A serious breach of customer information – including names, postal addresses, hardware, order information and servicing history – is developing at Dell, after a database containing 49 million records was offered for sale on the dark web’s Breach Forums site by a user going by the handle, “menelik”. The first indications of a data breach…
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Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior (SCW) has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams. Although other security benchmark and scoring services exist, the SCW Trust Score is specifically designed to provide a baseline of the impact of organisations’ learning programmes,…
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Barnsley has become one of the first councils to roll out generative AI (GenAI) tools across its entire organisation as part of a six-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365, which it hopes will take some of the heavy admin load off staff. Local councils have become perhaps an unexpected testing ground for GenAI as…
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Post Office employees investigating subpostmasters over unexplained account shortfalls didn’t look into claims that the computer system was to blame, said a 2013 report to the organisation’s general council. During the latest hearing in the Post Office Horizon scandal statutory public inquiry, former Post Office interim general counsel Chris Aujard was questioned by barrister Flora…
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A United States court has sentenced a 24-year-old Ukrainian national named as Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13 years and seven months in prison, and ordered him to pay more than $16m in restitution, after convicting him of over 2,500 ransomware attacks demanding over $700m in payments under the REvil/Sodinokibi crime spree. Vasinskyi, who used the handle…
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The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…
The Post Office never intended to pay large sums of money as financial redress to former subpostmasters blighted by problems with its accounting software. During the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearing, featuring evidence from former senior Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd, it was revealed that former CEO Paula Vennells expected subpostmaster…
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Labelled a “bluffer” and an agitator, a former subpostmaster was proved right when he alerted Post Office boss Paula Vennells to a major software bug and warned that inaction would eventually see her face a judicial review. The Post Office underestimated an ultimatum sent by Tim McCormack, who was described as a “bluffer” by a…
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65TB per hour, from anywhere on earth to anywhere else, no matter the quality of the connection between them. That’s the transfer speed achieved by the shared storage solution from Arcitecta, which operates across cloud storage and on-site locations. Like Hammerspace, Nasuni, Panzura and Ctera, Arcitecta’s Mediaflux solution enables file shares across multiple sites internationally,…
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