Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor
Users of the open source XZ Utils data compression library may have narrowly avoided falling victim to a major supply chain attack, after evidence of…
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Finish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures
Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan, are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and strengthen performance-based efficiencies in their…
Security Think Tank: Ransomware lessons from the armed forces
Coming from a military intelligence background, focusing on the financing of terrorist groups, I saw the power of the dollar over bad actors. A dollar…
Organisations getting better at spotting identity fraud
The barriers to committing identity fraud are tumbling down, but organisations are proving that thanks to adoption of more advanced monitoring tools and software, assistance…
Facial recognition endangers us all without a clear legal basis
On 27 January 2024, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee in the House of Lords became the latest voice to question the legality of police…
UK plc going backwards on cyber maturity, Cisco report claims
UK organisations appear to be going backwards when it comes to their levels of cyber security maturity, with just 2% of organisations attaining the levels…
Government lifts chip strategy with a bit more cash
The government has unveiled £16.6m of funding, which it said has been earmarked for the development of semiconductors that power electric cars and the green…
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
The UK’s HM Treasury has expanded its headcount of data scientists as part of its plans to drive “data transformation” across the department. According to…
Sellafield to be prosecuted over alleged cyber compliance failure
Sellafield Ltd, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation currently working to wind up operations at the troubled Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, is to be prosecuted…
Podcast: What is distributed cloud storage and what are its benefits?
In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has…
Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, has launched a consultation into the feasibility of introducing a more dynamic price cap on energy prices. This would be…
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
Threat actors operating at the behest of government backers are significantly more likely to be behind the exploitation of newly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities than financially…