The economic toll of deliberate internet shutdowns by governments reached nearly $24bn globally in 2022, following 114 major outages across 23 countries, research has found. According to Top10VPN’s latest Cost of internet shutdowns report – which analysed every major internet shutdown by governments in 2022 – intentional internet outages affected around 710 million people around […]

NHS England has published an opportunity to tender for a data platform for use in the health service. The anticipated value of the five-year contract will be up to £360m, but with an option to extend by 12 months, bringing the estimated value up to £480m. The goal is to replace the data platform that […]

Security teams face a busy few days after Microsoft’s first monthly Patch Tuesday drop of 2023, which contains fixes for 98 distinct vulnerabilities, 11 of them rated as critical, and one zero-day under active exploitation in the wild, which was uncovered by researchers at Avast. Tracked as CVE-2023-21674, the zero-day is an elevation of […]

The threat of widespread cyber crime and vulnerabilities in cyber security are among the most severe risks facing businesses, governments and the public over the next decade. Cyber attacks will disrupt critical resources and services, including agriculture, water, financial systems, transport and communications, the World Economic Forum predicted today. State and criminal hacking are […]

Just weeks after US president Joe Biden signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, there are reports that Chinese researchers have cracked RSA 2048 bit encryption. Given that quantum computers offer the ability to push computational boundaries, such as solving intractable problems such as integer factorisation, which is used for public key […]

Innovate Finance, the industry body for fintech in the UK, has reported a decrease in UK fintech investment in 2022, but confusion over the final annual figures could yet turn that into an increase. In its latest report, Innovate Finance revealed that UK fintech investment fell to $12.5bn in 2022, 8% less compared with […]

In a move that it hopes will safeguard its balance sheet from the increasing risks associated with cyber insurance, business insurance company Beazley is to launch a cyber catastrophe bond worth $45m (£37m) to indemnify itself should claims from a cyber attack on its clients top $300m. A catastrophe or cat bond is a […]

The tech sector has “abjectly failed” to address the risks and impacts of forced labour throughout its supply chains despite soaring profits, according to the latest analysis of IT firms efforts globally. In its fourth benchmark report, KnowTheChain (KTC), an organisation attempting to drive awareness and corporate action on the issue of forced labour, […]

Belfast Harbour has chosen Oracle cloud-delivered business applications to streamline its financial operations, increase agility and improve insights, according to a statement it made jointly with the supplier. Belfast Harbour is Northern Ireland’s main maritime gateway. It selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) in a bid to […]

The former subpostmaster who exposed one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history has rejected the offer of an OBE for services to justice because he believes it is “inappropriate” while victims still suffer and one of the scandal’s architects retains her honour. Alan Bates, who has campaigned relentlessly for over two decades […]