The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced the creation of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund to help identify and fund initiatives designed to support the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Programme – a scheme designed to expand on the government’s cyber security training schemes. The new funding…

As more and more businesses embrace the ‘power’ of the Internet of Things (IoT), Google Home’s latest ‘security breach’ highlights the flaws of IoT. Researchers for Tripwire Security, a security consultancy, found that a Home device’s physical location can be tracked and that Google’s live streaming functions can be hijacked…

Gloucestershire Police have been fined £80,000 after the ICO found that the identities of abuse victims had been revealed in a bulk email disclosure. The mistake occurred when a police officer used the “To” field as oppose to the “BCC” field when copying email addresses into a sensitive email. By…

The ICO have been less than charitable towards BT after a recent ICO spam investigation found a charitable campaign breached customer consent rules. BT have been fined £77,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Officer after an investigation found the company sent nearly five million “nuisance emails to customers”. The ICO found…

If your phone has limited memory storage and you regularly use Facebook and Twitter, installing lightweight versions of these apps could help to speed up your phone.
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A group of computer scientists from a Florida-based cyber security company, Cyxtera Technologies, are reported to have built machine-learning software that can generate phishing URLs that can beat popular security tools. (more…)

A Singapore bank is reported to be using an AI-based system to make savings in the process of recruitment by automating the pre-screening of job applicants. (more…)

An appeal by the UK Home Office to limit the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach has been dismissed on the grounds that an accidentally uploaded spreadsheet exposed the confidential information and personal data of asylum applicants and their family members. (more…)

While Apple Inc has had good news that it will not face traded tariffs on its iPhones assembled in China, Intel Corp may need to shift its assembly work away from China to avoid a big revenue hit. (more…)

After its official launch, planned for next year, it has been reported that the new Samsung Galaxy X smartphone could be priced at as much as £1,400! (more…)