
Emma Woollacott
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC, Private Eye, Forbes, Raconteur and specialist technology titles.
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Brit pleads guilty amid Scattered Spider hacking spree claimsNews Tyler Robert Buchanan faces 10 years in jail if found guilty
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European Commission awards digital sovereignty contractsNews The Commission has picked four providers to offer services for EU bodies, but one consortium includes Google Cloud
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Surging memory costs are scuppering digital transformation projectsNews Most organizations are already affected by memory cost increases, with no light at the end of the tunnel any time soon
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Experts raise alarm over continued Tycoon 2FA threatsNews Millions of Tycoon 2FA attacks are still hitting businesses, according to research from Barracuda
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Cisco extends Webex data residency to UKNews With sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe predicted to triple from 2025 to 2027, tech firms are moving to increase their offerings
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NIST overhauls the National Vulnerability Database amid skyrocketing CVE reportsNews Drowning in CVEs, the NIST agency will now fully analyze only the most severe vulnerabilities
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UK government targets 'sovereign AI' gains with new £500 million startup funding schemeNews A new unit will act as a venture capital fund to help UK AI firms scale
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Security leaders overconfident about ransomware recoveryNews Few manage to recover all their data, and many experience business disruption
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Most organizations make a mess of handling digital disruptionNews Poor governance and a lack of collaboration with suppliers and partners can lead to disaster
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Only 34% of cyber professionals plan to stay in their current roleNews Offer regular wage progression, invest in culture and security, and offer flexible work arrangements if you want them to stay, advises IANS.
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Wiz: 80% of cloud breaches are caused by basic mistakesNews Wiz Threat Research's analysis of 2025 cloud incidents shows that familiar risks are expanding with scale, shared trust, and AI-driven environments
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Just 20% of companies are lapping up 75% of AI’s financial gainsNews Enterprises recording real economic returns are using it to reshape their business models and identify and pursue growth opportunities
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Zephyr Energy hackers swiped £700,000 after redirecting a contractor paymentNews Payment to a Zephyr Energy contractor was siphoned off, but the incident has been contained and new security measures implemented
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Lloyds Bank touts quantum potential in anti-fraud activitiesNews The bank said quantum algorithms showed long‑term promise, especially when used to complement AI and classical machine learning
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Agent identity governance can't keeping up with adoption rates – and it’s creating a security nightmareNews Enterprises are leaving high-privilege keys unchanged for months or years at a time
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ROI is about more than profitability when it comes to AI adoptionNews A survey from KPMG suggests enterprises are measuring more than just financial returns
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NCSC issues alert over Russian hacker campaign targeting SOHO routersNews The APT28 group has exploited vulnerable internet routers to covertly reroute internet traffic through malicious servers
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More than half of enterprises are using out-of-date operating systemsNews Most organizations are failing to update device operating systems and apps, leaving them vulnerable to threats
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German authorities want your help finding the hackers behind GandCrab and REvilNews Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin and Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk are believed to have made millions from ransomware as a service schemes
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‘Skipping a beat on resilience investment isn’t an option any more’ as IT outage costs soarNews Organizations are ramping up resilience efforts at IT outage costs continue mounting
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IBM strikes Arm deal in AI-focused hardware pushNews The companies say they want to help enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads more flexibly
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78% of UK manufacturers have experienced a cyber incident in the last yearNews Last year's attack on Jaguar Land Rover shows the costs can be very significant indeed
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Axios npm compromise highlights growing software supply chain risks, experts warnNews Cyber criminals exploited a hijacked maintainer account to compromise one of the world's most widely used JavaScript libraries
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Clunky tech is causing frustration for hybrid workersNews Clunky tools and slow set-up are wasting time for enterprises, and it’s having a big impact on workforce morale
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