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 which bears witness to the…
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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 be paid for using credit…
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 (BA), Boots and the BBC…
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 from rogue operators, including a…
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 their use of vulnerabilities as…
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 single core banking system for…
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 auditing and assurance of artificial…
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 the exfiltration of an as-yet…
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 crime gang following its exploit…
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 the Atlantic, which Westminster hopes…
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 hardware, regardless of whether or…
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 Economic Partnership, setting out a…