The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has welcomed the final version of the European Parliament’s Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will put the onus on larger European datacentre operators to publicly report their environmental performance data. The European Parliament and European Council reached a provisional political agreement that finalised the contents of the EED […]

All government departments and a selected number of arm’s length bodies are to have their cyber security postures reviewed under new, more stringent measures being put in place under the auspices of an enhanced security regime, known as GovAssure, to be run by the Cabinet Office’s Government Security Group with support from the National […]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are leading Europe when it comes to accepting contactless payments, with almost all now accepting near-field communications (NFC)-based card payments. According to a survey by SME-focused fintech SumUp, 90% of UK SMEs now accept payment by contactless cards. In Switzerland, 85% of SMEs accept the payments, […]

Enterprise business leaders are struggling to hit corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals because of inadequate data. That’s according to The ESG ultimatum: Profit or perish report by the IBM Institute for Business Value, which revealed that while environmental sustainability remains a top priority for consumers and business leaders alike, the bulk of […]

Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed that some confidential data was stolen from a small proportion of its server estate affected by a Black Basta ransomware attack in March 2023. The incident caused major IT outages and significant impact to customer-facing services at many public sector bodies and some operators of critical national infrastructure […]

The scale and pace of Russia’s wartime cyber operations have been unprecedented, but Ukraine has nonetheless provided the world with a masterclass in withstanding open cyber warfare through bolstered defences and improved resilience, according to a European Cyber Conflict Research Institute (ECCRI) report commissioned for the National Cyber Security Centre’s annual CyberUK event, which […]

The marketplace for commercial hacking tools and services is set to expand dramatically between now and 2028, leading to the victimisation of more organisations and individuals in a far more unpredictable threat landscape, according to threat researchers at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Published on the opening day of the NCSC’s annual […]

The UK government is failing to protect workers from being “exploited” by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which if left unchecked could lead to greater workplace discrimination across the economy, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has said. The union body further warned that many workers are not even aware AI is being used to make […]

In a move the companies say will secure communications and data for critical infrastructures and government institutions in the country, Airbus, CNRS, Cryptonext Security, Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile, Orange, Sorbonne Université, Telecom Paris, Thales, Thales Alenia Space, Université Côte d’Azur, Veriqloud and Welinq have announced the official launch of FranceQCI, a programme to […]

The volume of cyber security breaches and other attacks against UK organisations seems to have dropped, with 32% of businesses and 24% of charities recalling incidents during the past 12 months, down from 39% and 30% respectively over the previous period, according to the government’s Cyber security breaches survey 2023, released without fanfare today […]