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Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal

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The Post Office has been slammed after it was revealed the organisation’s social media accounts have been deleting, suppressing and blocking comments about serious concerns around compensation for subpostmasters affected by the Horizon IT scandal. At least two users, including a former subpostmaster, have been blocked by the Post Office’s social media account after posting…

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How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools

8 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud-native, compliance, Computer, data privacy, HTC, hybrid cloud, machine learning, network security, patch management, risk management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…

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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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Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse

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As the government hands the Post Office £400m in public funds to replace its controversial Horizon system, details emerge of millions more wasted as a result of botched IT. The latest costs come as the Post Office agrees to pay millions of pounds in compensation to scandal victims hit by a data breach last year.…

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Hacking contest exposes VMware security

3 minutes of reading / Broadcom, Cloud, Computer, Tech / By

The cyber security team at Broadcom has acknowledged that during the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Berlin in March, there were three successful attacks on the VMware hypervisor.  On 16 March, Nguyen Hoang Thach, a security researcher from Star Labs, successfully exploited VMware ESXi. “This is the first time VMware ESXi was exploited in the Pwn2Own…

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Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal

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Fujitsu was paid £80m by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in March alone as its public sector business continues unabated, despite its involvement in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history. In the first quarter of this year, the IT giant received about £123m of taxpayers’ cash from HMRC alone, but although…

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NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations

4 minutes of reading / Computer, Microsoft, Tech, threat intelligence, VPN / By

As Russia continues its relentless assaults on Ukraine despite in defiance of continuing efforts to work towards a peace deal, multiple western security agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a Moscow-backed campaign of cyber intrusions targeting logistics and technology organisations in the West. The campaign, run through Unit 26165 of the Main Directorate…

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M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July

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Marks and Spencer (M&S) leadership believes that it may take at least another month to fully recover following a ransomware attack that it now looks likely will cost it a minimum of £300m. It has also emerged that the incident may have begun through the systems of a third-party supplier of IT services, where tech…

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Broadcom letters demonstrate push to VMware subscriptions

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Concerns over support for VMware recently made the headlines following a critical vulnerability and the subsequent patch, which was limited to certain versions of the product. Now, it appears that VMware users may well face audits from Broadcom, which purchased the virtualisation software company in 2022 for $69bn. Broadcom ended the sale of perpetual software…

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

7 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, natural language processing, Tech / By

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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