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• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Government to introduce mandatory digital ID

  Prime minister Keir Starmer says the scheme, which will be compulsory by the end of this parliament, will help crack down on illegal workers, as well as provide benefits to citizens

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same

  At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence

  Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle

  Zoom bets on free AI to drive enterprise adoption, despite evidence the highest return on investment comes from back-office automation

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory

  A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain ...

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Oktane 2025: Okta takes aim at agentic AI governance gap

  Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  Post Office Capture appeals slowed by poor records

  Poor data on the use of the Post Office Capture software is slowing the review of criminal convictions, says lawyer

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing

  US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience

  A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago

  More than half of UK banks still rely on computer code written in or before the 1970s, and which is understood by only a few of their staff

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves

  Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Lufthansa pilots EU Digital Identity Wallet-based travel

  Travellers will only be required to tap their phone to pass the various steps of checking in and boarding aircraft

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  NCC: How RaaS team-ups help Scattered Spider enhance its attacks

  Scattered Spider’s alliances with ransomware-as-a-service gangs act as a force multiplier for the scope, and number, of its cyber attacks, according to NCC Group analysts

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Turkish state tightens grip on comms

  Turkish subscriptions to fixed broadband were the lowest in Europe in 2024 and half as common as those in more developed countries

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs

  eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations

  Amnesty International says AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants and revoke visas, raising fears of unlawful detentions and mass deportations

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  ‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry

  The Post Office legal representation at public inquiry into Horizon scandal cost twice as much as the actual inquiry

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away

  Sources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Cisco and Splunk expand agentic SOC vision

  The arrival of agentic AI in the security operations centre heralds an era of simplification for security professionals, Splunk claims

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  UK contactless card payment limits could be unlimited

  The UK Financial Conduct Authority says contactless payment technology and fraud protections have advanced enough for firms to adjust the limit

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Splunk urges users to eat their ‘cyber veggies’

  The dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’

  Internally, Fujitsu UK is braced for major revenue decline as Post Office scandal takes its toll

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  US politicians ponder Wimwig cyber intel sharing law

  US cyber data sharing legislation is set to replace an Obama-era law, but time is running out to get it over the line, with global ramifications for the security industry, and intelligence and law enforcement communities

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Lloyds Bank to use Workday software to help select staff for redundancy

  Lloyds Banking Group will analyse data on HR software to help it select staff for redundancy

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  Depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts: Post Office victims speak out

  Report finds that former subpostmasters suffered and are continuing to suffer severe mental and physical problems due to their treatment by the Post Office

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  European court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework data-sharing agreement

  EU General Court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework, bringing certainty to businesses that exchange data with the US – for now. An appeal may be in the offing

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Open banking take-up grows by a third

  Rising payments are driving the adoption of open banking, with more than 15 million users in July

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur

  Nassib Chamoun says CIOs could follow his lead in swapping IT management for life as a startup, but they must be prepared to make sacrifices

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Fujitsu’s roots in government go too deep

  MPs and peers call on prime minister to review Japanese supplier’s ‘eligibility’ to bid for government contracts

• September 01, 2025 01 Sep'25

  Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge

  Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices

• August 29, 2025 29 Aug'25

  ICO publishes summary of police facial recognition audit

  The UK data regulator has released a summary of its facial recognition audit of two police forces

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland

  Tech giant Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  UK cyber security centre helps expose China-based cyber campaign

  GCHQ cyber security centre and its international partners release details of malicious cyber activity linked to Chinese businesses

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Incident response planning cuts the risk of claiming on cyber security insurance

  Proper attention to incident response planning is emerging as a core cyber control when it comes to reducing the risk of having to claim on cyber security insurance, according to a report

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Home Office Fujitsu contract is ‘de facto’ conflict of interest in Post Office police probe

  Fujitsu supplies police with the network that supports national investigations, while its former staff are part of a national investigation

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Ransomware activity levelled off in July, says NCC

  Ransomware levels held steady in the month of July, although the risk remained as persistent as ever

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Three new Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation

  Citrix patches three new vulnerabilities in its NetScaler lines warning of active zero-day exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Okta makes AI identity play with Axiom acquisition

  Okta says Axiom Security’s technology will reinforce its own offerings in privileged access management, especially when it comes to the growing number of non-human identities

• August 25, 2025 25 Aug'25

  Ransomware attack volumes up nearly three times on 2024

  During the first six months of 2025, the number of observed and tracked ransomware attacks far outpaced the volume seen in 2024

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw

  Latest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

  Metropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial

  The National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful

  The UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial-recognition (LFR) technology use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

  Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations

  Microsoft updates on its post-quantum cyber strategy as it continues integrating quantum-safe algorithms into some of the core foundations underpinning its products and services

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains

  Storage firm Commvault fixes four vulnerabilities that, when combined, create a pair of RCE exploit chains that could be used to target on-premise customers with ransomware and other nasties

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe

  Freedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal