Researchers have been given a £420,000 grant to explore the potential use of a blockchain-based voting system in Greenland. Aarhus University, the Alexandra Institute, the IT University and researchers at Concordium Blockchain have received funding from university collaboration DIREC to create a secure online voting system. The project is being run with Greenland’s Department of […]

Oracle chief technology officer (CTO) and founder Larry Ellison put healthcare front and centre of his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas. The supplier’s annual conference, formerly known as Oracle OpenWorld, has moved from its traditional home in San Francisco to Sin City. The Venetian hotel and casino now plays host […]

The government has urged businesses to start to treat cyber crime and digitally enabled fraud as a major strategic threat as it launches a new National Cyber Advisory Board, a group of sector leaders that will meet regularly to discuss live security threats and how to counter them. With more than 1.6 million people […]

It can be challenging to develop a sustainable tech strategy when there are various, and in some cases competing, stakeholder interests to manage across an entire business. However, the positive trend is that decision-makers are open to approving and implementing systems that better monitor, measure and manage sustainability. This can be for a number […]

What is full-disk encryption (FDE)? Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a security method for protecting sensitive data at the hardware level by encrypting all data on a disk drive. FDE automatically encrypts data and operating systems (OSes) to prevent unauthorized access. Disk-level encryption safeguards data from getting into the wrong hands and is important for organizations […]

The focus on tech startup development across the Nordic region has intensified in recent years, thanks to a glut of global success stories. And yet, just a stone’s throw across the Gulf of Finland sits a Baltic nation that rarely hits the headlines, despite a current unicorn count of 10 from a population of […]

Security teams should be alert to the possibility of compromise arising from a vulnerability in Apache Commons Text that may put many organisations at risk, but is unlikely to be as impactful as 2021’s Log4Shell vulnerability. First disclosed on 13 October, and assigned CVE-2022-4288, the vulnerability arises from how Apache Commons Text – a popular […]

Open source consumers are downloading about 1.2 billion known vulnerable Java dependencies every month, and whether out of lack of attention, ignorance, stress and overwork or something else, 96% of these at-risk downloads could have been avoided because an updated version or mitigation was available. That is according to the eighth annual State of […]

The latest edition of the Deloitte global study looking at artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in business has found that more organisations are struggling to achieve measurable value from the technology. Deloitte’s State of AI 5th edition research surveyed global executives on how businesses and industries are deploying and scaling AI. The findings indicate that […]

What is Diffie-Hellman key exchange (exponential key exchange)? Diffie-Hellman key exchange is a method of digital encryption that securely exchanges cryptographic keys between two parties over a public channel without their conversation being transmitted over the internet. The two parties use symmetric cryptography to encrypt and decrypt their messages. Published in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie […]