Ongoing investigations into the significant December 2020 cyber attack on various US government agencies, orchestrated through a breach of SolarWinds Orion products, are increasingly pointing to a Russian espionage operation, according to a taskforce report. Read more…
The DiRAC high-performance computing (HPC) facility has been given £20m funding to upgrade its supercomputer to support science simulation. The new systems will be between three and five times more powerful than the existing DiRAC Read more…
The cyber criminal gang behind the Pysa, or Mespinoza, ransomware strain has claimed responsibility for the 2020 cyber attack on Hackney Council in London and has begun to publish the data it stole to its Read more…
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started the process to begin a formal investigation of Nvidia’s proposed £31bn merger with UK chipmaker Arm. Arm’s business model is based on developing and licensing intellectual property Read more…
Rawpixel – Fotolia I believe the IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM) community can be empowered to deliver truly valuable services to organisations around the world by addressing these challenges head on. Read more…
Really good disaster recovery (DR) is expensive and complex, with the most robust disaster recovery strategies usually the preserve of banks, government departments or critical industries. But the need for protection against disruption is universal because system failures, power Read more…
Most UK citizens lack confidence in how public authorities handle their personal data, a study has found. According to the report by Reboot Online, based on recent data from the European Commission, 68% of British Read more…
National Security Agency (NSA) cyber security director Anne Neuberger has been picked to lead on cyber security for president elect Joe Biden, as the Trump era drew to a violent end on 6 January 2021 Read more…
Delphotostock – Fotolia The House of Commons has voted by 521 votes to 73, a majority of 448, to approve legislation to pass the EU-UK post-Brexit deal that was announced on Christmas Eve into UK Read more…
Journalists and UK citizens living overseas have had their appeals for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) put on hold after a tribunal questioned whether people living outside the UK have legal rights Read more…