The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has moved nearly 50 more applications from a legacy private cloud environment to its MODCloud with the help of IT service provider NetCompany. The MoD’s Defence Digital department is responsible for providing the defence community with access to certified and assured private and public cloud services from the likes […]
Go-Ahead Group, one of the largest bus operators in the UK, with franchises covering cities including Brighton, Hull, London, Newcastle, Oxford and Plymouth, has confirmed it is dealing with a cyber attack that appears to have downed key internal systems. The firm – which also operates train companies, although these are unaffected – said […]
UK prime minister Liz Truss is being reminded of her pre-election promise to review the IR35 tax avoidance reforms and address what she previously called the “very poor” handling of the government’s controversial loan charge policy. During Truss’s Conservative leadership campaign, which culminated in her becoming prime minister today (6 September), she pledged to […]
Saudi Arabia is impacted by the same kinds of cyber attack as the rest of the world. But the geopolitical situation in the region means there is a different set of perpetrators – and they are highly motivated. Politically motivated cyber criminals targeting Saudi Arabia often focus on fundamental industries. “We see attacks […]
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 6 September 2022 Out with the old at Asda Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Asda’s CIO, Carl Dawson, about the supermarket’s cloud-oriented renovation of its technology stack. We narrate the security woes at Twitter. And we examine […]
The UK upgrade to its payments infrastructure is expected to add more than £3bn to GDP by 2026, but the potential of real-time payments is much bigger. According to a study from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), software firm ACI Worldwide, and Global Data, if theoretically all payments were real-time, UK GDP could […]
Data-driven government is not new, or innovative – but it is essential to underpin policy and operational decision-making. Despite this having been central to government digital strategy for years, we are still struggling to see the outcomes, especially outside pockets of the pandemic response. We know the problems – legacy technologies, a skills gap […]
Russian-speaking cyber criminals face diminishing financial returns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with many scams becoming redundant almost overnight due to sanctions and increased scrutiny of Russian entities, say Digital Shadows researchers. Based on anecdotal feedback posted by Russian-speaking cyber criminals to an undisclosed forum, Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team said the financial success […]
Figures from Lloyds Bank have shown how Covid-19 changed the way people make face-to-face payments, with almost 90% now contactless. According to the numbers from the UK bank, 65% of face-to-face payments were made using contactless debit cards in June 2019, in the early stages of the pandemic – but by June 2022, this […]
From sewage outflows to blue-green algae and hosepipe bans, water management has rarely been so much in the public eye. However, utilities are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications and platforms to make this precious resource go further. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Accenture and Colombia’s Ecopetrol, for example, are seeking to address the full water-use cycle […]