Braverman puts pressure on Meta to pause end-to-end encryption plans
Home secretary Suella Braverman is stepping up pressure on Meta over its plans to roll out end-to-end encrypted message services on Facebook and Instagram. The…
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New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
He risked his neck. When Edward Snowden chose to expose the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)’s mass surveillance Leviathan, and that of its British counterpart,…
Post Office employee changed story for witness statement used to destroy subpostmaster
Shocking new details have emerged of the legal tactics used by the Post Office to defeat a subpostmaster when he challenged its computer system, with…
Okta confirms link to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos
David Bradbury, chief information security officer (CISO) at identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta, has confirmed that two cyber attacks targeting Las Vegas casino…
38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
Microsoft has learned an important lesson after having to clean up a major data leak resulting from an “overly permissive” shared access signature (SAS) token…
Cosmetics giant L’Oréal turns to Databricks for cloud data-led customer personalisation push
Cosmetics giant L’Oréal has turned to Databricks to help pull together all of the data stored in its disparate cloud platforms to help support its…
Nominet and European counterparts link up on intelligence sharing
The UK’s internet domain registrar, Nominet, has joined up with its counterparts from across Europe to launch a top-level domain information sharing and analysis centre…
Securing Eurovision’s online voting system against cyber attacks
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Government offers £600,000 to subpostmasters with overturned convictions
The government is offering £600,000 to former subpostmasters who have had wrongful convictions overturned, to settle their claims – but a lawyer representing many of…
CMA focuses on data for AI foundation model
Accountability, access, diversity, choice, flexibility and transparency are among the key principles the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out in its preliminary report…
Security Think Tank: A user’s guide to encryption
Encryption is a key component of everyday life for most people, whether messaging on WhatsApp, shopping online, reading articles over a secure HTTPS connection, or…
Government seeks industry views on cyber threat to UK CNI
The cross-bench Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee (SITC) has launched an inquiry into the cyber resilience of the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) sector…