A UK government initiative to expand the use of digital identities in the UK economy has completed its initial trial phase, which tested the efficacy of age estimation technology and digital ID apps in a variety of retail environments throughout 2022. Led by the Home Office and the Office for Product Safety and Standards […]
The UK government’s commitment to protecting IT contractors from the well-documented malpractice carried out by non-compliant umbrella companies is being called into question, following the admission that plans to create an enforcement body to regulate such firms have been shelved. Business secretary Grant Shapps confirmed during a House of Commons oral evidence session in […]
In November 2022, Silo AI published the Nordic state of AI 2022, its second annual report providing an overview of what’s happening with artificial intelligence (AI) in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Silo AI provides professional services in AI from its nine offices in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Since it was founded in 2017, […]
Researchers at Imperva have revealed their hand in uncovering and fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability in Google’s Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that, left untreated, could have enabled threat actors to steal sensitive files from more than 2.5 billion worldwide users of the web browsing technology. Tracked as CVE-2022-3656, the vulnerability was first uncovered in […]
Europe’s cyber security policy has an open source problem. Compared to the US, the UK and Europe have been playing catch-up on national security strategy for resiliency of open source software supply chains against malicious actors. Open source powers our critical software infrastructure, and can be used as a threat against it – Microsoft […]
Guardian Media Group (GMG), the parent organisation of the UK’s Guardian newspaper, has confirmed that the 20 December cyber attack on its systems – which left staff locked out of its London office and disrupted key systems including print production, payroll and expenses – was an opportunistic and likely untargeted ransomware attack. In an […]
The UK’s Royal Mail has been forced to suspend overseas services amid serious disruption caused by a cyber attack of an as-yet unspecified nature. The attack has hit its international export services and means it is currently unable to dispatch letters or parcels outside the UK. Computer Weekly understands that domestic services are unaffected. […]
More and more evidence is emerging into how large language models, such as Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) used by the likes of OpenAI’s advanced ChatGPT chatbot, seem to be highly vulnerable to abuse through creative prompt engineering by malicious actors. Moreover, as the capabilities of such models hit the mainstream, new approaches will […]
The economic toll of deliberate internet shutdowns by governments reached nearly $24bn globally in 2022, following 114 major outages across 23 countries, research has found. According to Top10VPN’s latest Cost of internet shutdowns report – which analysed every major internet shutdown by governments in 2022 – intentional internet outages affected around 710 million people around […]
Security teams face a busy few days after Microsoft’s first monthly Patch Tuesday drop of 2023, which contains fixes for 98 distinct vulnerabilities, 11 of them rated as critical, and one zero-day under active exploitation in the wild, which was uncovered by researchers at Avast. Tracked as CVE-2023-21674, the zero-day is an elevation of […]