UK utility Southern Water, which serves customers in East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and West Sussex, has confirmed it is probing a major cyber incident after the Black Basta ransomware syndicate claimed to have accessed its systems. The Black Basta crew posted limited details of its supposed intrusion on its Tor … Leer más
Tokyo Vice, based on Jake Adelstein’s autobiographical novel, takes viewers into the criminal world of the Japanese capital and reveals its darkest secrets. The neo-noir series has attracted both enthusiasts of Japanese culture and fans of gangster stories. The first season was quite a success, and its finale was packed with cliffhangers to the brim … Leer más
Apple has rolled out a series of patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, among them a critical zero-day discovered in the open source WebKit browser engine that forms the underpinnings of the Safari web browser. The vulnerability in question is tracked as CVE-2024-23222, and it has already been added to the US Cybersecurity … Leer más
Social business Tēnaka has a core mission to restore and protect marine ecosystems worldwide, and to improve its operations in a marine-protected area of the coral triangle in Malaysia, the company has entered into a partnership with Orange Business to scale coral reef restoration. Tēnaka’s coral reef restoration helps protect and preserve critically important … Leer más
IT contractors are among the freelance workers calling on the government to consider scrapping the controversial IR35 off-payroll working rules in the March 2024 Spring Budget. The IR35 rules were introduced at the turn of the millennium as part of a disguised employment clampdown by the government, geared towards preventing individuals from artificially minimising … Leer más
The Uptime Institute has predicted that 2024 will see many organisations forced to backtrack on their publicly stated net-zero goals, as their sustainability efforts struggle to keep pace with rising regulatory scrutiny. The prediction is one of several shared by the datacentre resiliency think tank in a 24-page report that seeks to shine a … Leer más
Cardiff University has deployed 90 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, with Logicalis technology, to support high-performance computing (HPC) research. The university’s Advanced Research Computing @Cardiff (ARCCA) service worked with Logicalis and the Lenovo ThinkSystem platform to boost the capabilities of its Hawk HPC cluster by up to 100%. The HPC will be used to support research … Leer más
The Dallas hub of internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX has reported a new peak traffic record of more than a terabit of information per second on its multi-service interconnection platform reflecting the region’s digital transformation. Overall peak traffic at DE-CIX Dallas has risen by 61% since the beginning of 2023, and by as much … Leer más
As the UK government and internet service providers (ISP) community continue with the Project Gigabit programme that aims to bring ultrafast broadband coverage to 85% of the country by 2025, the industry is at a pivotal moment, with the key issues to be faced centred not so much around accessing the materials for buildout … Leer más
Secure access service edge (SASE) technology provider Cato Networks has announced an expansion of its SASE Cloud platform into threat detection and incident response, leading to what it calls the world’s first SASE-based, extended detection and response (XDR) offering that can “dramatically” improve the quality of insight and ease of incident response, leading to … Leer más
