Privacy campaigners are urging Parliament to address a clause in the government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill that would force tech companies to screen people’s communications for illegal content, after legal opinion from Matrix Chambers identifies “real and significant issues” around its lawfulness. The opinion – which was delivered to Open Rights Group (ORG) by […]

Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 from complications arising from pancreatic cancer, following a 14-month illness. Mitnick’s death was announced by his family and senior staffers at KnowBe4, the security […]

The Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) committee is a British institution that has been in existence for over a century. First called the Defence Notice committee, it acts as an official mechanism to request news editors to not publish or broadcast certain subjects for reasons of national security. In 1993, it was renamed […]

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has added another UK public sector organisation to its customer list, with a deal to provide finance accounting and payroll services to the BBC. This comes hot on the heels of other key wins in the sector. The Indian IT supplier will apply artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent automation […]

The Russia-aligned KillNet hacktivist group, which has been behind a string of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Western targets since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, continues to steadily ramp up its capabilities and is likely using newly created or absorbed affiliate groupings to conduct more impactful attacks, but its primary goal […]

The government wants to bring tech experts from the private sector into government departments as part of a secondment programme designed to improve the digital skills of civil servants. This follows a National Audit Office (NAO) report in March that found the people making digital transformation decisions in government are generalists who don’t properly […]

Most organizations support the use of various communication and collaboration tools, according to a 2023 survey conducted by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). A combined total of 82% of the respondents said their organization has formally sanctioned six or more tools for use by employees, with 35% approving 11 or more. The many different […]

While the cyber security industry has existed for decades, when it comes to digital business, never has there been such anxiety about the safety of our digital spaces. The spheres of high finance, defence, healthcare, critical infrastructure and our personal lives rely on online nervous systems susceptible to attack by malevolent forces. As more […]

What is slack space (file slack space)? Slack space, or file slack space, is the leftover storage space on a computer’s hard disk drive when a file does not need all the space it has been allocated by the operating system (OS). More specifically, it refers to all the unused storage space in a hard […]

It feels like we’ve been talking about the potential of AI and machine learning for years. So much so, that some people may have become sceptical about the extent to which it will all actually happen. But now, the remarkable rise of generative AI shows that it’s here and it’s real.  ChatGPT and other […]