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Professional ransomware gangs clearly a threat, but attacks can be easily stopped

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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…

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UK minister fails to reassure tech companies over encryption risk

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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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Sensitive NatWest customer files set to be returned after High Court agreement

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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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Interview: Ashish Gupta, head of EMEA at HCLTech

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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 finds Storm-0558 exploited crash dump to steal signing key

4 minutes of reading / API, Azure, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, Adobe

7 minutes of reading / Adobe, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, Computer, data analytics, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cynthia Stoddard joined Adobe as CIO in June 2016 and developed an IT transformation strategy that drew on a co-development approach with the rest of the business. Seven years on and Stoddard has seen much of that transformation effort – from embracing the cloud to boosting the employee experience and onto introducing robotic process automation (RPA)…

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Executive interview: ManageEngine president Rajesh Ganesan on the ‘three Ws’ of digital change

11 minutes of reading / AI, API, compliance, Computer, DevOps, digital transformation, e-commerce, firewalls, GDPR, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

To measure the maturity of digital transformation, companies need to review the status of the so-called “three Ws”: workforce, workplace and workloads. That is, having a workforce – which includes all of a company’s business partners and stakeholders – capable of working from anywhere securely and with a good experience, using any workload or tool…

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VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

6 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, containers, Dell, HP, Intel, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech, VPN / By

VMware’s vSphere 8 has mutated into vSphere “8+”, which brings three new storage-related options: disaggregated storage in vSAN Max; NSX+ to support multicloud deployments; and Ransomware Recovery extended to an online service. “vSAN Max is a product that you can buy and deploy in your datacentre,” said CEO Raghu Raghuram at VMware Explore 2023 last…

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NCSC names ex-NCC man as new CTO

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has named former NCC Group chief technology officer (CTO) Ollie Whitehouse as its CTO, in a newly created role that replaces in part that performed by the agency’s well-regarded technical director Ian Levy, who left the organisation earlier this year. Whitehouse will be tasked with shaping and delivering…

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LockBit ransomware gang allegedly leaks MoD data after hit on supplier

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The LockBit ransomware operation has leaked a tranche of data purloined from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an attack on a company called Zaun, a West Midlands-based supplier of metal fencing products that has supplied some of the UK’s key installations, thought to include the Porton Down research unit in Wiltshire and the…

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