Category: ComputerWeekly

Regulatory ‘lacuna’ around facial recognition threatens rights
12
Jun
2023

Regulatory ‘lacuna’ around facial recognition threatens rights

The increasing use of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras to automatically collect biometric data points to an Orwellian future; one…

Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network
12
Jun
2023

Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network

The Netherlands has completed the nationwide roll out of contactless payments on its public transport network, enabling all journeys to…

Clop may have been sitting on MOVEit vulnerability for two years
12
Jun
2023

Clop may have been sitting on MOVEit vulnerability for two years

The threat actors behind the Clop (Cl0p in some variants) cyber crime gang currently holding the likes of British Airways…

UK gets new rules to regulate crypto sector
12
Jun
2023

UK gets new rules to regulate crypto sector

Crypto firms that want to market their products in the UK will need to introduce new measures to protect consumers…

Vulnerability exploitation volumes up over 50% in 2022
12
Jun
2023

Vulnerability exploitation volumes up over 50% in 2022

Driven by significant cyber security disclosures affecting supply chain dependencies, such as Log4j and Realtek, threat actors have vastly increased…

Sweden’s Ikano Bank outsources core banking to TCS
12
Jun
2023

Sweden’s Ikano Bank outsources core banking to TCS

Ikano Bank has outsourced its core banking system to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as it attempts to move to a…

CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques
12
Jun
2023

CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques

The UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) has published a raft of case studies relating to the…

University of Manchester hit by cyber attack
12
Jun
2023

University of Manchester hit by cyber attack

The University of Manchester in northern England has been hit by a cyber attack that appears to have resulted in…

Ofcom data stolen in MOVEit cyber attack
12
Jun
2023

Ofcom data stolen in MOVEit cyber attack

UK communications regulator Ofcom has revealed it is among the organisations to have been compromised by the Russian-speaking Clop cyber…

UK and US move closer to transatlantic data bridge deal
12
Jun
2023

UK and US move closer to transatlantic data bridge deal

The UK and US are moving closer to an agreement that will facilitate the free flow of personal data across…

Barracuda ESG users told to throw away their hardware
12
Jun
2023

Barracuda ESG users told to throw away their hardware

Organisations operating Barracuda Networks’ Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances vulnerable to a bug tracked as CVE-2023-2868 to throw away their…

UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration
12
Jun
2023

UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration

US president Joe Biden and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak have signed an Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century US-UK…