A variant of point-of-sale Malware, known as Prilex, can now block contactless payments and force victims to use physical cards before criminals steal from them. The warning comes from Kaspersky, which said it has uncovered three modifications to Prilex malware that block contactless payment transactions. Contactless payment use exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic as […]

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has begun work with IBM to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to discover new insights in its Earth and geospatial science data. The joint effort will apply AI foundation model technology to NASA’s Earth-observing satellite data for the first time. These observations are used by scientists to study and […]

The UK Cyber Security Council and security professional association ISACA are to partner on a new audit and assurance scheme for security professionals, as the council’s work programme continues to widen its scope. Announced at ISACA’s London Chapter annual conference, the programme will see ISACA serve as the awarding body for audit and assurance […]

The pandemic accelerated the use of technology in business, causing many organisations to have greater reliance on email, chat applications and virtual meeting software. As a result, remote working solutions have quickly become the new normal.  Despite bringing a multitude of benefits, including improved motivation and increased flexibility, nearly a fifth of IT pros […]

What is the Toyota Way? The Toyota Way is a comprehensive expression of the company’s management philosophy, which is based on the two foundational pillars of Continuous Improvement, also known as kaizen, and Respect for People. Toyota documented its management philosophy in 2001 but has not made the document publicly available. The Toyota Way is […]

Tech Nation has announced that it will cease operations, after more than a decade supporting the UK’s startup ecosystem, following the loss of core funding to Barclays. In January 2023, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced it had awarded its £12m Digital Growth Grant to Barclays’ startup incubator Eagle Labs, […]

Freevacy, a specialist provider of data privacy and protection education and training, has set up a £20,000 scholarship fund to provide training for approximately 20 up-and-coming cyber security professionals. The Joyce Allen Privacy Champion BCS Scholarship scheme will cover the £1,095 cost of the Foundation Certificate in Data Protection from BCS, the Chartered Institute […]

Healthcare organisations in countries aligned with the defence of Ukraine have been warned they may be at risk of cyber attack by Russian hacktivists after a series of attacks linked to the infamous Killnet group unfolded over the past few days. Killnet is a hacktivist group of politically motivated actors who have aligned themselves […]

Crédit Agricole CIB and quantum computing specialists Pasqal and Multiverse Computing have run two experiments on quantum computing in finance. In June 2021, Crédit Agricole began to evaluate the use of algorithms inspired by quantum computing, and the potential uses of quantum computers in the valuation of financial products and the assessment of credit […]

GitHub has issued an urgent warning to users of its Desktop for Mac and Atom text editor applications after an unauthorised actor broke into its systems and stole two encrypted DigiCert code-signing certificates used for Windows and one Apple Developer ID certificate, which could potentially have given them access to some of its development […]