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CCS U-turns on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements after supplier backlash

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The government’s procurement agency, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), has made a U-turn on plans for a £20m increase in the insurance cover required for suppliers in its flagship cloud computing framework. In a document published today (7 March) to update information provided in response to questions from prospective bidders for the G-Cloud 14 framework,…

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Datacentres denied: West London server farm dispute prompts calls for UK planning system reform

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The government’s decision to stop a proposed datacentre being built on an undeveloped piece of protected green land in west London highlights the pressure operators are under when balancing the demands of their investors with meeting the UK’s ever-growing need for compute capacity in a sustainable way. The case, which is one of several datacentre…

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Internal documents leaked as Rhysida claims responsibility for British Library ransomware attack

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The British Library, which was hit by a ransomware attack that has disabled its computer systems, website, phone network and public Wi-Fi for more than three weeks, confirmed yesterday that internal HR documents have been leaked following the attack. The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which has left readers seeking access…

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Canada’s Mounties among government employees hit by LockBit

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The Canadian government in Ottawa has disclosed a major cyber incident affecting the personal data of thousands of public sector workers – including officers of the world-famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Mounties – in a LockBit ransomware attack. The cyber attack appears to have unfolded at the end of September 2023, hitting two…

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CISA reveals how LockBit hacked Boeing via Citrix Bleed

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside the FBI and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), have revealed in-depth details of how the LockBit ransomware gang was able to exploit the so-called Citrix Bleed vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2023-4966 – to obtain initial access to the systems of aviation giant Boeing’s parts and…

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Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended again

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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…

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Customers speak out over Okta’s response to latest breach

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Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It…

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These 16 Android apps are infected and you should delete them ASAP

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There are plenty of reasons to own an Android phone instead of an iPhone, from the plethora of choices to the lower prices to the experimental designs, but Android device owners also need to be careful about what they install. Google frequently prunes the Play Store of malicious Android apps, but not before millions of…

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Finland shows off its new 20-qubit quantum computer

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VTT recently announced completion of Finland’s second quantum computer, which uses 20 superconducting qubits. The work, accomplished in partnership with IQM Quantum Computers, is another step on the roadmap to build a 50-qubit machine by the end of 2024.   The government set out with that end goal in November 2020, when it launched a project…

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