Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous
The Russia-aligned KillNet hacktivist group, which has been behind a string of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Western targets since the outbreak of…
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Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
Privacy campaigners are urging Parliament to address a clause in the government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill that would force tech companies to screen people’s communications…
How the DSMA balances security and privacy with press freedom
The Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) committee is a British institution that has been in existence for over a century. First called the Defence…
Renowned hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick dead at 59
Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully…
BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has added another UK public sector organisation to its customer list, with a deal to provide finance accounting and payroll services…
AI and data experts to be brought into government through secondment programme
The government wants to bring tech experts from the private sector into government departments as part of a secondment programme designed to improve the digital…
At the gates – How to survive the era of cyber insecurity
While the cyber security industry has existed for decades, when it comes to digital business, never has there been such anxiety about the safety of…
Five non-traditional talent pools that will help CIOs plug skills gaps
The technology market continues to be hampered by severe skills gaps and talent shortages, a problem which shows no sign of abating. In the 2022…
We have lift off… The opportunities and risks of generative AI
It feels like we’ve been talking about the potential of AI and machine learning for years. So much so, that some people may have become…
BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder Companies, the organisation behind global cosmetics brands such as Aveda, Clinique, Estée Lauder, Mac and Origins, has suffered a cyber attack that appears…
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
A generative AI tool called WormGPT that operates without the ethical boundaries or hard-coded limitations of legitimate services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google Bard…
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
Microsoft kicked off its annual partner conference, Inspire, with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella discussing the immense opportunity that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the…