Articles by Graeme Burton
Pulse Secure: 2,500 VPN servers worldwide vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 critical security flaw
UK plays host to 149 unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers vulnerable to flaw favoured by Iranian state-backed hackers
UK blames Russia's GRU for cyber attacks targeting Georgia
UK accuses Russia of being behind a string of cyber attacks on neighbouring states
EU unveils 'human centric' artificial intelligence data strategy
New strategy intended to both fuel the development of AI and data-driven business across the EU, as well as to regulate it
Steve Capper moves from BAM to become Group CIO at SNC-Lavalin
Capper to take charge of data-driven digital transformation at global engineering firm SNC-Lavalin
Almost 6,000 unpatched Citrix NetScaler servers remain vulnerable to critical security flaw
A total of 5,915 Citrix servers remain unpatched against CVE-2019-19781, with 388 located in the UK
Broadband and mobile phone providers must now tell customers when their contract ends
New rules from Ofcom require broadband, mobile phone and pay TV providers to notify residential and business customers when their deals are drawing to a close
Want to make £££ in IT? Go into quality assurance, security, architecture or programme management
Then work your way up to CIO - but avoid the helpdesk, which (as always) offers the worst-paid roles in IT
Google's $2.6bn deal for Looker Data Science approved by CMA
Google's proposed acquisition has been investigated, and approved, by three national competition authorities
Half of IT pros plan to change jobs in 2020 - Harvey Nash
Two-thirds of IT pros are happy in their job, according to Harvey Nash survey, but just want more money
Ocado's Andover fire quadruples annual losses
£111.8 million write-off from the value of the destroyed warehouse offset by £74 million insurance payout
Government plan to regulate online platforms will hit more than 200,000 businesses in the UK
Government support for online regulation will encompass at least five per cent of UK businesses
Amazon to call Trump to testify in Pentagon JEDI contract dispute
Amazon to call President Trump to the witness stand over his ‘screw Amazon’ comment to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis
Public sector lacks transparency in the use of AI, warns official report
Implementations of AI in the public sector risk undermining the Nolan Principles, warns Lord Evans, chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
Google fixes critical vulnerability affecting Android Bluetooth subsystem
Bluetooth Android security flaw has been labelled ‘critical’ on both Android 8 and 9
TCL to stop making BlackBerry Android smartphones
TCL's BlackBerry licensing deal won't be renewed in August, putting the future of BlackBerry smartphones in doubt
Oracle opens five new cloud regions
Oracle aims to have 36 cloud locations by the end of the year, including a Government and Commercial cloud data centre in Newport, Wales
Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers dies
78-year-old Ebbers made WorldCom one of the world's largest telecoms company - committing one of the world's largest accounting frauds in the process
Almost 500 Citrix servers in the UK vulnerable to ransomware
But that's nothing - there's still more than 3,200 in the US that haven't been patched against the CVE-2019-19781 security flaw
Microsoft offers $20,000 bug bounties for Xbox security flaws
Microsoft extends bug bounty offerings to Xbox games console vulnerabilities
Government Huawei ruling will cost £500m over five years, claims BT
BT claims that it will need to remove Huawei equipment from the EE mobile network to comply with the government's ruling
Avast to close Jumpshot data-analytics firm following claims it sold anti-virus users' web-browsing data
Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek claims he made the decision following a review instigated after he joined seven months ago
Travelex claims it has brought money transfer and wire services back - but website remains down
Travelex's main website remains down almost a month after New Year's Eve ransomware attack
Smartphone sales to rise just three per cent in 2020, but slowdown in 2021 - Gartner
Worldwide sales to grow in 2020 following two per cent decline in 2019
UK decision on Huawei's participation in 5G networks due today
Prime Minister Boris Johnson under pressure from both sides over inclusion of Huawei in the UK's 5G networks
Government plans new laws to mandate minimum security standards for consumer IoT devices
Government expected to push for legal recognition of emerging TS 103 645 global IoT security standard
Citrix releases final patches for critical CVE-2019-19781 security flaw
Patch ASAP, urges Citrix - then scan your network for any indicator of compromise
Metropolitan Police to roll-out live facial recognition across London
Met plans to use live facial recognition at 'specific location' in London to 'help protect the vulnerable'
'Smart factory' honeypot attracts two ransomware attacks, fraudsters, corporate espionage - and other security researchers
Trend Micro honeypot indicates that bread-and-butter security measures will deter most attackers
IBM reports surprise (small) quarterly revenue rise - largely thanks to its Red Hat acquisition
IBM's tiny 0.1 per cent fourth-quarter revenue increase overshadowed by 3.1 per cent decline for the full year
House of Lords introduces private member's bill to resurrect age verification plan
Baroness Howe of Idlicote's bill intended to force government into implementing the so-called porn block
CityFibre acquires TalkTalk's FibreNation fibre network
CityFibre has also cut a deal with Vodafone enabling it to cut wholesale deals with other ISPs sooner than originally agreed
GDPR claims €114m in fines in under two years - with more to come this year
European data protection authorities have received more than 160,000 data-breach notifications since GDPR came into force in May 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for 'proportionate' regulation of artificial intelligence
There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated - Sundar Pichai
Travelex continues to insist that no customer data was compromised in new video update from CEO
Customer-facing systems are being restored, says Travelex CEO Tony D'Souza, 18 days after the ransomware attack broke out
WeLeakInfo website trading in 12 billion compromised credentials taken down and two men arrested
Arrests in the Netherlands and Northern Ireland accompany cross-border operation against hacker website trading in compromised credentials
Google to whack third-party tracking cookies - but you'll have to wait until 2022
Google shifts position on tracking cookies and announces plans to tackle 'browser fingerprinting'
Equifax to pay $380.5 million in data breach settlement in the US
Equifax settles class-action lawsuit over 2017 data breach that spilt personal data of 147 million Americans (and more than 15.2 million Brits)
Travelex refuses to comment on whether it paid ransom to get its data back
Last week, a group claiming to be behind the Sodinokibi ransomware attack on Travelex threatened to release data. This week, Travelex refuses to comment on whether it paid up…
Visa acquires fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn
Plaid turns $310m in venture funding into a tidy $5bn profit for backers of 2013 fintech start-up
Windows 7 Extended Support ends today
From now on, you're on your own (unless you pay Microsoft $25-$50 per PC per year for the next three years for essential patches)
Travelex claims it is 'making good progress' in recovery from Sodinokibi ransomware attack
Travelex continues to insist that no personal data was compromised
UK set to approve Huawei technology for 5G networks
Huawei to be granted 'very limited' role, according to reports
Travelex 'negotiating' with Sodinokibi ransomware group threatening to release or sell personal data
Travelex reportedly negotiating $6m ransom as group threaten to release personal data Travelex claims hasn't been compromised…..
Currys-PC World fined £500,000 over cyber attack that compromised 14 million people's personal information
Currys owner DSG Retail fined the maximum under the old data protection regime - would've been much more under GDPR, warns ICO
ICO: Travelex hasn't reported a data breach
'The company has not reported a data breach,' ICO tells Computing, but adds that they may be required to 'explain why it wasn't reported'
Huawei unveils openEuler, its CentOS-based Linux distribution
In the spirit of the age, Huawei releases the source code of openEuler to Gitee, a Chinese alternative to Github
Sonos sues Google claiming theft of smart speaker intellectual property
Sonos claims Google exploited the company's openness in 2013 collaboration to better integrate Google Play Music with Sonos's wireless speakers