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…
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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…
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war
A coalition of countries has provided Ukraine with more than €1.3bn of telecommunications, information technology and other high-tech equipment since Russia began the deadliest conflict…
Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation
The Metropolitan Police officer leading the national investigation into crimes committed during the Post Office scandal said Fujitsu’s contact to run the police network “complicates…
NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks
Almost a billion early-stage cyber attacks and end-user attempts to access dangerous websites have been blocked by the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) new Share…
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…
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…