Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. September 2023 A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to developer experience The better the working conditions of a software developer, the better the results. In this 15-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how to improve productivity, the tools required to build success and the value of…
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US leisure and hospitality giant MGM Resorts is battling through an IT outage after a cyber attack forced it to take multiple systems down across its properties, leaving front desk and concierge services to fall back on pen and paper, rendering slot machines on its gaming floors inoperable, and supposedly locking guests out of their…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will have a solution in place by April 2024 to solve a long-standing issue that has repeatedly seen the government agency accused of over-collecting tax from non-IR35-compliant public sector bodies, it is claimed. The issue relates to the fact that when HMRC calculates how much tax a non-compliant public sector…
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It is probably safe to say that Salesforce and Zoom are two of the most high-profile software companies operating today, and outside of an IT context, two of the best known to the public. And it’s certainly safe to say that thanks to their prominence, both are targets for threat actors and cyber criminals who…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a £4.4m, 15-month mainframe management contract with IBM spin-off Kyndryl that will support the government tax agency with migrating more of its IT infrastructure to the cloud. HMRC is in the midst of a multi-year migration of its applications and workloads to the public cloud, with the department…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and National Crime Agency (NCA) have published a whitepaper examining the ongoing evolution of the business models and underpinnings of the cyber criminal ransomware ecosystem, and highlighting that responding appropriately and effectively need neither be complex, nor expensive. The joint NCSC NCA report, Ransomware, extortion, and the cyber…
Professional ransomware gangs clearly a threat, but attacks can be easily stopped Read More »
The government yesterday attempted to quash industry concerns that the “spy clause” in the Online Safety Bill, which aims to crack down on child abuse and other harmful online content, would fundamentally weaken end-to-end encrypted services. Junior arts and heritage minister Stephen Parkinson told the House of Lords yesterday that regulators would not use controversial…
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Files containing the personal financial details of hundreds of former and current NatWest customers will be returned to bank after courtroom agreement. On the 14 September, after over a decade in a data breach whistleblowers home, the sensitive banking details of about 1,600 people will be collected and secured by NatWest. During an application made by…
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The Covid-19 pandemic put tech in the spotlight as businesses rushed to remotely connect employees to their work when travel bans were imposed across the world. Suppliers of the latest communication technologies had to quickly draw up remote working plans for its customers and was soon practicing what it preached. Ashish Gupta, HCLTech’s European head,…
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Microsoft has published details of how a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 was able to get its hands on a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens with which they accessed OWA and Outlook.com accounts at multiple high-profile customers. The incident, which was first disclosed on Tuesday 11 July,…
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