If 2024 and 2025 were the years organisations felt the strain of tightening budgets, 2026 is the year those decisions will fully manifest in their cyber risk exposure. Across both the private and public sectors, years of belt-tightening have led to reduced headcount, ageing infrastructure and postponed modernisation. Analyst reports show growth in cyber security…
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The UK’s National Crime Agency and partners from the Anglophone Five Eyes intelligence alliance have fired several shots across the bows of so-called “bulletproof” hosting services Media Land and ML Cloud that shielded their customers, including ransomware gangs such as Black Basta, Evil Corp and LockBit, from detection. The two organisations are alleged to be…
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Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…
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Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…
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Mehaniq/Shutterstock There’s a lot of fun to be had when it’s time to get a new iPhone — enjoying the latest hardware developments from one of the top tech companies in the world, taking advantage of the powerful cameras and processor, or exploring the new features you can learn in iOS 26; the list simply…
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of making parts of its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, inaccessible to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the hyperscalers, having set out a series of enhanced participation requirements for its cloud hosting lots. Government procurement chiefs began the invitation to tender (ITT) part of the procurement process…
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Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X. The issue at Cloudflare, which is well known for its frontline cyber defensive work in blocking distributed denial…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s dominant hold on the cloud computing market is to come under renewed scrutiny, with the European Commission (EC) set to investigate the pair’s activities under the terms of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC has opened two separate investigations into AWS and Microsoft, which seek to ascertain if…
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At Workday’s Rising conference in Barcelona, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier fleshed out what looks like a strategic shift towards being an agentic AI platform that could disrupt traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP). In his opening keynote, CEO Carl Eschenbech positioned Workday as the “enterprise AI platform for managing people, money and…
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Apple has dismissed a legal claim that it has breached UK competition law by overcharging and “trapping” users who sign up to use its iCloud storage service, on the first day of a court hearing regarding the matter. The tech giant is the subject of a £3bn legal action raised against it by Which?, with…
