A whistleblower is contacting NatWest customers affected by a data breach which has forced her to store the sensitive information of around 1,600 of the bank’s customers in her home for over a decade. The former administration officer at Royal Bank of Scotland, now part of NatWest Group, had already worked at the bank […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t stand a chance of being able to replicate the human creativity needed to become an ethical hacker, but it will disrupt how hackers conduct penetration testing and work on bug bounty programmes, and is already increasing the value of hacking to organisations that are prepared to engage with the hacking […]

Tech industry coalition FutureDotNow is calling on government and businesses to work together to help close the IT skills gap, marking the publication of a roadmap designed to give the UK population’s digital skills a boost. The roadmap was created in tandem with the Digital Skills Council and outlines the steps that government, business […]

Microsoft has disclosed a potentially serious remote code execution (RCE) zero-day under active exploitation – by a group with alleged links to the Russian intelligence services – among more than 100 other vulnerabilities in its July Patch Tuesday update, but the company has not yet issued an actual patch for it. Although not deemed […]

There are plenty of amazing women in the UK’s technology industry, but who do you think is the most influential? Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for its annual list of the most influential women in UK technology, which it puts together each year in partnership with Nash Squared to showcase the female talent […]

The European Commission (EC) has granted data adequacy to the US, allowing companies to freely transfer personal data across the Atlantic without the need for additional safeguards. Data adequacy was granted specifically in relation to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which is designed to improve the safety of transatlantic data flows and address concerns […]

Cyber fraudsters and scammers are already attempting to exploit last week’s launch of Meta’s latest social media venture, a “Twitter-killer” called Threads, to conduct phishing attacks and distribute malwares, according to analysis conducted by Veriti, a cyber security infrastructure startup founded by ex-Check Point execs, which launched out of stealth last year. Veriti’s team […]

The statutory inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has been disrupted again as a result of the Post Office’s failure to provide documents requested as evidence. Only last week, the hearing of evidence from a key witness was  postponed until after the summer break after relevant documents were disclosed only hours before he […]

While the pandemic may have seen a huge increase in the number of digital transformation projects undertaken by organisations of all kinds, it seems their success rate is no better than it ever was. According to a recent Microsoft survey, many UK business decision-makers believe digital technology is vital to their company’s ability to […]

The decision of Finnish state innovator VTT to join the Nokia-Veturi data markets partnership has added substantial research and development (R&D) weight to a project that aims to develop new data market concepts and technologies that drive the green transition of cities. The VTT’s collaboration with Nokia-Veturi is routed through its subsidiary VTT Technical […]