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Blue Yonder ransomware attack breaks systems at UK retailers

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A ransomware attack on the systems of Blue Yonder, a specialist supply chain management software provider based in the US, continues to cause knock-on impacts to the systems of multiple UK-based retailers, including major supermarkets. The attack unfolded prior to the weekend of 23 and 24 November, and impacted the organisation’s managed services hosted environment.…

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Further disruption expected after latest NHS cyber attack

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Merseyside residents are facing a third day of significant disruption to healthcare services in the area, following a major cyber attack on Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The cyber attack, which initially came to light on Monday 25 November, is believed to have affected all clinical activity at multiple sites including Arrowe Park…

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Cyber firms need to centre their own resilience

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Information security is essentially an information risk management discipline. By rendering many information systems inoperable, the global outage precipitated by Crowdstrike prevented several companies from accessing critical business information due to unplanned and extended downtime. The unavailability was not only to information systems, but also to related information processing. It was not only an information…

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World’s largest companies at near-universal risk of supply chain breach

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Out of the world’s 2,000 largest companies, 1,980 have a direct connection to a technology supplier that has experienced a recent cyber security incident or data breach, highlighting escalating risk levels to the global economy presented by multi-party supply chain attacks. In research released to mark the opening day of the annual Black Hat security…

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CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

10 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, branding, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Sony, Tech, threat intelligence / By

On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…

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CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

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The global Microsoft outage caused by a botched update from security firm CrowdStrike has highlighted the dangerous business continuity risk arising from concentrating so much of the world’s technology infrastructure in the hands of a very small number of businesses, experts are warning. The outage, which began late on Thursday 18 July 2024 before spreading…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Hybrid cloud storage vs on-premise: What data goes where?

5 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, hybrid cloud, multicloud, SAP, Tech / By

For enterprises that want to extend their storage strategy, the public cloud is a place to start that can bring quick wins. After all, cloud technology is quick to deploy, needs little to no capital outlay, and can grow quickly with the business to store more data, especially unstructured data. Analyst Gartner predicts that enterprises…

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Better hygiene may mitigate the need to ban ransomware payments

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The general belief that a cyber breach is a matter of ‘if’ not ‘when’ means all organisations potentially face the highly unwelcome prospect of being infected by ransomware, with critical data and operational capabilities only being released following payment to the attacker. Handling a ransomware attack calls for the enterprise to weigh up the value…

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Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended again

3 minutes of reading / AWS, business continuity, Computer, Database, Fujitsu, Tech / By

The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…

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