Shifting all of the server farm capacity contained within five of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs to places that are powered by renewable energy could cut the sector’s carbon emissions by up to 91%, it is claimed. In a joint piece of analysis by Scottish datacentre provider DataVita and IT sustainability consultancy Posetiv, the “carbon intensity” … Leer más
A new block access quad-level cell (QLC) flash-based capacity array series, plus availability and capacity guarantees in NetApp’s Keystone as-a-service offerings, ransomware guarantees, plus cloud and Kubernetes management enhancements. Those are the key announcements from NetApp’s Insight event, being held in Las Vegas this week, as the company continues its evolution from NAS specialist to … Leer más
Anti-harassment and stalking charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust – one of the UK’s most prominent third-sector organisations working to protect women’s personal safety, and the body behind the National Stalking Helpline – has teamed up with the London Cyber Resilience Centre (LCRC) to improve its overall resilience to potential threats. The trust was founded in 1986 … Leer más
Researchers at the University of Sheffield said they have successfully fooled a number of natural language processing (NLP) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools – including ChatGPT – into producing effective code that can be used to launch real-world cyber attacks. The potential for tools like ChatGPT to be exploited and tricked into writing malicious code … Leer más
During her keynote speech at The Future of AI event in London, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, Michelle Donelan, reaffirmed the UK’s principles-based approach to regulation. With generative AI (GenAI) driving disruption, the government hopes to unleash growth and prosperity across the country. It aims to put the UK at the forefront … Leer más
The European Union’s (EU) Digital Decade 2030 programme aims to ensure broadband internet speeds of at least 100Mbps across all member states by 2025 and to every EU household by 2030, but while this plan is on track, the UK’s similar infrastructure roll-out is paling by comparison, according to research from Ookla. Citing the EU’s … Leer más
Cisco has shed more light on speculation that has gathered around a sudden drop in the number of hosts known to have been infected with a malware implant delivered through two zero-day vulnerabilities in its IOS XE software platform. Late last week, scans conducted by threat researchers found many tens of thousands of hosts had … Leer más
Kaspersky has shared more details of a novel iOS spyware that it discovered earlier this year when its own devices came under attack in a campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation. Dozens of Kaspersky employees are understood to have been affected by the advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign, which employed a “sophisticated method” of distributing zero-click exploits … Leer más
After much deliberation, the UK-US data bridge finally took effect on 12 October. This new framework is expected to speed up processes and increase opportunities for companies that are exporting data-enabled services. Previously, organisations that wanted to do this had to have contract clauses in place to guarantee UK data protection and privacy standards are … Leer más
Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It … Leer más