The Lego Group has moved swiftly to fix a pair of application programming interface (API) security vulnerabilities that existed in its BrickLink digital resale platform, after they were identified by Salt Labs, the research arm of API specialist Salt Security. With over a million members, BrickLink is the world’s largest forum for buying and […]
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working alongside the FBI, the Dutch Police, and European Union law enforcement agency Europol, has taken down 48 of the world’s most widely used booter sites suspected of being used by cyber criminals and other threat actors to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Operation PowerOFF also […]
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A National Crime Agency (NCA) officer faced questions in Britain’s most secret court on Wednesday 14 December after she failed to disclose a key document about the agency’s use of hacked text messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network in criminal prosecutions. NCA intelligence officer Emma Sweeting told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) that […]
Andy Pocock, IT director at vehicle dealership group TrustFord, has been with his organisation since April 2008. When he looks back on his time at the company, he says that – quite simply – there’s been a huge focus on digital transformation. “We’ve had periods where there’s been heavy growth and a lot of […]
In the UK, a quarter of leaders who are hiring are looking in other regions for technology talent, according to research by Remote. In its survey of almost 1,500 global leaders hiring tech talent in the US, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden, the software and services provider found 36% of hiring managers […]
Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt), which has today (14 December) recommended that private healthcare providers should be able to routinely share information with the […]
An emergent data wiper ransomware known as Azov – which first came to attention as a payload delivered by the SmokeLoader botnet – is becoming increasingly widespread and seems to be on its way to being an active and dangerous threat, according to researchers at Check Point. Azov is distinct from more common or […]
By What is debouncing? Debouncing is removing unwanted input noise from buttons, switches or other user input. Debouncing prevents extra activations or slow functions from triggering too often. Debouncing is used in hardware switches, programs and websites. Debouncing hardware switches Physical switches are mechanical devices with a little bit of natural bounce. The springs and […]
The NHS’s national data guardian for health and social care, Nicola Byrne, has today issued fresh guidance addressing the question of what is meant by “public benefit” and how health and social care bodies should evaluate said benefit when using and/or sharing patient data for purposes that go beyond individual care. Developed with input […]