Cyber flywheel aims to kick-start UK cyber security startups
The UK government and businesses are being urged to back the growth of a critical mass of cyber security startup companies. Startup founder Alastair Paterson…
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Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases
A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have profiled his victims through NHS database queries that were unaudited. Paul Lipscombe, from Rothley, Leicestershire,…
Strong security balances consolidation and best-of-breed capabilities
The commercial case for cyber security platformisation is a compelling one, and it is a primary driver behind its momentum. Organisations running 15 or 20…
Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old
The Met Office has celebrated one year of “supercomputing as a service” from Microsoft. The occasion presented an opportunity for the weather forecasting and climate…
UK government announces package to get more women in tech
The Home Office and Ministry of Justice are part of a government pilot to get women back into the tech sector through senior software development…
Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval
Planning permission has been approved for what is reported to be one of the UK’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres, a 1GW project in north…
The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?
The Rashomon Effect is a narrative technique pioneered by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, whereby each act of a story shows the same scene from the…
Vulnerability reports: Increase in quantity, decrease in quality?
The concept of the bug bounty is relatively simple: a researcher probes networks and applications for potential vulnerabilities, finds one, and reports it to the…
This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses
When US president Trump implemented sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in February 2025, it wasn’t long before ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan found…
Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers
Customers of Lloyds Banking Group have reported being able to see transactions made by other customers on their banking apps. Users of the group’s banking…
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
MPs have called for “urgent legislation” to overturn Post Office convictions based on its Capture software and warned that “unsafe” convictions based on other pre-Horizon…
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
The government is “flying blind” when it comes to economic growth in the UK’s regions, due to a lack of decent data. according to the…