Ethical hackers can be heroes: It’s time for the law to catch up
The last year has seen some of the costliest cyber attacks on UK businesses to date. Attacks on Marks &Spencer cost the supermarket chain hundreds…
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NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted a potentially dangerous misunderstanding surrounding emergent prompt injection attacks against generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, warning…
How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion
Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology reconfigures suspicion in subtle yet important ways, undermining so-called human-in-the-loop safeguards. Despite the long-standing controversies surrounding police…
Forrester: The role of internal developer platforms in DevOps
DevOps adoption has been going on for a decade and shows no signs of slowing. In Forrester’s 2024 developer experience survey, 87% of developers indicated…
Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the React JavaScript library, which earlier today caused disruption across the internet as Cloudflare pushed mitigations live on…
Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month
Cloudflare has successfully recovered its services after a second outage in the space of three weeks briefly took down Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, knocking…
Edinburgh Airport grounds flights due to IT issue affecting air traffic control provider
Flights to and from Edinburgh Airport are continuing to be beset by delays, after an undisclosed IT issue grounded passengers for around an hour on…
Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator
Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), is building strong IT foundations as part of a five-year strategy to…
From trust to turbulence: Cyber’s road ahead in 2026
In 2025, trust became the most exploited surface in modern computing. For decades, cyber security has centered on vulnerabilities, software bugs, misconfigured systems and weak…
NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks
Three Greater London councils struck by a cyber attack last week are receiving response support from cyber security experts at NCC Group as they continue…
Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation
The Home Office has formally opened a consultation on the use of facial recognition by UK police, saying the government is committed to introducing a…
In an AI-first world, the future of cyber security is its workforce
The future of cyber security will not only be largely unrecognisable when compared with today, believes David Foote, chief analyst and research partner at Foote…