Tesco Bank is reported to be working with the National Crime Agency to investigate an incident where suspicious transactions resulted in money being taken from thousands of customer current accounts.

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After its unveiling in a live demo at the Max Conference San Diego last week, Adobe’s Project VoCo audio/voice manipulation software has been the subject of some concern over its potential for misuse.

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One of the most sensitive and private aspects of our personal lives is our medical records.

Until 2014 when we started to hear how drug and insurance companies would be able to buy information taken from them we had assumed that that a promise of confidentiality would never be broken. It should not come as absolute surprise therefore that other types of companies would be next in line, and a recent article in New Scientist has highlighted how tech giant Google has been granted access to 1.6 million NHS patient records. If you’re wondering how and why, read on.

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A recent Computer Weekly article highlighted how, according to a leading London based investment management Careers Company young people may be missing out on rewarding IT careers in the financial services sector due to a lack of awareness of the opportunities and career pathways.

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Desktop has always been the way that most people access the web, although this trend has been in decline in recent years. Now the latest figures show that mobile access overtook desktop for the first time in October.

StatCounter figures for October have shown the balance tipping towards desktop for the first time last month with 51.3% of global web traffic accessing the web using smartphones and tablets.

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The cross-party ‘British Infrastructure Group’ of 90 backbench MPs have asked mobile phone companies operating in the UK to work together to enable customers to roam between networks in places where reception is poor.

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Part of the reason why our email boxes are constantly filling up with promotional messages is that we’ve given companies our details and can’t change them easily.

Now there are two new apps that combine to help you to take back control.

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In a speech describing the UK government’s plans for spending £1.9 billion on cyber security, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that the UK needs to be able to retaliate in kind against state-sponsored cyber-attacks.
In the National Cyber Security Strategy speech at the recent ‘Future Decoded’ conference, Mr. Hammond focused on key national cyber security challenges and the need to “deter those who seek to steal from us, or harm our interests”.

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A new anti-fraud credit card from Paris-based Oberthur Technologies has a digital display on the back which changes the 3-digit security code number every hour.

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Facebook has opened up its Workplace platform app to enable businesses to have their own social network while allowing Facebook to compete in the same collaborative and communications business tool market as Microsoft’s Yammer, Slack and Google’s Cloud.

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