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UK's cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC | Computer Weekly
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (580+ words) Britain's national museums and galleries are highly vulnerable to cyber threats and by-and-large, have failed to heed the prescient warnings from the 2023 British Library ransomware attack, putting the country's wider cultural and historical assets at risk, says the Public Accounts…...
Ransomware bans won't stop ransomware. Resilience might | Computer Weekly
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (331+ words) The government's original proposal sought to prohibit ransomware payments across the public sector and critical national infrastructure (CNI), while introducing mandatory incident reporting requirements. On paper, the logic is understandable. Ransomware groups are financially motivated. Remove the ability to profit…...
AI-powered cyber attacks may be just months away, warn Five Eyes | Computer Weekly
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (452+ words) Powerful AI models could be used to conduct cyber attacks within a matter of months, western intelligence agencies warned today, placing governments and businesses at greater risk. The leaders of the Five Eyes cyber security agencies, which include the UK,…...
Navigating the AI access control minefield | Computer Weekly
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1024+ words) Until recently, IT departments primarily focused on providing employees with the IT systems they needed to do their jobs, which meant identity and access management (IAM) systems were primarily human-centric. Aditya Sood, vice-president of security engineering and artificial intelligence (AI)…...
Salesforce UK boss underlines role of channel
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (551+ words) Salesforce's UK CEO has restated the company's commitment to and the importance of channel partners. The vendor has been entertaining partners and customers in Excel London at its World Tour event, encouraging them to adopt more agentic artificial intelligence (AI)…...
Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify | Computer Weekly
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (827+ words) Cyber resilience has become a board-level priority for organisations across the Gulf as regional tensions, increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) reshape enterprise risk strategies. According to Yahya Kassab, senior director and general manager…...
What are the cyber threats to the 2026 Fifa World Cup? | Computer Weekly
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (1029+ words) In the run up to the troubled Fifa World Cup 2026 in Canada, Mexico and the US, national headlines have been dominated not by cyber security, but by border security, with tighter entry and Visa restrictions in the US leaving teams,…...
What frontier AI actually means for enterprise security | Computer Weekly
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (242+ words) The "clear and present danger or hot air" framing surrounding Anthropic's Claude Mythos frontier AI model sets up the wrong argument. What Mythos represents is a tempo shift in how vulnerabilities are found, chained, and exploited. What Mythos does is…...
AI security fears drive users to consider supplier switch
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (398+ words) Bokul Creatives - stock. adobe. co Those working across the security ecosystem know only too well the pressure they are under to keep customers on board against a backdrop of supplier consolidation. Frequently cited statistics " suggesting that the average customer uses…...
NPL to run world's first quantum standards network
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (440+ words) The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to establish a National Quantum Standards Network (QSN) to set up a standards framework for quantum computing technologies and help establish the future rules of the road. Backed by "10m of funding from the…...