in support of an existing MoD skills delivery programme, Digital Skills for […]
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has handed over a further £23m in unpaid tax to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for IR35-related compliance errors – sending its final settlement figure soaring to £86.5m. The department’s IR35 compliance procedures have been the subject of a recently concluded and long-running inquiry by […]
Ransomware is the “gift” that keeps on giving – and not in a good way. Sophos’s report The state of ransomware 2022 makes for rather sobering reading: 66% of 5,600 survey respondents said their organisations had been hit with ransomware in 2021 – nearly double that of the previous year – with 46% of […]