By Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is a set of related attributes that must be considered when designing, manufacturing, purchasing or using a computer product or component. The term was first used by IBM to define specifications for their mainframe s and originally applied only to hardware . Today RAS is relevant to software as […]
The security community is being invited to explore the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to act as a useful tool in its research efforts, with the release of a number of prototype tools developed by Tenable, which are now available to check out on Github. In an accompanying report titled How generative AI […]
Zopa spent 15 years pioneering the peer-to-peer lending sector, only to drop that business to become a bank. CEO Jaidev Janardana tells Computer Weekly how he helped make one of the first fintech firms even more fintech. Janardana joined Zopa in 2014 as chief operation officer (COO), before becoming CEO a year later. At […]
What is a SQL injection (SQLi)? A SQL injection (SQLi) is a technique that attackers use to gain unauthorized access to a web application database by adding a string of malicious code to a database query. A SQL injection manipulates Structured Query Language code to provide access to protected resources, such as sensitive data, or […]
Google Cloud has fixed a potentially dangerous application programming interface (API) vulnerability in its platform that, had it been exploited by malicious actors, could have led to widespread data breaches across multiple public clouds. Dubbed Asset Key Thief and disclosed through researchers at SADA, a California-headquartered cloud security consultancy with UK offices in Dorset, […]
What is protected mode? Protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, is the primary mode of operation for an Intel-based x86 microprocessor. It’s characterized by the way it restricts the address space of any given application from writing over the address space of another application. This restriction is implemented in hardware to allow multiple […]
The Scottish biometrics commissioner has served Police Scotland with an information notice, requiring the force to demonstrate that its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system complies with the UK’s law enforcement-specific data protection rules. At the start of April 2023, Computer Weekly revealed that the Scottish government’s Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) service – contracted […]
Security researchers at managed detection and response (MDR) specialist eSentire have revealed how they are turning the tables on an expansive cyber crime operation that has lured in thousands of people working at law firms and in-house legal departments in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US over the past 15 months. Known as […]
By What is a mouse? A mouse is a small device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position. The mouse first became a widely used computer tool when Apple Computer […]
Researchers at WithSecure have issued an alert after uncovering evidence that a notorious cyber criminal gang is exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication data backup and recovery software to access its victims’ networks. Tracked as CVE-2023-27532, the Veeam vulnerability was first published on 7 March 2023. It enables an unauthenticated […]