The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…
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Victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal who settled their financial redress claims without legal advice have received £137,000 more on average after appealing. Former subpostmasters, who had already settled through the Horizon Shortfalls Scheme (HSS), but believed they were underpaid having received no legal support, were permitted the opportunity to appeal through a scheme…
Evidence reveals Post Office scandal victims short-changed in compensation payouts Read More »
A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several years…
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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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The faulty system at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal could still be in use in Post Office branches up to 2033. According to a public sector procurement notice, the Post Office will finally replace the controversial Horizon system with an off-the-shelf alternative, but the current system could remain for another seven years.…
Controversial Post Office Horizon system could stay until 2033 Read More »
Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five new zero-day vulnerabilities out of a grand total of just over 70 addressable common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) on the fifth Patch Tuesday of 2025 – over 80 when third-party issues are accounted for. In numerical order, this month’s zero days are as follows: CVE-2025-30400, an…
May Patch Tuesday brings five exploited zero-days to fix Read More »
BBVA has created an internal library, known as ChatGPT Store, which already has 1,000 bots available for use across its business. According to BBVA, the ChatGPT Store “helps users locate the 1,000 [generative artificial intelligence] assistants (bots) considered relevant for the entire organisation and available to all users”. The Spanish bank has also added almost…
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The UK government has outlined how it will utilise the new electronic visa (eVisa) system and “modern biometric technology” to support immigration enforcement and “strengthen the border”. Published 12 May 2025, the Home Office’s 82-page immigration whitepaper – titled Restoring control over the immigration system – contains a range of proposals for how the UK…
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data Read More »
Eight years ago, Simon Whittaker, head of cyber security at Belfast-based consultancy Instil, narrowly avoided having his front door smashed in by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) (see photo of warrant below) and was only saved from an expensive repair job because a relative was home at the time. Whittaker was the innocent…
Why we must reform the Computer Misuse Act: A cyber pro speaks out Read More »
There is much to be welcomed in the UK’s latest revision to data legislation, which has had a multi-year marathon from inception as the Data Protection & Digital Information Bill and other iterations to its new form as the Data (Use & Access) Bill. Perhaps foremost in the benefits within the bill is the explicit…
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