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Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy

The Post Office will finally look into a Horizon defect that left branch accounts with unexplained shortfalls, six years after it was initially warned about the problem. But a forensic investigator who helped expose the Horizon scandal slammed the Post Office’s initial response to Computer Weekly questions about the issue, which he described as “arrogant…

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Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the Post Office with a reprimand in relation to a data breach that revealed the personal details of hundreds of Horizon scandal victims. In June 2024, it emerged that a document containing the personal information of subpostmasters affected by the Post Office scandal had been accidentally published on…

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Low-code challenges: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

One of the questions the IT decision-makers in organisations using SAP are asking is how low-code and no-code tooling will change how they manage enterprise software going forward. It is a question the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) has been pondering. Computer Weekly spoke to chair of the user group, Conor Riordan, during…

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Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando

Florence Mottay started her career in cyber security, researching exploits for security vulnerabilities in a small US startup. Today, she is the group chief information security officer (CISO) at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer that boasts over 50 million customers in 26 markets. Zalando, she says, is more of a technology company than a…

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5 Gadgets You’re Probably Using The Wrong USB Port For

Dmytro Varavin/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. USB ports are in almost every electronic device, from PC desktops and laptops to phones and tablets. Yet, it’s unclear what the difference is between each port by just looking at them. It’s hard to blame anyone for not knowing what sets USB 2.0…

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UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act

The UK government will forge ahead with changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990, introducing long-called-for changes to the 35-year-old law that will finally offer statutory protection from prosecution for cyber security professionals and threat researchers. Speaking on 3 December at the Financial Times Cyber Resilience Summit 2025, security minister Dan Jarvis said:…

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Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation

The Metropolitan Police officer leading the national investigation into crimes committed during the Post Office scandal said Fujitsu’s contract to run the police network “complicates matters”. Through Fujitsu’s Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) contract with the Home Office, separate nationwide police forces share information. The network acts as the backbone for cross-force collaboration, allowing the…

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Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war

A coalition of countries has provided Ukraine with more than €1.3bn of telecommunications, information technology and other high-tech equipment since Russia began the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Although €1.3bn may be small compared with Ukraine’s military budget, the equipment – provided with the support of Western governments and companies –…

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Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month

Cloudflare has successfully recovered its services after a second outage in the space of three weeks briefly took down Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, knocking out multiple online services. The issues surfaced shortly after 9am GMT (4am EST) and left users unable to access sites such as Canva, Coinbase, LinkedIn, SubStack, X, Zoom, and once…

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Edinburgh Airport grounds flights due to IT issue affecting air traffic control provider

Flights to and from Edinburgh Airport are continuing to be beset by delays, after an undisclosed IT issue grounded passengers for around an hour on the morning of Friday 5 December 2025. The airport issued a statement via its social media channels at around 9.30am, confirming that no flights were currently arriving or departing from…

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