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Bug bounties have become a staple of the cyber security toolkit, offering researchers a way to get paid to find and report bugs and giving businesses a route to fix unknown flaws. However, this model is now facing scrutiny. What is driving these concerns?...
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We look at the political, legal and economic risks around data sovereignty, the fears for digital dependency and massive hyperscaler penetration in the UK public sector...
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Customers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps....
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MPs report warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems....
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The government is being impeded in its bid to stoke hi-tech economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee....
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The Welsh government’s Tech Valleys programme is providing three-quarters of a million pounds to help reach thousands of primary school children with security education and careers guidance....
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How can AI be used to run an organisation with fewer people and tighter budgets...
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The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms....
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The CMA must designate AWS and Microsoft with strategic market status, impose meaningful remedies on Microsoft’s licensing practices, and open the market to genuine competition before the window for doing so closes permanently....
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In security, familiar testing and validation approaches are not enough when it comes to AI. The question is not just whether an AI-powered tool works but how it actually behaves when it is stressed, manipulated, or forced to operate outside already known conditions....
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Salesforce warned users of an uptick in malicious activity targeting Experience Cloud customers with misconfigured user settings via an open source tool....
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Over the past few weeks, cracks have started to appear in the tech sector’s growth plans for artificial intelligence....
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Three quarters of women working in security say they feel comfortable in the field, but women are still much more likely to be laid off and face persistent challenges around career advancement, according to a report....
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State-backed cyber threat actors from non-combatant states are taking advantage of the Israeli-US war on Iran to fulfil their own goals, according to Proofpoint analysts....
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Card giant is offering SME’s digital chief financial officers through artificial intelligence technology with other C-suites to follow...
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Government wants to add billions of pounds to the economy through getting more women into the tech sector...
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Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling....
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With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises....
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Agentic AI exposes flaws in enterprise workflows, highlighting weak data, unclear ownership and undefined processes. Better governance and integration can help....
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Open banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency....
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As Digital Realty opens its first datacentre in Ghana, executives explain how the country – and wider continent – sits in its global strategy, and how local partnerships are vital....
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MIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI....
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers....
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Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday update....
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Major gatherings, including Leap and Gisec Global, remain scheduled, but travel disruptions and geopolitical tensions are adding uncertainty....
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As part of a series of short documentaries, tech recruitment organisation Harvey Nash has discussed the AI skills “paradox” with a number of tech experts shedding light on the potential future of work...
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From government-backed STEM initiatives in the UAE to thriving regional communities such as Women in Cybersecurity Middle East and Women in IT, the region is shifting the conversation from participation to influence....
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Nscale has a pipeline of 1.3GW of capacity across the UK, Norway and the US, with contracted supply of 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, and is name-checked as a British supplier of AI factories....
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Nick Pearson, CIO at Ricoh Europe, describes his job as energising. The company’s shift in business model presents challenges and significant opportunities for him to draw on previous experience at other blue-chip firms....
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The US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, aiming to modernise services and migrate to the cloud, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities....
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