January 2024

UK water giant admits attackers broke into system as gang holds it to ransom 2024-01-23 at 14:01 By Connor Jones Comes mere months after Western intelligence agencies warned of attacks on water providers Southern Water confirmed this morning that criminals broke into its IT systems, making off with a “limited amount of data.”… This article […]

Asda’s delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart’s backend support contract 2024-01-23 at 13:17 By Lindsay Clark Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit Supermarket chain Asda has extended its deal with Walmart, the US retail giant that once owned the UK business, to support backend ERP systems after a

BreachForums Founder Sentenced to 20 Years of Supervised Release, No Jail Time 2024-01-23 at 13:16 By Conor Brian Fitzpatrick has been sentenced to time served and 20 years of supervised release for his role as the creator and administrator of BreachForums. Fitzpatrick, who went by the online alias “pompompurin,” was arrested in March 2023 in

Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence’s supply chain improvements 2024-01-23 at 12:31 By Paul Kunert How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces? The UK Ministry of Defence’s efforts to better manage its £11.8 billion ($15 billion) of inventory hinges, in no small part, on a sweeping digital transformation program

~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation 2024-01-23 at 12:01 By Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability impacts out-of-date versions of the

DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry 2024-01-23 at 11:46 By Richard Currie So this is the AI revolution We know that “AI” is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn’t mean

AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least 2024-01-23 at 10:31 By Tobias Mann 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too Comment  What is an AI PC? What is its killer app?

Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform 2024-01-23 at 09:31 By Thomas Claburn Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Meta has been accused of automatically enrolling Europe-based users of its Facebook social network into the ad supported version of the service if they’ve not

AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services 2024-01-23 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Amazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on its Marketplace.… This article is an excerpt from The

Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels’ bad attitude 2024-01-23 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week Data from Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon has been downloaded, and the machine switched off – with just