MSI has begun issuing updates to fix a Windows 11 Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error that has been popping up with its Intel 700 and 600 Series of motherboards last month. According to the Verge, MSI has confirmed that it has found and now fixed the issue, stating that “the root cause of the issue…
The UK government is filling out the ranks of its artificial intelligence (AI) taskforce advisory board with figures from industry, academia and national security amid a rebrand. First announced in April 2023 as the AI Foundation Model Taskforce, along with £100m funding from the government, the body was created to take forward cutting-edge AI safety…
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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)…
Researchers at Singapore-based Group-IB have published a major report exposing the activities of a hitherto little-known cyber criminal operation that ran a “phishing empire” which targeted and compromised thousands of Microsoft 365 business email accounts over a six-year period. The so-called W3LL operation distributed multiple customised phishing kits through a hidden underground market, W3LL Store,…
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Mend.io, the Israel-based supplier of a popular software that helps developers identify and remediate vulnerabilities and security issues in their code libraries, has sealed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its application security platform that was uncovered by the research team at WithSecure. The vulnerability, which is being publicly disclosed today after a four-month remediation process,…
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The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…
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Microsoft has made changes to Teams, following the European Commission’s formal investigation into its bundling of the collaboration tool with Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites. In a blog post announcing the change, Nanna-Louise Linde, vice-president of Microsoft European government affairs, wrote: “These changes will impact our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business…
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…
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been discussing the damage that could one day be caused by the large language models (LLMs) behind such tools as ChatGPT, being used to conduct what are now being described as prompt injection attacks against unwitting victims. The NCSC has by-and-large taken a rather sanguine approach to…
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Cyber security experts have welcomed the apparent downfall of the Qakbot malware, following a multinational law enforcement hack-back operation, encompassing the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the FBI among others, which took down its botnet infrastructure over the weekend of 25-27 August. A long-established tool in the cyber criminal arsenal, Qakbot infected millions of…
