BBC assures UK Parliament that digital transformation plans are on track
Just weeks after a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) cast doubt on the ability of the BBC to build a digital-first public service media organisation and manage...
Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit
Getty Images Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. “This is an unauthenticated RCE,”...
Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers
Fortinet An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report...
Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name
Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation's creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation's feather...
FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file
Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023.Getty Images |...
CityFibre continues gigabit roll-out to non-metro south of England
Barely a week after announcing it had successfully completed a trial of 2Gbps residential broadband services with a view of scaling to future speeds of 10 Gbps, CityFibre has...
Chrome vulnerability could have led to widespread data theft
Researchers at Imperva have revealed their hand in uncovering and fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability in Google’s Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that, left untreated, could have enabled threat actors...
UK net neutrality regulation failing all stakeholders
Like dot-coms, grunge music and fears about Y2K, net neutrality debates seem to belong to another era, but according to a stinging report from Strand Consult, current UK net...
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long
Enlarge / Stewart Coonrod holds up an official 2023 Chuck E. Cheese floppy disk in a TikTok video. It contains dance moves for in-store animatronics. On Sunday, a Chuck E....
Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit
For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM (customer relationship management) system to infect users with malware that gives them full control of...