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Retail cyber attacks hit food distributor Peter Green Chilled

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Peter Green Chilled, a major distributor of chilled and fresh products to British supermarkets, has reportedly fallen victim to a ransomware attack orchestrated by an as-yet unnamed cyber criminal operation, becoming the latest organisation in the British retail sector to be affected by a security incident. Established as a haulage company working with Somerset dairy…

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Strong fintech security posture at risk via third-party weak links

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Financial technology (fintech) companies have a strong security posture but are at risk from third-party weaknesses, according to analysis. In its latest report, SecurityScorecard stated that the fintech sector ranked highest of all sectors studied when it came to security posture, but it found potential third-party weak links could open the door to security breaches.…

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Podcast: RSA 2025 – AI’s risk surface and the role of the CISO

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In this podcast, we talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about key topics at RSA 2025 in San Francisco. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on compliance was huge. Gorge discusses its spread in the enterprise and how this impacts the potential risk surface for organisations. Meanwhile, he also notes the trend among suppliers…

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Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM

3 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, compliance, data privacy, fintech, Google, Google Cloud, machine learning, natural language processing, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society are set to roll out a generative AI (GenAI) tool that has been specifically designed for the UK finance sector. The tool, known as FinLLM, was developed in the UK by Aveni alongside the two financial services companies, with both also investing money in the firm. The large language…

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Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy and research, Bloomberg

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Amanda Stent was researching natural language generation (NLG) at a time when there were only around 20 people in the world working on it – Stent now heads up all things AI at Bloomberg. Stent completed a PhD in NLG at the University of Rochester in 2001, focusing on natural language generation “well before NLG…

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Threats versus potential benefits: Weighing up the enterprise risk of embracing AI

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Throwing artificial intelligence (AI) tools at a wall and seeing what sticks will most probably deliver mixed results. Therefore, to realise the opportunities, it should pay to scope and minimise potential risks in advance. After all, even well-resourced companies are still struggling to figure out their approach to AI, as Dael Williamson, EMEA chief technology…

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Gov.uk One Login loses certification for digital identity trust framework

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The government’s Gov.uk One Login digital identity system has lost its certification against the government’s own trust framework for digital identity systems. Computer Weekly has learned that a key technology supplier to One Login chose to allow its certification to lapse, and as a result, One Login has also been removed from the official accreditation…

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It’s time to get to grips with DORA

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It’s no surprise to me that financial services organisations missed the 17 January2025 deadline to be in compliance with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). I personally have not met a CIO or CISO who thought this deadline was realistic.Even back in January, research from Orange Cyberdefense saw 43% of respondents in the…

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ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary

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ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…

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Cyber attack downs systems at Marks & Spencer

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Veteran UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has apologised to customers after a cyber incident of a currently undisclosed nature forced multiple public-facing services offline, with shoppers predictably taking to social media in their droves to lament the outages. In a note published on the afternoon of 22 April, the company revealed it had been…

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