As more and more hackers and cyber criminals get arrested thanks to police monitoring of the so-called ‘Dark Net’ more and more criminals are turning to ‘invisible’ or ‘gated’ chat forums and apps with heightened encryption to help prevent snooping from intelligence services. (more…)

Microsoft has become somewhat preoccupied of late with Windows XP – a near 20-year-old operating system. It does not ‘officially’ update this version of Windows. However, the National Security Agency (NSA) has now warned Microsoft Windows XP users to manually update systems to guard against serious cyber attack criminality thanks to a newly discovered fault. (more…)

As cyber crime and malware intrusion becomes commonplace within IT estates worldwide, the art world this month has welcomed the latest installation (forgive the pun) artwork entitled “Persistence of Chaos” which sold for $1.3 million in auction. (more…)

We spend one-third of our lives asleep, and it has been estimated that around £30bn and 200,000 working days are lost in the UK each year through a lack of good sleep (gov.uk).  The Rise app shows you how to get better sleep, and keeps a record of your sleeping progress, thereby helping you to feel better and be more productive at work. (more…)

Amazon is launching a pilot scheme which will enable 100 small online businesses to get the opportunity to sell their goods in 10 Amazon pop-up stores in UK high streets. (more…)

A group of 47 technology companies, rights groups and security policy experts have released an open letter stating their objections to the idea of eavesdropping on encrypted messages on behalf of GCHQ. (more…)

New rules from the US State Department will mean that US visa applicants will have to submit social media names and five years’ worth of email addresses and phone numbers. (more…)

The Salesforce cloud-based CRM platform is adding a low code, blockchain-powered service that will allow users to share data with third parties in a secure, transparent, and auditable way. (more…)

Research by law firm Squire Patton Boggs has revealed (one year on from the introduction of GDPR ) that companies are facing cost pressures from a large number of subject access requests (SARs) coming from their own employees. (more…)