Software company Pegasystems has persuaded a court to throw out a decision by a jury to award rival Appian $2bn in damages following a legal battle over allegations that Pegasystems stole Appian’s trade secrets. The Court of Appeals of Virginia overturned the damages award against Pega – described as the largest damages verdict in Virginia’s…
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The CyberUp Campaign, a group calling for urgent reform to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) 1990, has launched a fresh consultation inviting security professionals and researchers to take part in a wide-ranging survey seeking views on the 34-year-old law’s impact on their work. CyberUp argues that the CMA is risibly out of date – it…
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It quickly became clear the problem was not an issue with Microsoft’s Azure service, as it first appeared, but an issue with a single software provider – named CrowdStrike – who released a faulty update to their software, which was then distributed rapidly around the world via the Azure global networks.As reported by Computer Weekly,…
Out of the approximately 380,000 women who make up 20% of the UK’s technology sector, who is the most influential? Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for our annual list of the most influential women in UK technology, which we put together each year in partnership with Nash Squared to showcase the female talent in…
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The Labour government is opening a consultation on its plans to reform the planning system, as part of its push to lower the barriers to datacentre developments in the UK. The consultation is being led by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which is seeking views on the government’s plans to make immediate…
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A patient with ALS in the United States is the first person to use Apple Vision Pro with an implantable brain-computer interface. Apple’s spatial computer, which already offered breakthrough hand and voice experiences, now goes a step further by enabling brain control. Brain-controlled commands replace the need for hand gestures for people with paralysis.The news…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 30 July 2024 CrowdStrike blue screen bug serves a stark warning Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we analyse the lessons from the global IT outage caused by the blue screen bug in CrowdStrike security software. We talk to the data…
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Getting to the top role in an industry comes with a fresh set of pressures – after all, with great power comes great responsibility. In the case of the chief information security officer (CISO), this would apparently be the ultimate role for many to aspire to: it can allow budgetary control, building policies and strategies,…
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The majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a botched rapid response update were back up and running prior to the weekend of 27 and 28 July, as efforts to remediate the 19 July incident that caused more than eight million Windows machines to crash continue. Writing on LinkedIn on 26 July, CrowdStrike CEO George…
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As global efforts to recover and learn from the Friday 19 July CrowdStrike incident continue, cyber criminals and scammers are predictably lurking on the fringes of the discourse, picking off unsuspecting victims, supported by over newly created malicious domains associated with CrowdStrike’s branding. This is according to web security specialist Akamai, which said its researchers…
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