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 … Leer más
Vodafone has commenced the installation of OpenRAN mobile communications equipment at 2,500 sites across Wales and South-West England, to provide what it insists is “much needed” diversity in the telecoms supply chain and to act as a catalyst for innovation, in the latest part of the deployment of the technology in the UK. OpenRAN is … Leer más
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its partner agencies in the Anglophone Five Eyes collective have formally attributed a campaign of cyber attacks against Ukrainian military targets to the Sandworm advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, backing up previous assertions by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which first exposed the novel Infamous Chisel … Leer más
Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their activity, and threat actors based out of Vietnam continue to drive the new surge, according to intelligence compiled by WithSecure. Ducktail first emerged a little over 12 months ago, targeting business accounts on Facebook and … Leer más
Microsoft has made changes to Teams, following the European Commission’s (EC’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 … Leer más
The government should introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-specific legislation in the next session of Parliament or there is a danger the UK will be “left behind” by legislation being developed elsewhere, MPs have warned. In an interim report published 31 August 2023 by the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (SITC) as part of … Leer más
Cisco has announced the general availability of its Lifecycle Services (LCS) to expand the offerings that help businesses, healthcare and governments get to their desired outcomes faster. Putting the introduction into context, Cisco said that to quantify and validate IT contributions to the business, IT organisations need to invest in technologies that drive top-line business … Leer más
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be pervading every aspect of business and social life, and believing that a subset of this, conversational AI, can be a real and cost-effective choice to improve self-service and productivity in contact centres, integrated cloud contact centre and unified communications platform provider 8×8 has announced the availability of voice conversational AI … Leer más
A study from ABI Research is warning that rapidly increasing interest in 5G network slicing will not be matched by rapidly increasing market growth, slowing expectations in the market compared with previous forecasts. Indeed, ABI’s 5G network slicing and cloud packet core market data report found that growing ecosystem complexity and ongoing challenges with cloud-native tooling … Leer más
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 … Leer más
