High-performance computing (HPC)-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint beyond the confines of Essex and West London to the north of England with plans to open a 40MW facility in Manchester by late 2025. The project will see Kao Data redevelop a former industrial site at Kenwood Point in Manchester, which […]
Journalists are having their confidential communications unlawfully spied on, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday (10 May 2023). Campaign group Liberty told the court there are insufficient safeguards in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to protect journalists and their confidential sources from state surveillance. The group claims that wide-ranging powers in the Investigatory Powers […]
Fujitsu had no control over staff in one of its tech support teams accessing Post Office branch accounts remotely to make changes which could be hidden from subpostmasters. While it was already revealed that remote access was possible, the lack of control of this access, revealed during a Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry […]
On a significantly lighter Patch Tuesday than of late, a publicly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Secure Boot security feature looks set to cause an ongoing headache for administrators and security teams. Tracked as CVE-2023-24932 – and one of two exploited zero-days in Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday drop – successful […]
UK outsourcer and public sector specialist Capita expects to incur “exceptional costs” in the region of £15m to £20m as a result of the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on its systems, which saw clients left unable to provide vital public services for days, and has resulted in a major breach of customer […]
What is a network drive? A network drive is a shared storage device on a local area network (LAN) within a business or home. It can either be a physical or virtual device, enabling users to store and access files from various devices that are connected to the same network. Within an enterprise setting, the […]
A report from the Public Accounts Committee has warned that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is at risk of wasting money on digital services due to its legacy IT. The report states that some decisions about digital services need to be taken without delay, but Defra has yet to […]
Nebulon has launched Tripline, a ransomware detection capability that samples input/output (I/O) every 30 seconds to test for unusual volumes of encrypted data, with claims it can send the first alerts of a ransomware attack after 2.5 minutes. Tripline fits into an existing portfolio of ransomware protection and recovery tools from Nebulon, which it […]
What is standardization? Standardization is the process of developing, promoting and possibly mandating standards-based and compatible technologies and processes within an industry. Technology standards focus on ensuring quality, consistency, compatibility, interoperability and safety. Standardization involves the normalization of previously customized or disparate approaches to processes and technology. It provides rules, processes, guidance, templates, statistics and […]
French hyperscaler OVHcloud has made its Cold Archive cloud storage service generally available. It offers cheap long-term storage with cost per GB as little as €0.0013 per month. Cold Archive previewed starting last December and competes with Glacier Deep Archive from AWS, which comes in at 0.0016 per GB per month. Cold Archive – which offers the same […]