
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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VC investment in AI is skyrocketing – funding in the first half of 2025 was more than the whole of last year, says EY
News The average AI deal size is growing as VCs turn their attention to later-stage companies
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Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group merge to form O2 Daisy
News The new firm will start out as the UK’s second-largest small and medium-sized business (SME) solutions provider
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75% of UK business leaders are willing to risk criminal penalties to pay ransoms
News A ransom payment ban is a great idea - until you're the one being targeted...
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‘Polyworking’ is a cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen
News Particularly popular with Gen Z, so-called polyworking brings huge cybersecurity risks
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Hackers accessed more data than thought in Legal Aid Agency cyber attack
News Anybody who's applied for legal aid funding since 2007 could have had their personal data stolen
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OpenAI is teaming up with Nscale and Aker to build Europe's first AI gigafactory
News Stargate Norway aims to have 100,000 Nvidia processors up and running by the end of next year
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Nearly half of enterprises aren't prepared for quantum cybersecurity threats
News Most businesses haven't even started transitioning to post-quantum cryptography, research shows
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The Scattered Spider ransomware group is infiltrating Slack and Microsoft Teams to target vulnerable employees
News The group is using new ransomware variants and new social engineering techniques - including sneaking into corporate teleconferences
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UK cybersecurity workers are overworked and burning out faster than global counterparts
News Gaps in visibility, poor board communication, and a lack of cyber maturity are leading to high levels of burnout
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A flaw in Google’s new Gemini CLI tool could’ve allowed hackers to exfiltrate data
News The company has moved to fix a vulnerability that allowed the execution of malicious code
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UK enterprises regret going all-in on public cloud
News Data sovereignty, rising costs, and governance issues mean many IT decision-makers regret having made the move
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Hackers breached a 158 year old company by guessing an employee password
News A Panorama documentary exposed hackers' techniques and talked to the teams trying to tackle them
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Everything we know about the Allianz Life data breach so far
News The company has confirmed in a filing that data was accessed earlier this month
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Average Brit hit by five data breaches since 2004
News While the number of breaches has fallen, the UK has been the worst-hit country in Northern Europe since 2004
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Website downtime costs businesses thousands a month
News Hosting issues are a major headache, but firms are wary about ditching providers
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Organizations face ticking timebomb over AI governance
News While the vast majority of firms now use AI, more than half have either very limited governance or no governance at all
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CISPE pushes EU Court to reexamine Broadcom's VMware acquisition
News It's taking the European Commission to court demanding the deal be annulled, claiming it gives Broadcom too much market dominance
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Interlock ransomware gang is ramping up activity, CISA warns
News The threat group, which uses a double-extortion technique, has been attacking organizations across North America and Europe
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Majority of engineers bypass security controls to do their job
News Legacy VPNs and an overreliance on manual processes are leaving internal systems open to access by former employees
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ExpressVPN updates Windows app to fix vulnerability
News The flaw was reported through ExpressVPN's bug bounty program
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Dedicated servers are back in vogue as IT leaders scramble to meet AI, compliance requirements
News They may seem old-fashioned, but the use of dedicated servers is on the rise
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Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a potent new ransomware strain being used in the wild
News Huntress has warned organizations to secure exposed RDP instances and monitor for suspicious activity
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Meta isn’t playing ball with the EU on the AI Act
News Europe is 'heading down the wrong path on AI', according to Meta, with the company accusing the EU of overreach
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IT leaders are facing major work device blind spots – and it's putting security at risk
News The use of unauthorized devices is putting enterprises at huge risk
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