Among the key findings of the UK and Ireland-focused segment of the TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT priorities survey for 2023 is a year-on-year increase in the importance placed on cloud-based projects by the... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
By Standardization is the process of developing, promoting and possibly mandating standards-based and compatible technologies and processes within a given industry. Standards for technologies can mandate the quality and consistency of technologies... Read more »
What is application blacklisting (application blocklisting)? Application blacklisting — increasingly called application blocklisting — is a network or computer administration practice used to prevent the execution of undesirable software programs. Such programs... Read more »
A proposed European law that could require communications companies, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger to scan the contents of private and encrypted messages for child abuse material are likely to be... Read more »
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) officially launched the United Nations (UN) “Big Data Sustainable Development” platform on 25 January 2022. This is part of the country’s national agenda for harnessing the power... Read more »