The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has kicked off the recruitment process for a national chief information security officer (CISO) to sit within the Digital Policy Unit (DPU) of NHS England’s (NHSE’s) Transformation Directorate. The Leeds-based post comes with a salary of £150,000, which is £5,000 above the national median for such […]

Professional social network LinkedIn has announced plans to roll out a series of enhancements to its platform to protect its community from inauthentic, or even malicious, profiles and activity. Its objective is to help users make more informed decisions about those they choose to interact with when accepting connection requests, learning more about business […]

Santander has urged organisations across the financial sector to come together to tackle the scourge of so-called authorised push payment (APP) fraud, calling for the imposition of consistent rules to prevent the practice, and new measures that could give potential victims a fighting change to “break the spell” of scammers. In the whitepaper Tackling […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the company faces “near-term challenges on revenue”, which means it will drive up efficiency during 2023.  For the three months ending 30 September, Meta – the parent company of Facebook – reported a 4% drop in revenue. Net income was $ 4.5bn, 52% less than it posted […]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organisations against using biometric technologies to conduct emotion analysis, which it has described as “immature” and “pseudo-scientific”. Emotion analysis technologies are often powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and rely a wide range of personal and biometric data to perform their purported functions, including information about gaze […]

Alphabet has reported revenue of $68bn for its third quarter of 2022, a 6% increase over last year. The company’s results were impacted by fluctuating currencies, and Alphabet said it would be working to realign resources to fuel its highest growth priorities. Google Cloud Platform reported revenue growth of $6.9bn. “The long-term trends that […]

Problems reported with the Post Office’s Horizon IT system before its roll-out should have been regarded as a “show-stopper”, according to a senior executive involved in the roll-out of the controversial system. The Post Office should have stopped the roll-out of Horizon until reported problems were fixed, and given subpostmasters having trouble balancing their […]

If causing a cyber security breach is a matter over which one should resign, then to be able to waltz back into the same job barely seven days later is utterly unacceptable, and yet this is exactly what our erstwhile, and now current, home secretary Suella Braverman has done. On Wednesday 19 October, the […]

Ukraine’s governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT UA) issued a warning earlier this week of an apparent Cuba ransomware campaign that is spoofing the press office of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its phishing lures. The malicious emails contain links to a third-party web resource to download a file, […]

A new aerospace research and development (R&D) centre called Lift is the latest in a series of collaborative efforts to help develop drone technology – and a drone industry – in Finland. The project involves a community of experts, and one of the founding members is VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.   Owned by […]