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Home Office and MoD seeking new facial-recognition tech

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The UK government’s Defence and Security Accelerator (Dasa) has launched a “market exploration” of facial-recognition technologies to identify mature capabilities that can be deployed by the Home Office for “policing and security purposes” within the next 18 months. Part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Dasa regularly conducts market exploration exercises to determine which technologies…

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Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure

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The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with the publication of a request for information (RFI) by the Scottish government in October 2022…

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Met police data platform deployed with data protection issues

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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed its Connect integrated record management system in November 2022 despite multiple “issues of concern” being raised over data protection and weaknesses in its search functionality. The Connect system – contracted to software supplier NEC Software in May 2018 for up to £150m – is intended to help the force…

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Teenage Lapsus$ ringleader was responsible for crime spree, UK court rules

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The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has been ruled responsible for his hacking spree at Southwark Crown Court. The 18-year old from Oxford, who was first named as Arion Kurtaj earlier is year, is autistic and was…

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St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack

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St Helens Borough Council in Merseyside has fallen victim to a suspected ransomware attack, by an as-yet undisclosed threat actor, that has brought down various systems across its IT estate, although the majority of its customer-facing systems appear to remain operational. Full details of the cyber attack have yet to emerge, but the council has…

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A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to auditing and testing data models

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. August 2023 A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to auditing and testing data models Generative AI has arrived on the scene with a multitude of ethical issues. In this 13-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly explores those considerations, assesses data classification tools and looks at how to improve…

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Can low code/no code ease developer skills shortages?

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 22 August 2023 Can low code/no code ease developer skills shortages? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, organisations are increasingly turning to low-code/no-code tools to enable “citizen developers” among staff – can this help to ease software developer skills shortages? SAP…

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Met Police data platform £64m over budget

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The Metropolitan Police Service’s integrated record management system is nearly £60m over budget, and still facing major teething problems, with officers and staff raising more than 25,000 support requests in its first four months of operation, according to a freedom of information (FOI) disclosure. The Connect system – contracted to software supplier NEC Software in…

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Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

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IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same name that will target private cloud hosting providers. “Our…

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NatWest customer calls bank’s handling of breach of his data ‘disgusting’

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A NatWest customer has praised a whistleblower for informing him that his personal data had been breached, describing the bank’s handling of the issue as “disgusting”. In the same way another former customer who contacted Computer Weekly earlier, the second NatWest customer to make contact with Computer Weekly was also offered £200 compensation by the…

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