On a month-by-month basis, recorded ransomware attacks dropped by 32% in March 2025, to 600 in total, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse data, but the decline appears to be very much a red herring, and likely the result of large, one-off events in previous months that yielded multiple victims, such as Clop/Cl0p’s…
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Daniele Tonella, global head of IT at ING Bank, tells Computer Weekly about his first nine months in the job, which has so far seen him navigate four layers of tech. The chief technology officer (CTO), who describes himself as “a mechanical engineer by mistake” with a passion for tech, started coding when he was…
In this podcast, we talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on data, storage and compliance for CIOs. Gorge discusses the implications for data, its volume, the difficulties of keeping track of inputs and outputs from AI processing, and the need to keep up with law and…
Podcast: RSA 2025 to grapple with AI compliance, US and EU regulation Read More »
A few months ago, DeepSeek stunned the world, crashing the US stock market in the process. The Chinese AI company released DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model that was just as powerful as ChatGPT o1 despite costing practically nothing by comparison to create and train. With limited access to powerful processors, DeepSeek came up with software…
DeepSeek R2 reasoning AI is coming soon, and it could make waves again Read More »
AMD is reportedly prioritizing the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU for retailersIt corroborates rumors that it may cancel or discontinue the 8GB GPUIf it’s true, it could be a sign that Team Red won’t make 8GB GPUs going forwardAMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU is on the horizon (it’s projected to launch in May),…
After seeding the third beta of iOS 18.5, Apple seems to be reaching the end of its testing cycle with beta 4. With iOS 18.5 expected to be released in mid-May, it seems the company is tweaking its software instead of adding new features, as we approach the iOS 19 announcement. This is everything we…
iOS 18.5 beta 4 now available as official launch nears Read More »
Since the government announced in the King’s speech last year that it would bring forward a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, much has changed. The geopolitical context has become more chaotic with the new Trump administration testing long-held norms of the rules-based international order, the economy continues to struggle and new advances in AI complicate…
Challenges persist as UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill moves forward Read More »
While it’s not always the case, it seems that Apple is teeing up a smooth iPhone 17 release later this year. A paywalled preview of an upcoming DigiTimes report (via MacRumors) reveals that the company has already completed Engineering Validation Testing (EVT) for at least one iPhone 17 model.While the company still has to put…
iPhone 17 still on track for September release with no delays expected Read More »
If you needed another reason to avoid Meta AI like the plague, in addition to Meta forcing its AI chatbot on all its social apps and looking to turn all your public data into training material for the AI, an investigation found an incredibly disturbing one. Meta AI chatbots, including some of those voiced by…
Meta AI chatbots can have sexually explicit conversations with underage users Read More »
Organisations holding data on US citizens must do more to address gaps in their cyber security posture and respond to incidents in a timelier fashion if they are to avoid falling victim to rising legal costs. An analysis of the past six months of data breach filings Stateside, conducted by continuous controls monitoring (CCM) specialist…
