TSB has revealed that fraudsters are taking advantage of the cost-of-living crisis by impersonating family members and tricking relatives into sending them money to help pay bills. Friends and family fraud, as it is known, has increased by 58% in recent months, according to TSB data. These online scams typically see criminals use online […]

Business continuity plans ensure data availability and maintain operations during disasters and downtime. Downtime mitigation is a requirement for every organization, and a strong business continuity plan is key to maintain or restore operations in a crisis. Downtime prevention, however, is more complicated than planning for traditional crisis scenarios, such as natural disasters or hardware […]

A Russian cyber attack group has been targeting politicians, journalists, and military and intelligence officials across Britain and Europe for at least seven years, and may have stockpiled access to and data from target computers and phones for future operations, according to data analysed by Computer Weekly. The group’s greatest success to date has […]

The use of data would take a central role in a Labour government’s industrial strategy, according to shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds A council would also be set up on a statutory footing to oversee the strategy and ensure it isn’t abandoned at a later date. The opposition party said if it were to win […]

London innovation hub Plexal has selected 35 startups and scaleups to join the second cohort of its Cyber Runway accelerator, the largest government-backed programme of its kind in the UK. Plexal, which opened applications to the second cohort in July 2022, initially hoped to onboard up to 100 startups into the programme – which […]

Tech salaries are still on the rise, according to research by job marketplace Hired, but despite the small talent pool, many think the power will soon lie with hiring firms rather than candidates. In its 2022 State of tech salaries report, Hired said tech salaries in the UK, US and Canada increased over the […]

In October, Germany-based PoINT will launch an object storage archiving product based on disk and tape media. “Our idea is to offer on-site exactly the same thing as AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers online with S3 and S3 Glacier,” said Thomas Thalmann, PoINT CEO and co-founder. Archival Gateway – Unified Object Storage uses high-capacity, low-cost disk […]

The Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) has accused the authorities of failing to act on information it has supplied regarding the problem of cloned umbrella companies, which it claims has cost the Exchequer more than £1m to date. The Association is concerned with promoting tax and employment regulatory compliance in the extended temporary […]

The Microsoft Azure UK cloud region will host data belonging to more than five million participants in the UK’s largest ever health research programme. Known as Our Future Health, the initiative features input from the public sector – including the NHS – as well as private enterprises and charities that are pooling their data […]

The National Crime Agency (NCA) received a warrant to covertly harvest hundreds of thousands of messages from the EncroChat encrypted mobile phone network, on the basis of a conversation between a French and a British law enforcement official that was not confirmed in writing, a court was told this week. The claim was made […]