Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber attack on its systems, but has waited over a week to tell customers that they have been affected. The incident first manifested as a network outage on 20 September, before being confirmed as a cyber…
The Starmer government lost little time in announcing a consultation on datacentre planning reforms, with more comprehensive, joined-up thinking favoured by industry players speaking to Computer Weekly. Cathal Griffin, chief revenue officer at colocation provider Asanti, affirms a need to “join the dots”, stating that planning reform should look holistically at building permissions, grid connections…
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You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…
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The Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library and operator of the popular Wayback Machine that holds a repository of billions of captures of web pages as they appeared in the past, has come under sustained cyber attack in the form of a significant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its infrastructure, and a major…
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Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission. The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers and infringes European Union law, and has accused Microsoft…
The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi services provided at mainline UK railway stations on the evening of Wednesday 25 September. The incident saw passengers at 19 rail stations across the country unable to access Network Rail’s Wi-Fi network, which are provided…
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider Read More »
A newly discovered series of four dangerous flaws in the Common Unix Printing System (Cups), which is used across virtually all GNU/Linux distros including Debian, Red Hat and SUSE, as well as Apple macOS and Google Chrome/Chromium among other things, is causing alarm bells to ring for security professionals over the potential scope of the…
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Fujitsu’s UK public sector business has lost over £50m in sales this year as a result of the Horizon supplier’s involvement in the Post Office scandal. Speaking during a company conference call, Dave Riley, head of public sector at the Japanese-owned IT giant, told staff that media coverage of the scandal has cost Fujitsu’s UK…
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Number three in the hard drive maker’s league, Toshiba, has announced products of 24TB and 28TB. These are the 24TB MG11, which is conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD technology, and the 28TB MA11, which uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Seagate was the first to market around a year ago with similar drives, the CMR…
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On 29 July 2024, in a story that has now become seared into the British psyche, Axel Rudakubana murdered three children at a Taylor Swift dance class in the Merseyside town of Southport. All three were under 10 years old. Hours later, faux news accounts and far-right figures on social media began to spread misinformation…
