The government’s decision to prolong the life of the 13th iteration of the G-Cloud framework is making it a commercially unviable way for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell cloud services to the public sector, it is claimed. The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) confirmed in June 2023 the G-Cloud 13 framework would now expire…
Data supposedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland (UWS) in a ransomware attack has been put up for sale on the dark web by a newly emergent ransomware gang going by the name of Rhysida, which is asking for approximately £450,000 in Bitcoin, with plans to sell it to the highest bidder in the…
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The Post Office unsuccessfully tried to convince an independent expert IT witness that he was wrong when his report put its case against a subpostmaster in doubt and it ended the action, settling with the defendant when he refused to change his view. During a recent hearing in the Post Office Horizon scandal statutory public…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has hit back at claims it is wasting taxpayers’ money by not hiring contractors on an outside IR35 basis, after its annual accounts suggested the majority of the temporary workers it used last year were engaged via umbrella companies. According to the government tax collection agency’s 2022-2023 Annual Report and…
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. July 2023 A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to network cost and bandwidth optimisation Coming in under budget for appropriate network performance takes some strategic nous. In this 15-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how companies can gain effective global coverage, what can be done to…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 25 July 2023 Getting comfortable with data Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to ‘Data Bob’ – the head of IT at furniture retailer DFS – about building trust in data. The vulnerabilities in MOVEit software continue to attract…
Two more Post Office Horizon scandal convictions referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which warned against referring similar cases “en masse”. The appeals of former subpostmasters Therese Gooding and Ian Davies will now go to Southwark Crown Court. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 736 subpostmasters who ran Post Office…
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Britain’s most secret court is investigating claims that UK agencies unlawfully monitored the phone communications of two Northern Ireland journalists. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has agreed to investigate whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PNSI), Durham Constabulary, GCHQ and MI5 used intrusive surveillance in an attempt to identify the journalists’ sources. Trevor Birney…
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The government has introduced an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that it says will require the regulator to conduct extra scrutiny before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages for illegal content. The amendment to the bill will add an extra review stage before the regulator requires tech companies to scan the content of…
A majority of IT workers looking to move company are doing so to earn more money, according to research by Computer Weekly. The annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey asked IT workers the main reasons they were actively looking for new roles or might be open to new work opportunities, to which 58% said earning more money…
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