Ofcom has expanded its remit under the Enterprise Act 2002 to investigate the public cloud and internet communications market. As part of this drive, the regulator plans to launch a market study examining the position of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the UK’s £15bn cloud services market. In response to the way digital markets […]
The developer or developers behind the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus, have been hard at work refining their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and today are probably more dangerous than ever before, according to intelligence from Symantec. The ALPHV/BlackCat/Noberus operation – which Symantec tracks as Coreid (aka FIN7, Carbon […]
A group of 12 organisations have come together to lay the groundwork for what they describe as an “alternative internet” to that controlled by large technology corporations, outlining a set of principles for building a privacy-focused internet for the public good. The Privacy Pledge has been signed by various well-known developers of privacy-centric services, […]
Footwear and clothing brand Dr Martens has moved large chunks of its operations to the cloud, and uses third-party backup to extend standard cloud data protection and gain ransomware protection. The move has seen the company supplement standard retention in Microsoft 365 with cloud-to-cloud backup from US-based service provider 11:11, which it also uses […]
American Express (Amex) is on an IT recruitment drive to support business growth amid the rapid digitisation of the financial services sector. This year will see more than 5,000 tech roles added to Amex’s global workforce of 64,000. To support its business growth, the credit card giant is currently looking to fill 1,500 technical […]
The newly appointed chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, is due to deliver his first fiscal statement, or mini-Budget, on Friday 23 September. At the time of writing, the financial analyst community is predicting the event will see Kwarteng announce a series of tax cuts that will total tens of millions of pounds to […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published tailored guidance designed to support retailers, hospitality providers and utility services in protecting both themselves and their customers from the impact of cyber crime. The guidance is specifically designed for organisations with an online presence, and in particular those that employ online customer accounts, and […]
The European Central Bank (ECB) has chosen five businesses to develop prototypes of user interfaces for its planned digital currency. Through the prototypes, the ECB wants to test how technology underpinning a digital Euro would integrate with user-facing interfaces provided by third parties. “The aim of this prototyping exercise is to test how well […]
A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain cyber attacks, according to threat researchers at Trellix, the recently spun-up union of FireEye and McAfee. CVE-2007-4559 is a directory traversal vulnerability […]
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have teamed up with Matsuko, a technology firm that is developing 3D holograms for remote communication, to conduct mobile hologram video calls. Last year, Cisco unveiled Webex Hologram, which uses augmented reality (AR) headsets to display 3D representations of meeting attendees, making them appear in the same space. A […]