Data of 10 million JD Sports customers accessed in cyber attack
Personal data on up to 10 million people who shopped online at sporting goods and fashion retailer JD Sports has been accessed and potentially stolen by cyber criminals in...
Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges
Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering—despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every transaction...
#GermanyRIP. Kremlin-loyal hacktivists wage DDoSes to retaliate for tank aid
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. Threat actors loyal to the Kremlin have stepped up attacks in support of...
Pivot to ChatGPT? BuzzFeed preps for AI-written content while CNET fumbles
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work.Ars Technica On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to...
Uncertainty persists, but enterprises rush to adopt network as a service
With a background of almost constant change, businesses across all industries are finding certainties scarce, but the need to be more flexible and agile could be among these rare...
Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back
The amount of money enterprises are investing in their own private datacentres experienced a “post-pandemic” bounce-back in 2022, as shown by data accrued by IT market watcher Synergy Research...
UK local authorities reveal connectivity priorities, challenges
Research from connectivity consultancy FarrPoint has found that local authority digital leaders across the UK have shown evidence of good progress on boosting their digital connectivity, but also that...
Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary
Enlarge / An example of computer-synthesized handwriting generated by Calligrapher.ai.Ars Technica Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in...
Final months of 2022 saw highest ever number of bank account switches
More people than ever before switched current account providers in the final three months of last year, with 376,000 moving to a new bank. In November alone, more than...
Stretched retail IT teams demand more from their networks
Against growing consumer desire for ever-more personalised brand treatment, retail companies need predictability and confidence in knowing they can flex to evolving demands, while ensuring their IT teams and...