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German court finds hacked EncroChat phone evidence inadmissible

/ 7 minutes of reading / All, Computer

A Berlin court has raised questions over whether data from 120 million messages obtained by police hacking an encrypted phone service can continue to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in Germany and other European countries.The Landgericht Berlin Regional Court has ruled that text messages intercepted by French police from the EncroChat encrypted phone…

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Top 10 cyber security stories of 2024

/ 6 minutes of reading / 5G, Adobe, AI, All, Computer, data privacy, Dropbox, Microsoft, Okta, open source, social media, VPN

The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to dominate the headlines. This year, we steer away from AI fear, uncertainty and doubt to focus on some of the other big…

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The Security Interviews: Martin Lee, Cisco Talos

/ 10 minutes of reading / AI, All, Cisco, Computer, IDS, Tech

The first thing worth knowing about the first ever ransomware locker is that its use was apparently motivated by revenge rather than outright criminality. The second thing worth knowing is that there was not a Russian speaker in sight. In fact, its author, Joseph Popp, grew up in Ohio and was educated at Harvard University.…

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Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2024

/ 4 minutes of reading / AI, All, automation, Computer, IBM, Tech

This year signalled a worrying time for diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector as many firms began rolling back their initiatives and efforts. This lack of commitment led many notable diversity organisations to dial back their own efforts, not wanting to contribute to allowing firms to pretend to be making a difference rather…

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CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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The Data Bill: It’s time to cyber up

/ 5 minutes of reading / All, Computer, Tech, Technology, threat intelligence

In the latest deliberations on the Data Use and Access Bill in the House of Lords, I set out two amendments to offer well overdue updating to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. In preparing for committee stage of the bill I remain incredibly grateful to everyone involved with the CyberUp campaign, their analysis…

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Latest attempt to override UK’s outdated hacking law stalls

/ 6 minutes of reading / AI, All, Computer, Tech, Technology, threat intelligence

Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…

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LockBit ransomware gang teases February 2025 return

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, branding, Computer, social media, threat intelligence

Despite being taken down and humiliated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) coordinated Operation Cronos in February 2024, an unknown individual(s) associated with, or claiming to represent, the LockBit ransomware gang has broken cover to announce the impending release of a new locker malware, LockBit 4.0. In screengrabs taken from the dark web that have…

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Top 10 data and ethics stories of 2024

/ 13 minutes of reading / AI, All, Amazon, automation, AWS, compliance, Computer, e-commerce, Google, Meta

In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…

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