The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
As part of the agreement, Google will train 100,000 civil servants working across the public sector in using AI and other digital services through its Google Cloud Training Programme by 2030, in support of the government’s goal to have one in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date.Furthermore, Google Cloud will…
Four people have been arrested and taken into custody across the UK in a National Crime Agency investigation into the April and May 2025 cyber attacks on Marks & Spencer (M&S), Co-op Group and Harrods. The arrests of two men aged 19, a third aged 17 and a 20-year-old woman were made at their home…
Scattered Spider, the teenaged hacking collective behind recent cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks and Spencer (M&S) and Co-op, appears to be actively breaching targets in the airline sector, with multiple victims now observed, according to intelligence shared by Google Cloud’s Mandiant threat analysts immediately prior to the weekend of 28-29 June. Having made national…
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A freshly discovered vulnerability in the perennially under-fire Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway appliances, which has been compared to 2023’s Citrix Bleed flaw in its severity, now appears to be coming under attack by undisclosed threat actors, security analysts say. Assigned a critical CVSS score of 9.3, CVE-2025-5777 is, technically speaking,…
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Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society are set to roll out a generative AI (GenAI) tool that has been specifically designed for the UK finance sector. The tool, known as FinLLM, was developed in the UK by Aveni alongside the two financial services companies, with both also investing money in the firm. The large language…
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UniCredit has signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud to “accelerate” its digital transformation by tapping into the supplier’s cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics capabilities. UniCredit will migrate “large sections” of its “application landscape”, including legacy systems, to Google’s Cloud platform across its banking operations in 13 countries. The bank will also use…
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ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…
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Financially motivated threat actors – including ransomware crews – remain the single biggest source of cyber threat in the world, accounting for 55% of active threat groups tracked during 2024, up two percentage points on 2023 and 7% on 2022, demonstrating that cyber crime really does, to a certain extent, pay. At least, this is…
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Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
