1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1010+ words) For over 15 years, as her career took her from erstwhile digital transformation platform provider Pivotal to the Cloud Foundry Foundation, to configuration management specialist Puppet and now ActiveState, the “through line” has been open source, says Abby Kearns. Kearns joined…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) government, and the cyber security community. “Quantum computing may seem like science fiction, but it’s only...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (781+ words) This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Robert MacDonald, head of SAP engineering at Avantra Avantra automates, monitors, and secures hybrid SAP landscapes with AI-driven observability and root cause analysis. MacDonald writes in full…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (816+ words) An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, proposes giving the government “last resort” powers to shut down large AI systems in an emergency. The amendment proposed by Lib Dem peer,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (763+ words) For years, there were rules about who could see what numbers in the dashboard. A data team built the report and decided who could open it by role. That arrangement, according to Snowflake chief data and AI officer Anahita Tafvizi,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (559+ words) Sergey Nivens - stock.adobe.com A series of prominent organisations including UK fossil fuel giant Shell, Dutch consumer and health tech multinational Philips, and the US’ General Electric (GE), are probing security breaches after being ‘named and shamed’ by the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (739+ words) Sergey Nivens - stock.adobe.com FulcrumSec, the threat actor that earlier laid claim to the late-August breach of IT systems owned by Manchester Airports Group (MAG), has made public half a terabyte of data on 8.7 million people who transited through…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) the looming security threats posed by quantum computing. Slated for launch by year-end, the Quantum-Safe...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (996+ words) Proofpoint has opened an artificial intelligence (AI) security engineering centre of excellence in Hyderabad, India, and plans to hire more than 200 engineers in the country over the next 12 to 24 months. The centre, the latest in a string of investments in…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1657+ words) © François LAFITE / OVHcloud Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones, used by organised crime groups, in 2020. In the first of two major articles, we describe how a Czech spyware company rehacked the…...