The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has handed over a further £23m in unpaid tax to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for IR35-related compliance errors – sending its final settlement figure soaring to £86.5m. The department’s IR35 compliance procedures have been the subject of a recently concluded and long-running inquiry by […]

Ransomware is the “gift” that keeps on giving – and not in a good way. Sophos’s report The state of ransomware 2022 makes for rather sobering reading: 66% of 5,600 survey respondents said their organisations had been hit with ransomware in 2021 – nearly double that of the previous year – with 46% of […]

Organisations must conduct end-to-end audits that consider both the social and technical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) to fully understand the impacts of any given system, but a lack of understanding around how to conduct holistic audits and the limitations of the process is holding back progress, say algorithmic auditing experts. At the inaugural […]

The opening football match of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is just 10 days away, and while the tournament is surrounded by controversy over the host country’s human rights record, among other things, it will inevitably attract massive attention from all over the world, with a TV audience expected to number well into […]

The traditional and well-established approach to cyber security is to build multiple layers of defences to stop hackers or rogue insiders getting unauthorised access to data. But you only have to follow the news headlines to see this does not always work. Determined criminals, hacktivists, or simply lucky hackers have a habit of finding […]

A tranche of IT contractors, already facing life-changing tax bills as a result of the government’s controversial loan charge policy, have been hit with another wave of payment demands relating to their past involvement in loan-based remuneration schemes. The affected contractors are known to have started receiving letters from a company known as West […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. November 2022 – January 2023 CW Benelux: Heineken finds the right brew for digital Share this item with your network: Heineken’s data management director has revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform digitally. Also read how a PhD student in […]

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has published a report and an index showing the extent and depth of fuel poverty in England. The report, Fuel poverty and data infrastructure, shows that households containing renters, young adults, large households, lone parents and those with young children are especially badly affected by the current cost-of-living crisis. The report […]

What is piggybacking? Piggybacking, in the context of Wi-Fi, is the use of a wireless connection to gain access to the internet without proper authority. Piggybacking is also sometimes referred to as Wi-Fi squatting and tailgating. What is the purpose of piggybacking? The purpose of piggybacking is simply to gain free network access. Often this […]

Turning a transport booking service into an air raid alert system is not the typical task of a CIO, but that is what the IT team at Kyiv City Council was forced to do in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. When Russian tanks entered Ukraine in February and missiles rained down […]