Innovation and startup hub Plexal has inducted six “high-potential” cyber security leaders into a programme set up to provide “authentic, tailored support” to enhance their leadership skills and grow their businesses. The Cyber Runway Ignite programme is an extension of Plexal’s existing Cyber Runway accelerator, which has provided extensive technical and development support to […]

While data management strategies, including disaster recovery and backup, have historically tended to be the domain of the chief technology officer (CTO) and IT teams, some of these functions are becoming the domain of the chief information security officer (CISO) and cyber security teams, a trend that is likely to accelerate during the coming […]

Pressure was put on the UK government by IT supplier Fujitsu to sign off the contract to roll out error ridden software to automate accounting at 18,000 Post Office branches, the public inquiry has heard. In 1998, following a meeting between the British ambassador to Japan and Fujitsu executives, the British embassy in Tokyo wrote […]

More than 1,000 girls across the UK are to take part in an events day designed to encourage them to consider a cyber security career in the future. CyNam, a not-for-profit collaborative, has partnered with several firms, including Tesco, Raytheon, the Careers Enterprise Company and Sage, to run an event called EmPowerCyber for schoolgirls […]

Human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll has launched a lawsuit against Meta in the UK High Court, alleging the technology conglomerate is continuing to use her personal data for targeted advertising on its Facebook service despite her objections. Under the UK’s data protection rules, people have the “right to object” to the collection and processing […]

For hundreds of years, any organisation that needed to store information relied on one tried and tested technology: paper. But since the advent of computing and digital data storage, more and more data has been captured and stored electronically in digital archives. But now organisations need to retain archived data for longer – for […]

Google has signed an offshore wind energy deal that it claims brings it a step closer to its goal of powering its UK offices and cloud regions with carbon-free energy by 2030. The internet search giant has signed a power purchase agreement (PAA) with French utility company Engie that will see it receive 100MW […]

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Chief information security officers (CISOs) have an enormous job of protecting their organisations from multiple threats daily. If you ask any CISO what are the top attacks that could possibly keep them up at night, one of them will almost certainly be ransomware. Ransomware is a form of malware designed to encrypt files on […]

London’s Metropolitan Police have disrupted one of the largest digitally-enabled fraud operations ever seen and arrested the mastermind behind it, in a major blow to criminals targeting the UK public. Operation Elaborate targeted iSpoof.cc, an underground website that sold call spoofing services which allowed fraudsters to contact their targets pretending to be trusted organisations, […]