Manchester United Football Club announced on Friday that it experienced a cyber-attack on its systems. The Club said it took swift action to contain the attack and worked with expert advisors to investigate the incident and minimise ongoing IT disruption.
MPs have experienced nearly 23 million email cyber-attacks in eight months, averaging 2.7 million attacks per month, a 60 per cent increase compared to last years figures. In 2019, there were just 1.7 million monthly average attacks per month.
A new Microsoft UK report has found that Britain’s digital skills gap could pose a risk to economic recovery. While the report revealed 78 per cent of UK leaders think having a large pool of digital talent will be essential to driving UK competitiveness, it also found that 69 per are currently facing a digital skills gap.
Facebook and Google are among series of tech giants to join a new collaborative effort led by Full Fact to tackle misinformation online. The fact-checking organisation is assembling experts from a range of companies and institutions, including the UK Government, Twitter, Google and Reuters to help address the issue.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will investigate a proposed merger between Virgin Media and O2 because of its potential impact on competition in UK telecommunications. After the announcement of the deal was made earlier this year, the CMA said it would make a formal request to the European Commission (EC) to review the merger.
The government will fund a National Cyber Force (NCF), an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agency and a new Space Command as part of its largest military investment in 30 years. Earlier this week Number 10 announced an increase of £16.5 billion for the UK defence budget.
Uber has entered a partnership with Marqeta to streamline payment experiences for its apps. The global modern card issuing platform will assist Uber in providing one central payment experience across multiple modes of transit and help the ridesharing and delivery service create new efficiencies in its Eats product.
Nearly half of all worldwide cybersecurity related patents filed over the past four years have been focussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), according to Wipro’s latest cybersecurity report. The global IT company said its research, based on a survey of 194 organisations and 21 academic, institutional and technology partners, found a paradigm shift towards cyber resilience amid the rise in global remote work.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with NXP Semiconductors to deliver an edge-to-cloud compute solution for next generation vehicles. The solution includes expanded access to real-time, vehicle-wide data, secure connectivity to the cloud and streamlined machine learning.