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Microsoft hack: Five questions enterprises should ask their IT leaders

Software giant Microsoft revealed in mid-January 2024 that its systems were successfully infiltrated at the end of 2023 by Russia-backed hacking group Midnight Blizzard, as part of a coordinated and targeted information-gathering exercise. Microsoft confirmed the details of the attack in a statement published online on Friday 19 January 2024,  where it revealed the attack…

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Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure

Microsoft’s earnings for 2024 show significant growth in the company’s cloud offerings, with revenue in its Intelligent Cloud business increasing 20% to $25.9bn. CEO Satya Nadella said the financial performance of the company was driven by the continued strength of Microsoft Cloud, which, he said, surpassed $33bn in revenue, up 24%. “We’ve moved from talking…

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Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy 2023

Which are the top storage array makers and what are their strategies towards the cloud, containers and consumption models of procurement? In this article, we rank the top storage suppliers according to IDC market share statistics for 2022 in terms of enterprise external storage and give a brief summary of each player, where they’re at…

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Microsoft Swaps Menu Key For Copilot AI Key on Windows Keyboards, Directs OEMs To Do The Same

Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence and generative AI at all levels of the company, from servers and Azure down to individual Windows PCs. And that big bet is about to become a lot more visible on Windows machines in the future, as Microsoft has instructed Windows OEMs to change their keyboard layouts to…

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Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

Over the course of 2023, there has been a concerted effort by the UK government and law enforcement to push more digital offerings into policing, including hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, various facial-recognition technologies and integrated record management systems. However, Computer Weekly’s coverage reflects the contentious nature of many of these deployments, which are often plagued…

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Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days

After a year that has seen no end of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services, Redmond has delivered an early Christmas bonus to cyber security teams on the last Patch Tuesday of 2023, in the form of one of the lightest updates in recent memory, with just 34 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed.…

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The Security Interviews: Talking identity with Microsoft’s Joy Chik

After so long spent doing virtual calls with customers during Covid, Microsoft’s president of identity and network access, Joy Chik, is happy to be on the road again, so much so that since flying into the UK a couple of days before our meeting in London, she has filled her diary with customer meetings despite…

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The AMD Advancing AI & Instinct MI300 Launch Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/18:00 UTC)

This morning is an important one for AMD – perhaps the most important of the year. After almost a year and a half of build-up, and even longer for actual development, AMD is launching their next generation GPU/APU/AI accelerator family, the Instinct MI300 series. Based on AMD’s new CDNA 3 architecture, and combining it with…

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An inside look at a Scattered Spider cyber attack

Threat researchers at ReliaQuest have shared intelligence on how one of the organisation’s customers was impacted by a cyber attack originating via the Scattered Spider group that has made a speciality of abusing identity and authentication services to attack its victims, and has left cops struggling to respond. The highly dangerous English-speaking group is also…

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I like ChatGPT even more after OpenAI’s developer conference

I’ve been following ChatGPT closely for the better part of a year because it’s the nature of my job. Generative AI is a massive tech innovation, and OpenAI has single-handedly changed the tech landscape this year. ChatGPT is all we’ve been talking about in 2023, and the biggest names in tech have had to react…

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