What is information security (infosec)? Information security (infosec) is a set of policies, procedures and principles for safeguarding digital data and other kinds of information. Infosec responsibilities include establishing a set of business processes that protect information assets, regardless of how that information is formatted or whether it is in transit, being processed or at […]
Prior to the pandemic, many European companies had already tried allowing employees to work from home. In most cases, this was only for a small number of workers and highly dependent on the type of job involved. For example, salespeople and other customer-facing employees need to be away from the office as much as […]
ITV and Channel 4’s terrestrial Freeview channels are now running in the cloud as a result of a multimillion-pound contract that will make use of BT’s smart broadcast network. Digital 3&4 (D3&4), the multiplex broadcasting joint venture set up by ITV and Channel 4, has hailed the deal as a “major step forward for […]
The ethical justifications for developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in the military do not hold up to scrutiny, especially those regarding the use of autonomous weapon systems, says AI ethics expert Elke Schwarz. An associate professor of political theory at Queen Mary University London and author of Death machines: The ethics of violent […]
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The lives of former subpostmaster Lee Castleton and his family were knowingly destroyed by Post Office executives because they wanted to set an example that would deter furthermore subpostmasters from questioning the reliability of its computer system. In 2006, when his branch showed a loss of £26,000 that he could not explain, the Post […]
Liverpool Football Club has moved almost all of its IT operations to the cloud, mostly to cloud storage in Wasabi, with some data held in AWS. The move – which was influenced by changes to working practices during the pandemic – has allowed it to save an estimated 15% of staff time previously spent […]
The UK government has announced the creation of a new security agency, the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), to help organisations defend themselves against potential national security threats, including state-backed cyber espionage. The NPSA will be overseen by domestic counter-intelligence and security agency MI5, and will work closely alongside existing bodies including GCHQ’s National […]
The California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has collapsed in the largest bank failure since 2008, prompting HSBC to purchase the bank’s UK arm for just £1 in a scramble to shield UK tech firms from the fallout. The collapse of SVB – which mostly catered to startups, venture capitalists, and others in the US […]
Everywhere you look right now, it’s impossible to avoid the existence of generative artificial intelligence (AI). From ChatGPT to image creators like Stable Diffusion, the industry has ballooned from almost nothing into a global super-industry. But not everyone is happy. In January 2023, image licensing company Getty Images started legal proceedings against the owners […]