The recent £35 billion takeover of Worldpay by US company FIS has boosted the share value of other European payments technology companies including Worldline, Ingenico and Wirecard. (more…)

If you’d like to be able to save all your login credentials in a secure and safe manner on your mobile device, an app like the ‘LastPass’ password manager may prove very helpful.  It’s one of many such apps, but it’s been rated highly. (more…)

Lancaster University has announced that it has launched a chatbot “companion” for students which allows them to ask almost any question about their university experience, from student life, and welfare, to academic studies and more. (more…)

Google has warned those who are still using Windows 7 that they are at risk of hackers being able to take over their computer by exploiting the combination of a flaw in the Window 7 OS and Google’s Chrome Browser. (more…)

An FoI request to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed cause for concern over whether businesses on the run up to the implementation of GDPR were preventing, detecting and responding to security threats and breaches in a good and compliant way. (more…)

RBS is reportedly about to hold trials of a new, more secure biometric bank card where customers can use their fingerprint instead of a PIN to verify purchases. (more…)

A new report has concluded that with the recent steep fall in the use of cash, particularly by young people, the government and regulators need to step in to ensure that cash remains a viable method of payment in the future. (more…)

As more and more companies start putting cyber security at the heart of their entire IT management approach, there has been a greater push towards recruiting cyber security practitioners. However, there is one slight issue. There are more cyber security jobs than cyber security professionals. This is a ticking-time-bomb that could hurtle millions of companies towards cyber attack outcomes that could end up costing them hundreds of thousands if not millions. (more…)

The new service, entitled Backstory, will help website owners to literally search the inner workings of their website to help identify vulnerabilities caused by hacking-related activities. The Chronicle cyber security business owned by Alphabet will help provide what the company calls internal security telemetry – in short it can search inside your web services and infrastructure for problems. (more…)

February has come and gone, and with it a new round of Microsoft patch updates. The serially buggy Windows 10 has a rather love/hate relationship with IT managers – especially IT ecosystems with Windows 10 which was missed whilst legacy Win7 and 8.1 was patched up with a weird unknown patch. (more…)