Copenhagen Fintech is connecting Nordic fintech expertise to the wider global finance and technology sectors to ensure Nordic startups are among the best connected in the world. The startup incubator and accelerator was established in September 2016 by the Financial Services Union Denmark, the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Bankers Association. Today, with financial […]

There is a lot of excitement in healthcare about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve clinical decision-making. Pioneered by the likes of IBM Watson for Healthcare and DeepMinds Healthcare, AI promises to help specialists diagnose patients more accurately. Two years ago, McKinsey co-produced a report with the European Union’s EIT Health to […]

The biggest factor impacting the evolution of application security is the speed at which technology changes. Much of this is due to widespread consumerisation – people expect new technologies and updates to become available rapidly because they expect a seamless consumer experience. This trend, combined with the broader introduction of software-as-a-service (SaaS), has led […]

What is a Google dork query? A Google dork query, sometimes just referred to as a dork, is a search string or custom query that uses advanced search operators to find information not readily available on a website. Google dorking, also known as Google hacking, can return information difficult to locate through simple search queries. […]

The National Crime Agency “deliberately concealed” information when it applied for a warrant to access hundreds of thousands of intercepted messages and photographs from the EncroChat encrypted mobile network, a court has heard. The claim was made this week during the first day of a hearing by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), Britain’s most […]

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned users to be on their guard against a growing number of cyber attacks that abuse OAuth applications as part of the attack chain, after investigating an incident in which malicious OAuth apps were deployed on compromised cloud tenants, then used to take over Exchange servers to […]

The government has confirmed that it will repeal the controversial IR35 tax avoidance reforms from 6 April 2023,  as a “first step” towards simplifying the UK tax system. The shock decision, announced during chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s first fiscal statement since prime minister Liz Truss appointed him on 6 September, will roll back changes that […]

Almost three years after a High Court judge ruled against the Post Office and stated that computer errors had caused the unexplained losses for which subpostmasters were blamed, many of those affected have still not received any compensation. Former judge Wyn Williams, who is chair of the public inquiry set up to investigate the […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is warning businesses to get their payroll software systems urgently updated to reflect the government’s decision to roll back the 1.25% uplift in National Insurance rates introduced in April 2022. The change, announced on Thursday 23 September 2022 and due to come into effect on 6 November 2022, will […]

Entrepreneurial network Tech Nation has selected 13 tech startups to join its 11th Future Fifty programme cohort, which is designed to assist the growth of late-stage digital businesses. The startups selected include Wayve, a mobility startup that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop autonomous driving systems; Yapily, an open banking platform that […]