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• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Criminals act like nation-state attackers in Russian campaign

  Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a sustained effort targeting Russian state-owned critical infrastructure companies by financially motivated non-state actors

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Councils awarded funding for digital innovation projects

  The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government digital innovation fund awarded to a range of projects, including chatbots, artificial intelligence and town planning transformation

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  UK businesses feel let down by government on cyber security

  Government needs to provide more support around cyber security issues in 2019, according to the majority of UK IT leaders polled

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Finnish government announces research and development ecosystem

  Finland has launched an innovation ecosystem that will support IoT and AI developers amongst others

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Court orders Post Office to explain inability to access encrypted file

  Post Office unable to open encrypted recording of an interview that forms part of its evidence in High Court case

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Complex Post Office Horizon case set to continue into 2020

  Court case where subpostmasters are suing the Post Office set to span at least four trials and extend into 2020

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  UK genome sequencing project reaches 100,000 genomes goal

  Health secretary hails scheme’s progress as “a major milestone in the route to the healthcare of the future”

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Software failure paralyses O2’s 4G network

  O2 is racing to fix a major outage on its 4G network that has left millions of mobile subscribers without access to data services

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  BT moves to strip Huawei kit from EE’s network

  Telco will remove Huawei’s networking equipment from the core of EE’s 4G mobile network

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  Symantec unveils AI-based protection for critical infrastructure

  Cyber security firm has unveiled what it claims to be the industry’s first neural network to protect critical infrastructure from USB-borne malware attacks

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  Australia races towards commercial quantum computing

  Universities make headway in the challenge of commercialising quantum computing

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  Nominet brings security expertise and tech to market

  The .uk domain registry is to bring its DNS expertise and technology developed for the NCSC to market to address cyber security ‘blindspot’

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  Phishing at centre of cyber attack on Ukraine infrastructure

  Phishing is one of the key tools used by cyber attackers against critical national infrastructure (CNI), as highlighted by attacks on telecommunications in Ukraine

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  ‘Open-minded’ DVSA cuts cost of MOT testing

  Government agency harnesses customised open source platform to ensure data security while cutting costs and plans to extend its MOT testing capability to do the same for drivers’ theory tests

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  NHS email outage caused by ‘internal software issues’

  NHSmail system shutdown, which saw staff locked out of their accounts, blamed on “software issues” in supplier Accenture’s internal infrastructure