UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act
The UK government will forge ahead with changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990, introducing long-called-for changes to the 35 year-old law that…
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Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando
Florence Mottay started her career in cyber security, researching exploits for security vulnerabilities in a small US startup. Today, she is the group chief information…
UK national security strategy failing to account for online world
The UK’s national security strategy falls short in sufficiently accounting for the digital world’s impact on our daily lives, according to the UK’s independent terrorism…
Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy
The Post Office will finally look into a Horizon defect that left branch accounts with unexplained shortfalls, six years after it was initially warned about…
AWS CEO Garmin pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future
Amazon Web Services (AWS) chief executive Matt Garmin projected a full agentic artificial intelligence (AI) future for the cloud infrastructure supplier’s customers during his keynote…
UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was ‘shambolic’ says Parliamentary committee
The UK’s failed attempt to bring a prosecution against two alleged Chinese spies was “shambolic”, “beset by confusion” and suffered from “systemic failures”, a cross-party…
Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk
Off the back of its expanding agentic AI security vision, identity specialist Okta has turned in a solid third quarter with revenues up 12% to…
CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes
Leicester-based Cambridge and Counties Bank has been using a modern middleware platform from SnapLogic to help it drive out manual processes. Chief transformation officer (CTO)…
UK’s Cyber Bill should be just one part of a wider effort
By Published: 02 Dec 2025 The UK government’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) was finally published in November 2025, and the language in which…
Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status
The use of “trusted” digital ID software to verify your identity online in the UK has taken on a statutory footing as of 1 December.…
Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal
Thousands more subpostmasters could be found to have been victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal after a criminal conviction based on a third faulty…
Cyber’s defining lessons of 2025, and what comes next
2025 was a wild ride for cyber security. The landscape is shifting faster than ever, and several themes stand out when I think about the…